The age-herald., 1900-08-09
AT THE NIGHT MEL T|NC BRYAN
 ELECTRIFIED HIS MANY HEARERS

expert mathematician to stand at the door and count them they come back. Daughter and applause).
 We have with us this year all we had in 1S96; we have with us a large majority of the gold Democrats who were not in our favor in 1896. I knew they would come back, because l knew that the most of those who went away went because they did not realize the magnitude of the strug gle in which we were engaged-the begin ming of the struggle between democracy and plutocracy. I believed that a great majority of them would come back and 1 insisted that when they got ready to come back wanted them to know where the old house was and not have it moved around so that they could not find it when they. came back. Oaughter) This year we have coming to us the people who now have tendencies for the Republican party. We pointed out in 1896 that if the Repub- lican party won it would have to give the trusts a chance to get back out of the people the money they had contributed to the campaign fund.
 It Was Strange
 Tt was strange that the people did not see 1t, but those who could not see it then now know that if you want to extinguish trust you have got to take the extinguish- CT out of the hands of the trust. People who did not feel the iniquity of the trusts
 
 everywhere people are coming with us this year because they see that with the success or the Republican party, with the present tendency toward the concentra ttion of wealth, 1t is only question of time when the individual will disappear. Hence the mothers and the fathers are thinking for their boys, and I challenge the Republican party to meet us on the trust question I challenge 1t to condemn the young men to perpetual clerkships under monopolies in this country. Great applause).
 believe that on the old questions we are stronger this year than we were in 1ss6 believe if there were no new uues- tions we would be able to wage a success ful contest against the Republican party. IT Is on the defensive on every question before the American people. It pretends it wants to discuss the money question: promise you that before the campaign is over me Republican leaders will be as much afraid of the silver question as they are of Imperialism. Great applause and cheers.) Inis IS not question upon which they dare to state their position and invite the iude- ment Of the American people. (Applause). why thls Republican party Is not willing to take the people into its confidence on any singns question now before the American peopiH. It claims credit for everything that happens for it's aid, and rejects responsi- bilify for everything that it does in this couhtry. Applause.)
 Claimed Credit For Crops
 It has claimed credit for large crops: it has claimed credit for the discovery of gold In Alaska; 1t has claimed cridit for .he famine in India; it has claimed credit for the activity In business which comes from mortgaging the future and spending the money; 1t has claimed credit for things for which 1t is not responsible, and yet 1t dares not assume the responsibility for those which is brought upon the people
 But I repeat that in this campaign it will be on the defensive on every question, and when run from one issue to the other and not be willing to stand and abide judg- ment on any question (applause), and my friends, not satisfied with taking a step toward an English financial system, that it did not dare to proclaim in 1896, it has taken a step toward an English colonial system that 1t dares not now defend (ap- piause). It is policy on imperialism that is today driving men out of the Republican party, who have been Republicans from the birth of that party And if you go through the country yod will find that va rious questions appeal to various ele- ments to this people, and that on every question we are bringing the people out of the Republican party, and the Repub- lican party is not able to justify itself on