Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-09-13
HILL REhsSERTS HIS
LOYALTY TO BRYAN
Ex-senator From New York Ad-
dresses Large Audience
at Herkimer.
WELL TREATED AT KANSAS CITY
Says Convention That Nominated
Bryan Was Markedly Cour-
teous to Hines ores
Administrations.

Herkimer, n. Y, Sept. 10.-Former
United States Senator David B. Hill
addressed large audience here last
night. The chief feature of his speech
was his reiterated declaration i'll sup
port of Bryan. Mr.. Hill spoke as fol-
lows:
ut is needless for me to say that I
am heartily in favor of the election of
Bryan and Stevenson. They are the
candidates of the democratic party,
duly and regularly named at con-
vention at which 1 was member and
treated me, from beginning to end,
with marked and unusual courtesy,
and I am honorably bound to actively
support ticket of my party, NOM
mated under such circumstances.
"Our candidates represent the inter-.
ests of the average mantle plain
people of tie Countrywide farmer,
the mechanic, the laborer The issues
this year are very plain and cannot be
misunderstood.
Zone party favors large standing
armies, immense public expenditures,
government of grandeur and mag
niticence, high protective tariffs,
British colonial policy, great combina-
tions of corporate wealth and n CEN
tralized government.
'"The other party favors Il continu-
ance of the plain and simple govern
ment of our fathers, public eNpend-
itures limited to the actual necessities
of the government, tariff taxation for
public purposes only, an army of de-
Tense and not for conquest; competi--
ton in business, free from monopolis-
tic combinations.
IAN appeal is made by our OPP
ponents to our love of country. We
heard the same specious appeal in
1896, and we always hear it when our
opponents seek democratic votes to
aid their cause. 1t is a partisan, and
not sincere or patriotic appeal. 1t is
based upon false pretenses. This
country is not in danger, except from
those who are now administering it's
government. We will protect the flag
wherever it goes. but we will see that
the flag goes only where it belongs.
1t shall not be hauled down in dis
grace, neither shall it be raised any
where in dishonor.
1.-THE people are opposed to this gov
eminent acquiring territory which is
not to be governed by our constitu-
ton. It has no more constitutional
it has to create king. The foreign
istration has been weak, shifty, in
consistent and unpatriotic, and the
best thought of the Countrywide best
students of history-the most intelli-
gent of Americans are against it.
NO right minded man can defend
president who said in his annual mes
sage that it was our plain duty, to
give free trade to Porto Rico with the
United States and then within a few
months thereafter signed measure
which imposed tariff duty of Is per
cent.
Our party has always been the
true and genuine friend of labor, and
aided at every opportunity the efforts
of workingmen to improve their con-
dition. For the first time in our ma
tional history a political party has
incorporated in it's national platform
n demand for the creation of a depart
ment of labor, with a secretary there
of allowed a seat i'll the cabinet of the
president. The democratic platform
proposes this innovation in the inter-
est of labor and why should it not be
done?
IF wise counsel shall prevail at the
Saratoga convention next week, and
we proceed on right lines to plan for
victory, instead of inviting defeat,
and shall SO shape our course and
policies as to deserve the support of
the great independent and conserve
tive forces of this state-always an
important factor in our elections
and the thousands of republicans dis
satisfied with the arbitrary machine
rule of their party-we cannot only
rescue the Empire state from further
republican control, but can give our
electoral vote for our gallant national
standard bearer, William j. Bryan.
while disagreeing with Mr.. Bryan
in some matters, need not reiterate
that earnestly desire his election.
Our opponents are entrenched in
patronage and power, and the strug-
gle to GUST them must necessarily be
terrific.
''The time, however, is with us. The
skies are becoming brighter every
day. Let us all work together en-
Enthusiastically for the cause, and vic.
tory is within our reach.''