The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-02

candidate. he is Mormon enough to want
many Mr.. Bryan has gone around the
country crying aloud. Give me the pres
idency just once and viii never ask for IL
again / believe he means what he says.
for before four years had gone by IL would
penetrate even his brain that he was the
right man in the wrong place Mr. Bryan
sits on the edge of the political pool isnlng,
and he has his hooks baited with antrim
perialism, anti-militarism and anti-trusts
He wants all the fish in the pool. but ne
would prefer 10 have the bass. | think
when the votes are counted next Iuesday
he will be satisfied with the buliheads and
the suckers.
THE TRUSTS.
you hear much about the trusts, and il
occurs to me that 1 know something Of
them myself. A Democratic editor says
that Mark Hanna declared there were no
trusts. Well, if he said so he certainly
slipped a cog, for / know in New York we
have an fee trust. and IL has been very
cold proposition for the Democrats TO con-
slider. Then we have other trusts down
South, about which our Democratic friend.
James *. Jones. chairman of the nationa,
committee. could tell you something IL he
would. The difference between the Repub-
lican and the Democratic parties on the
trust question is the difference between
effort and mouthings. The first action
ever taken against the trusts was by the
Republican party al its national conven-
ton in 1888, and. my friends, those anti
trust resolutions adopted by that conven-
ton were drafted by our President. Will
liam Mckinley. The first antitrust bill
ever introduced in Congress was Senate
bill No. ], introduced in 1890 by that great
Republican statesman, John Sherman The
Republican party has ever striven by &C
ton TO take the trusts by the throat and
beat them TO death. The. Democrats have
had the same opportunity to legislate
"A for r1Axr tn 1cAI rrf
control of both houses of Congress. and
yet the best they ever did was to smother
every antitrust measure and then TO pre-
sent bill for committee services.
Mr.. Bryan protests against our foreign
policy and says that we have no title TO
the Philippines; yet, comrades. he acknowl-
edges that he procured nine of the signers
to the treaty of Paris. which would never
IT not look like he is trying to bastardize
his own child?
SAME OLD CRY
1.-THE cry of miltarism is the same old
cry that we have heard since the days of
great Abraham Lincoln. There is nothing
in it, 1 defy any one to review the history
of this country and point to time when
the uniformed sons of the Republic were
a menace to its honor, it's glory and its
perpetuity. L have a son tonight on the
island of Luzon. fighting for old glory, and
naturally he is the dearest hoy on earth
TO me, and / would give every drop of blood
la this mangled old body to have him come
back safe with honor to the mother who
bore him. But, dearly as / love him,
say to you tonight that L would rather
ne died thousand times under the flag
than to have 1T pulled down in dishonor.
Mr.. Bryan says he will pull that flag
down. recall that mighty army of the
grandest fighters on earth tried to pull ii
down In the sixties, but they had to furl
their banners In defeat. Do you mean to
tell me that the puny hand of William
Jennings Bryan can accomplish what that
army failed to do?
"A further objection that 1 have to Mr..
Bryan is that he is the apostle of discon-
tent. Hunt through his utterances and
find, IL you can, one ray of hope for the
future. He is attempting to array class
against class, brother against brother.
Mckinley on the 4th day of next March,
as, God helping us. we will do, some gentle
man will pass from the stage of political
life. The apostle OF discomfort will be per-
Then rally on the colors, boysi Dress left
or dress right, put rally on the colors!"
MR.. REEDS REMARKS.
Following Corporal Tanner. Mr.. Reed
spoke briefly on the issues of the campaign.
He said he was not soldier, and that it
was the regret of his life that a soldiers
button did not adorn his coat
Said he: 'I hail from Pennsylvania
which is supposed to be Republican State
We expect to roll up a majority of 300, 900
votes for William Mckinley. In our State
the Democrats are positively lonely. In
coming West from my home, as L passed
through Pittsburg and its vicinity, / was
reminded of the story L once heard relative
to new way that was proposed to clear
up the atmosphere in order to give the citi-
Zens of Pittsburg a vision of the sun. 1t
had been argued that something should be
done in this way, and some thought that
ii could best be accomplished by the use of
smoke consumers. Others proposed some
thing else, but the argument was finally
settled by laborer in the mills. who adj
vised them to try voting the Democratic
ticket. That's what they did try in 1892,
and they were effectually rid Of the smoke.
But they got rid of 1t at the expense of
hundreds of thousands of starving people.
Then we had nearly three million of men
is different, for every man who wants to
work can find it. We owe this primarily to
Gods blessing and secondarily to the wise
administration of the Republican party
Mr.. Reed said that Bryan was talking
about Imperialism, trusts, militarism and
many other things, but that his heart was
set on one thing. HE will never be salts
fed" said Mr.. Reed, until he gives us a
dishonest dollar. coined out of free silver
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