The Portland daily press., 1900-08-30

o1AAou uoep IN 1885, but also on an issua
easeo ts'as buried deep IN 1864 The DEM
ocFa1ic platform of that year insisted tnat
the Clvti war was d failure and pponafaad
cessation Il Il Democratic Presidents were
ele00eu. They called Lincoln An eYoner-
~. Ana then Lee surrendered and this
We We . union s5e3h again. How does this 1900
ecno OF 1908 soundY For this IS Bryanism
1ooay. MOL alone the disabled dollar Of
TOUR years ago. but the disabled sniri6
ana patriotism OF thirty six wears ago.
ana suit the Democratic party Is ask
ing Tor votes asking for 20 yer. Not
now. Not while Bryan az d AunInaIdo
ara running.
And II falls to the lot OF Maine to sneak
=. lAss. our years ago. hoping TO carry
liz s7etuss inc Democratic party put
carry his own family.
me danger IL no less now. For here
aFo bryan and Organism again: here Is
Sne chicago platform with Kansas
10y arrangements the AltgeId doctrine
Win q 1unnan Interpretation the me-
mace OF 1896, with 1900 additions; the old
threat Of Bryan IN che White House and
tne rest OF rs IN the poor house
And sr1lI here is the same hone For
mere are Mckinley and the HeDu blfcan
party here Is America greater than ever
petores In the eyes Of the world, better
stlIts IN the eyes OF America herself: and
mere arc the American people. successful,
satisfied, content. They viii not want
plunge into certain peril when prosperi-
" IS theirs but Tor the voting. They will
not WaYer when the integrity and spIen~
dor OF the republic are at stake.
Hon. Edward Payson Brown of New
York was the second speaker. He said
IN part: 'sIh1s country today is prosper
Gus. We We're prosperous IN 1899. there Is
no doubt about that. After 1892 we
had Democratic administration but
were we prosperousg Let US look. When
Mr.. Cleveland went into Office in 1893
we had about 10 millions Of people. OF
this number there were twenty-five mill
lions Of wage earners. They were earn
Ing on an average OF Sizes a day ana If
you wish to now how much they earned
multiply - millions by s1.65. When Mr..
Cleveland took ths Office in 1898 the VIII
son bin came. What happenedg Accord
Ing TO Dir. Gomper figures i've millions
were out OF employment and forty per
cent Of the remainder were working for
reduced wages. Over eleven billions of
dollars which were earned in "a RepublI-
can administration were lost. 1t was not
the wage earners alone who suffered. The
farmers suffered also Why aid they
suffer- 1t was because five millions OF
men and their families had less money
to buy food and they had less to eat. The
average consumption OF wheat fell of to
175 millions Of bushels and the result
was that with a production of 400 mil
lions, 175 millions were not bought and
the price Of wheat fell. 1t was not wheat
alone which fell of IN price. Corn also
fell OF because twenty per cent OF
the corn raised were thrown back on the
farmers. And wheat and corn are the
last things thar men give up
After the terrible disaster the election
of Cleveland which cost more to this
j country than the civil war, we looked
! around to see what could be done. The
5 great men Of the Republicans went to
d work and nominated the foremost protec.
flonists in the United States. They prom
ised that il he were elected he would re-
/ enact the high protective tariff measure.
What was the rasule of hsa sIeuSEen. the
law was passed IN january. 1898, and at
that time there WASH t a man who
wanted work who cou ldn { get it. This
is no fairy tale. These are facts. We IN
creased our exports by millions Of dol
lars. IN 1896 Mr.. Carlisle, the Democratic
| secretary Of the treasury, told us that the
entire amount Of gold IN the United
States was not over $3.50, COO. In 1900 Mr..
Gage tells Us that there is over a th0us-
and millions OF gold in this country. We
have gotten from abroad more gold by
210 millions than we had before. We have
more gold today IN this country than
any country in the world excepting Eng
land.
'sThis is the record Of this administra-
tion.
''Do you want prosperity you do
there is but one recipe for it and that is
to vote for Mckinley. If you want al
versity and short rations vote for Bryan.
He threatens every existing law and in
addition threatens to plunge this country
into war with the nations of the earth.
II he Is elected he threatens to withdraw
ths 90. 600 men from the Philippines, In
the city Of Manila there are representa-
tives of twenty great nations. If the
American troops are withdrawn these
white people win be killed and If they
are killed because we have withdrawn
our troops this country Will be held re-
sponsibie for It,
The speaker went onto show that this
statement was true, and also proved by
we'll known facts that Aguinaldo is today
in correspondence with Bryan. He also
went on to describe The new doctrine of
the Democratic party and greatly to the
amusement of the hearers went on to de-
scribe Bryan's book and when he had
finished showing how Bryan In this book
had been compared with Moses and
AltgeId with Scion he asked: 'sDo you
think a man who would write such
book should be President of the United
StatesY' There were cries OF ''rNo, no."