The age-herald., 1900-08-16
AIMING THE COLT.-(No. 3.)
SPEAKERS AT LIBERTY CONGRESS PLEAD FOR THE
 REPUBLICS SAFETY AND THE ELECTION OF BRYAN

|, alites, then you may know that the party proclaming it is in the control of Dives and the Pharisees. The object of this Con gress is then bringing us back to the prin- ciples which gave us national life'
 MT. Bancroft said he was still faithful to the Republicanism of 1860, but could not adhere to the Republican party of 1900.
 Gamaliel Bradford said he had taken the long journey from Boston principally to avert what he thought would be a great mistake-the nomination of a third ticket.
 This election" he said, lis not going to be settled by the newspapers. nor by the politicians, nor by the capitalists, but by the people.
 Must Sup ort Frvan
 Now. if we going to defeat McXin- ley we must all throw solid support in behalf of William J. Bryan. Great ap- plauSe.) Then when he sits in the Presi- dential chair (which he wiD we will have some influence with the administration; we will be able to say that we were with him from the beginning. I think the first con sideration is to defeat MT. Mckinley, but l think it is just as important to elect MT. Bryan. I did not vote for him four years ago. I am a strong advocate of the gold standard and I think he is mistaken about the money question, but 1 also think he is thoroughly earnest and honest and sin cere. I believed his advocacy of the rati ncatlOn or the treaty or peace Wlln Spdln was perfectly right and logical, and that was what first determined me to vote for him. I do not believe any candidate for President ever before had the courage to say to a convention that if it did not put into its platform thing which he believed to be right it would have to look for some other candidate. (Applause.) I want to see that kind of man in the Presidential chair Since the time of Lincoln I do not believe such speech has been made as Mr Bryan made here one week ago. There is no mincing matters in that speech. You know just what he would do. l have as much faith as I have in any doctrine of religion that when the people come to vote next November they will cast an over whelming testimony in favor of William J. Bryan"
 Ex-Governor Bou wells Address
 D. C. Tilotson, of Kansas Chairman of the Committee on Permanent Organiza- ton, reported in favor of George S. Bout well for permanent chairman. Temporary Secretaries Winslow and MiZe were made permanent.
 Governor Boutwell, was accorded great demonstration when he took the gavel He said:
 Having in mind many of the honors that I have received from my countrymen in times past, I shall, when this day is gone have no more favorable recollection of any one of them than I shall of this. This is an historic occasion. If the peril of this coun- try is what we think it is; if the question before you and before your countrymen is the question of the continuance of the re- public, then no graver question has ever been committed to an assembly of men or to the country. We are opposed to imper- ialism. We are in favor of republican form of government. We respect the teach &ngs of our ancestry; the glory of the his tory they have left to us, and standing be- tween the past and the future, 1t is our duty to transmit to posterity the principles of the fathers and the institutions they founded. That is your mission today as the representa- tives of forty-five States of this Union. It may be a representation without an organized constituency, but it Is a rep resentation that speaks for itself and for the people of the country and for the gen. era tions that are advancing to take our places; and 1t is a representation that has a right to speak; representation that will be heard at Washington today, heard over the world, speaking as we do for the pres ervatior of republican institutions; repre- senting the American republic, the light of which, if 1t shall go out, will never be reNndled on the surface of the earth.
 Abandonment of Foundations
 'T charge that the policy upon which this administration has entered will mean the abandonment of the principles upon which our government was founded that it will change the republic into an empire. The uTSt Ol tuS IutdilS DeloIe us lOT tHe pTeSeT- vation of tn Union, if our allegation is true, Is the overthrow of the administra- tion. I am not disposed to make issues with men, but my former friend and fellow cit izen, MT. Long, the secretary of the navy, has made remark which in itself may not appear very significant, but nevertheless choose to make some comment upon 1t. MT. Long says what we call imperialism Is only a cry and that the anti-imperialists are few in number and of no considerable importance He says their voice Is only a cry. That may be true; a census has not been taken, and we do not boast of num-
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