The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-01

French. during our revolution. had
bought out EngianG's pretensions and
then turned their arms 20 sUbdue us?
We mad no formal treaty with the Fill
plnos as the French had with us but
honest people do not raise technicalities
about the obligations of honor and fair
dealing. Many thought as he whom I
am soon to Introduce. who was one of
them, that il would be best to end the
war and get rid of Spain by ratifying
the treaty, since il was made. and then
declare and carry out this trust. I be
lieve they were right. but they were de
ceived as to the real intentions of the
president and By the resolution the
senate adopted, carefully WoTded so as
to appear a promise and prove an eva
sion. So we went from an honorable
war to one of conquest against those
who helped US because they thought,
and we made them think, we were help
ing them. We have shed more blood
and spent more money in this war than
in the war with Spain. and still our
boys are sent to disease and still the
taX-gatherer calls for more
Judge Harmon introduced Mr.. Began
as the next president of the United
States. There was a flutter of hand
kerchiefs and a general shout but Mr.
Bryan did not have great difficulty in
securing comparative quiet after he
began.
The speech was largely repetition
of former arguments.
Mr.. Bryan win start early tomorrow
morning for Indiana, en- route for
Chicago.
Meetings at Toledo.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan arrived at Toledo
this morning from Dunkirk. n. Y. They
We're met at the station by Mayor and
Mrs. Jones. Mrs. Bryan was accorded
q h1sipF r-nearaffnf a r11cay-Ogrfc
dence- Mr.. Bryan spoke for an hour in
Amor park. leaving Immediately after
wards on his days tour of the state
Mr.. Bryan was introduced by Mayor
Jones and he said that he was proud
to be presented by man to whom duty
was higher consideration than was
any party. Taking up the question Of
-partisanshiD, Mr.. Bryan said that
not only We're former Republicans com
ing over, but the gold DEMOCRATS were
coming back. This. he said. was the
natural result of political conditions
and of the Republican party's persis-
tent disregard Of the rights of the peO-
pie at large.
Mr.. Bryan gave considerable time to
the Republican plea of prosperity
saying:
"The Republican party has failed in
this campaign and 1 am going 20 show
you one proposition after another put
meet with a response from the people
When this campaign opened up the one
cry was that the country was prosper
GUS. that the Republican party had
made it so, and that to keep it so the
Republican party must be kept in pow
er. That was the one plea, and to rep
resent that they had a fun dinner pail
painted on their banners The full
dinner pail! If they wanted to paint
that fuu dinner pail now. as it looks,
they would paint on their banners the
worst battered, the most beaten and
the shot-full-of-holes dinner pail that
was ever seen. Let me tell you why
the dinner pail argument failed. First,
because not every labOring man has a
full dinner pail. They went on the
theory that every labOring man had a
full dinner pail, but the anthracite coal
strikers opened the eyes of a great
snany people to the fracture of that
Republican argument, fer down there
in the anthracite coal regions it was
shown that the men did not get half as
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