Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-10-26

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gone to Washington and brought
eighteen democratic senators into line
for it. Mr.. Bryan, then, was respons-
IDLE for the cession of the Philippines
20 this country to a greater degree
than any ten men in the country. 1t
i'll becomes him, therefore, to arraiga
the republican party for this action,
which he himself made possible. The
reason MI. Bryan and the democrats
had been for the ratification of the
treaty was that if it did not pass, ac-
cording to Mr.. Bryan's own admis-
sions, the democratic party would
have had absolutely nothing to go be-
fore the people in the campaign this
year. Political hypocrisy and incon-
sistency could go no further than this.
Then there was the trust question.
Mr.. Bryan pretended to be the great
enemy of trusts. His chief advisers
and supporters are Marcus Daily, re-
Gently elected treasurer of the asso-
citation of democratic clubs, who was
president of the Amalgamated Copper
company. MI. DAILY was no spring
chicken. He would not be for Mr..
Bryan if he expected his company to
be shut out of existence. Then
there was James X. Jones, chairman
of the national democratic committee.
He was president of the round cotton
bale trust. Did Mr.. Jones work for
Bryan with the expectation that his
company was going to be busted. Then
there were Havemeyer of the sugar
trust, Rockefeller of the Standard Oil
trust, Croker of the ice trust. All
bosom friends and workers for Bryan.
Did they expect their companies to be
dissolved. The republican party had
put on the statute books the only anti
trust legislation ever passed. They
passed the Sherman law, under which
the original Standard oil trust was
dissolved. Did the democrats do my
legislating against trusts when Cleve-
land and his congress had control OF
the country? Did Bryan believe in
opposing trusts when, as a member
of the ways and means committee that
framed the Wilson-G German law, he
put a differential duty on refined
sugar in favor of the sugar trust;
when he had recommended a tariff
bill so Infamous that President Cleve-
land denounced it as perfdy and
Bourke Cochran said that there was
no parallel in political history to the
sale of the democratic party to the
sugar trust?
In closing Mr.. Comstock referred
again to the wonderful strides the
country had made since the election
of Mckinley. He cited figures to show
the increase in value of live stock and
farm products since the republican ad-
min%istratlon had been restored to con-
troll. Who wanted to return to the
business conditions of 1S93-1S97. Who
wanted to go back to the time Coxey';s
army was marching across the coun-
try asking for bread, when mills and
factories were closed, when labor was
unemployed, when working men were
idle? Those who did would doubt
less vote for William ]. Bryan. Those
who wanted the country to continue
the onward march of prosperity and
lne increase of business would vote
for Mckinley. The democratic plat
form from start to finish has no good
word for any business institution. It
is against the protective tariff, against
the financial system of the country,
against the shipping bill, against ev-
erything. 1t tears down, or would
tear down, but builds up, never.
Typical of the insincerity of Mr..
Bryan is his attitude with regard to
the practical disfranchisement of the
negroes of the south. While he had
words Of sympathy and coincidence
for the Filipino he had none for the
poorer classes In the south, white and
black, who are disfranchised by the
democrats. Senator Tillman of South
Carolina, one of his chief supporters,
in a speech on the floor of the senate
had stated. that the democrats shot
the niggers, stuffed the ballot boxes,
would continue to do so, "and what
are you going to do about it?" The
election system in the south had Gre
ated a class of voters and a class Of
nch-voting population, and districts
there that cast only 10000 or 3 10000
votes elected as many congressman as
Minnesota with 100000 votes. Mr..
Bryan mad nothing to say against this.
He expected to profit by this manner
Of voting. And yet he was prating
about the consent of the governed
Mr.. Comstock spoke just an hour
and he crowded more good hard facts
ond 1oo;o into thot c6ooo If tiro thot