The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-09-03
BRYAN AND TREATY.
Tries To Explain why Wanted 1t
Ratified.

South Bend, Ind, September lion.
William j. Bryan, Democratic candidate
for the Presidency, today made his second
brief visit of the campaign to Indiana.
He arrived at a few minutes past four
this afternoon, speaking at La Porte en-
route, and here tonight. He was enthn-
siast1calIy received at both places. In
the course of his remarks at La Porte he
said:
If Republican tells you that per
manent debt is a good thing, you tell him
that in all the campaigns of the past the
Republican party has been Dragging
about how it paid off the national debt
and yet that today the Republican party
stands fora currency system that cannot
be permanent, for You cannot have bank
notes, secured by government bonds.
unless there are government bonds to Sc
cure them. If Republican tells you it
is a good thing to have a arge standing
army said Mr.. Bryan, s'remind him
that when a Republican President went
into Office we had an army of %, 900
soldiers and that that same President
asked for a standing army of 100, 900 SOL
d1ers in December, 1898, and then re-
mind him of the fact that if we ars to
have imperialism we will never have
smaller army than we have now.
If a Republican tells you that i'm
perialism is the same as the expansion
that Jefferson sought for, you tell him
that Jefferson wanted to expand the lin
its Of the Republic and to build up the
territory into states and that he want
ed the inhabitants to be citizens and to
share in the guarantees of the constitu-
ton while the Republican party has al.
ready enacted a law in regard to Porto
Rico that rests upon the theory that out
side of the 45 states the President and
Congress have power as unlimited as
any despot ever exercised in the history
of the world" (AppIause.)
The meeting at South Bend tonight
was held upon the courthouse grounds.
Mr.. Bryan had fine audience, regard
ess of the weather conditions. The
speech was a general discussion of the
issues of the campaign, but special at
tention was given to the consideration of
Imperialism. Mr.. Bryan defended his
course in advocating the ratification OF
the peace treaty, saying that he consid-
cred it preferable to have the treaty rati-
fed to having another made by the same
parties, believing it better to eliminate
Spain from the question entirely.
'sDeny if you dare, the doctrine that
all men are created equal in the Philip
pines and you are going to find your
selves unable to maintain it here, - he
said. "Once destroy the doctrine and
you are all at sea. We are in advance of |
other nations; our government is the
best in the world. To change to the Eu-
ropean method is not progress, hut it is
to go backward. -
Mr.. Bryan said he was satisfied with |
the progress that had been made and he
would not exchange the American gov
eminent for all the empires that had ev-
or existed. If the President could haul
down the American flag in Cuba, 200
miles away, he could certainly haul
down in the Philippines, 1000 miles
way.
Lincoln, Neb., September l.-vice
Chairman Edniston and Secretary Edger-
tons of the Populist national commit
tee, have issued an address appealing for
support of William J. Bryan and justi-
flying their endorsement of AdIai E
Stevenson as Vice Presidential cand1-
date. The address, In part, says:
''In nominating Mr.. Stevenson for the
Vice Presidency, the Peoples party gave
a sublime Illustration of the renuncia-
ton Of partisanship. We had already
nominated Mr.. Bryan as our candidate for
President. We had nominated Mr.. ToWne