The sun., 1900-12-28
BRYAN GOES TO TEXAS.
win Hunt Ducks for . Week why Lincoln 10
His Home.


LINCOLN. Neb.. Dec. 27-It was 8 O'Clock
this morning when Mr.. Bryan was reached
on the toast list at the Jefrer,onian Club
banquet He expressed his cordial apprecia-
ton OF what his fellow citizens had done for
| him. and In addition TO the synopsis furnished
In advance last nj vht he said
! When the adverse returns were comm q
| In election evening last November, some
| one asked me why remained In Lincoln.
| community that seems to be hopelessly
| Republican. As | always do on occasions
OF this sort | turned 70 the Bible for so8ce
and support. and ] found Love your enc
mics. do good TO those that hate YOU and
! responded that | knew OF no better place
10 carry out this injunction than right here
In Lincoln.
Hypocrisy is name that well fits the
Republican party, a party that declared
against the gold standard In 1890 and four
years later congratulated itself that IL had
established the gold standard. a party that
declared only last fall that IL did not stand
for imperialism. and yet one whose President
in his message to Congress indicates that
trial by Jury has been denied the Filipinos
The Democratic party cannot be destroyed
until it, principles have been destroyed.
and this can never bc, because truth is eter-
nal / haze uo more doubt Of the ultimate
triumph OF our calse than have OF the rising
OF the sun. IL these principles are not to
prevail in the end, then our for IN OF govern
ment Is "A failure The victory. think. will
surely come, yet | would rather have history
say that the party died in the defence OF
these principles than to say that IL lived for
referred TO trOuJe, the old patriot in exile
ON the island of 81. Helena.
~ hey are IA error VINO suppose that he
Will be forgotten. one thousand years
from, now his name will be known TO every
scnoolboy IN THIS land The waves that
beat on 81 Helena shores may he sad, but
ther will be rernembered long after the cheers
that greeted LORD Roberts have been for
gotten
In four. years We have heard this, talk
priced hotels aud not beside the thresh-
Ing machine. keorganizationists have not
stated their principles. while we have. We
stand on the Kansas city platform That
/. our GeClaratlon OF principles and We ask
them 20 place theirs beside II
Il have not weakened in the least In my
support uf the great principles OF Democracy
| have ever advocated. No one can tell what
the future may have in store for him. Il it
executive. then l Will do that part as gladly
III the R.publican principles are right,
then history l. wrong. private monopolies
are good. government rests on force and the
underlying principle of republics il false
II this nation builds on force and force alone
the time will surely come when II will fall u
victim TO it, own avariCe. Liberty l. lnnlier-
abb" The filipinos could not sell their lih-
rebellion there il Will be but Il matter of a few
months until II VIII be renewed unless
allow them tn" things we demand for our
selves There cannot be justice between man
and man here, and injustice between this ma
t1"n and another people We are ready To
ilght a. long a. the fusion forces remain true
- the" priniciplcs am no other than a
rlvato citizen. but ] promise you that no
other private. citizen shall do more Tor tho
ca than
MIR. Bryan left for Texas at 80 O'Clock this
mornug accompanied by his son William.
IL" viii remain ton days as the guest Of col.
". J.. Moody. IL il proposed 10 take him
out Tor W""k's duck hunting az recrea ton.
N" will return home to begin active work un
h's weekly newspaper on Jan. after nlling
banquet engagements at Omaha and Chicago.
il wu- announced this evening that for the
first few issues az least the Common,r would
be- elsht pages, size II by Ia, inches. III"
lnuk"-up Will he similar to that of the Nation
Wit three columns 20 the page. eighteen
ems wide.