The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-10
HANNAH DODGES A CHALLENGE
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audiences were generally large, but
those at Peoria, Quincy and Joliet were
especially so.
At Carthage Mr.. Bryan took cogniz-
ance of the criticisms of his personal
participat ton in the campaign, saying:
According to my understanding of
politics that the citizen is the sovereign
and the oficeholder the servant, the cit
liens have a right to know what the
candidates think of public questions.
They have a right to come in contact
with their public officials and if a can
| didate loses votes because the people
get acquainted with him he ought not
to complain, for it is better to find him
out before the election than afterwards,
if he is bad. The right to participate
in government is one of the alienable
rights. right that you Republicans
recognized when Lincoln was your lead
er and a right that you never repudi-
ated until you fell from Lincoln down
to Hanna"
Always Against Imperialism.
He also referred to his position on
Imperialism, saying:
IF you hear that 1 am in favor of
Imperialism as an issue just because it
is a good issue to get votes with,
want you to remember that on June IA
1899, when your papers said that every
body wanted expansion, 1 protested
against imperialism. At that time
Democratic friends told me that my
course would be unpopular, but my an
Swer was that when the Declaration of
Independence was repealed it would be
out of politics and il did not make any
particular difference about the time of
my going cut
At Quincy he said: 'I wonder how
it is that men who are not interested in
getting their hands into other peoples
pockets, but merely in keeping other
peoples hands out of their own pockets
can support the Republican ticket
while the Republican party denies the
principle of equal rights to all and spec
ial privileges to none and makes this
a government of the syndicates. by
the syndicates and for the Syndicates.
The Republican party is not pre-
pared to defend its policy on any ques-
ton. When you challenge it to defend
! itself, 1T talks prosperity to the far
mer and full dinner pail to the la
borer and that is all it has to say If
the Republican party were to attempt
to show in what respect it has brought
prosperity to the farmer it would wait
But a Republican said the other
day that the Republican party was
in partnership with the Almighty.
The Republican party claims to
be silent partner with Jehovah
but the trouble is that instead
of being the silent partner the Repub-
lican party makes all the noise and Je-
hovah is the silent partner of the con-
Germ. From the way the Republicans
talk you would imagine that the Re-
publican party was responsible for a
large crop, when you have a large crOD
and if the crop fails it was a warning
to you never to desert the Republican
party
Denies Writing an Editorial.
Mr.. Bryan again referred to the edi-
torial on the pension question which
appeared in the Omaha World Herald
He said the editorial was printed be-
fore he was connected with the paper
yet 1 doubt not" he added, that
every soldier will receive a letter in
which it Will be stated that 1 am the
author of the editorial
Il have already received one" shout
ed an old soldier in the crowd.
Il am not surprised, replied Mr.
Bryan. Il know they have misrepre-
sented everything that could be mis-
least hope of carrying this election I'M
less they have a bigger campaign fund
than they have ever had before. and
they can coerce every voter who can be
coerced."
He paid special attention to the far
mers, saying that even though there
had been an advance in the price of
some farm products, the increase in the
price of articles OF consumption had
been so much greater as to far more
than neutralize the advance in farm
commodities.
Plan to Curb Trusts.
Mr.. Bryan had to stand on a chair
at Macomb to enable all the people who
had assembled to see him. The throng
was immense. He would, he said, put
every article manufactured by trusts
on the free list and he would require
trust organized in one state to take
out licenses in all other states. By this