Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-01-22
MIR. BRYAN AT BALTIMORE

| Hon. w. J. Bryan delivered an ad
dress in Baltimore Saturday night t.
audience which filed the Music Hall
the biggest auditorium in the city, t.
its fullest capacity aud which greeted
him aud his remarks with the create
enthusiasm. Tbs meeting washeld I'd
der the auspices OF the Maryland demo
| cratic association, one OF the free silver
wings of the democratic par y of the
State. and was not encouraged in any
manner by the regular democratic or
ganizatioD. In fact, the latter held
strictly aloof from any participation in
the affair. They made no effort to dis.
courage it in any manner, but not one
Ct the democratic leaders appeared on
the platform and an offer OF stage TICK
cts was politely declined by the princI-
pal member of the democratic State
central committee.
Mr. Bryan, among other things, said :
81 want 10 assure you in the ueginnipg
that my happiness does not depend
upon any honor which tho people of
this nation can confer; neither do be-
lieve tns nations happiness or welfare
depends upon any one person. As n
politics, as in the army, the generals get
the glory and the priva es do the work.
And therefore | feel that | owe il 10
those who for nearly four years have
been bearing the burden in the heat
of the day; 1 owe it to them to say
that what l have done is but an atom
compared with what they have done.
10 1896 the voters proved that they
could control the policy of the party,
and during the last three years they
have proven that they could hold what
they gained insl896 in spite of news
papers, in spite of railroads, in spite of
banks, and in spite of every influence
supposed to obtain, the plain people OF
the democratic party have stood and
40 stand for the Chicago platform 10
all that it ssys. Tue Declaration of To-
dependence was once highly-respec..
ed document; it is under a cloud Just
now, but have confidence that in a
few months the clouds will be rolled
BY and that old document will shine
with all its former brightness. That
principle ia that all men
are created equal. l do not mean to
say that ell men are created equal in
strength; l do not mean to say
that all men are created equal in men
tai ability or in moral worth, or that
under any just form of government
man will be equal 10 capacity for enjoy
ment or in the enjoyment that we have
WHAT / mean to say is this: That
whenever government comes into
contact with the citizen, whenever
the citizen touches the government,
hen all must stand equal before the
aw, and there must be no high, no low,
no rich, no poor. That government
must be administered according to the
maxim OF Jeferson.-Equal rights to
al and special privileges to none"
10 abiding to the proposed income
AK the speaker said:
I'm an hour OF peril this government
ian take the son from his mother, the |
husband from his wife, the father from
lis child and stand them up in front of
IN enemy's gun, but in an hour of dan.
ger this government cannot lay its hand |
Upon accumulated wealth and make |
hat wealth hear it's share of the ex-
,enses. Why is il? 1t is because the
epnbllcsn party has made money more
precious than blood. The income tax
will be 10 the next Campaign, and it
will be in the campaign until the
constitution of the United States is 80
amended as to specifically authorize an
rcome tax SO that neither one judge
Tor nine judges can build bulwark
round the fortunes of the great and