The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-20

ing favor rather than silver and gold
And SO believe this nation can stand
among the nations of the world I be-
i1eye that this nation can be SO upright,
SO just, that other nations Will look to
us, not only for example, but for aid in
time of trouble. Plutarch said that men
entertained these sentiments concerning
the gods-that they feared them for their
strength, admired them for their wisdom
and Justice
Concluding, Mr.. Bryan made an appeal
Tor large popular majority, saying
that majority in the electoral college
alone would not make the administration
so strong with the people.
I'm 1896 the people who were called
anarchists bowed to the will of the ma
jOrity and not a complaint was heard, "
he said i wonder some times whether
the great syndicates would have bowed
to the Will OF the majority as our people
did want you to make the majority
SO large this time that not single syn
dictate will dare to resist the power OF
the public VOTE
At Atchison Mr.. Bryan spoke from a
stand erected at the intersection of Com
mercial ana Sixth streets The audience
extended well up and down both streets,
and the windows and doors OF adjoining
buildings were filed.
Ex-Governor Click presided over the
meeting and introduced Mr.. Bryan. who
said:
IT notice that the Republicans try to
make the paramount issue that of pros
perity and as came down the street I
noticed that next to a tombstone -estab-
liShment, very properly Republican head
quarters are located. There is some
times great significance in accidents:
sometimes it seems as if there is divin-
ity that shapes our ends and brings into
close conjunction those things that
naturally ought to go together"
In speaking Of the effects of the trusts,
Mr.. Bryan warned the farmers not to
get caught in the barbs as the barbed
wire went up under the influence of the
DaTDed wire trust.
Il know of nothing more pathetic" he
said, than to see a Republican farmer
dangling in mid air from a barbed wire
fence and shouting for Mckinley
AT this point some one in the crowd
shouted for Mckinley" Mr. Bryan
turned upon him and asked: us it the
Mckinley who denounced Grover Cleve-
lands financial policy or the one who
adopted it? Is it the Mckinley who said
it was our plain duty to give free trade
to Porto Rico or the Mckinley who sign
ed the bill taking free trade from Porto
Rico? Is it the Mckinley who said forci-
BILE annexation would be criminal ag-
erosion or is it the Mckinley who now
believes in forcible annexation and GRIM
inal aggression? I am glad to have a
Republican cheer for his candidate, but
I think we ought to know which candi-
date he is endorsing
Referring to trusts, Mr.. Bryan said
that the letters of acceptance of both
Mckinley and Roosevelt had warned the
people that combinations of capital
should not De hurI. Iney spend more
time in pleading for the good trusts than
in condemning the bad trusts" he said.
Discussing the plea that the acquisi-
ton Of the Philippines had divine sane
ton, Mr.. Bryan said: & have seen Re-
publicanS going up and down the land
telling what God wanted when every
body who knows them, knows that God
would never let them know what he was
going to do for fear they would forestan
the market. Who speaks with divine
authority? Who is in power to reveal
the authority; to reveal the will of the
Almighty?"