New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-28
A WORD ABOUT SILVER.
AT LAST BRYAN TOUCHES THE
MONEY ISSUE HERE.
TELLS A GERMAN AUDIENCE THAT HE
RELIEVES AS BEFORE, BUT M
PERIALISM THE THING NOW.

PERlALISM THE THING NOW.
"I have mnde attempt to conceal my
views the money question. 1 would be
unworthy of your confidence If changed
to win votes. If I should surrender my ideas
ON silver to become President. 4 might as
wen surrender my ideas on trusts, imperial
ism and militarism'-(wia1n J. Bryan. at Cooper
Union last night
Mr. Bryan. on the platform of Cooper Union,
last night again proclaimed himself free silver
advocate. He had to speak to several thousand
German-Americans. with whom the hall was
crowded. and having stirred them TO a high pitch
or excitement by TRADE against Imperialism
ne opened his heart on the silver question. On
his last visit here Mr.. Bryan was absolutely
silent on this issue.
Tammany cheerers carried the applause along
but many of his auditirs could only shake their
heads. The free silver proclamation came like
streak of lightning out of a clear sky. because
Mr. Bryan uttered it of his own will, and with
out being questioned by sharp witted college
students, as he was when he was forced to a
similar declaration in Ithaca.
SPEECHES IN GERMAN.
Before Mr.. Bryans arrival Sheriff William F.
Grell had called the meeting to order. and spoke
in German at some length the issues of the
campaign. He was followed by Herr Habercon,
man. Those who could not understand the
tences of the speaker watched the doorway in
the rear for the orator of the night
When Mr. Bryan came forward out Of that
doorway the greeting he received was as sudden
and deafening as the explosion of the fireworks
outside IN the street. While the band was en-
deavoring to drown the racket little Pauline
May, who lives at Eleventh-st and University
Place was lifted TO the platform by her father
She walked up to Mr.. Bryan and held up her
childish hands for him to take them The sweet
simplicity of the little one so charmed the can
didate that he bent down and embraced her.
'Ich kann Deutsch sprecken, aber nicht sehr
gut" Mr.. Bryan began in the native tongue of
his audience. This bit of German received up
roarious applause
WHAT MIR. BRYAN SAID.
Then he continued
But If I cannot talk to you in your native tongue
can talk to you of principles which we hold in
common. Lincoln was making speech once on
the Fourth 9f July and IN ths course OF his speech
of Independence Then he added that there were
their ancestry to Revolutionary sires. that there
were some among us who were either born in
in other lands and that these need not feel abashed
because they could not trace their ancestry back back
those who cannot connect themselves with the
tion of Independence that principle that all men
are creatd equal and then they know that that
principle binds them to the native born in this
country.
An idea is greater than relationship; An idea will
take possession Of man and revoutoniZe him
(Here the speaker looked upward as if listening to
revolutionize it. 1t will take possession of a
tion and revoluuonlze it, 1t will take hold of So
great, because of the physical strength of its
people but because our forefathers here planted
ment This Nation has been the greatest factor in
could
we had an idea that was given the strength or
truth and made omnpotent because it was
This campaign is the first one when that doctrine
say that the Germans must be Republicans because
Germans will be Democrats because they believe
In good government
REFERS TO SILVER AT LAST.
If the Republican tells. me the Democratic Ger
Standard s reply that they have 9 back % to
the Declaration Of independence have made no
ton. (Applause5 l would be unworthy Of Your
confidence: would be unworthy of your support
suit occasion or to win a vote. If 1 would
in order to get to be President might surrender
my convictions on the trust question, on the Army
President.
Here the silver orator saw blank look come
over the faces of some Of his hearers and quickly
added:
But; my friends, while my, views are known
the money question, 1 believe that ques-
tiOns Of government more important than
questions of money. 1 believe that 1t is more inn
portant that we shall have a republic than that
ard. In 1892 discussed the tariff question, we
believed that a tariff law modified was better than
a high tariff and made a fight In 1896 the
money question had become more important than
the tariff question, for money question is more
important than a question of taxation. and after
the money question framed we discussed the
money question. but In the last four years the Re
publican party has thrust into the of politics
a question which reaches deeper. higher. further
than any question which the American people have
considered in generation.
The Republicans have attacked the doctrine that
governments derive their just powers from the
consent of the governed. All history presents
but two ideas of government; one is that gov
ernment comes up from the people, and the other
is that which issues from the cannons mouth.
those are the only two ideas of government ever
known among men. For II you tell me that the
doctrine that kings rule by right divine Is an
doctrine OF Iorce for king ever rule by
divine right unless he has u bigger army than the
other
the party to its first victory with the domina ting
factor in the Republican party to-day, contrast
these two men, for l am betrayng no confidence
when / tell YOU that Mr.. Hanna is the dominating
factor in the Republican party, ! think / can say
that the difference between Abraham Lincoln zap
pause) and Mark Hanna-the gulf that separates
them-is as wide as the gulf that separated Laza-
rus IN Abraham's bosom from Dives in torment
CAPTUPED ELOPERS EXAMINED.