Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-04-06

| WI. bryan anu party aTTlNeu dt III
early hour Tuesday morning, by special
steamer, under escort of the committee
sent from here to accompany him tc
town. At s o'clock he was taken tc
The Olympia, for breakfast, and a,
$50 was escorted to the stand erected
over the courthouse steps, fronting
Sylvester Park. An audience of from
5000 to 1000 people had assembled
notwithstanding the early hour, to lis.
ten to a man whose name has become
a household word and whose reputa.
ton for honesty and sincerity is world.
wide. He spoke as follows:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen
II you will excuse me, l will wear
my hat. l am sorry that l come to
you in such poor voice, but they have
imposed on me more work than |
ought to have done, and l have i'm
paired my voice by trying to come up
to their expectations. In moment l
think will be able to make myself
heard. 1t is pleasant thing to visit
your State, and as 60 about from one
place to another, learn of those in
dustrics which make the section ia.
nous. When / get into the timber
country, they tell me about tall timber,
trees that take two men and boy to
look to the topof. When / get down
into the valleys, the Mississippi region,
they tell me Of crops; they tell me of
corn that has seven ears to the stalk
and shelled corn in the stalk. When
I get out here, / hear of nothing but
salmon. And they tell me of the
great industries built up by salmon,
and they explain that salmon never
runs down stream, and that it is nec-
essary to catch the salmon and to kill
them quickly in order to save them
from lingering death at the head of
the stream. l have been interested in
all of these exhibitions of the wonder
full variety of our nations resources /;
but while am glad to know that you
make money out OF your salmon-be-
cause when you make money out of
salmon you make money out of nature
and you are not under the same blame
that trust magnate is when he
squeezes his money out of the victims
OF the trust-yet I have never found
any fish yet that attracted me so much
as the Spanish mackerel on the eastern
coast of Virginia. They showed me
some mackerel, and found that part
of the fish was exactly like silver, and
on the side of the fish we're spots like
gold, and / measured the silver and
gold and found there was about as
much silver and gold as the ratio of
sixteen to one. While l do not want
to offend your pride, if we ever get into
power it will not be the salmon that
will be the national fish. We will
change the name of the Spanish mack
erel, and call him the bimetalist and
make him the national fish.
Our Opponents Have Been Untruthful, Incon.
sistsnt and Unfair.
Sometimes our opponents misrepre.
sent the position taken by the reform
forces. If you would read only Repub.
lican editorials and hear only Republic
can speeches, you would imagine that
we were lot OF red-handed anarchists,
bent on destroying the country. In
1896, our opponents denounced the
six millions and a-half who marched
under the banner of bimetalism, and
accused them Of every crime in the
catalogue and exhausted invective in
the denunciation of them: and when
war broke out, within two years after
the election, and Republican Presi-
dent wanted volunteers, these same
anarchists, disturbers of the peace and
stirrers up of discomfort, volunteered
to fight under Republican President,
and think am safe in saying that,
of the two hundred thousand volun-
teers who responded to their country's
call, majority came from the people
who had been derided and abused as
treacherous people in 1896; and then
the people found out that the differ.
ence between citizens and parties is
not so much difference between the
we'll meaning and those OF evil intent,
but more difference of environment,
of habits OF thought and OF party pref
udice. have wondered how o man
could be SO wrapped up in any party as
to place his party's good above his ma
tons welfare. j believe that mans
country comes first, and that he serves
his party most who serves his country
best. believe that a party is only q
means TO an end. You use Q party
in order to secure the passage of laws
that you believe to be right, and meth.
DDS OF government which you believe
to be just. A party is like suit OF
clothes, worn not because OF its merits
but as means of protection to some.
thing more valuable than the party.
When suit of clothes becomes worn
out and full of holes, you throw it
away and get new suit, and / want
to announce that the Republican party
il worn out and full of holes and YOU
ought to throw it away and get good
one; and if there are Republicans
here, / want them to think of Repub.
lican principles to-day and compare
them with Republican principles of a
lew years ago. Compare the Republi-
can party in its present condition with
the Republican party when it drew to-
gether victorious army from the
other parties then in existence.
The Republican Party Has Outsrown It's Use.
fufnsss. and Become Refuge for Trusts.
It is with political parties as with
individuals. You have known men
grow up among you, men who were
well meaning, men who knew their
friends, and you have seen those per.
sons elevated by some accident into
wealth or position, and then you have
seen them become entirely different
persons. You have seen the heart
changed, SO that the man hates those
whom he loved, and loves those whom
he hated. So it is with parties; thew
may become corrupted by power, and
l believe that to-day the Republican
party has become corrupted BY those