The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-09-07
RICHMOND VA. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER z. 1900.

be amenceQs III there were voters enough
is favor OF the amendme ent; third. it could
be rejected It could not be amended be-
Scause@tnefe We're not votes enough, and
il any II puplican tels you that treaty
could have been amended in the Senate,
I want you=to remember that when the
Bacon resolution came before the Senate
it was a tieAvote, and the vote OF the Re-
publcans president defeated it. / did all
L could do 10 get the Bacon resolution,
and what Republican viii say that could
have got sthestr amended, when coGid
not get the resolution passed that promised
independence TO the F,ifipnos. (Applause0
TWO COURSES.
Therefore We were compelled to either
acknowledge treaty or reject it. What
did a rejection Of the treaty mean? u
meant one OF two things, either the Pres
ident would &haveto cati the new Senate
together which was Overwhelmingly Re
publican, and then secure ratification
from the new Senate or else he would have
had to appoint new commission to make
a new treaty il it had been rejected. If
on the fourth day of February the pres
ident had called the new Senate together
on the fourth day of March and had the
treaty ratified by the new Senate then the
delay would have done no good. But sup
pose he appointed a commission to make
a new treaty who could tell what compli-S
cation might arise while the new treaty
was being made?
If those who opposed imperialism mad
rejected the treaty they would have be-
come responsible for all that might ilave
happened before the new treaty could have
been ratified. We had seen The Republic
can party win in the campaign of 1856 by
holding out to the people the plea that
the nation might be discredited while it
dealt with a foreign nation, and if a new
commission had been sent abroad it would
have prolonged the contest and might have
carried it into a Presidential campaign
Then there would have been no question
before the people on which their judgment
could have been taken.
When you accepted the treaty you ended
the war ana 1 believed then and still be-
lieve tfa this nation, acting alone, could
do by itself everything that it could have
forced from Europe. I favored the rati-
fication of the treaty not because it was
good. but would rather have its mistakes
corrected by legislation than by diplomacy.
FAVORED INDEPENDENCE
Lincoln in appealing to the South, said:
Can aliens make treaties easier than
friends make laws Whenever you hear
Republican say that l am responsible for
the treaty.I want you to listen and see if
he adds that also favored Il resolution
promising independence to the Fiipinos,
and You will listen in vain. The Republi-
can who charges me with helping to ratify
liz IlScly ID iol llOileSL IL ne uOeS IOl letl
you at the same time that favored a reso-
luton that would have prevented bloodshed
in the philippines, and make them our
friends instead of our enemies. | resigned
my commission in the army on the 10th
day of December. That day The treaty was
signed. 1t was accepted on the 18th day of
December. On the 18th day of December
l gave out an Interview. 1t was published
in the papers on the morning of the 14th,
so that the interview appeared two days
after my resignation was accepted, and
in that interview pointed out that it was
better to ratify the treaty and declare this
nations purpose by resolution which would
promise Independence to the F1iipinos and
end the war, than to reject the treaty.
What Republican is honest enough to
meet that last proposition, and then say
that I was wrong in the light of the Bacon
resolution? If the Bacon resolution had
passed we woud not have been at war to-
day in the EE--alop:nes, because that was
commenced month before shot was
fired. Republicans. you were responsive for
the defeat of the Bacon resolution. 1t was
Your President that cast the deciding vote,
and from that DAY to this you nave hau
b;oodshed in the Philippines, and you are
responsible for the conditions that exist.
Don't saw that you have not had time;
when Congress met. you had time 10 give
to the national banks monopoly OF your
paper money, Dul gu uit nv iatA - N-NA-S
promise independence to the Fillpinos; you
had time to turn the Government over to
those to use it for private gam, but you
have not had time to stop the war in the
Philippines and return to the Declaratlon
of Independence.
You Republicans are very much affala
or a tiftv-cent dollar, but you are not afraid
of the eighty-tive per cent. citizen that
you have made in Porto Rico; you are very
much afraid that we cannot maintain the
narity between gold and silver, put you
ID not worry about the difficulty OF main
tanning the parity between the cl'lzens
here and the citizens OF Porto RICO ana
the Philippine Islands.
MEETING HELD ON WHARF
The meeting here tonight was held on
.he wharf. How many thousand people
p-ara there it would be impossible to say,
hut there we're quite as many as could
hear his voice. which has lost none OF It's
mower Of penetration. Mr.. Bryan spoke for
an hour and three-quarters, making this
the longest speech he has delivered during
The campaign.
At the beginning of the speech a slight
rain was falling, but it did not have the
effect of driving the crowd away.
Mr. Bryans Introduction attacked tie
Republican party vigorously, charging 1t
with lodging nearly all current issues.
Much of the speech was devoted to the
trust question