The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-24
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Salisbury, Nd, Oct. 24-Mr. Bryan
had a fine audience here, and he made a
speech of an hours duration Contrast
ing the Republican and Democratic
platforms, Mr.. Bryan said:
I want you to take the platforms,
and you will find between the two plat
forms this marked difference, that the
Democratic platform expresses the po-
SltlOn OF the party on every question,
while the Republican platform is
capable of construction one way or the
other. Now this is the difference, and
when you come to consider which party
is honest and which is earnest 1 want
you to apply a common sense rule. You
know that if man has something to
present to the public, as a merchant,
something that he believes has merit in
it, he tells all he knows about it; but
if it has not merit in it. he puts it
out where you can see it and he hopes
you will buy it without asking any ques-
tions When people believe that they
are standing for right principles, they
tell you what they believe and they tell
you why they believe, what they are
going to do, and why they are going to
do it. But when they are doubtful about
it they use language which can be con-
strued one way in one place and another
way in another place"
Mr.. Bryan charged the Republican
party with dealing with the people un-
fairly. He said the Republican party
today only stands for one policy that
Republicans can defend, and it has only
stood for that for less than six months.
THE money question he said, lis the
only question upon which the Repub-
licans seem to have a position, and that
is diametrically opposed to the position
they used to have. Why, it is only a
few years ago since Mr. Mckinley de-
nOunced Mr.. Cleveland, said Mr. CleVe-
land was discriminating against one
of the money metals, trying to make
money scarcer and therefore dearer,
money the master and all things else
the servant Now the Republican party
stands for the same policy and Repub-
hcans who hurrahed for Mckinley when
he denounced Mr.. Cleveland hurrah for
him now when he follows in Mr.. Cleve-
lands footsteps"
PASSES INTO DELAWARE.
Berlin, Nd, Oct. 24-In closing his
speech at Easton Mr. Bryan made an
appeal for the support Of the entire
Democratic ticket, including both the
state and congressional branches Of it.
Or this point he said;
1.-The president can do nothing without
the help of congress, and do not know
of a greater purgatory than to put a
man in the White House and surround
him with men who do not believe in the
declaration of independence, and there
fore if you are with US on these ques-
tiOnS l want you to come out and help
from now on until election day. We have
no money to buy you. we have no power
to coerce you. but we appeal to your
judgment and conscience, and we want
you to roll up such majority that
money cannot buy away our victory and
no coercion can intimidate those who
want to go with US. And then, my
friends, on the night of election, we can
all rejOice-yOu can rejoice out here as
you think that the principles of civil
government are safe, and in Nebraska.
we can say Maryland, my Maryland -
In his Salisbury speech Mr. Bryan
again gave his definition OF the differ
ence between a private monopoly and a
government patent. mo man." he said,
'can mistake what we mean when we
say we are opposed to a private mo-
to that monopoly by which all the in
dustry of a certain kind can be con-
trolled by one man, so that one man
tells you what you will have to pay,
the raw material that you sell. and fixed
charges for labor. That is the monopoly
we are opposed to-
In his talk at Vienna Mr.. Bryan com
pared the government to a composite
photograph, and said that as in a. pho
impressed upon it, so in a government,
each individual should make himself felt
in the composition Of his government.
Berlin was Mr.. Bryan's last stopping
place in Maryland. There he was met
by a Delaware escort committee and he
Berlin speech, which was attentively
listened to by a good audience, Mr..
Bryan dwelt especially upon the sub
ject of taxation without representation,
contending that it was unfair for the
United States to tax the F'ilipinOs with
out giving them representation in our
legislative bodies as it was for England
to tax the American colonies prior to
the revolution without their being rep
resented in the British parliament