The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-05
Could Not Avoid Recommending Free
Silver, and Would Generate a Cy-
clone of Financial Panics
HARMONY IN EMPIRE STATE
NEW YORK REPUBLICAN CONvEN.
TION A LOVE FEAST.
Ticket Prepared for To-day and Plat
form Adopted Last Night-PrOs-
perity the Chief Issue.

SEDALIA, Mo-, Sept. 4-The opening of
the Republican State campaign in Sedalia
to-day was held under most favorable cir
cumstances as to weather and attendance,
nearly 10000 people coming to town, and
the day being perfect. The parade of
marching clubs, delegations and mounted
Rough Riders made fine exhibition. There
were sixteen bands in line, exclusive of
drum and bugle corps, the total number of
paraders exceeding 5000. The attendance
in the park was very large Congressman
Richard Bartholdt, of st. Louis, was chair
man of the afternoon meeting On the
platform were members of the national and
State Republican committees, Governor
Leslie Shaw, of Iowa; Joseph Flory, Mayor
Zeigenhein, of ST. Louis; Major William
Warner, of Kansas City; Ben Russell, SER
geant-at-arms of the national House of
Representatives; r. c. Kerins, of st. Louis.
Governor Shaw was introduced as the ora
tor of the day. He said in part:
Does any one for a moment suppose that
the man who dictated terms at Kansas
City would not, If elected, also dictate
terms to Congress. for if elected his party
will surely have a majority in Congress?
November shall so far forget themselves
as to ratify the Kansas City platform. and
elect the nominee of the Sioux Falls Popu-
list convention, this ever-ready recipient
of nomination honors, providing only that
silver at 16 to 1 is given due prominence,
would recommend In his message, and in
every message, the free and unlimited co.nx
age of that metal at the heaven-born ratio?
or does any one doubt that such a ratifica-
ton at the polls, followed by such recon-
mendations by the President, and the prob
able, not to say certain, passage of such
bill through the lower house would have
even a more disastrous effect than the
agitation which prevails throughout Mr..
Clevelands administration? Who dares
question that such men as Governor Alt
geld, and all other advocates of free coin
age, would again hoard gold, and at the
same time make their own leases, their
bills receivable, and their mortgages pay
able in gold? Does any one doubt that gold
coin would be again boarded and again
withdrawn from circulation as it was
recently? Does any man of experience dare
hope that the mere elevation of William
Jennings Bryan to the presidency would
not produce cyclone compared TO which
the panic of 1888 was but a summers
gage or a security of any kind would de-
mand his money, and getting 1t would not
invest again until the storm was over.
Every merchant and manufacturer would
be collector. A day of universal liquida-
ton would dawn with all it's concomitant
ruin, and universal liquidation would be
demanded in day.
1T is not wise to repeat the experience,
nor TO confront the hazards of a radical
and self-wjlled chief executive, surrounded
by and beholden to. as Mr.. Bryan must
he
lists of every declinable and indefinable
political complexion and faith.
1T is quite impossible to make the trust
problem an issue in this campaign. All
parties agree that trusts are vicious, and
all parties unite in denunciation of them,
but only the Republican party seeks a
remedy. In 1890 the Republican party en-
acted the Sherman law, which rendered
these combinations illegal and the partici-
pants criminal. During the four years of
Mr.. Cleveland's administration every
United States district attorney was
Democrat; but if any of them ever brought
| suit to dissolve trust, or to punish pro-
moter of one, the incident has been kept
unnecessarily from the public. Mayor Van
resolutions at Kansas City, drafted some
very severe structures about trusts, but he
| did not surrender his stock in the most
vicious of all monopoltes, nor suggest how
| he could be made TO release his relentless
| grasp upon the throats of his oppressed
and suffering New York constituents.
Il do not know whether anti-imperialism,
| falsely so-called, has aroused any interest
| in Missouri or not. In my State we fought
that issue out last year and won 1t hands
down. The Republican majority was four
times as large as two years before. Do you
| know what imperialism is? / do not /
| have watched the press pretty carefully:
read speeches; looked up the definitions of
the word: and listened to the Democratic
agitators by the hour, and i confess 1 can
| not get much light or satisfaction out
| of it.
"All questions as to our right to acquire
the Philippines, and our title to them when
| acquired, were merged in the ratification
| of the treaty. Certainly no one believing
we were wanting in constitutional author
ity to acquire the islands would have urged
| the ratification of the treaty, which Mr.
| Bryan did. Having ratified the treaty
| having acquired the islands, having as
| sumed the sovereignty over them no
| patriotic citizen of the United States will
| call in question our title. That this is a
| nation has been fully settled. Being a
nation IL has all the rights, privileges
| powers and prerogatives of a nation; and If
| any man believes anything else, or that we
| are any less nation than any country
| whose flag commands respect. he is well
come to believe anti-imperialism the para
mount issue of this campaign, and TO vote
| for the Democratic nominee
This is not the first time the Democrats
| have sought an issue, on which they hone
TO win campaign. rather than policy
| to be safely pursued The Republican party
| proposes to deal with the islands to-day as
| seems wise now. and 10 dispose Of them in
| the future or grant independence as seems
| best in the light of future events: and TO
| that end believes that the Congress has
| plenary powers.
"As loyal American citizen rather than
| as partisan, let me urge that in the new
| alignment of parties inaIgurated I'm 1896.
| and perhaps not Yet perfected, every think
| ing man who hold this conduct In
| obedience 10 his better Judgment who loves
his country more than he loves his party
| traditions. unite his political fortunes with
| the party charged with the responsibility
| of solving these questions. admittedly mo-
] mentous and far-reaching in influence. and
N November next cast his vote for that