The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-06

laws for the removal by public officers
of all such negroes and mulattoes and
for their effectual exclusion from the
state, and for the punishment Of persons
who shall bring them into the state or
employ or harbor them
THAT amendment was adopted before
the civil war; it makes it unlawful for a
free negro to go into the state, and it au-
thorizes the officers to put him out. But
you say that it is old Let me remind
you that last June an effort was made
to repeal that portion of the constitution
and the effort to repeal ii was defeated,
although the state went 10000 Republic
can"
At Hartford City Mr.. Bryan found a
text for his remarks in some Mckinley
posters conspicuously displayed on a
dead wall in the distance. Referring to
these posters, Mr.. Bryan said:
81 see over on the side of that barn
a bill or poster and what 1 can make out
from here is Mckinley was right Now
the question I want to ask is: Which
time was he right You know, my
friends A man who is on both sides
Of a question has a great advantage
over the man who is only on one side.
The man who gets on both sides may be
right some time, but when was Mr.. Nc
Kinley right-when he denounced Grover
Cleveland's financial policy, or when he
did the same thing that Mr.. Cleveland
did Which time was he right-in 1896,
when he said in his letter of acceptance
that we did not need more money, or
of acceptance that we had more money
and therefore ought to be glad Was he
right when he said in his letter of 1896
that he would keep in circulation all the
silver when he signed the bill to retire
the greenbacks and substitute national
banknote? Was he right when in his in
augural address he promised to enforce
the law against the trusts, or was he
right when he did not enforce the law
against the trusts when he had prom
Used to do so? Was he right when he
pointed out the evils of the trusts in
his inaugural message, or was he right
when he appointed a encouragement
from New Jersey, the home Of the trust,
and allowed him to draw his salary with
out enforcing the laws entrusted to his
keeping? Was he right when he said In
1897, that forcible annexation was Grim
inal aggression and contrary to our code
of morality, or was he right when he
sent $500 soldiers 1900 miles away from
home TO force annexation upon an unwill
ing people? Was he right when he said
last December. that ii was our plain
duty to give free trade to Porto Rico,
or was he right when he asked the men,
bers of congress to vote against giving
free trade to Porto Rico?
The presidential candidate the nde-
voted his attention to the trusts At
this point. someone asked about the ice
trust and Mr.. Bryan made his usual
reply to the effect that the directors
OF that trust are all Republicans and
that its operations are confined to New
York, whose governor, he said, should be
at home looking after the trusts instead
of making political speeches in the
west. 1.-The Republican party" he said,
lis neither willing TO destroy the ice
trust in New York or any other trust
That party win prosecute man for steal
ing broken-down horse. but viii not
prosecute ma nfor a big theft It has
amended the commandment to make 1t
read: Thou shalt not steal on a small
scale or so as TO say, If the stealing Is
done in Cuba, II IS all right"