The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-23
WHAT WAS SAID.
Full Text of Mr.. Bryan's NOti-
fication Reply.
Issues on Which P0pulists and
Democrats Agree.
PEOPLES PARTY WORK
Gives Emphatic Recognition 10
Their Educational Efforts.
Discusses Trusts, Gold Standard
and Imperialism.
T. M. Patterson, of Colorado,
M1 Nok:eooki0u SnooPh.
PEOPLES PARTY WORK
T. M. Patterson, of Colorado
Makes Notification Speech.

Mr. Bryan replying to notification By
the Populist notification committee OF
his nomination as presidential canoloaee'
said: - +he
Mr.. Chairman and members Oh The
notification committee:
In accepting the presidential noinlha-
ton which you tender IN pehaI o. t t1e
Populist party desire TO give eInpn sl~
recognition to the educational work zone
bv YOUR party The Populist party, as an
ORGANIZATION. and the Farmers Alliances
and the labor organization from Wnlcn
they sprung, have done Inuch 70 aIo n-s5
the people to a study Of economic ana
Industrial questions. Believing, as 40
that truth grows not in Secluslon Out III
the open field, and that II thI1Ves pest II
the sunlight of full ana Iree ue pd.e' !
have confidence that the discussion
which your party has compelled VIII ald
in reaching that true solution or penoihs
problems toward which all honest cltl-
xens aim
Il desire also to express my deep ap-
probation of the liberality of opinion
and devotion to principles when nave
led the members of your party to enter
the ranks of another party IN the seIec-
ton of a candidate.
s'While I am grateful for the conf
dence which the Populists have express
ed in me, 1 am not vain enough TO re-
gard as personal their extra ordinary
manifestations of good will. The ties
which bind together those who believe
in the same great fundamental pr1nc1-
pies are stronger than ties of affection
stronger even than the ties of blood; and
cooperation between the reform forces
is due to the fact that Democrats, Popu-
lists and Silver Republicans take the
side of the people in their contest
against greed. and agree in the appll-
cation of Jeffersonian principles to the
question Immediately before US.
In 1896 the money question was OF
paramount Importance, and the allies in
ion, Tod dnrlo1
the immediate restoration of silver by
the independent action of this country at
16 to I, the ratio which had existed since
1894 They were defeated, but that did
not end the discussion The Democrats
were defeated in 1883 but that did not
put an end to tariff reform. The Repub
1icans were defeated in 1892, but that did
not permanently overthrow the protec-
tive tariff. Defeat at the polls does not
necessarily decide a problem. ExepTf-
ence, and experience alone, settles Ques-
lions. If an increase in the volume of
the currency since 1885, although IN
promised by the Republicans, and unex-
pected, has brought Improvement in in
dustrial conditions, this Improvement,
instead of answering the arguments put
forth IN favor of bimetallIsIn, only con-
firms the contention of those who insist
ed that more money would make better
times.
THE Republican party. however, while
claiming credit for the increase in circu-
latiOn, makes no permanent provision
for an adequate supply of standard mon
ey. 1t denies the necessity for more real
money, while 1t permits national banks
to expand the volume of paper promises
to pay money.
QUESTION OF GOLD STANDARD.
IF the Populists felt justified in op-
posing the Republican party when 1t
sought to conceal it's gold standard
tendencies under the mask of internal
tiOnal bimetallism, the opposition should
be more pronounced in proportion as the
Republican party more openly eSpOuSeS
gold monometallism.
In 1896 the reform forces charged the
Republican party with intending to re-
tire the greenbacks. This charge, denied
at the time has been confessed by the
financial bill, which converts green
backs, when once redeemed, into gold
certificates and extends new privileges
to banks of issue. If a Populist opposed
the Republican party when its hostility
to greenbacks was only suspected, that
opposition should be greater now since
no one can longer doubt the purpose of
the Republican party to substitute bank
notes for greenbacks.
1T is true that the Populists believe in
an irredeemable greenback, while the
Democrats believe IN a greenback re-
deemable in coin, but the vital question
at this time. so far as paper money is
concerned. is whether the government or
banks shall issue it. There will be time
enough to discuss the redeemability of
the greenback when the greenback it
self is saved from the humiliation which
now threatens it. The Republican party
Is now committed to a currency system
which neeessitates a perpetual debt.
while the Populist finds himself in agree
ment with the Democrats who believe in
paying off the national debt as soon as
possible.
If belief in an income tax justified a
Populist in acting with the Democratic
party in 1896, what excuse can he find
for aiding the Republican party now.
Of
not been sufficient to bring that party to
the support of the income tax princi-
pie?
'.Populists believe in arbitration NOW
as much as they did in 1896 and are as
much opposed to government BY iniunc-
ton and the blacklist as they were then
and upon these subjects they have as
much reason for cooperation with the
Democratic party today as they had four
years ago.
Democrats and Populist alike favor
the principle Of direct legislation. If any
dlfferenceS exist as to the extent to
which the principle should be applied.
these olHerences can be reconciled by
experiment.
Democrats and Populists agree that
Chinese and other oriental labor should
be excluded from the United States
democrats and PopuliSt desire to so
enlarge the scope of the interstate COM
merce act as to enable the commission to
protect both persons and places from
discrimination, and the public at large
from excessive railroad rates
1.-The Populists approve the demand
set forth IN the Democratic platform for
a labor bureau. with cabinet officer al
its head Such an official would keen
the administration in close touch with
the wage earning portion of the nouIa-
ton and go far toward to securing such
remedial legislation as the toilers need
In 1886 the Populists united with the
Democrats in opposing the trusts. az
though the question at that time appear
a La
mans hand Today that cloud well nign
Dver-spreads the iadsuSr1al sky. The