Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-19

the train arrived it was nolsed about
that the distinguished gentlemen was
aboard, also his family, and from that
time until the arrival of the train, al
steady stream of people wendell their
way to the depot While there was
large crowd present, it was nothing
compared to what it would have been
had it been known for IA certainty that
he was coming, and that he would
make brief talk.
The train pulled in at promptly 9;05,
and the sleeping car, on which was Mr..
Bryan and family. was at about Wash
ington street, where the crowd of
thousand or more of our citizens gath
cred and clamored to see and hear Mr.
Bryan, who came out part way down
the steps, following him were his chill
dren and soon Mrs. Bryan appeared
Mr. Bryan charmed the people by his
unassumng ways He talked in con-
versational tone for ten minutes, until
the train started, and at no time did it
seem that he was making speech but
| just a pleasant talk to friends, which
was filled with wit, humor and elo-
| quence. At the close of the talk three
hearty cheers were given for the
| speaker.
| A pretty incident took place when
| the train arrived a number of little
school girls appearee at the car, and
one of their number, Valeria Ringle,
nine-year old daughter of Hon. John
Rlngle, carried large bouquet of roses,
| she was helped into the car and con-
veyed the flowers to Mrs. Bryan. On
| the bouquet was card on which was
written: Compliments of the school
children of Wausau" Mrs Bryan
soon afterwards appeared at the rear
of the sleeper carrying the bouquet
The following is substantially what
Col. Bryan said
II am glad to see you, ladies and
gentlemen. | have been talkinga great
deal for the last three or four years
"a voice You never talked HEREBY
But if have not talked here you are
a reading people and know what have
been saying on public questions. | am
| going up in Northern Wisconsin
fishing, not to make speeches, but to
fish. have been creditably informed
that you have some fish up in this part
of the state that have been so unruly
j that they forfeited their right to exist,
so | have come up as an eXecutioner
for the purpose of removing some of
| them. | am coming back this way in II
week or two and if you people make up
your mind that you need talking to on
any subject, | will take occasion to talk
to you. (Applause.) am not sure but
| will let you select the subject, be-
cause you people know best what you
need to hear. My theory is that when
man is all right on a question you do
not have to talk to him on that, but if
he is all wrong he needs to be talked
to. | will let you choose the question
here, but viii make this qualification,
that you will select some question that
is before the people, because | would
not care to spend the time talking about
something that was not at issue.
You did not do as well in this state
rs you might have done in 1896
daughter and applause.) You did bet
ter in 1893 l think the majority was
about 100000 for the republicans in
1896. Can anybody tell me what it was
in' 1898 +? "a voice, 37,500) Well, if
you make the same progress that you
made in 1898 over 1896, we will carry
the state by 10000. You see, you cut
down the republican majority over
10000 in two years. If you will do that
this time, it will give us a very good
majority, and | do not see any reason
why you should not. Ia 1889 the cam
paign was fought on the most unfavor-
able circumstances that could well be
imagined We were in the midst of
war and the people were asked to hold
up the hands of the president until the
treaty of peace was signed. No policy
had been outlined and we could not
very well attack their policy. But now
we know better what they are trying to
do, and on the question of Imperialism
/ think we will be able to make a
fight, assuming that the republican
position would be what Mr.. Spooner's
resolution represents it to be. Have
you read it 7? Well, it did not quite
pass, you know If you read the reso-
luton you will see that it states that
when the war is over the president is to
establish government suitable to him
self, and nobody knows what, until
congress does something, and nobody
knows what; and that when the war is
over the president will do something,
and nobody knows what. (Applause.)
| And nobody knows now, so far as the
laws are concerned, what the republi.
can party means to do. About the Porto
Rican bill: If the constitution does not
extend quite far enough to take in
Porto Rico, which is LOCO miles away,
! how is it expected to reach the Philip
pine islands, which are 1000 miles
away 1t looks now as if we were
going to have various kinds OF citizen
i ship In the United States, the open
daylight of liberty, of full citizenship;
in Porto Rico, the dim twilight, or semi
| citizenship, and in the Philippine
Islands, thick darkness or total and
perpetual vassalage.
The republican party will be on the
| defensive on all questions in this cam
paign. 1t has not a place on any sub.
! ject that it is willing 10 outline; it does
not dare to state its position on the
money question; it does not dare to state
| its position on the trust question; it does
not dare to state its position on imper-
iahsm, though after going through
| campaign in favor of international BIZ
metallism it is now-at least the lead
i ers are in favor of a gold standard
| Without saying to the people in 1896,
they intended to retire the greenbacks
| do not believe that the republican
party intends or can destroy thetrusts.
/ do not believe you can extinguish the
/ trusts until you take the eXtinguisher
/ out of the hands of the republicans.
and think the republican party is too
much interested in the maintenance of
4 the trust to destroy it. IA voice
l How about the democratic party -
Mr. Bryan The democratic party
/ is opposed to the trust, and viii
/ destroy the trust aud ws are i. better
position 10 do it now than ever before
| because we have got all the trusts driven
into the republican party.
| "a voice. How about the ice truSty''l
/ MIR Bryan Well, we win get that
/ into the republican party. There are
more republicans in that than any
/ other.
| IA voice, II am only asking for in
I formation, Mr. Bryan.
| Mr.. Bryan: Do not disturb the
! young man, he is young enough for us