The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-10-26
At. ST. JOSEPH'S HALL
The Crowd Went Wild and
Waved Small Amer
lean Flags.

The demonstration at ST. Josephis Hall
on Pavonia avenue was great. The hail
was jammed to the doors when Mr. Bryan
arrived, escorted by representatives of the
Sixth, Eighth, Ninth. Tenth, Eleventh and
Twelfth Ward Democratic Clubs.
The cheering as he entered the large and
spacious building was tremendous. 1t last
/ ed at least two minutes. The audience
/ arose in a solid mass, cheering wildly and
waving handkerchiefs and small American
flags. Half of the audience stood on the
chairs and seats to welcome him.
i Mr.. bryan bowed and smiled during the
i outburst of enthusiasm. When he arose
! to address the audience, after being intro
duced by City Collector Robert Davis as
the next President of the United States .
the audience again arose to give voice to
their feelings. Mr.. Bryan raised his hand
/ as If to command silence. His appear
| ance was that of a Workingman His
striped gray trousers were baggy, his
blue coat and vest were in need of press
ing and he wore a blue and white negligee
/ shirt and light colored bow tie. His voice
was very husky.
| He said:-"It@is hard to talk in five
places in one night and to split up a
speech in as many parts must seem un-
satisfactory to you. But.you must put up
with it as we'll I, because of the many
places had to go to.
| The Republican party was party one
time, but today those who wish to remain
Republicans must swallow the doctrines
| now embraced by, the party. Consider
we'll before you abandon party principles.
was told a story by a friend who was
walking through a graveyard one day
He saw this inscription on a tombstone
AS am now, so shall you be. Pre-
pare We now to follow me-
And the reader of these lines wrote
beneath the original inscription
In following you, I am not content,
Until | know which way you went I"
This caused much laughter. Continuing
Mr.. Bryan said:-
so now the thinking people want to
know which way the party is going That
party once stood for bi-metalism, now it
stands for the gold standard 1t used to
stand Tor paying off the national debt,
now 1T goes right ahead plunging the
country into needless debt 1t used to
stand for the Declaration of Independence,
now the party has outgrown the Declar-
alton. 1t is not guided by that wonderful
document any longer. 1t stands for
trusts, but it says that there are good
and bad trusts. and it doesn't know the
difference between them.''
Mr.. Bryan then turned his attention to
imperialism. .The people, he said,
never endorsed the changes the present
government is giving us, and If the peo-
pie endorsed them this time, it will show
wonderful change of opinion. Your
President never promised to do these
things when he took office in 1897.
/ On the statute books you will find laws
providing punishment for the person who
| steals a horse, but the great trusts which
rob and pilfer right and left, are pro
tected by the party even though there be
laws to prevent their pernicious opera
tions The Republican party has changed
the commandment to read, thou shalt not
| steal on a small SCALE If the scale be
large enough it is all right. Because the
Republican party does these things, you
do not have to Uphold it.
when we were children we used to
ask the Lord for our daily bread in our
prayers, today the workngman goes down
on his knees to beg of the trusts for their
bread for the day. Your Republican can
|
hurt good trusts and Hanna tells you that
there are no trusts. But will tell you of
a trust, the ice trust, and you all know
lit exists. But if the Republican Legis-
/ lature did it's duty there would be no
trust. We had a trust in Nebraska, but
we did not have Republican legislature
and therefore we have no trust now.
/ Il was told by minister who is in
\ charge of church publishing house that
the church was taxed $4,000 a year be-
cause of the increase on paper. Repub-
! licans allow churches to be plundered in
/ order to pay campaign expenses. I would
have corporations conform with the laws
! and confine their operations to the State
/ in which they are licensed until the
| Federal Government gives a license to
4 operate elsewhere, after the stocks had
! been examined to see If there is water
there. If | am elected President of these
United States, I promise you that 1 will
| do all in my power to make it impossible
for trust to exist" tCheers9
The speaker then attacked the Repub-
| lican party for the increase of the army
/ and the carrying on of the war of exter-
/ mination in the Philippine Islands. He
I contended that if the party continued In
| power it might be necessary to maintain
! an army in the cities to carry out such
| order as should be demanded by legisla-
ton. I'VE cannot stand for a policy he
said, BIASED on the shifting sands of an
empire. I want the nation to be a world
| power, but America can be such, as it has
been for years. without the use of large
/ standing army. The Republicans have NO
plan with regard to the Filipinos. we
have. They can't kill them, for that
would restore the trade subject. They
/ don't want them as subjects nor citizens
we don't want them as either.
Mr.. Bryan concluded his address by de-
ploring the Philippine war. He was i'm
mediately surrounded by an eager crowd
who wished to shake his hand. He found
his way to the street, where he was forced
to make short address to the big crowd
Among the other speakers at the meet
ing were Joseph Noonan, Robert Hudspeth
and James Hamill.
| At. ST. PETERS HALL.