The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-01-11
INDORsEs CHICAGO PLATFORM.
Declares There Will Be No Considera.
-. { Opposition to Its Principles.
DEALS WITH TRUST PROBLEM.
Refers to Large Number of Travelling
Men Thrown Out of Work.
DISCUSSES LIVE ISSUES.

| DISCUSSES LIVE ISSUES.
Lincoln. Neb., Jan. 5.-To-nigh at
the Lincoln hotel the Travelling Mems
Bryan club gave their fourth annual
banquet, with Mr.. Bryan as the guest
of honor. The club was organized
during the campaign of 1896 and
nual spread. The banquet hall was
elaborately decorated with bunting,
festoons and flowers. Pictures of
Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, as well
as the likeness of Mr.. Bryan, looked
down on the assembly. Covers were
laid for 400 and there were only a
few vacant places at the tables. Dep
uty Attorney General Ed P. Smith OF
Omaha presided as toastmaster.
Governor Thomas ofNebraska, Hon.
Cato Sells of Iowa and q half dozen
Nebraska men responded to toasts.
Mr.. Bryan was last on the program.
He spoke on "The Outlook" 1t was
his first public utterance of the year
and he was expected to sound the
keynote of the coming campaign. He
was heard with rapt attention. He
spoke for about an hour. After COM
plimenting the club on the increased
Importance of it's banquets, he said:
I'VE are now near enough to the
national convention to feel assured
position to the reaffirmation of the
Chicago platform. The late election
destroyed the last hope of those who
sought to modify or subtract from
the creed enunciated at Chicago in
1896. The republican party, he said,
has been driven under the lash of the
financiers to the open espousal of the
gold standard, and spurred on by the
national banking corporations, it
has avowed its purpose to drive the
greenback out of circulation and sub
titute a bank note, issued and con-
| u pN TIC Lc1lioLiShi hO
democratic party still contends for
the restoration of bimetallism at the
ration of 16 to 1, the only ratio ad-
vocated by those who believe in the
double standard 1t also contends
for the greenback as against the bank
note.
TRUST PRINCIPLES EXTENDING.
The members of the club were op-
posed to the money trust in 1896,
and they are not surprised at that
vicious trust principle has been ex-
tended to industrial combinations
which have in three years thrown out
of employment large numbers OF COM
mercial travellers The democratic
party will deal with the trust ques-
tion, not in glittering generalities,
but in specific terms, and will invite
the support of those who are opposed
to the domination of private monop-
olies''
Mr.. Bryan discussed the trust ques-
tion at some length, and then taking
up Imperialism, said:
Commercial travellers who sought
the extension of trade by peaceful
and legitimate means will not lend
their support to the imperialistic
methods employed in the furtherance
of conquest. The commercial travel
er has been eminently successful as a
persuader He will not substitute
violence for reason"
In conclusion, he said: THE ques-
tions now before the people are but
different manifestations OF a vicious
principle which pervades all republi-
can policies, namely, that the dollar
is all important and that struggling
humanity deserves no consideration.
In his speech Governor Poynter
very significantly said that no mat
ter what questions were thrust for
ward in the coming campaign those