Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-09-19

HANNA
In Another Speech.
There's Not a Trust In
America, Says He.
"Tears the Mask From
the Face Of Bryan"
Would Like to Have a Debate
With Bryan.
Something That Reads Like the Moga-
dore Republicans Letter.

dore Republicans Letter.
Chicago, Sept. 19.-(Spl)-Senator
Hanna at noon yesterday made an ad,
dress to several thousand down town
business men and their employees at
the rooms Of the Commercial McKin.
ley club.
He said in part: "You will find my
text in the letter of acceptance of that
great apostle of free silver, w. j.
Bryan. 1t is his last card and he
begins his interesting appeal to the
people Of the United States by telling
what he knows about trusts. At the
Kansas City convention there devel
oped wide difference of opinion in
the Democratic party as TO wnat they
should or ought to do, and various pill
grims to Lincoln found Mr.. Bryan
very uneasy, as well he might have
been since the narrow edge of one vote
in the convention meant the saving of
his pet hobby-free silver. But how
has it been since that convention? In
all his speeches during this campaign
he has made only the barest reference
to free silver. But he took up another
issue, one which he labored in Wash
ington to manufacture. He gave pos.
tive orders to certain members Of
Congress to vote to ratify the treaty
with Spain, and for no other reason
than that he might have an imaginary
chance to attack the Administration.
II wish could have together on
this platform William Jennings Bryan
and Senator George +. Hoar, that each
might tell his reasons for opposing
expansion or imperialism Senator
Hoard would convince you that he
opposed 1t from conscientious motives,
but is on all other points unit with
the party from which he differs In
that one respect, and that he is a'sup-
porter of William Mckinley. With
tu- L would n
mask off the face Of that hypocrIte,
William J. Bryan. Cheers and hisses,)
One stands on the firm foundation OF
his convictions Of right and the other
on the filnnsy foundation Of hypocrisy.
Bryan has been afraid to push the
silver issue because he wants to car
ry New York and some other eastern
States. He tried Imperialism and made
from Ave to fifty speeches a day, his
audience growing less and less every
day. 1t Is his trump and last card
and we will hold him down to that
issue and on every side of it. If our
great corporations Of amalgamated
capital are. in the interest Of capital
then are not labor organizations and
combinations in the interests of the
workingman? was the first man
in Ohio to recognize organized labor
in 1871, and while that organization
of bituminous coal miners existed we
never had a strike. l. believe In arbl-
tration between labor and capital anG
in 1897. when l stood before 1900
men and women in Cincinnati, ! told
them that IL they would prove to me
that had ever wronged any man
working for me or urged the reduction
of his pay l would resign from the
United States Senate next day, and the
offer still stands.
II would like Mr.. Bryan or any other
Democrat to tell me what a trust Is. !
believe there Is not n trust In the
United States. There lis national law
and in every state there is law
against trusts. They cannot exist and
every law against trusts, national or
state, has been the product of Repub-
lican lawmakers and the credit is due
the Republican party. I have no OBJ
lection to the Democrats opposing
trusts, but they have not got any pat
ent on it. Bryan tells what he would
do IL elected. His first act would be
to haul down the American flag in the
Philippines. Cries Of No, no.) Wen,
that is what he says he will do, but
the American people would not let him.
Then he would establish a stable gov
srnment, probably with Aguinaldo at
the head Of 1t. Think Of It! Pull down
our nag, remove our troops and leave
the brave dead, our boys in blue, to