Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-19

| dress to several thousand down town
business men and their employees at
the rooms of the Commercial Mckinley
Club, He said, in part:
You will find my text in the letter
of acceptance OF that great apostle of
free silver. w. j. Bryan. 1t is his last
/ card. and he begins his interesting APP
| peal TO the people of the United states
by telling what he knows about trusts.
AT the Kansas City convention there
| developed a wide difference OF opinion
in the Democratic party as to what
they should do or ought to do, and
various pilgrims to Lincoln found Mir.
Bryan very uneasy, as well he might
have been, since the narrow edge OF
enc vote IN the convention meant the
saving OF his pet hobby, free silver.
But how has it been since that eonyen-
ton? In all his speeches during this
campaign he has made only the Darest
reference 10 free silver. But he took
up another issue. one which he labored
| in Washington to manufacture. de
gave positive orders TO certain mem
! Ders OF Congress 10 vote to ratify the
treaty with Spain, and for no other
reason than that he might have an inn
aglnary chance TO attack the admins
4 tration.
Il wish | could have together on this
platform William Jennings Bryan and
Senator George =. Hoar, that each
might tell his reasons for opposing en-
pansion' or imperialism. Senator
Hoar would convince you that he OPP
! mos a1 II frnu1 concentrations r,1ntsxae hst
4 is on all other points unit with the
party, from which he differs in that one
respect, and that he is a supporter OF
! William Mckinley. With these two to-
| gether, l would tear the snask OF the
face OF that
Hypocrite, VIM. j. Bryan
| CHEERS and hisses). One stands on the
firm foundation of his convictions of
right and the other on the fimsy foun-
dalton OF hypocrisy Bryan has been
AFRAID to push the silver issue because
! he wants TO carry New York and some
! other Eastern. States He tried Inn
perialsm and from i've to fifty speeches
a day, his audiences growing less and
less every day. 1t is his trump and last
card, and we will hold him down to
that issue and on every side of it. Ii
our great corporations of amlgamated
capital are in the interests OF manufac-
tdre, then are not labor organizations
and combinations in the interest OF
| workingmen? | was the first man in
Ohio TO recognize organized labor in
1871, and while that organization OF
| bituminous coal miners existed we
never had strike. ] believe in arbi-
| tration between labor and capital, and
in 1897, when l stood before 1900 men
and women In Cincinnati, | told them
that ii they would prove TO me that
had ever wronged any man working
| for me or urged the reduction OF his
pay, / would resign from the United
States Senate next day, and the offer
still stands
Il would like Mr.. Bryan or any other
Democrat TO tell me what a trust Is. |
believe there is not a trust in the en-
| tire United States. There is a nation
| al law and In every State there is q
| law against trusts. They cannot exist.
| and every law against trusts, National
or State. has been the product OF Re
| publican lawmakers and the credit ID
due to the Republican party. | have
| no objection 70 the Democrats oppos-
| ing trusts, but they have not got any
patent on 1t. Bryan tells what he
would do IL elected. His first act
| would be TO
Hnui Down the American Flag
in the Philippines. tCries OF NO. no.')
well, that is what ne says ne would
do, but the American people would not
let him. Then he would establish
stable government probably with
Aguinaldo al the head OF H. Think OK
it, Pull down our flag. remove our
| troops and leave the brave dead, our
boys in blue. to the tender mereies OF
! Aguinaldoi Judging from the past
| Aguinaldo would soon shock humanity
and the nations would interfere as we
| ala in Cuba. Bryan talks of the Mon
roe doctrine and advocates a protector
! ate In the Philippines. The Monroe
| doctrine was established for the West
| ern Hemisphere, but Bryan would
| spread it all over the world. liz that Is
| not Imperialism then tell me what is.
| am for peace but not for peace at any
price and not while the brlgand. Agui-
| naldo, is hanging In the bushes shoot
ing down our soldiers. Bryan Is 0ppog-
ed to a tariff as a trust creator. but the
| workingmen know that the tariff Ia
| their protector. He tells in rosy pic
lures what he would do If elected and
besides mis- pictures stand as something
monumental the work that Mckinley
has done. Bryan Will stand on any
platform they make for him. ride any
hobby, indorse any issues. yes be viii
even abuse me for the sole purpose of
being President That is all he wants.
(Cries OF You are all right."J Yes,
am all right for | talk about things
know all about and don't lie either.
Cast your votes in your own interests
and not In the interests OF Mr. Bryan.
The importance OF this campaign IS
greater than ever before known IN
the country, because any reversal OF
the policy % the government would
bring about a change in the commer-
cial interests which would dwarf the
awful storm ak Galveston. II would
mean commercial and industrial rev.
oiutlon from which the country would
not soon recover"
|
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