The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-04
DEMONSTRATION AT DANA.
An Enthusiastic Crowd, and Several
Speeches Made.


An Enthusiastic Crowd, and Several
Speeches Made.
In this pretty little prairie city of Dana,
almost on the Illionis border, the l., d. &
W. special carrying the Indianapolis ora
tors was greeted by a big crowd on its ar
rival shortly after o'clock. The train left
about s o'clock and at the hour of leaving
the streets were full Of people. The arrival
of the train was greeted with cheering and
music by the Logan Band. A. j. Ralph,
of Dana, was master of ceremonies. For a
half hour after the arrival of the train the
people listened to speech by Attorney
General Taylor. The crowd was then dis
missed and at o'clock another demonstra-
ton was begun which lasted until the train
started back to indianapolis. In addition
to the talk by Attorney General Taylor,
speeches were made by Captain w. E.
English. John b. Cockrum, Judge U. u.
Wiley and Lieutenant Guy Boyle. All the
speeches were received with enthusiasm.
Attorney General Taylor, in the course
of his remarks respecting the subject of
Imperialism, said: Imperialism as defined
by Bryan applies only to the Philippines
Cuba and China? If the Constitution fol-
lows the flag, why does not China belong
to us to-day? Ours was the first flag plant
ed on the walls of her capital. What is
the story of our armies in these other
lands? When Porto Rico bowed to our
flag all of our thousands of soldiers came
back except a handful left there to guard
property. When the Spaniards in Cuba sur
rendered to our flag all of the tens of
thousands of American soldiers came back
except three regiments. When China bowed
to the flag all of our 1900 soldiers with
drew except one regiment left to guard
the palace. Mckinley was the first COM
mander-in-chief of any of the allied armies
to order his soldiers to about face and
march out of China, and when Aguinaldo
shall have been made to kiss the flag as
the Spaniard did in Porto Rico and Cuba,
and the Boxer did at Picking, then Mckinley
will withdraw the troops from Luzon ex
cept enough TO GARRISON the ports and pro-
tect the lives of innocent citizens from
the cutthroat bandits who lie in wait in
he swamps TO murder. pillage and plum
Ger. After next Tuesday, when Aguinaldo
shall have learned that William Mckinley
has been elected President instead of WILL
lam ]. Bryan, he, like the Spaniards in
the West Indies and the Spaniards in the
East Indies, and the Chinese in their walled
capital, will bow to the flag, and then the
thousands of brave boys wearing the blue
of an American soldier will come back from
the Philippines. and the prayers of the
living and the voices from the silent dead
Will pe answered and civilization will have
taken up its onward march. The army OF
the Republic in Luzcn is carrying the flag
IL one hand for liberty. the Bible in the
other for Christianity, and the schoo, book
in the pocket for education. They are not
there for conquest CT empire. but for lib
erty anc civilization. They are comrades
of this gunsquad on this car and are there
no more TO establish an empire than these
Toys who went to Porto Rico, or their
comrades who went to Cuba"
TRUSTS DISCUSSED.
The attorney general discussed the trust
question at length and showed how disas-
trous would Bryan's theory be to the indus
tries of this country if his remedies for
trusts were enacted into law. Bryans
remedy is free trade, as it was in the Will
son BILL which he championed for nine
hours on the floor of Congress, and over the
protest and objection OF President Cleve-
land. The attorney general held up to the
view of his audience two hats-one made
i'm Wabash, Ind, and the other made in
New Jersey, the Wabash company being
outside of and fighting the trust. The New
IF you destroy this hat company in New
Jersey by taking off the tariff, you at the
same time destroy the hat company in Wa
bash that is fighting the trust. They both
go down together. and the hatters in New
Jersey and the hatters in Wabash march
out of their concerns at the same time and
the factories close down together. The trust
is the rat in the Nations barn. The Repub
lican party proposes TO Kill the rat by Civ
ing it poison and save the barn. Bryan's
remedy is to burn the barn in order to kill
he arS he Qf - oratfI
tration was greeted with cheers.
John b. Cockrum, being introduced.
launched forth into general discussion OF
the issues of the day, dwelling largely on
with the work of the Republican party in
1861 and following ii up TO 1892. He then
showed the disastrous results of the Cleve-
land administration and the unwise policy
of the Democratic laws in force by which
such results were obtained. He said.
among other things, that, the Democratic
party having been tried as TO its ability to
conduct the affairs OF the government, she
result of which was soup houses and Cox
ey's armies. after four years Of prosperity
under Mckinley's administration the Amer
lean people would not be foolish enough to
again put in power the Democratic party,
led by so unsafe a man as Mr.. Bryan. when
it's policy under the best President that the
Democratic party had had since the admin
istration of Andrew Jackson had proved
so unsatisfactory. Mr.. Cockrum then went
into discussion of the work of the Repub-
in 1896 and followed this discussion with
that of the questions Of imperialism and
militarism.
JUDGE wILEY'S OBJECT LESSON.
Judge U. z. Wiley gave an object lesson
on the question OF free silver that greatly
entertained the audience. I'VE were told
in 1896 by Mr.. Bryan and his followers"
said Judge Wiley. that we could not have
permanent prosperity in this country until
we got rid of the faliacy OF the gold stand
ard and could have the free coinage of
silver at the ration OF Is to l, and this sys-
tenn Of finance Mr.. Bryan denominated the
money of our fathers and of the Constitu-
ton. The fact is. as everybody knows
Mr.. Bryan was wrong then and Mr.. Nc
Kinley and the Republican party were
right We buried free silver in the
avalanche CT 1896; We obtained favorable
legislation in Congress-the gold standard
TO which the Republican party was
pledged. Mr.. Bryan said that il this was
done financial disaster would come upon US
as a nation. Facts that speak stronger
than any argument have proved false his
assertion. Now. TO illustrate the great
blessings of free silver for which Mr.. Bryan
and his party stood, and for which they