The age-herald., 1900-11-01
Judson Harmon

Bryan.
 Judson Harmon
 Judge Judson Harmon, who was attorney general in the cabinet of President Cleve- land presided and spoke at length in in- troducing Colonel Bryan. Referring to the Philippines, he said:
 When our commissioners went to dic- tate terms of peace to Spain they had in- structions. They have been carefully with held, although the people had a right to known when the treaty took effect. When they come to light as they must, we feel satisfied they were changed after negotia- tions began. do the President the justice that he didn't at first intend to step into the shoes of the King of Spain, but only meant to pull or buy him off the backs of the Filipnos. This was a plain duty He did not then mean to buy him out and con- tnue the same business al the old stand. But the President is better at seeing his plain duty than at doing it. He takes the people into his confidence and puts them under his control. They turned him about face. We can guess who they were be- cause they did the same thing later about face, and as he had committed himself to his duty in d message to Congress, they had to turn him in the open.
 Tt was well enough to make Spain re- lnquish to us all her claims to the Philip pines, which were largely pretended All M that we took and held them in trust for the people thereof, who by our right had fought side by side with us to overthrow Spain. What should we have thought if the French during our revolution had bought out England's pretensions and then turned their arms to subdue us? We had no formal treaty with the F'ilipinos as the French had with us; but honest people do not raise technicalities about the obliga- tions of honor and fair dealings. Many thought, and he whom l am soon to intro duce was one of them, that it would be best to end the war and get rid of Spain by ratifying the treaty, since it was made, and then declare and carry out this trust. l believe they were right, but were de- ceived as to the real intentions of the President and by the resolution the Senate adopted, carefully worded, so as to appear a promise and prove an evasion. So we went from an honest war to one of con- quest against those who helped us because they thought, and We made them think we were helping them. We have shed much blood and spent more money in this war than the war with Spain and still our boys are sent to death and disease, and still the talk gatherer calls for more." MT. Bryan's Speech
 Judge Harmon introduced MT Bryan as the next President of the United States A great futter of handkerchiefs and
 
 began by re-asserting that the Republicans had abandoned the prosperity argument. They had, he said, ignored the army and trust question and had tried to escape the question on imperialism He said that the Republican party is no way responsible for what there is in the dinner pail, and also said that ot every had a full dinner pail, and he said the strike in the anthra- cite coal region had helped to bring this fact to light
 'The Republicans put piece of cheese in the imperial trap and expect the labor ing man to run in and get caught" He asserted that the Republicans had lost the laboring mans vote already and said that if one will get into the factore= he will find that the people there know that they have. These organizations had done one Rlndred times much for labor as had the government for not only did the organizations help their own members but those on the outside we'll
 The audience cheered to the echo when MT. Bryan proposed to exert every power of the executive to destroy all private mo- nopoies in of his election.
 Speaking of the size of the standing arr.J, MT. Bryan asserted that the purpose of se- curing an increase was to allow develop ment and experiment companies to exploit the Philippines. He said that Governor Roosevelts explanation of the increase of the army had the effect of putting the President in the attitude of having entered upon the career of bloodshed and insurrec- tion in the Philippines with his eyes open You can't" he said, defend a policy which requires three times as many, sol- diers in our foreign service as we need at home.'S
 MT Bryan also referred to the pension and race questions. He said that nobody could dispute that we have a race question in the United States but that was no req son why should abroad tO take further race complications. Abraham Lincoln could" he said, appeal consist entity for the vote of the black men of this country, but the difference between Lin coin and Mark Hanna was so great that the latter could not consistently make such anneal thar 2 ticr s.a.,,