The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-25
Attends a Banquet and Discusses
"Hannaism" and Other Questions
In Jersey City at Night.
REFERS TO HIS CANDIDACY
AND SAYS HIS HEART DOES NOT
BEAT AS FAST AS FORMERLY.
National Committee of the POpulist
BOies a Candidate for President.

NEW YORK, Jan. 2i-William j. Bryan
made journey into Connecticut to-day.
addressing meetings at Stamford and New
Haven, and then hurried back to New
York, that he might keep his engagement
to address the meeting in Jersey City to-
night. Tomorrow he will go to Harris
burg. Pa, where he will meet the Demo-
cratic leaders of Pennsylvania.
At Stamford Colonel Bryan's speech was
about equally divided between the cur
rency question, the trusts and Imperialism.
"I believe" said Mr. Bryan. that the ten
dency of the Republican party is to exalt
wealth and to debase common humanity.
The dollar is plainly stamped upon the
Republican policy and there is no policy
of the Republicans to-day that does not
bear that stamp"
At New Haven Mr.. Bryan, in prefacing
his remarks, referred to his former visits
to the city. He did not directly refer to
the Yale student demonstration in the city
in 1896, but his words were so pointed as to
indicate that he recalled it. Mr.. Bryan
paved the way for his speech by remark
ing that he had so little time. scarcely an
hour, in which to say all that he wished
to say, that he plunged at once into
discussion of the "three great leading
questions Of the day, namely, trusts. money
and Imperialism" (Which of them Is para
mount depends upon the point of view Of
the individual, and," he said, personally
LIDO not care to specify" He believed that
to assert that the money question as
political issue is dead, is folly, for the rea-
son that 1t vitally concerns all men, and
because they are thinking Of it, no matter
what their station in life.
Mr.. Bryan was banqueted by the Robert
Davis Association in Jersey City tonight
after which he delivered political speech
before a large crowd in st. Mary's Hall.
Mr.. Bryan received most hearty recep-
tion from about $500 persons, all that could
possibly get into the hail. to whom he
spoke for nearly two and half hours on
silver, trusts and imperialism. Referring
to the remarks of Mayor Hoos, who intro
duced him, Mr.. Bryan said that when a
man indulged In the pleasant prophesy that
he was to be the next President of the
United States it did not make his heart
beat so fast as it used to when he first be-
gan to hear it. He did not want the people
to think he was expecting to be the candi-
date of the Democratic party in the next
thing in the way of Office, because he said
he was in politics for many years to come
He rejoiced in the fact that he was still a
young man and that he would have much
time yet in which to fight Republicans. He
did not mean to fight the Republicans as in
dividuals. but as the representatives of GER
tain ideas which he believed to be vicious.
'HANNAISM."
Republican party for it's allegiance to
''Hannaism," and said that his first criti-
cism OF that party would be on the fact
that to-day its emblem is the dollar mark.
No policy Of the Republican party is now
genuine unless you can see stamped upon
| it the dollar mark. He regretted to be
compelled to say that the Republican party
| now puts the dollar mark above the man.
Are you on the inside, and if you are, are
you sure you are going to stay there? If
not, you cannot afford to be a Republican"
This, he said, was the sentiment which had
| come to dominate the principles of the Re-
| publican party. The Republican policies,
| he said, are good for some. The elections
| of 1896 had been a great benefit to some
people; but not to the great majority of the
| people He believed that those policies, as
| they progressed, would be good for a less
| and less proportion of the people The Re-
| publican party was seeking influence
| upon the standard of wealth. and only the
| man who has money can expect to gain a
| place for life in the Republican administra-
| ton.
| Mr.. Bryan dwelt on the allegiance of the
| Republican party to the principles of Ham,
ilton. He showed that once 1T had pre-
ferred the ideas of Thomas Jefferson, and
he quoted letter Of Lincolns responding
| to an invitation to speak at a Jefferson
birthday banquet in Boston. He then asked
| If anyone had heard of any Republican
celebrations in honor OF Thomas Jefferson
within the last ten years.
Now If you go to a Republican meeting
you will hear what a good man Hamilton
| was"
| Mr.. Bryan then paid. his respects to Mr..
Hanna and he seemed to amuse the audi
ence greatly with the numerous stories he
told to illustrate his opinion of Mr. Hanna.
While he continued in this vein there was
no mistaking the fact that he had the SYM
pathy of the audience. His remarks on
Mr.. Hanna were exceedingly ironcal and
were included in that section of the speech
which he devoted to trusts. He said that
the Republicans had so amended the Lords
prayer that when in the morning they go
through their devotional exercises they
say, ''Oh. Hanna. give us this day our
daily opinion He then showed Mr.. Han
mas opinion with reference to the trusts
| to be- according to different speeches made
by that gentleman. First, there are no
trusts; second. they are necessary: third,