The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-10-19
Senator'S Hanna and Frye Address a Multi
fudIe Of People i'm ManiafO on Cues
lions That Are at Issue.
BRYANS PROPHECIES OF FOUR YEARS AGO WERE FALSE
The Effects Of the Republican Dingiey Tariff
Law Compared by Senator Frye With
Those Offhe Democratic Wilson Bill.
BRYAN TRYING TO SET CLASS AGAINST CLASS
Senator Hanna Says That Capital and abOr
Should be friendly, i'm Order to Attain
the Best Interests Of Both.
BRYAN TRYING TO SET CLASS AGAINST CLASS

The arrival of the train was greeted
with great acclaim, and the party was
taken in hacks to the large stand that
had been erected near by, amid the
, shouts of the people and the music of
brass bands. The speakers stand was
gaily decorated and bore these words
: on banners, Protection, Sound
Money" mckinley, ,McCleary, our
Two Macs" The Rough Riders, I'M
der Capt. B. Taylor, lined up in
the rear of the crowd, acting as escort.
,, The G. G. W. excursion train arrived
at 10 20 a. M, and the senatorial
, special at 10 :45 a. m.
The speakers stand seated seventy
five, among whom were the newspaper
men. Those who arrived on the sena-
torial train, in newspaper car, were
A. M. Copp, Associated Press Maurice
Weidenthal, Scripps McRae League;
W. W. Jermane, Minneapolis Journal;
B. J. Mullaney, Chicago Times Her
aid Charles Powers, Chicago Tribune
L. W. Busbey, Chicago Inter Ocean
FL. L. Ickles, Chicago Record; G.
Russell Leonard, Chicago, official
stenograher.
Senator Frye introduced.
DR.. John Merritte Driver, pastor of
the Methodist church, presided. He
| said Ladies' and gentlemen, the
magnificent commonwealth of Maine
| furnished to the nation the first vice
| president of the United States on the
Republican ticket it gave to us that
magnificent statesman James G.
Blaine, and another magnificent states
man from that glorious state is here
to address you and is worthy of a
/ hearing. I take pleasure in introducing
to you the Hon W. P. Frye, of Maine.
| Applause. .- ~.@,... ~---. .'~.-s II
Senator Frye spoke as follows:
Ladies and gentlemen What
splendid gathering what magnificent
country you have. too; and climate
which is exactly like the Indian sum-
mer of my own state, and am happy
to state that there are thousands of the
grand state Of Maine that are today
in representation in the state Of Min
nesota. =. -
For four years from 1898 to 1897, I'M
der Democratic administrator, we
were wallowing in that Democratic
slough Of despond; farmers could not
sell at any decent price the products Of
/ the farm men who worked could not
sell their labor for any decent wages
and many men had no work and no
wages. The infamous Wilson bill en-
couraged and brought into existence
but one industry, and that was the
! and what for? To feed the starving
women and children while their
fathers were hunting for work all over
the country. Now, when men are
hunting for wages, wages go down,
but when wages are hunting for men
wages go up. -. =.
|
In 1895, the Republican party met
in convention. They told you that if
you would remove the Democratic
party from power and give them the
power once more they would restore
prosperity to the United States they
told you they would remove the de-
moralization from wages; they told
you they would revive dead Industries
they told you they would create new
industries they told you they would
repeal the Infamous Wilson law; they
! told you they would reenact into law
( the Republican policy of protection
they told you they would provide by
law for gold basis, and that every
dollar in the United States, printed or
minted by authority of the United
| States, should be WORTH one hundred
cents in gold anywhere in the world
| Applause. You took them at their
word, not at the word of W. J. Bryan,
l have here-(voice in the crowd,
"Hurrah for Bryan Wait min
ute, and then if you hurrah for Bryan
you will show your lack of intelligence.
: In 1894 Bryan was on the stump out
here in Minnesota and in South Da-
kota voice 9 in 1896 you mean
Yes, in 1895, that is right, correct me
when make mistake, and will be
obliged to you. Here is what he then
said '7If Mckinley and the Repub-
| lican party are successful and put in
power for the next four years, wages
will be decreased = Have they been
decreased? No, they have been in
creased 40 per cent more than they
were under the Democratic admins
tration, for during that time men were
employed only one-half of the time,
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