The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-22
BRYAN 70 THE VOTERS
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE SETS
FORTH THE PLANKS OF THE
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
TRUSTS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE
Speech at Wahoo, Neb., an Appeal
to Republicans to Vote
the Democratic
Ticket.


today. The speech was an appeal to Re-
publicans to vote the Democratic ticket:
| Giving his reasons for this appeal, Mr..
Bryan said:
~ want to talk to you Republicans, be-
! lieving that you are just as anxious to
help your country and help your fellows
| by your vote as the Democrats, the Pop
ulists and the Silver Republicans are
| NOW If you We're with us in 1896 there
| Is no reason why you should be against
| US now unless the new questions have
changed your opinion or unless you have
changed your opinion on the old ques-
| tions. But do not believe you can find
! in this county any man who voted with
! US in 1896 who has changed his mind on
! those issues and now believes that the
! Republican party was right in 1885, l be-
| lieve you will find many people who were
! against US on the cid issues who are with
| US on the new ones. We had men in 1896
! who came to US on the silver questions,
| Republicans who were not willing to turn
! over and vote the Republican ticket just
| because the Republican party had chang
! ed it's proposition on the money question
Republicans who were in earnest in 1888
when they denounced the gold standard;
| Republicans Who were in earnest when
they advocated bimetallism in 1882, and
! therefore they refused to take the Re
| publican position on the money question
! in 1856. And when they got out of the
Republican party and began looking at
| the Republican party from the outside,
ran through all the Republican doctrines
and today they are with US, not only on
the silver question, but upon all the new
question also" (Applause.)
THE SILVER ISSUE.
In this connection Mr. Bryan referred
at some length to the financial question,
saying: 1.-THE Republican party is try
| ing today tie same deception that it prao-
ticed in 1886 on the money question
When I say that the Republican party
practiced deception on the money ques-
ton in 1856 l don't want any Republican
to think l mean he was dishonest in his
advocacy of the Republican position in
1896. The Republican party held out the
false hope of international bimetallism.
I want to assert today that the RepubH-
can leaders never intended that we
should have enternalonai plIneIalnsIn IN IN
1886 The Republican leaders wanted the
gold standard then just as they want IL
now, but they held out before the people
the delusion of international bimetalllsm
The president sent a committee OIL three
distinguished gentlemen, and they were
to labor with the European nations ana
try and get those nations to help US: Ola
they succeed? OF course they dld not:
We told you in 1896 that they would n5t
succeed You could not expect England
to join with us in restoring bimetalllsm.
Now, how can you tell whether the he
publicans were in earnest or not When
they held out that promise? If a man sets
his heart on a thing and does not ger 1t
he feels sore and sad and unhappy ana
sorroWful You cannot ind RepupIlc~n
today that felt sorrowful because tney
did not get international bime tall1sTn mat
they promised to get in 1885,. CAP
plause.) ~ -
the crowd shouted: 'Hurrah for Nc
Kinlev." to which Mr.. Bryan promptly re-
sponded: Now, I don't know Whether
that man is hurrahing for the M Mch III Icy Icy
one following in Clevelands footsteps.
want to assure you that i don't object
to any one cheering for Mckinley, but
think that you owe 1t to the aunaen n6e TO
ing for when you are cheering" 20 ZAP
plause and cheers.)
He then went on: Now, the Repup-
lican party today does not talk In favor
of silver at all. There is no talk about
information bimetalism. If bimetal'isn
was good in 1896, it is good now. II the
the Republicans don't talk about 1t? Be
cause they did not want it in 1896.
THE TRUSTS.
Speaking of trusts, he said: 1.-THE Re
publican party is trying today the very
same policy on these other questions tn, that
They attack the trust in their platform,
and yet you cannot find Republican pa
per, and read it if it Is daily, for
month, without finding a defense of the
trusts. The Republican platform de-
nounces the trusts and Republican ed
itors are spreading before the public ar
guments defending the trusts Now, why
is it? 1t is because the platform is
hypocrisy The Republican party does
not intend to destroy trusts, but under
the cover of a platform denunciation of
the trust the Republican leaders are try
ing to quiet the minds of the people and
make them accept the trust as good
thing. 1t is all right for the head of
the trust to vote the Republican ticket
and contribute to the campaign fund, but
If tell the man who pays the dividends
that he ought to look out for his own in
bringing the appeal down to too low a
level A man who buys a trust-made
article has as much right to look after
his own interests in the campaign as the
man who sells trust-made article. Sup
pose you wanted to buy barbed wire
haven't you right to inquire why it has
gone up? Suppose you wanted to buy
OIL haven't you a right to inquire why it
has gone up? You know the Republicans
for years told us what a great blessing
the Standard Oil company was to reduce
the price of oil. That was because they
were trying to secure all the properties.
Yet they have declared dividends so far
of 40 per cent. Was 1t necessary to raise
the price of oil in order to make divi-
is amassing its wealth by means of mo-
nopoly, the Republican party does not
raise one hand to stop it. Why Is it that
the Republicans can vote for the Repub-
nopolies as that? 1 want you Republic
cans who have been voting the Repub-
lican ticket to ask yourself this question:
If the Republicans do not look out for
your interests, why need you look out for
the Republican partys interests? There
are Republicans who were denouncing
the trusts until the Republican party got
in and then there were more trusts or
ganized under the Republican admins
tration during the last three years and a
half than were organized in the previous
history of the country, and they are now
trying to make themselves think 1t is
good. They have had to change their
opinion as fast as the Republican party
changed Its position. Let me give you a
recent illustrations:
"OUR PLAIN DUTY"
when Mr.. Mckinley sent his message
to congress, saying it was our plain duty
to give free trade to Porto Rico, those
Republicans walked on the streets and
re-echoed plain duty Then something
happened. Some power behind the
been able to locate it exactly, but we
know of this power just as we know of
tornado, by it's effects. This power
OVERRIDE the recommendations Of the gov
ernor at Porto Rico; this power overTode
the petition of the people of Porto Rico;
this power OVERRIDE the chairman of the
committee on means and ways, and COM
PEELED him to bring in a bill directly the
opposite Of the bill first introduced; this
power OVERRIDE the president and made
him sign the bill, when he said 1t were
our plain duty to do the opposite, and
the Republicans have to turn somer-
saults and say 1t is our plain duty to
deny what was our plain duty before
dent said plain duty and 1t was after
that you men were shouting plain duty
but a power greater than your admins