The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-19

shown himself to be one whom sudden
cannot confuse, nor great
problems overcome, during whose wise
administration the country has been
blessed with prosperity and crowned with
ra tional glory, and whose continuance in
Office for the next four years is guaran-
tee to our hopes in their anticipated full
fllment-
-Four years ago the country was start
led by the utterances of the Democratic
National Convention embraced in the
Chicago platform At no prior time in it's
history had the United States been in so
deplorable condition. An industrial de-
preston covered the land like pail. For
several years the unemployed had been
growing in hunters, in want and in de-
spair. Factories were empty, furnaces
were cold and mills had ceased to grind.
Banks were closing their doors and depos-
tiers were losing their savings. Railroads
could not pay their interest and were
passing into the hands of receivers. The
orly armies that paraded the land were
disorderly mobs OF idle workingmen. Stri-
kers in almost every department of labor
threatened the stability of the Govern
ment. Neighbors were friends or foes as
want or wealth united or divided them.
1t was after several years of these
growing evils and at a time of general
gloom and discomfort when the growl-
irgs. of hunger were becoming ominous
and lean hands were threatening to take
by force or stealth the bread they had
no opportunity to earn, that three politi-
cal national conventions assembled to
nominate candidates for the Presidency.
The Democrats. denouncing with bitter
ness Grover Cleveland, the only Demo-
crat who had led them to success since
ls56, and who was In Integrity of charac-
ter, nobility of purpose in feariessness
and fortitude one of the greatest Amcri-
cans and the natural enemy Of the Att
gelds and organs and Tillmans, read him
out of the party, and with him Thomas
Jefferson, threw all their teachings after
them, and installed in their stead the
Boy Orator from the Platte. William
Jennings Bryan, who mistook Organism
for Populism and called 1t Democrac.
They sent him abroad as q PopuIist as
pirant for the Presidency, and authorized
him to preach class distinctions, to STIR
ur bitterness on the part of the many who
had not against the few who then had;
to cry out against the fortunate, the fru-
gal, the prudent, the successful: TO put
premium on failure and a discount on
success; to threaten the independence of
the judiciary: to invite the people to finar..
cial dishonor and certain bankruptcy; to
contradict every doctrine of economics,
anc to endeavor to bring about financial
impossiblity-the stability of the double
ste ndard of gold and silver at fixed az
every other nation. The silver conven-
tion, with like Populistic passion. was al
sc captured by the rhetoric of this mans
cross Of gold.
The Republicans answered all this polit-
iCal and financial madness with Hat
fern that stood for sound, honest money.
for an independent judiciary, for protec-
not for disunion, for peace and prosperi-
ty and not for disaster and dssension, and
upon this platform they placed W illiam
Mckinley. Bryan predicted that the CO.
Ing out of his Jack-o-Lantern would
leave the world in utter darkness, impen-
etrable even by the fame that liberty
holds aloft to light the world. Mckinley
predicted that Republican success would
mean prosperity in place of poverty.
work instead of violence for IDLE hands,
wealth at home, honor and respect abroad.
Mckinley was elected, and all the fo:,
and dust of Organism disappeared, and
thiE country stepped out of the shadow
and into the sun.
1t was because / believed that this would
be the result that in 1896 voted for Nc
Kinley. 1t is because l believe that the
election of Bryan on the rechristened Chi
cago platform would undo much of Me.
kinley's good work. would disturb Dusi-
ness, arrest enterprise and suspend .hS
laEcr Of thousands; It is because of Nc.
kinley's policy of honor and because oi
Bryan's proposed policy of dishoncr thai
! shall again vote fer Mckinley.
The paramount issue in this campaign
Is Organism, and Organism means poiiti
cal dishonesty, political ihexperience DO
Etical bad judgment and the domnaticf
Of personal opinion. Influenced by fanati
cism, over the wisdom CT statesmen anC
the experience of a century of strugg,,
and growth. AS the Democratic party
has Endorsed Bryanisn. 1 am opposed t,
the Democratic party.
The speaker next dealt with the subicc
OF foreign trade He quoted Bryan'c pre-
dict.on CT four years ago that the sue
cess OF the Republican party would meal
TIE death of the export trade, and the,
gave the figures which show that Will,
the excess of exports over imports wa
only S1s0.ooo,0Oo during the last two year
OF the Wilson tariff, the excess in tn,
last two years with the Republican AID
r'nistration and the D.ngley tariff passed
the billion-dollar lire, an Increase Of NOR
than 500 per cent This" said the speak
, er. is sufficient reason for the smok
coming out of every smolestack and TO
the scarcity of labor" He then connpar
: ed the balance of trade, which had falle,
to 100000 at the close of Cleveland
administration. He declared that at TIN
expiration of McKiniey's term this bal
arce in favor of the United States woul,
exceed s544. 600.
imperialism was next dealt with an,
attention was called to Bryan's declara
ticr that he would not lead his party nm
iess the battle was to be fought on tn
silver question and his subsequent accent
arce of leadership on platform tina
sueordinated silver to the so-called issu
o. imperialism. Bryanss attituie the
came In for a scholarly grilling. Tn
: American workman's crown of thorns an,
cross of gold. said the speaker, were for
gotten for the more absorbing troubles q
the Maiays. Not even the disfranchise
e negro of the South was remembered b
this man, whose convention met on tn
5 Fourth of July. His tears could flow TO
E the distant brown man. but not for tn
! black man at home" Platt went on an
D sent broadside after broadsde "AIr
D Bryan he said. '.will find that tn
r merican people know that his cry of i'm
t perialsm, the calling 1t the paramount
I issue Of the campaign, is but mask t
cover his purpose to establish the FIRE
T coinage of silver. a mask to cover hi
: purpose to bring In free trade, a mask
: cover his purpose to overthrow the bank