The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-20
He Advocates the Defeat of w. j..
Bryan and the Election Of
william Mckinley.
TELLS A FEW GOOD STORIES
POINTS TO THE GREATEST MISSION
AIRY EVENTS SINCE CHRIST,
And Makes a Convincing Argument in
Favor of Expansion-'Tf Nc
KinIey Is Elected"

bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
addressed six thousand people in the Audi
forum tonight, under the auspices of the
Marquette Club After paying a magniti-
cent tribute to President Mckinley and his
work and reviewing the growth OF pros
perity under his administration The
bishops subject was Lincoln and McKin-
ley" He spoke for two hours. holding the
rapt attention of his hearers. AT times the
applause was tremendous. The bishop said
in part
II am invited here to talk under the
auspices of the Marquette Club upon two
providential men-Lincoln and Mckinley.
All men honor Lincoln to-day. All men
Will honor Mckinley tomorrow.
I'm 1896 the business of the country was
dead. Forty per cent of the railroads OF
Five millions out of 2O.000,00O of our labor
ing men were idle and 100000 out OF TO-
ooo,OOo more were on reduced wages or re
duced time or both. Our exports had run
down to only 500 10000 and the deposits
in the banks had been reduced to only S197,-
100000. Failures in business had gone up
90 per cent. from 10000 under Harrison to
1900 under Cleveland. Farm products
would not bring enough to pay for pro-
duction. Farmers could not pay the in
tereSt OH their mortgages. Merchants could
not sell or buy. Factories were closed, fur
naces cold. mines shut down. All this
forced upon us by competition with cheap
Test the prophets of 1896 by their
prophecy. Bryan prophesied that if Nc
kinley was elected the distress would in
crease and the number of the unempoye ed
would multiply. What are the facts? Dis
tress has disappeared everywhere except
from the minds of the calamity buZzards
who are hunting for carcasses. and the
number of the unemployed has been re-
duced from IS per cent. of our laboring men
to 2 per cent. that Is. from 100000 TO
only 100000. Bryan prophesied that II Nc
l. s.aIA ~ln fA1 -<,At,
wages would go down with silver and that
farmers would lose their farms under their
mortgages. What are the facts? Farm
products are higher than they have been
for years wages have advanced from 10 to
% per cent. and farm mortgages have been
paid off more rapidly than ever. Mr.. Nc
tariff and maintain sound money, and he
prophesied the return of prosperity. He has
kept every promise of his party and every
prophecy he uttered has turned to history.
TWO ILLUSTRATIONS.
organs predictions make me think of a
doctor who had patient sick with the bu-
bonic plague The patient said:
Doctor. have you ever had a patient
with this awful plague?'
'"The doctor said: Yes, have had nine
ty-nine.'
doctor, did any of them die?'
Eyes, they all died.
1.-THE patient said: oh, dear, then there
is no chance for me-
1.-THE doctor said: L think there is some
chance for YOU 1t seems as If 1 ought to
save one in a hundred
1.-The patient said: L can't afford to have
you experiment on me. L want doctor
who will cure every time.
THAT seems to me about all the chance
we have If we take Mr.. Bryan. We had
better take a doctor that has cured every
time.
II would like to say a few words about
the paramount Issue If / was certain what
it is. Mr. Bryans statement of the para
mount issue makes me think of the old.
old story about Pat and his present TO
the priest Pat promised to give the priest
pig He put the pig in basket and
to refresh himself. While he was there
some wags took out the pig and put in a
pup. Pat went on with the basket With
a proper speech he gave the basket to the
priest. When the priest opened the basket
he found nothing but pup. The priest
said:
the pup. Take 1t back with you. Pat
swore it a pig when he started with
IL. But back he went and stopped again
to refresh himself at the inn. when the
wags took out the pup and put back the
pig. Pat went home and said: 'Biddie,
the divil's to pay. When i got to the
priest with that pig it had turned into a
pup, and the priest drove me away with
il. See the Internal creter' Then he
opened his basket and was dumfounded TO
find the pig again. He said: Sure. Biddie,
the divil is in the basket Now it is pig,
then il is pup then IL is pig again. Sure
that is the divil.'
$50 it is with Mr.. Bryans paramount is
| sue. In the East IL Is expansion or inn
perialisn. but i'm the West il is 16 TO 1.
| do not know what il is here in Chicago,
where you are at the meeting of the seas.
Pat was right. The devil is in that Bryan
| basket.
GREATEST MISSIONARY EVENTS.
1.-The three greatest missionary events
| since the tragedy on Mount Calvary are:
| First, the conversion of st. Paul, to be the
apostle of the gentiles. I send you far
hence to the gentiles.' That is our chance.
| That opened the door to us. That widened
| Christianity from being the religious cult
| of the Jews to the saving faith of man
| kind Second, the firing on Fort Sumter.
| That made the Anglo-Saxon race fit to be
used in the worlds evangelization. washed
| in the blood of her martyrs, her life en-
| phasized her profession of liberty Whose
| life is tightening voice I'm thunder Third
| the blowing uD of the Maine. This made
| this Anglo-Saxon race one. The grandson
| Of General Grant and the grand nephew OF
| General Lee marched side by side, under
| the old flag, against common enemy.
Expansion is the law of Saxon life
When he accepted individual accountability
| directly to God. without the intervention
| of any man, then God gave him self-reli-
ance. and sent him about the job of SUBJ
DUNG and saving the world, and he is out
| and at il. Mrs. Darlington with her broom
| trying to sweep back the tide of the ocean
| is more certain TO win than the men who
| stake their success fighting expansion; for
| they are lighting not merely Mckinley and
| the Rough Rider and the American people
| but they are also fighting the resistless
/ force running through all ages OF nature
/ the force of natural selection, and they are
| also fighting Gods eternal purpose TO ele-
vate the races
1.-The eagle is out OF its shell, and perched
! on a crag of the mountains. and is plum
! ing his pinions to wrestle with the whirl-
winds. You cannot coax him down from
yonder crag and crowd him back into the
shell which he has burst and deserted
| No more can you crowd the American Ma
! ton back into the original thirteen colo
MES.
.Our fleet was yonder I'm the far East
| the war was precipitated upon US. all the
| ports OF the world were neutral ports Our
| warships. like our notes, had three days
grace, when all ports were closed against
! them. With not half enough coal to take
/ them home there was left 10 them only the
| empty heavens and the bottomless sea
| Something had to be done God said: Il viii
| show you what 10 do and He led oul
| ships past all the forts and around all ths
| Turn those Spanish warships into colan
ders, and / will give you a coaling station
4 and archipelago You shall exile despot
| ism; give to an oppressed people a free
| press a free Bible. free school and free
| government. He obeyed, and now that fiat