The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-19
HANNA IS BITTER.
Calls Bryan a Hypocrite, and is
Kissed and Cheered.

Chicago, Sept. Ex-senator NJ A. Hanna
yesterday made address to several
their employees, at the rooms of the Com
merc1al Mckinley club He said in part:
You will find my text in the letter of
acceptance of the great apostle of free
silver, William ]. Bryan 1t is his last
card, and he begins his interesting appeal
to the people of the United States by tell
ing what he knows about trusts. At the
Kansas City convention there developed
a wide difference of opinion in the Demo-
cratic party as to what they should do
or ought to do, and various pilgrims to
well he might have been, since the narrow
edge of one vote in the convention meant
the saving of his pet hobby, free silver.
But how has it been since that cOnven-
ton? In all his speeches during his cam
paign he has made only the barest ref
another issue, one which he labored in
Wa;shington to manufacture He gave
congress to ratify the treaty, for no
other reason than that he might have an
imaginary chance to attack the adminis-
tration.
81 wish I could have together on this
platform Wllliam Jennings Bryan and
tell his reasons for opposing expansion
imperialism
Senator Hoar would convince you that
he opposes it from conscientious motives
but is on all other points a unit with the
party from which he differs in that one
respect. and that he is a supporter of Will
liam Mckinley With these two together
l would tear the mask off the face of that
d LIZ
hisses).
zone stands on the firm foundation of
his convictions of right, and the other
on the fiimsy foundation of hypocrisy
Mr.. Bryan has been afraid to push the
silver issue because he wants to carry
New York and some other eastern states.
He tried Imperialism and made from five
to fifty speeches day. his audiences
trump and last card and we will hold
him down to that issue and on every side
IF our great corporations of amalga-
mated capital are in the interests of the
manufacturer. then are not labor organi-
cations and combinations in the interests
of .workingmen? I was the first man in
Ohio to. recognize organized labor in 1871.
coal miners existed we never had
strike. I believe in arbitration between
labor and capital. and in 1897 stood be-
fore 1900 men and women in Cincinnati
and told them that if they would prove
TO mf eha6 for nad % ever rd b any
of his pay, I would resign from, the
offer still stands
II would like Mr.. Bryan or any other
Democrat to tell me what trust is. be-
leve there is not a trust in the United
States. There is a national law and in
every state a law against trusts, and ma
tional or state they have been the prod
uct of Republican lawmakers, and the
credit as due the Republicans. I have no
trusts but they have not got any pfef patent
on it Bryan tells what he would do If
elected. His first act would be to haul
s.Well, that is what he says he would
do, but the American people would not
let him. Then he would establish stable
government probably with Aguinaldo at
the head of it. Think OF it. Pull down
our flag. remove our troops and leave the
brave dead, our boys in blue, to the tender
mercies of Aguinaldo. Judging from the
past Aguinaldo would soon shock hu-
manity, and the nations would interfere
as we did in Cuba. Bryan talks of the
Monroe doctrine and advocates a protec-
torate in the Philippines The Monroe
doctrine was established for the western
hemisphere. but Bryan would spread it
all over the world. If that is not impe-
rialisn then tell me what is. ] am for
not while that brigand Abuinaldo is hid
ing in the bushes shooting down our SOL
diers Bryan is opposed to tariff a
trust creator. but the working men know
rosy pictures of what he would do If
elected. and beside his pictures stands the
monumental work that Mckinley has
done. Bryan viii stand on any platform
they make for him, ride any hobby, in
dorse any issue-yes, he will even abuse
dent. That is all he wants (Cheers and
cries of You are all rightly Yes. I am
all right: for talk about things know
all about and I don't lie either. Cast
in the interests of Mr.. Bryan The i'm
portance of this campaign is greater than
any ever before known in the country. be-
cause any reversal of the policy of the
government would bring about a change
in commercial interests which would
would mean commercial Industrial revo-
luton from which this country would not
soon recover.