Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-09-26
is SCARED.
MARK HANNA ADMITS HE IS
AFRAID OF BRYAN.
He MAKES A SPEECH
Pleas That the World viii go to
the "Demnation Bow Bows"
If His ProteEe is Defeated.

Cnlcago, cial.)-Senator NJ A.
hanna at noon today made an address
10 several thousand down-t town business
men and their employees at the rooms
or the Commercial Mckinley club. He
said in part:
You will find my text in the letter
or acceptance of the great apostle of
Tree sllVer-William j. Bryan 1t is his
last card and he begins his interesting
appeal to the people OF the United States
oy telling what he knows about trusts
AT the Kansas City convention there
developed wide difference of opinion
IN the democratic party as to what they
should do, and ought to do, and various
plIgrlms to Lincoln found Mr. Bryan
very uneasy, as well he might have
oeen, since the narrow edge of one vote
IN the convention meant the saving Of
mis- pet hobby, free silver. But how
has 1t been since that convention? In
all Of his speeches during his campaign
ne made only the barest references to
free silver. But he took UP another
issue, which he labored in Washington
10 manufacture. He gave positive or
ders to certain members of congress to
vote for and ratify the treaty with
spain, and for no other reason than
that he might have an imaginary
chance TO attack the administration.
SAY HE WISHES 1T.
L wish | could have together on this
platform William Jennings Bryan and
Senator George F. Hoar, that each
might tell his reasons for opposing
expansion or imperialism
Senator Hoar would convince you
that he opposes it from conscientious
motives, but is on all other points a
unit with the party from which he diff
1erS In that one respect and that he is
supporter of William Mckinley With
these two together l would tear the
mask off the face of that hypocrite,
William j. Bryan. (Cheers and hisses)
one stands on the firm foundation
Of his convictions of right and the
other on the f1imsy foundation of hypoc-
rlsy. Bryan has been afraid to push
he silver issue because he wants to
carry New York and some other east
ern states. He tried Imperialism and
made from five to fifty speeches a day,
MS audiences growing less and less
every day. 1t is his trump and last
card and we will hold him down to that
ssue and on every side of it, If our
great corporations of amalgamated cap
ltal are interests of the manufacturer,
then are not labor organizations and
combinations are in the interests of the
worklngman? | was the first man in
Ohio 20 recognize organized labor, While
that organization of bituminous coal
miners existed we never had a strike.
| believe in arbitration between labor
and capital and in 1897 when | stood
before 1900 men and women in Cin-
cinnati told them that if they would
prove To me that | had ever wronged
any man working for me, or urged the
reduction Of his pay, l would resign
trom the United States senate next day,
and the offer still stands.
HE DOESN'T FEAR TRUSTS.
Il would like MIR. Bryan or any other
democrat to tell me what trust is l
believe there is not trust in I he
entire United States. There is a ma
tlonal law and in every state law
against trusts, and every law, national
or state, against trusts, has been the
product of republican lawmakers and
the credit Is due the republican party.
| have no objection to the democrats
opposing the trusts, but they have not
got any patent on it. Bryan tells what
he would do when he is elected. His
first act would be to haul down the
American flag in the Philippines. (Cries
Of No, no!)
well, that is what he says he
would do, but the American people
would not let him. Then he would es-
tablish stable government probably
with Aguinaldo at the head of it,
Think of it! Pull down our flag, remove
our troops and leave our brave dead,
our boys In blue, to the tender mercy
OF Aguinaldo! Judging from the past.
Aguinaldo would soon shock humanity
and the nations would interfere as we
did in Cuba.
Bryan talks of the Monroe doctrine.
and advocate q protectorate in the
Philippines. The Monroe doctrine was
established for the western hemisphere.
but Bryan would spread it all over the
world. If that is not Imperialism, then
tell me what is. 1 am for peace. but
not for peace at any price, and not
while that brigand, Aguinaldo, is hang
ing in the bushes and shooting down
our soldiers.
HANNA'S EGOTISM.
Bryan is opposed to a tariff as
trust creator, but the workingmen
know that the tariff is their protector.
He tells us rosy pictures of what he
would do if elected. and beside his
picture stands as something monu-
mental the work that Mckinley has
done. Bryan will stand on any plat
form they make for him. ride any
hobby. indoIse any issue-yes, he will
even abuse me for the sole purpose of
being president That is what he
wants. CHEERS and You are all right.o
Yes, ] am all right. for l talk about
things l know all about. and don't lie,
either. Cast your votes in your own
interests and the interests of Mr.. Bry-
an. The Importance of this campaign
is greater than any before known in
the country. because any reversal OF
the policy of the government would
ring about a change in commercial
interests which would dwarf the awful
storm at Galveston. 1t would mean a
commercial and industrial revolution
from .7hich this country would not soon
recov7f."