New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-07
BRYAN THEFALSE PROPHET
GOVERNOR ROOSEVELT INIPALEs HIM on
THE POINTS OF HIS SPEECHES IN 1896


Detroit Sept 6.-The initial meeting OF Gov
ernor Roosevelts Western tour. which was held
in the big assembly room OF the Detroit Light
Guard Armory tonight. was all that the Cover
nor's most ardent partisans could have desired
in point Of attendance and enthusiasm The
floor and galleries Of the great hall We're crowd
ed. Many the outside. unable TO obtain
seats or standing room within hearing distance.
The Presidential candidate received most
enthusiastic greeting ne made his way up
through OF the side aises A large proper
tion Of the audience stood upon chairs and
yelled frantically for Teddy II with DIFF
fculty that the shouts could be appeased and
silence restored so as to permit the exercises TO
proceed.
Homer Warren. chairman of the Republican
City Committee called the gathering 10 order.
and Brigadier-G General Henry NJ DUfheld. who
was introduced as another Of the leaders in the
Santiago campaign. presided. General Dufield.
in brief opening address eulogistic OF the
speaker of the evening, remarked that IL was
evident that one general was absent. namely
General Apathy" The Democracy. said Gen
eral DuffieId. was before the country on a plat
form of fictitious fears but the only real fear on
both sides what Bryan might do IL
elected.
When the Governor rose to speak the great
crowd also. and remained standing apd
shouting for some time
The Governors speech occupied about an hour
in delivery. and was listened TO throughout
with thoughtful attention. and the telling sar-
castle and witty points were quickly caught and
applauded
Governor Roosevelt gave the audience an
object lesson when he asserted that our soldiers
in the Philippines had less to fear from any
body of armed bandits in that country than
they had to fear from the principles OF the Kan
Try.-
cratic ticket He said five members OF the Reg
ular Army were present. and he asked them to
stand up that the audience might their
tyrants. Five soldiers from the 18th Infantry.
at Fort Wayne. who occupied a front seat.
when thus invited arose. and were applauded
until their cheeks glowed with bushes
Now exclaimed Governor Roosevelt. be
hold your tyrantsr' The audience shouted with
laughter. There are here continued the Gov
ernOr. five soldiers TO four thousand people in
this audience. which is a larger percentage Of
tyranny in this house than the percentage OF
the Regular Army bears to the whole number
of the people of this country
THE GOVERNORS SPEECH.
Governor Roosevelt. in his speech. said:
In this campaign the issue OF overshadowing i'm
portance is whether We shall continue or abandon
country to the highest pitch Of prosperity az home
and Wnlch mas Kept the NaIoI2l 12 h9nor aa+I HI-
undo the work would be 70 dishonor the National
trial chaos, The Kansas City. platform commits
our opponents to a policy which means msterisI I
disaster and moral disgrace; which means NO
lent panic in the business world. and therefore,
e w1 of tbe Na fil5 in f5sncisT nc mai
abroad fTs ana 'ns unworthy 1O1l'''s"' o 0"' D"'
II you think am using strong language let me
read you from Carl schqrz's speech in Chicago.
September .. 1896. in which he says:
And at what price Will the ultimate result ne
gained in case OF Mt Bryans sIeeJont Al !s Sne
on record. such crisis as can only be brought on
by a sudden subversiOn of the standard OF values
and of the whole business credit. At the price OF
indefinite business paralysis and distress At the
cumuIated by the toiin masses. At the price OF
roohing our war veterans OF nan Ine , vaLue o.
the number OF unemployed by dIscouraging enter
those remaining at work At the price Of the re-
speGt OF the world for our l2ellsehGe ana "a, PTae t
forfeited since this Repubic was born-at the price
of the greatest good nation can possess; and for
the preservation Of which 1t should shed its last
For this Nation. rich and powerful. would stand
before Tst59g fhe "G[G bfter as nam aTnen banETuD
This will be the cost of the experiment Are you
Fellow citizens. it is grave matter, matter OF
vital import to the existence OF this Nation The
public men who teach such moral principles to the
people educate the people for the contempt and alb
moral principles live. 1t viii death in
the loathsome stew OF IT'S own corruption. II the
public it will deal death blow to the credit OF
free government will not recover for centuries
Now. mind you. the platform which Mr. Bryan
stood in 1896 has been reafnrned without the atera
ton of a letter and with an explicit readirnatiou
of the free silver plank 10 which Mr.. Schurz par
ticulary referred. Mr. Schurz told the exact truth
in his SCathing speech OF 1886, and therefore what
he said then is of course, the truth to-day.
In this campaign the issues involved strike at the
root of our prosperity and National honor II the
American people true 10 themselves they must
in the most unequivocal manner repudiate the
populstic and cOmmuniStic doctrines enunciated in
the Kansas City platform exactly they repUdi-
ated them in 1896 The existence OF any consider
able party which afirms and reafirms these doc
trnes is in itself serious menace TO the Nations
to appeal to every farsighted and patriotic man
whatever his political afiliaons in the past from
matter what section Of the country he comes to
stand with US in this struggle for National integ-
rity.
We have a right to insist upon both wisdom and
sincerity IN the leaders or any party who appeal
trust the wisdom OF present opponents by com
pairing their prophecies in 1885 with the actual
events since
BHYAN AS A Prophet
In 1895 Mr. Bryan insisted that "ulutocra,v vas
on one side and Democracy on the other speech
Of October IN and that IL he beaten the wage
WoIAer could not prosper. Wen as matter OF
iact the wageworker during the last four years
has prospered never before; and the same Is true
OF all our citizens. On September 10 OF that year
paign there is nothing before the people but four
years more Of hard times and greater agitation
Ihat statement carries with II its own reply. Have
the last four years been easier harder than the
three years preceding? You know well enough that
they have been infinitely better and il Is the Re-
publican party which has restored prosperity tor
II mas secured the conditions which gave free pIay
to enterprise and thrift. Mr. Bryan continue6 N
the same speech: DO YOU think we have jrsinsd
the cup or sorrow 70 It's dregS? No, nv friends
you cannot set limit TO the present hard times
But. a matter OF fact rhev dId ser a Iirnif Fo-
the limit was set soon as Mr. Brvan's defeat VAS
secured; ana the limit would be instantly removed
II he were now elected We would all return ar
once into the very condition from which the elec-
n sVn o' FreSident Mckinley rescued US four years