Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-10-18
Bryanite in Bismarck was opposed to
the establishment of the post (laugn-.

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Now, said Mr., Comstock, Mr.. Bryan
knew that there was no such danger
as he pictured, but he thought it a
good way to delude recent arrivals to
this country who did not know % 1t
/. would be impossible to govern this
people with soldiery. He said that
a populist friend Of his in Moorhead
admitted to him after the speech of
Bryan that there was no such danger,
but, said he, "it was a d good
point, wasn't it,"
= Then there was the question of i'm
perialism. Mr.. Bryan had dwelt ar
great length ON this Now as a mat
ter of fact, said Mr.. Comstock, the
Philippine islands were ceded to this
country by tne Spanish American
treaty. This treaty would never
have been ratified had not Mr.. Bryan
gone to Washington and brought
eighteen democratic senator's into line
for it. Mr.. Bryan, then, was respons-
ible for the cession of the Philippines
to this country to greater degree
than any ten men in the country. 1t
i'll becomes him, therefore, to arraign
Inc republican party for this action,
which he himself made possible. The.
reason Mr.. Bryan and the democrats
had been for, the ratification of the
treaty was that. if it did not pass, ac-
cording to Mr.. Bryan'sg own admis-
sions, the democratic party would
have had absolutely nothing to go be-
fore the people in the campaign this
year. Political hypocrisy and incon-
sistency could go no further than this.
Then there was the trust question.
Mr.. Bryan pretended to be the great
enemy of trusts. His chief advisers
and supporters are Marcus Daily, re-
Gently elected treasurer of the asso-
citation Of democratic clubs. who was
president of the Amalgamated Copper
company. Mr.. Daily was no spring
chicken. He would not be for Mr..
Bryan if he expected his company to
be shut out OF existence. Thea
there was James X. Jones, chairman
of the national democratic committee
He was president of the round cotton
bale trust. Did Mr. Jones work for
Bryan with the expectation that his
company was going to be busted. Then
there were Havemeyer of the sugar
trust, Rockefeller of the Standard Oil
trust, Croker of the ice trust All
bosom friends and workers for Bryan.
Did they expect their companies to be
dissolved. The republican party had
put on the statute books the only anti
trust legislation ever passed. They
passed the Sherman law, under which
the original Standard Oil trust was
dissolved. Did the democrats do any
legislating against trusts when Cleve-
land and his congress had control Of
the country? Did Bryan believe in
opposing trusts when, as a member
Of the ways and means committee that
framed the Wilson-Gorman law, he
put a differential duty on refined
sugar in favor Of the sugar trust;
when he had recommended a tariff
bill SO Infamous that President Cleve-
land denounced it as perfidy and
Bourke Cochran said that there was
no parallel in political history to the
sale of the democratic party to the
sugar trust?
In closing Mr.. Comstock referred
again to the wonderful strides the
country had made since the election
of Mckinley. He cited figures to show
the increase in value of live stock and
farm products since the republican ad-
had been restored to con-
troll. Who wanted to return to the
business conditions of 1S93-1S97. Who
wanted to go back to the time Coxey'S
army was marching across the coun-
try asking for bread, when mills and
factories We're closed, when labor was
when working men were
idle? Those who did would doubt
less vote for William J. Bryan. Those
who wanted the country to continue
the onward march of prosperity and
Inc increase of business would vote
FOR Mckinley. The democratic plat
form from start to finish has no good |
word for any business institution. It
IS against the protective tariff, against |
the financial system of the country, |
against the shipping bill, against ev-
It tears down, or would |
ear down, but builds up, never.
Typical of the insincerity Of Mr..
Bryan is his attitude with regard to
he practical Acknowledgement OF the
negroes Of the south. While he had
words of sympathy and coincidence
'oT the Fi1iuinO he had none fny.t sfi,o !