The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-11-02

to the opinions which I advocate am
sure, too, that it will not do Republicans
any harm to listen to a Democratic
speech, and I hope that the Democrats
will return the courtesy shown by these
Republicans by listening to the Repub-
lcan speeches which are to be delivered,
for. no party has any claim upon the
voter except as the party can show that
it is the best means by which the voter
can serve his country; and we are
willing to submit our principles and our
defense to the conscience and to the
judgment of the American people"
In this speech Mr.. Bryan referred
briefly to the financial question by way
of attack upon the Republican position
The following was his language on that
point:
Il want the Republicans to explain
why they ask for the substitution of a
bank note for a greenback. In their
financial bill they put section IA, which
reViyes the hope of international BIZ
metallism. Why revive the hope of in
ternationaI bimetallism If the gold
standard is a good thing? Why not de-
fend a perpetual debt? for you can not
have bank note system resting on
bonds a. permanent system without hav-
ing permanent bonds"
There was a brief stop at the town of
Lowell, which was not originally on the
programme.
Mr. Bryan was listened to by a large
and attentive crowd in the city Of Ham
mond, which was his last stopping place
in the state of Indiana In his speech at
that point he gave considerable atten-
ton to the question of government by
injunction, saying among other things:
''Since the last election men have been
shot down in the highway by govern
ment by injunction, and the laDOrinB
man realizes that government by in
junction is merely a process by which
a laboring man Is deprived OF trial by
jury when he comes into conflict with
great corporation. We want to abolish
government by injunction The Repub-
licans have not tried to do 1t, and no
one of them in this campaign has said
a word on that subject, but the Repub-
lican candidate for vice president wrote
something about it four years ago. Dur
ing the campaign he had occasion to
express himself on this subject and said
that the 1aboring men who were OPP
posed to goveTnme nt by injunction were
like their remote slxin-clad ancestors,
who ate the mammoth and the woody
rhinoceros"
Discussing the question Of Imperialism
at Monticello Mr. Bryan said:
"a Republican said not long ago ma
tions might die whether expanded or
not, but that only expanding nations
left a glorious history. 1t is not nee
eSSary that q republic should die The
empire based on force will fall when a
superior force arises, but a republic
resting on the declaration of independ-
ence and administered according to the
doctrine Of equal rights to all and spe-
will never die, can never die, and such
a republic we want this to be. II you
love liberty then remember that the Fill
fpino loves it in the Orient II you are
entitled to self-government here re-
member that he is entitled to it there.
But when you get off the doctrine that
all men are created equal, upon what
viii you stand when you demand a right
to a voice In your own government
Mr.. Bryan's speech to the large audi
ence which greeted him at Monon was
an appeal to Republicans to lay aside
party prejudice and act upon the basis
of patriotism. He said that while many
Republicans disapproved the position Of
their party on many questions they
would try to silence their conscience
and avoid leaving their party. The Re
publican leaders seemed to think that
the rank and file Of the party would
vote for anything just SO it was in the