The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-08-22
May Require Struggle to Secure
Endorsement of Stevenson.
SENATOR HANNA IN NEW JERSEY
He Opened the Republican Campaign,
Speaking toa Large and Enthn-
siust;c Crowd at Asbury Park
Last Ni&ht-Bryan's Speech
at PopulisG Notification
Deals With Trusts.
IlS ASSnciatetl Press J


LINCOLN, NEE., August 2l.-Mr. Bryan
county people at Wahoo, the county-seat,
to-day. The speech was an appeal to Re-
publicans to vote the Democratic ticket.
Giving his reasons for this appeal, Mr..
Bryan said:
II want to talk to you Republicans. be-
your country and help your fellows by
your vote as the Democrats, the Populists
and the Silver Republicans are.
Now if you Were with us in 1886 there
is nc reason why you should be against us
now, unless the questions have
changed you opinion. or unless you have
changed your opinion on tho old question.
But L do not believe you can find in this
country any man who voted with us in
1896, and who understood the issues then
before the country, who has changed his
mind on those issues and now believes that
the Republican party was right in 1886.
| believe YOU will find many people who
were against us on the old issues who are
now with Us on the new ones, and Will pe
on the old ones. We had men in 1886 who
came to US on the silver question Republ.-
cans who We're not wiling to turn over ana
vote the Republican ticket just because
the Republican party had changed its po-
sition on the money neutrality-suspicious.
who were in earnest in 1883 when they de-
nounced the gold standard. Republicans
who were in earnest when they advocated
bimetallism in 1892 and, therefore, they
refused to take the Republican position on
the money question in 1886. And when they
got out of the Republican party and be-
gan looking at tho Republican party lfoHi
the outside they find that the same vicious
principles ran through ali the Republican
doctrines. and to-day they are with US. not
only on the silver question, but upon ali
the new questions also" (Applause)
THE TRUSTS.
Speaking of trusts, he said:
THE Republican Party is trying the
very same policy on these other questions
that it tried on the money question in
So They attack the trust question in
their platform and yet you cannot find
:; Republican paper and read it without
finding q defense of the trusts The Re
publican platform denounces the trusts
and Republican editors are spreading be-
fore the pubic arguments defending the
trusts Now why is it? 1t is because the
platform is hypocrisy. The Republican
party Hoes not intend to destroy the
trust but under the cover of a platform
denunciation of the trust the Republican
leaders are trying to quiet the minds of
the people and make them accept the
trust as a good thing.
'It is only little more than two years
ago that the President sent a message to
Congress in which he said that forcible
annexation is contrary to our cade OF NOR
atty and criminal aggression and yet
to-day Republicans are asked to approve
of a thing that was denounced as criminal
aggression and against our code of NOR
ality less than two years ago
II said that I had no fear that those
who were with us in 1896 are against US
now. but I do believe that many people
who did not realize in '96 how the dollar
was rising above the man in the con-
sheraton of the Government. and who
did not realize then how organized greed
had been pressing for consideration before
the Republican party and securing spe-
cial privileges from the Government for
private gain now realize on the questions
what they did not understand of the old
ones. and that more people Will
leave the Republican party because OF It's
position on 1nilitarism and Imperialism thaN
have left it in one campaign before in ali
the history of the Republican PARTY
The remainder of Mr.. Brvan's speech
was devoted to the policy of the admins
+ra +inn in the Philippines.