The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-11-03
Bryan IN BALTIMORE.
Extract From His Speech at Music
Hall, October %.

The Republican party has taken from
this nation its proud position among the
nations of the earth This nation was al
ways able TO sympathise with people who
were struggling for liberty anywhere Re
publicans say that our title to the Philip
pine Islands is good in Europe. | want
title good in the United States; not good
in Europe. Applause. The Declara-
ton of Independence was never good in
Europe; but it has been good in the United
States, Applause.
But, my friends, let us measure the
Republicans by their own logic They
say they want a title good in Europe.
Spain title to Cuba was good in Europe,
and yet four years ago the Republican
National Convention declared that the
members OF the Republican party sympa
thized with the Cubans and wanted them
to throw off Il title that was good in Eu-
rope. And yet today, when people are
fighting in South Africa for the right to
govern themselves applause fighting
not to throw off yoke that they have
borne for 800 years, but to keep off yoke
they have not borne-when this struggle
was going on, when grandfather and father
and son die in the same trench, and when
the women take up the guns to fight when
the men are dead, the Republican party is
50 busy figuring out profits in the Philip
pine Islands that it has not time to sym
pathize with the Beers fighting for liberty.
Long continued applause
'When a king dies Republican Pres
ident can send a message of coincidence,
but when two republics expire no Repub-
lican weeps o er the death of liberty That
is what we see today. Applause. The
question is whether Republican leaders
can carry the rank and file with them to
indorse this un-American policy. A man
went into a country graveyard and found
there on tombstone the following lines:
''As am now, so you will be,
Prepare, my friends, to follow me-
''And he wrote under those lines the
following:
''To follow you I'm not content
Until know which way you went. APP:
pause.
Question: BON you think that the
rank and file of the Republican party will
want to show which way the leaders are
going before they follow? If the leaders
are going toward industrial despotism, you
don't have 10 follow unless you want in
dustrial despotism.
''lf the leaders are going toward large
standing army you don't have to follow
unless you want n large standing army.
If the Republican leaders are going
toward colonial policy Ike that which
England visited upon us, You don t have
to follow unless you want colorial policy.
If the Republican leaders are trying
TO build an empire upon the ruins of a re-
public, you don have to follow unless you
love an empire Letter than you do re-
public.
Let your votes represent your ideas of
nation destiny This destiny is not in
the hands OF the President, or in the hands
of Congress, or in the hands of any set
of men. This destiny is in the hands of
the American people, and you have right
to make this nations destiny what You
want it to be-
.fIf you want this nation to be bully
ar swaggart, il yon want it 10 swagger
down the highways of Che world seeking
some weaker nation 10 subject, vote the
Republican ticket and trade the glories of
Republic for the splendors of an Empire.
The Republicans want the drum beat to
be heard around the world We want the
light of liberty to shine so brightly here
that it will be seen around the world.
TApplause We want this nation TO be
true to It's traditions, its principles, and to
its highest interests; and then, when ma
tions fall out, instead of calling out arms :
to kill each other they will say: Leave
it to the United States; there is nation
that will do justice between nation and ma
ton and between man and man. APP
planse. We want this nation to be su
preme moral factor in the world S progress.
We want this nation to be peacemaker
among the nations, and then it can claim
the reward which its action merits
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they
shall be called the children of God APP
plause.
sNow, how can you show that you are
with us in this fight? You can show it by
voting the Democratic electoral ticket; by
putting Maryland on the side Of the United
States. Great applause and cheers.
But that is not sufficient. lam as anxious
that you shall elect your Democratic Con
gressmen as that you shall give me your
electoral vote [applause for President
can do nothing but divide patronage until
Congress sends him bills to sign. 1 want
your congressman there to help carry out
these ideas
81 have no ambition to be President
merely to distribute patronage. If | am
to occupy the White Honse want to sign
my name TO bills that will open e-door of
opportunity to your son and to mine; bills
that will give the Filipinos chance to eel
citrate the Fourth of July [Great applause
and cheers to resolutions that will declare
that the Declaration of Independence is
still law in the United States.
ayes, if occupy the White House
want Congress that viii give me chance
to sign resolution declaring that while
this nation limits its life to this hemisphere
It's sympathies girdle the globe and go out
wherever people fight for liberty. APP
plause want us to let the world know
that self sovernment has not been failure
in the United States. want other peo-
pie struggling to be free to have the strength
that comes from knowing that this great
Republic is in sympathy with them. Yes,
| want our sympathy to go out to every
struggling people until there are no kings,
no thrones, but Liberty is known the world
around" [Great applause and cheers
Next Tuesday is election
1911 $3.50