The sun., 1900-08-20
TO TALK SILVER AT TOPEKA
BRfANS PLANS FOR THR POPULISr
NOTIPICATIOY CEREMONIEs,
Another Statement on III. Idea OF the Order
OF Importance Of the Issues Letter OF
Acceptance Not Completed He win SPEAK
In Kansas and Nebraska Town. This Week

IN hansas ana Nebraska Towns This Week.
LINCOLN, Neb.. Aug. Io--lt is quite certain
that silver will be brought 10 the front at tho
Populist notification at Topeka next Thursday
Mr.. Bryan politely declines Ia even hint TO the
reporters an outline Of his speech and all that
he would ray directly to the newspaper repre-
sentatives upon the subject was that he would
treat AT each notification the issues just as the
conventions had signined their belief as 10
paramountcy, To his friends he has been
more communicative. He tells them that he
will discuss the money question at some length
at Topeka. The Populists he says, came to
his support in 1890 largely because he repre-
sented their views upon the money ques ton and
because they believed his success meant the
restoration OF free coinage. At the Sioux
Fails Convention this year free silver was not
brought 80 emphatcalIy 10 the 'front.' but Mr..
Bryan accepted the money question as being
a proper one for discusSi II at the notification
ceremonies. Al the Silver Republican nothca-
ton he proposes 10 deal with the trusts as the
paramount ISSUE
Mr.. Bryan has finished the fret draft OF his
Topeka speech. Tomorrow he will go over IL
and give out copies to the press. His letter
of acceptance. in which he says he will touch
In detail upon every issue mentioned by tho
Democratic platform, Is awaiting hiS final revis-
Ion, but he does not expect Va get IL ready
for the impatient public until about Sept. /.
Mr.. Bryan starts on Tuesday upon u cam
paicntng tour Of southeastern Nebraska. He
viii preach anti-imperiallsm on Tuesday in
the Populist stronghold Of Saunders county.
peopled largely by Swedes. On Tuesday ha
goes TO 1ecumseh. the centre Of large Ger
man population. Here he will speak in the
morning driving twenty miles TO speak ut
Pawnee city in the afternoon. In the evening
he is booked for a speech at Falls City, On
hiS return from the notification ceremonies lie
will speak on Thursday at Manhattan, Kas..
and Beatrice. Ncb. The next day he viii make
a, series OF hye-ininute addresses from the rear
B BeiWSen Beatrice ar 'VeSd and South Omaha These these
speeches are undertaken with the idea Of giving
the campaigns In Nebraska and kHnIa; an
impetus that Il expected 10 aid the candidates
materially. lie Will be accompanied hv Fusion
nominees for ConsreSs il the various districts
MIR Bryan makes this statement Of WHY
tariff and silver have been temporarily pushed
20 the rear.
We have fought against the high tariff, and
We nght against the high tarn to-day because
We see great trusts hiding behind tarif barriers
and plunderinE American citizens. while they
compete in foreign markets But We do not
regard the tarln a. IN" supreme issue. Tn"
question Of taxation Is one Y hlch YOU can meet
NJ any time. When the silver question came
M We placed the tariN question IN tho back
ground aud fought on the silver question. Wo
said that tn" American people should have an
American financial policy and that. without
nation on earth. and We believe j.
look fellow citizen in the face If had to accept
English dictation finance IN the United
States but the question Of imperialism has
arisen and for the time being IT engrosses public
attention If | am sitting in "A house with a
Republican discussing economic questions and
the house catches fire, we stop long enough
TO put out the FIRE. The Republican party
has injected into American politics to-day
question which affects the house Itself and en-
dangers our self government Give us the
right to lcgislate on every question and wewll
settle every question that concerns the Ameri-
can people, but when You take away the right
10 govern ourselves, then that question must
bo settled The very people who were not
willing four years ago that the American people
should attend 10 their own business. now want
the American people 10 attend 10 the business
OF other people in other parts of the world"