The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-26

terances were as follows, at the places
indicated:
At Philadelphia-"our party is not the
party OF the few but the party II the
masses. It seeks no special privileges for
some, but equal rights for ali. The Dem
ocratic party is making canvass on
platform that states its position on every
question but the Republican party is con-
Quoting a campaign on platform that
conceaIs every issue. II doesn't reveal
its position because 1t knows that if it
made its principles plain the people would
repudiate them. Just remember. When
that party met here in the early days of
our forefathers the Declaration Of indie
pendence was its platform. But when it
met here this year the Declaration of IN
dependence was ignored altogether. The
eRpublican party stands for despotism in
the Philippines. The Republican party
has no remedy for any evil that con-
fronts the farmer. Instead it congratu-
lates the farmer on good rains; the labor
ing man on his full dinner pail, as If he
was all stomach. I want you to know
that the full dinner pail argument does
not need response from those who
carry the dinner pail They want some
thing more. They want relief from
taxes and from government by injunc-
ton; they want representation in the
presidents cabinet: they want settlement
of disputes by arbitration they want
laws that make it an offense to organize
trusts. 1 recommend that you read the
articles by that distinguished Pennsyl-
vania Democrat EX-Goernor Pattison,
who has just returned from Porto Rico,
and you will find that the Porto Ricans
can write complaint that will rival the
complaint our people had against Eng
land before the revolution"
At Washington Park, n. il only re-
gret that my time and strength are not
sufficient for me to come into contact
with every voter and defend our cause
in every part Of this country. ! am con-
1dent that we are right, and 1t is my
faith in the ultimate triumph of that
which is right, as well as my observa-
ton. that makes me believe that we are
bound to win this fight l cannot believe
that the American people, intelligent and
patriotic, can give their support to the
policies for which the Republican party
now stands. If any Republican asks you
why we spend our time discussing the
new questions, you reply thta our position
on the old questions is known and our
reasons are known. In the
campaign of 1895 Mr.. Mckinley as can
didate said that he would open the mills
instead of the minis, and the first thing
he did was to place on the statutes
tariff measure which was intended to al
low the tariff barons to get back the
money they had expended in the cam
paign. 1 read the other day of
the formation of a milk trust Think of
It, A milk trust to meet the infant when
he comes into the world; and when the
infant grows into manhood the coal trust
looks fter him in the winter time, and
the ice trust in the summer time, and the
coffin trust waits for him at the bottom
Of the hill when life's fitful dream is
overs would shut up a corpor-
alton in the state of its origin until 1t
can show that it is going into other
states on a peaceful mission and not as
a. highwayman.* If the president
knew when he entered upon his policy
that it meant large army and war and
the case is worse than supposed.
The Republicans contend that the
constitution cannot be stretched outside
the United tSates, while the president
can stretch himself all over the globe I'M
til it gets to be all president and no con-
stitution, What are you going to do with
the army here, keep them idle or keep
them busy? I suggested the other day
that the only domestic reason for a large
army is to fill a fort near each large city
and use the army to suppress by force
the discomfort among laboring men
which ought to be cured by legislation re-
storing justice between man and man.
1t were better for the army to be idle
than to have it engaged as armies are
engaged when not idle. 1 notice
a gentleman over there held up silver
dollar and he evidently wants to know
something about silver, and I will remind
him that his desire to hear something
about money and nothing about human
rights illustrates the sordid level upon
which the Republican party is fighting
this campaign. Nobody who reads our
platform need to ask about the silver
question, but I want you to know that
the Republicans who used to worry about
a ffty-cent dollar are not worrying today
about the IS per cent citizen they have
given us in Porto Rico. The Republican
who thought we could not have double
standard of money now thinks we can
have a double standard of government,
a republic here and a despotism in the
Philippines.
At Burlington. n. IT was in a city