The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-15
BRYAN DISSECTS
'KINLEY PLEA
Answers Letter of Accent
anco.
PORTO RICAN BILL
ON DESPOTIC BASIS
Candidate Declares that One
Term is Enough.

at Goodale park and in the evening ar
the GOodale auditorium. William 7
Bryan made speeches at both meetings
and there was a large attendance Of
Democratic leaders from all parts Of
the state Previous to the afternoon
meeting Mr.. Bryan was rendered q. re-
ceptiOn at the Great Southern hotel
and he was escorted to the park by
number Of state marching clubs.
Mr. Bryan spoke for an hour and .
quarter His audience numbered ma1v
thousands of people and they gave
close attention as well as freouen+
cheers. The speech was a general re
view of the political situation and II
was evidently intended TO set q. paca
for the campaign in Ohio. He began
with reference to the local conditions
touching BRIEFLY near the outset lIDon
the stand taken in behalf of the Dem
ocracy by Mayor Jones of Toledo and
then launching into national affairs.
Declaring that he believed the Demo-
cratic ticket was entitled 10 the cleo
toral vote of Ohio Mr.. Bryan said:
Measured by the PRINCIPLES for
which the party stands, there is every
reason why the people of this state
should support our ticket and If anv
of state pride you should remember
that you have had hOnOrs enough for
this state to satisfy any reasonable
pride and then one term is long enough
if a man does what he ought to; and
IL he does not, it is too long"
Praise For Mayor Jones.
IT found as I approached the state
that We have had the support of a man
in this state above all other men who
sticks for the Iaboring interests OF the
state, Mayor Jones Of Toledo great
applause and cheers.) There is no
man in this state who stands nearer to
the laboring man than Mayor Jones
He does not support the ticket because
he advocates everything that I do, nor
because / advocate everything that he
does. But he believes that the sue
cess OF the Democratic party and of its
principles in this campaign will do
more for the labOring man than can he
done by the success of the Republican
party and its principles in this state.
Il do not know whether Mayor Jones
agrees with me on the silver question
or not, I do not know whether he is an
advocate Of the gold standard or not
But 1 do know that he would rather
see the golden rule put into operation
in our international policy than to
have a gold standard in the country"
(ApplauSe.)
Speaks of Full Dinner Pail"
Referring to the Full Dinner Pail"
Mr.. Bryan predicted that it would not
last through the campaign.
In the first place. he said, ''the Re
publican who meets every argument
made by the Iaboring man with a full
dinner pail, insults the laboring men
because he assumes that the labOring
man is all stomach.
My friends. If the Republican party
wants to make its full dinner pail ar
gument, let ii go into the anthracite
coal regions, where the operatives get
less than $3.50 a year. This mornings
paper-thiS mornings Republican pa
per-contains the statement that the
wages paid the miners will in some in
stances average less than $3.50 a year.
Why, my friends, that will not give
the laboring man one full dinner pail
a day, and he ought to have three"
CGreat applause.)
Dissects Presidents Letter.
Mr. Bryan said the presidents let
ter had only a few sentences on the
trust question
L see in the newspapers he said.
that originally this message contained
zO,U0o words, but that il was cut down
10 $4,000 words I suppose that the
other 1000 words were on the trust
question, but were cut OUT
The president says that nobody
wants imperialism said Mr. Bryan.
ter, and continued:
We are not talking of the future
but of the past We point YOU to the
Porto Rican bill, a, thing that is. and
we charge that the Porto Rican bill
cannot exist except upon an imperial
istic theory of government. We are
not looking to the future but 10 the
present. What does that bill assert2
1t asserts that a president, elected b.
the people of this country, holding Of
NTsaG nd. -
Dy the constitution 1t is built upon
the theory that a congress-, created by
the constitution, is not restrained by
that constitution when the bill deals
with the people of Porto Rico Nv
friends. if that is true of the people OF
Porto Rico, it may be true of any num-
Der OF people anywhere. 1 challenge
you to find in all the history Of the
world a power exercised by tyrant or
despot more arbitrary than the power
asserted by the Porto Rican bill"
(Great applause.)
McKinley's Policy of a Highwayman-
Continuing. Mr.. Bryan said:
Why should the old man who stands
upon the brink of the grave vote the
Republican ticket and leave the pres
enC policy TO curse the next genera
uonZ Why should the young man vote
the Republican ticket and condemn
himself to servitude and Cierkship IN
a AAOAAOPOlg Inc fN6puDllCan party 10
day does not stand for the principles
OF human rights. The platform of 96,
adopted by the Republican party, de-
nounces the gospel of force It said
that it is the hiwayman's plea that
makes right And that was unworthy
OF the diplomacy of any nation Today
IT would build an empire upon the
hlghWayman's plea that might makes
right Great applause.)
Enthusiasm In the Evening.
monster night meeting was held
at the Auditorium, and was addressed
Dy Congressman Leutz. Thomas L
Johnson and others. Mr.. Bryan did
not begin to speak until after 10 O'Clock
and he did not speak at great length
he declared that everywhere in the
world oppressed people are looking TO
the Democratic party as a breastwOrk
against arbitrary power This was
true Of the struggling people of Ire
land, OF the people of all Europe, and
of old Dom Paul Kruger, as he was
being driven step by step from his
home in the republic he had done so
much TO establish. This sentiment
aroused great enthusiasm, and the
meeting adjourned with a shout and
a cheer at II O'Clock
Mr.. Bryan left after the meeting for
ST. Louis.
Paris Sends $4,000.