The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-22
SPOKE TO the ENEMY
BRYAN APPEALED TO REPUBLICANs
TO VOTE WITH DEMOCRATS.
NOMINEE GAVE HIS REASONS.
THE FINANCIAL, TRUST AND Porto
RICAN QUESTIONS.
Mr.. bryan Based His Appeal Upon the
Belief That Republicans Are Anxi-
Gus to Help Their Country by Their
Notes-shOved Them Where Demo-
cratic Doctrines Would Help IL.
Promise of BimetalIism Failed, but
Caused Republicans no Sorrow.

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Caused Republicans no Sorrow.
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 2l-Nir Bryan ad-
dressed large audience of Saunders coun-
ty people at Wahoo, the county seat, to-
day The speech was an appeal to Re-
publicans TO vote the Democratic ticket
Giving his reasons for this appeal, Mr..
Bryan said:
Il want to talk to you Republicans. be-
lieving that you are just as anxious to
help your country and help your fellows
by your votes as the Democrats the Pop
ulists and the Silver Republicans are.
Now. if you were with US in 1896, there
is no reason why you should be against
us now, un,ess the new questions have
changed your opinion or unless you have
changed your opinion on the old questions.
| do not believe you can find in this coun-
try any man who voted with
us in 1896 and who understood
the issues then before the country who
has changed his mind on those issues and
now believes that the Republican party
was right in '96. l believe you will find
many people, who were against us on The
old issues, who are now with us on the
new ones and will be on the old ones We
had men in SO who came TO us on the sill
yer question. Republicans who were not
willing to turn over and vote the Repub-
lican ticket just because the Republican
party had changed it's position on the mon
ey question-Republican who were in
earnest in 1888 when they denounced the
gold standard Republicans who were in
earnest when they advocated bimetaIlism
in 1892 and, therefore, they refused to
take the Republican position on the
money question in '96. And when they got
out of the Republican party and began
looking at the Republican party from the
outside, they found that the same vicious
principles ran through all the Republican
doctrines, and to-day they are with us,
not only on the silver question, but upon
all the new questions also" (Applause.)
Talked About Finances.
In this connection, Mr.. Bryan referred
at some length TO the financial question,
saying:
The Republican party is trying today
the same deception that it practised in
'96 on the money question. The Re-
publican leaders wanted the gold stand
ard in 1896 just they want it now, but
they held out before tho people the de-
fusion of international bimetallism. The
President sent a committee of three dis
tinguishef gentlemen, and they were 10
labor with the European nations and dry
to get those nations to help us. Did
they succeed? OF course, they did not.
We told you in 1896 that they would not
succeed. You could not expect England
to join with us in restoring bimetalism
If man sets his heart on thing and
does not get it, he feels sorrowful. You
cannot find a Republican to-day that felt
sorrowful because they did not get inter
national bimetallsm that they promised
to get in 1896" Applause.)
The Question of Trusts.
Speaking of trusts, he said:
The Republican party is trying to-day
the very same policy on these other ques-
tions that 1t tried on the money question
in '96. They attack the trust question in
their platform. and yet you cannot find a
Republican paper and read il without find
ing a defense of the trusts The Repub-
Republican editors are spreading before
the public arguments defending the trusts
Now, why is it2 1t Is because the plat
form is hypocrisy. The Republican party
does not intend to destroy the trusts, but
under the cover OF platform denuncia-
tion of the trusts, the Republican leaders
are trying to quiet the minds of the peo-
pie and make them accept the trusts as a
good thing.
ryhn 4
nouncing the trus i untll he Repub-
lican Larty got in, ana then there were
more trus o ganiZtd Under the Repub-
lican administration during the last three
and one-falf years than were orsanized
in the previous history of the country
and they are now trying to make them
se,ves think 1T is good. They have had
to change their opinion as fast as the Re-
publican party changed it's Iosition Let
me give YOU recent illustration When
Mr. Mckinley sent his message to Con-
gress saying 1t was OR pain duty to
give free trade to Porto Rico, those Re-
public M wake on tfe reefs and
echo Plain duty Then something
happened. Some power behind the throne
began to work. This power oSerro e tha
recomm endation Of the governor general
at Porto Rico; this power overrode the
petition OF the people OF Porto Rico
this power overrode the chairman Of the
Commit &C on Ways and Means and com
PEELED him to bring in a bill rectly the
opposite Of the bill he first introduced
This power overrode the President and
made him sign the bill when he said IL
was our duly to do the opposite
Republicans, are you willing 10 turn
over on this question just because your
party has done a thing that you know is
not right. IT is only little more than
two years ago that the President sent a
message 10 Congress in which he said that
forcible annexation Is contrary to our code
of morals and criminal aggression, and
yet to-day Republicans are asked 10 ap-
prove Of a thing that was denounced as
criminal aggression and against our code
of morals less than three years ago.
II said that / had no fear that those
who were with us In '95 are against us
now, but | do believe that many people
who did not realize In '96 how the dollar
was rising above the man IN
the consideration of government and
who did not realize then how or
gsnized greed had been pressing
for consideration before the Republican
party and securing special privileges
from the government for private gain now
realize on these questions what they did
not understand Of che old ones, and that
there will be more people 20 leave the
Republican party because Of It's position
on militarism and imperialism than have