The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-17
audience not to tribe with

by asking his audience not to trife with
a great name.
He referred to the position of Governor
roosevelt and Senator Hanna on the sub
| 1ect of trusts, and the reference in both
INSTANCES was met with groans and Kisses.
MI Hanna says there are no trusts, -
Mr.. Bryan went on. Are you going to
send a man out to hunt the trusts who
knows where every trust treasurer is, but
says there are no trusts?'
In response to the last Interrogation a.
voice 9I from the audience responded: I'VE
Mr. Bryan again quoted from President
Mckinley's inaugural address on the sub
ject of trusts and charged that the Presi-
dent mad neither enforced the existing an
THRUST laws nor recommended new ones
his attorney general, he said, draws his
salary and permits the trusts to go and
Cypress the people Mr. BRYAN referred
this was the only trust of which the Re-
pubIicans had any knowledge: If a Re
publican tells YOU" he said, that the ice
trust is hurting the people, you tell them
That you have so much confidence in the
would not be out west making speeches
II the people were suffering from the ice
This remark was received with cheers
MI Bryan expressed the conviction that
despotism, when a few men viii control
each great branch of industry, when every
buy at a trust price, when every person
VINO furnishes raw material will furnish
II at trust price and when every man
VINO works for wages viii work for the
wages fixed by a trust.'s
0uCn a cOnOltlOn as this meant. he said.
serfqom for the people, for a government
OF the people, by the people and for the
the trusts.
Mr.. Bryan said that he was not satisfied
70! 70 prevent extortlon, but that he would
to exist in the United States. The decla-
ration was met with cheers and cries of
Mr.. Bryan declared that the Republic
cans desired the standing army for both
foreign and domestic reasons. Il believe
he said, repeating his previous utterances,
that one of the reasons why they want
large city and use the army to suppress
by force that discomfort that ought to be
cured by legislation If the increase of
the army was intended to maintain an inn
perial policy, there could be no justifica-
ton for it on that ground, because the
people had never voted for imperial
He asserted that this policy of imperial
ism was the creation of the Republican
party and added:
They want the splendors Of empires
They want to hear the tramp of armies;
returning home, their thanks and their
plaudits The Republicans want the drum drum
TO beat so that it can be heard around
to shine SO brightly here that it win be
seen around the world and everywhere in
In substantiation of his assertion that
the Democrats were not raising a scare
crow, Colonel Bryan referred to the Porto
Rlcan legislation of the last session of
congress He declared that this legisla-
ton was based upon European ideas and
not upon American principles. According
to that document, he said q president
is bigger than the constitution, and then
MT Bryan exclaimed: Beware, my
friends, of a president when he becomes
greater than the constitution. There is
no place where you can draw the line; IL
tuition"
Quoting the Republican platform as to
the disposition to be made of the Fill
who is to decide their welfare? We.
Who is to decide their duty? We. What
mas ;, Ihe tliplno to- do with it? Nothing
and am afraid before this campaign is
over that they will try to prove that
it was not written by the Repubi' can con-
by someone who had no authority
He said his reason for expressing this
ton of the peace treaty had been placed
at his door. He then took up the ques-
ton of his connection with the ratifica-
ton of the treaty and said he had voted
for 1t because, he (AIr. Bryan), had fav-
ored it and continued:
But can prove by Senator Wellington,
a Republican, that without his vote it
would not have been ratified: that he
fact that the president promised him that
the Phiiippine islands would not be held
In closing. he said, that instead of de-
string a nation ever ready to resort to
force, he wanted 1t to be a peacemaker
among nations.
Then" he said. I'VE can claim the re-
say blessed are the peacemakers for they
shall be called the children of God"
MI Bryan concluded his speech at 8
O'Clock precisely, having spoken one hour
and hfty-one minutes. The crowd rose
and cheered as he left the platform in
as he left.
A number started to go out as he began
speaking, and he was Interrupted as Mr.
Stevenson had been.
William F. Mackey, candidate for Lieu
When he concluded, the band struck up
Dixie" and the small remaining portion
of the thrOng that had gathered in the
garden early In the evening filed out.