Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-22
An HONEST APPEAL
70 THE REPUBLICANS.
MIR. BRYAN SETS FORTH SOME PO-
TENT REASONS WHY THEY
SHOULD SUPPORT
THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
THE OLD ISSUES THAT PREVAILED
IN 1880, ARE STILL IN EVIL
DENCE,
And New and More Important Ones
Have Been Added-Senator Hanna
Opens the Republican Campaign
in New Jersey-He Admits That
Mckinley is in Danger and Urges
Republicans to Hustle.

LINCOLN, Neb., August 21-Mr.
Bryan addressed large audience of
Saunders county people at Wahoo, the
county seat, to-day. The speech was
an appeal to Republicans to vote the
Democratic ticket. Giving his reasons
for this appeal, Mr. Bryan said:
Il want to talk to you Republicans,
believing that you are just as anxious
to help your country and help your fell
lows by your votes as the Democrat,
the Populist and the Silver Republi-
cans are. Now. If you were with us
in 1896, there is no reason why you
should be against us now unless the
new questions have changed your opin-
ion or unless you have changed your
opinion on the old questions. 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 SO.
Il believe you will find many people
who were against us on the old issues
who are now with us in the new ones,
and will be on the old ones. We had
men in '96 who came to us on the sill
yer questions, Republicans who were
not willing to turn over and vote the
Republican ticket just because the Re-
publican party had changed its position
on the money question-Republican
who were in earnest in 1888 when they
denounced the gold standard, Repub-
leans who were in earnest when they
Advocated Bi-MetaIIism In 1892.
and therefore they refused to take the
Republican position on the money ques-
ton in 1896. And when they got out
of the Republican party and began
looking at the Republican party from
the outside they find that the same
vicious principles ran through all the
Republican doctrines and to-day they
are with us, not only on the silver
question, but upon all the new ques-
tions also" (Applause).
In this connection Mr.. Bryan re-
ferred at some length to the financial
question, saying:
"The Republican party is trying to-
day the same deception that 1t prac-
ticed in go on the money question.
You cannot find a Republican today
that felt sorrowful because they did
not get international bimetallism that
they promised to get in in 1896" Gap
plause).
At this point some one In the rear
of the crowd shouted:
"Hurrah for Mckinley" to which
Mr.. Bryan promptly responded:
Now, I don't know whether than
man is hurrahing for the Mckinley
that denounced Grover Cleveland, or
the one following in Clevelands foot
steps. l want to assure you that l do
not object to any one cheering for
Mckinley, but think that you owe 1t
to the audience to describe which Nc
Kinley you are cheering for when you
are cheering" (Applause).
He then went on:
Now, the Republican party today
does not talk in
Favor of Silver at All.
There is no talk about international
bimetallism. If International bimetal-
lism was desirable in SO it is desirable
now. Then why is it that the Repub-
licans do not talk about it? Because
they did not want it in 96"
The balance of the speech was de-
voted to trusts and Imperialism, COW
ering much the same ground as in for
mer utterances.
Mr.. Bryan left Lincoln tonight for
Auburn, in the southern part OF the
State. He will not return to Lincoln
until after the Populist notification
ceremonies at Topeka.