The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-17

| audience as chairman Of the meeting
Before Mr.. Sheppard could get into the
subject of imperialism to which most
| OF his address. was devoted, the crowd
| got so impatient to see Col Bryan that
Mr.. Sheppard could not proceed. He
suddenly stopped and introduced Presi-
| dent Guggenheimer, of the council who
| offered the formal resolutions of the
evening. These @elcomed Col. ! Brvan
and Mr.. Stevenson to New York, ap-
| proved the Kansas City platform op-
| posed imperialism, protested against an
enormous standing army as a menace
TO the republic, praised the volunteer
army as being sufficient in emergency,
opposed entangling foreign alliances.
sympathized with the Beers, denounced
trusts, pledged the party to bring back
10 the people constitutional government.
and charged the Republicans with hay-
| ing raised gigantic corruption fund to
debauch the country
Inc resolutions were cheered, though
tney could not be heard for shouts for
Bryan, and Mr. Sheppard at once in
troduced the latter in a few short SEN
tehces. Col Bryan stepped to the rail
ing ABOUT the stand as the crowd .hrole
out afresh into cheers He raised his
hand for silence, but the cheers did not
suoslde' Col. Bryan was dressed simply
III DIack suit, with a short sack coat.
MR.. BRYAN's ADDRESS.
GO, Col Bryan began by referring to the
Xast audience before him and said that if
Mhieh @,sa an h intefest e in the campaign
lzed the Importance of the Questions IN
vowed. He declared that he was not
man;fe5todg nam enough to accept the. enthusiasm
slla1flltested ad1f as a personal tribute to him
ss' sci. because, he said individual counrs
ior nothing, except that he NAV he ths
o,19 o1,s 'funent thn used by the people to carry
he immediately entered upon a defense
Oh 1he Democratic cause and said:
sunnorf say ,,. 1nat @ the people gathered, who
honest wealth, is q siander. which co,Gd
@ not De uttered without the peonIe Urh.
WVfeeaed W. r. 1t, IT knowing It to be false,
comes as the reward of honest Toll i and and
Is enjoyed by those who give to soeiatS, ieltS
sfat1e s1nnetning nm In return for that which So
cratic craft faGws paGty tddsT upon t them The Demo
enemy or honest wealth. but the Demo-
! " craze party OF today Is the best friend of
.aa'aI eliaI wealth that represents ability of
muscle or Of mind, employed in its ac-
cumula ton - - 49,
Col: Col: Bryan went on to say that the
parfy Ineaiy, draws raw, the line between honest
that wealth which is a lust commence
tlonf Tor service rendered and that wealth
hi when simply measures the advantaga
citi1an %ti.cn some c1tlzens has taken over many
he declared that no honest Industry
no honest occupation, no honest maj,
neTq neTtv leaT ar, the success of the Democratic
!!..ehty: !.sbcyy. me Democratic party, he said
showed its honesty by stating what II
peneyed and telling the people what If
PLATFORMS COMPARED.
ocEs+ta he asked ed for comparison -of he DEM
Ootauc platform with the RenuhIinar -
party platform and expressed cnnfidanon p4iHLaTan
tHdt any honest man. making snch cnrn
csI;tS parison e must aus be convinced of the Sin
GSFlly OIL the Democratic declaration and
form. P"'iicah plat-
Taking. up the Republican declara+,or
nary ~ iHSipieS is pe Coi Bryan said that that
tilggnt llggnt, on a question before the countrv
Ahu' he continued, "if you want nroof
ne IeI IN me to1a remind you that the Republican
great prnciple and defending it e ny ny
S99ntlng S9 an appeal Ito every class Of pee-
9iraet 9iS supposed to be approachable in snv
He then went on to enumerate +te 1,or,
Gus classes to which he said the Rennb1ic-
ans were making specious anpeajs an7
IeI iaboron irG!udea @ IN the list the farmer. the
1t gives the laborer," he said. "tbe
ass, assurance That he Will have full dtnner
pdii' Iniii IA and then it assures him that there
ned with his full dinner pail 90 Us
he declared that the prosperity of
Siefeaa Melen me Republican, party boasts is a
u1nerent thing in different localities Tn
the East, he said, they tell Won how
prosperous the farmer of the West iS
and an In IN the the West you hear of the high
WAGES wages ana general employment of the
laboring man throughout the East.
In this connection Col. BRYAN reneated
farmer and went on to show that the
report was gross eXaggera ton
IF" said he, 'I am a samnIe of 1,bo+
!s gong on on the farm, l have some
IDEA of what is taking place there.
REPUBLICAN PROSPERITY
referring further to the Republican
claim of prosperity, Col Bryan cIaimed
ne was willing to admit that the army
contractors and the trust magnates rnioh1t
be prosperous. MANY a man who ret
special privileges at the hands Of the
government can prosper under Republic
an administration, but I deny that the
wealth producers of the country are en-
Joying their share of the governments
productions
At this point there were cries Of "Ban-
ma! Hanna!" Col Bryan merely re-
sponded by asking his audience not to
trlne III ,.'' With great name.
Taklng up the subject of trusts, Col
Bryan declared that they had grown un-
der TINS administration more rapidly than
ever before, and ne asserted that the Re
| pupl1cans refused to meet the issues they
Ge.reatea e. he declared that the president
SPENDS more time warning you not to
hurt your good trust than he doess tell
ing you how to hurt the bad ones''
In :he same connection he referred to
the position of Gov Roosevelt and Sen
ator Hanna on the subject of trusts, and
a reference in both cases was met with
groans Mr.. Bryan said: 'tMr Hanna,
says there are no trusts. Are you going
TO send man out to hunt the trusts
who knows where every trust treasure
is, but says there are no trusts?" In
response to this last interrogation a voice
from the audience responded: 1--WE will
send you.' Col. Bryan again quoted
from President McKinley's inaugural
address on the subject of trusts, and
charged that the president had neither
enforced the existing antitrust laws nor
| recommended new ones. His attorney
general, he said, draws-his salary and
permits the trusts to go and oppress the
people.
Col. Bryan referred to the Ice trust
| declaring that apparently this was the
only trust Of which Republicans had any
knowledge.
'If Republican tells syou," he said,
that the ice trust Is hurting the people,
you tell him that you have SO much con-
fidence in the Republican governor that
you know he would not be out West
making speeches If the people were suf-
fering from the ice trust"
This remark was received with cheers
Col. Bryan outlined his remedy for