The Penn's Grove record., 1903-02-27

ing the candidates Of both parties, and
contributing to the campaign funds Of
both parties, and then whichever won
the people lost.
In 1892 the Democratic party won IN 9
great fight, and one trust contributed
$4,000 to the campaign fund. One
trust contributed more than half az much
as we were able to collect in 1900 from
all the people who contributed TO Y
national campaign fund, and what was
the result? The administration that fol-
lowed was mortgaged to the interests
that put up the campaign funds, and Tor
four years this country was disgraced by
q Republican administration that called
itself 4 Democratic administration. And
that, my friends, was because you can
not get money from the great corpora
tions without they know what they are
going to get out Of it. They want their
mortgage, and when they get their mort
gage they will demand their pound OF
flesh. And they have been carrying
campaigns in this country by putting up
the money, and then they have controll-
ed the administration after it is elected.
In 1896 there was a change. In 1895
we undertook a great fight, and we had a
great fight; and that time it wa not a
sham battle between two platforms writ
ten by the same people and two tickets
nominated by the same elements. But
it was q real fight. It was q fight be-
tween the O power. and the common
people of this land. A victory then
meant something. 1t meant that the
people should be redeemed from the
greed Of organized wealth, or it meant a
CONFIRMATION nf tho covn0 domination
that we had seen for several administra-
tions.
Many people tell us that the money
question as regards the single or double
standard is dead. / wonder sometimes
why if they really believed that, they
watch the corpse so closely as they do. l
have known men insisting that they
were better Democrats than I am, and
saying that they went from the Demo-
cratic party and would not vote the
Democratic ticket because the silver
plank was put in the platform. ] have
| said to them: "Do yon believe the money
question is deadf" They say: Eyes, STRIP
"Well," ] said, "what are you afraid of q
| corpse for?'
Then there is the trust problem. Many
a man has kept on saying that he could
| see no trusts until he was touched by the
Beef Trust, and l am not sure but the
| Beef Trust will do some good, for it will
make some people think in their stom-
achs, who do not think in their heads,
and you have got to let q man think
where he pleases, and where he thinks
| easiest.
Last summer the President went about
and made trust speeches, SO rabid that
| they we're very much like my speeches,
and he excited people to a feeling against
the trusts, but as Q as he discovered
| the forces that he had put into opera
| ton he had a complete change of front,
and had the courage to turn squarely
around, and without regard to consisten-
| cy or what any one might say about him,
| he braced himself to Withstand the on
| slaught and brought ali the forces of the
| administration to check the raid on the
| business interests, and party says
| that his ride up San Juan hill was moth
ng like his mastery retreat to the cover
| of common sense in the matter of trusts.
| And now they have passed a bill that is
| SO weak that Mr.. Littlefield, who has
| had the credit of leading the antitrust
sentiment-what lttle OF it there is to be
found among the Republicans-voted
| against it. And il is a bill that is en-
| tirely satisfactory to the trusts, as is prov
| ed by the telegram over the signature
| of the attorney of the Standard Oil Co.
| sent to the Senator from Pennsylvania.
Come with us, and apply to these
| questions the doctrines of equal rights
to all, of justice, and cease to measure
| everything by the amount of money
there is in it. Come and put this battle
| on a higher plane. Let us decide the
just and equitable and right as between
man and man, for that which is right
| will always in the end prove above mere
expediency for the moment. Let us re-
| cognize the responsibilities of manhood
| and citizenship, and study the questions
before us to find some solution for them
that will be best for all the people, and
not merely for a few great corporations.
It is time for every n Of you to resolve
that so far as in your lives, you will help
to restore virtue, and honesty, and purity
in politics, and make this nation respon-
| sive to the wishes of the people, and the
protector of the rights Of the struggling
masses.
At the banquet be said:
l do not come here as a candidate for
the Presidency; neither do / come IS a
leader. / was once an admirer of Demo-
cratic leaders. When my boy was born
/ was an admirer of Grover Cleveland
and John G. Carlisle, and if / had NAM
ed the boy after public men ! would have
named him Cleveland Carlisle Bryan,
imagine how / would feel now.
/ want to make the prediction that no
Democrat will ever be nominated for the
Presidency WHO is ashamed to admit that
he supported the platform of 1896. Those
who insist upon the '96 platform being
repudiated need not fear that he will be
offended by being asked to take the
nomination.
If we try to sell our policies on the
auction block we will surely fail Of sue
cess. Never before in the history of the
country did We need more than the
strict application to true Democratic prin-
ciples.
Every once in a while / see we r to
have a harmony meeting. My friends,
/ thing there is no use to have a harmony
meeting between enemies unless they
leave their r~evolvers at the door. / have
been asked to attend several harmony
meetings to which Grover Cleveland was
invited, and each time I refused to at
tend on the ground that he helped to
elect two Republican Presidents. /
would rather meet an open enemy than
a hypocrite. I have about made up my
mind to attend the next banquet to
which Grover Cleveland and / may be
invited, conditioned with the provision
that / be permitted to respond to the
toast Grover Cleveland / think |
could handle that toast in good shape. If
Mr.. Cleveland should come back into the
party 10 votes would be lost to one
brought in.
MysterOus Circumstance.
One was pale and sallow and the other
fresh and rosy. Whence the difference ?