The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-09-15

in, you can not follow your party now.
Bryan democrats. if you believed as
believe you did, what you have been
saying for the last eight years, you
have got no home now except with
us. (Applause.)
We are your only shelter. You
came to us in SO and we helped you
fight the battle. If We were good
enough for you then, We ought to be
good enough for you now. (Cheers.)
You captured us and used us in two
campaigns. Let us try and see how 1t
will work to let US capture you and
use you in one campaign.
Let us march together: we will like
each other better when we will go
shoulder to shoulder. we will under
stand each other better We will have
unfnrled the banner of resistance to
these corporation oppressors and we
will have recruiting camp where all
can go and enlist. And beginning this
year, every vote that you give now. as
a protest against this twin combina-
tion of Roosevelt and Parker will en-
courage the brave man who will bear
to do it. Let my ambition perish, /
can but start the movement going UNI
til it becomes a grand army that is
irresistible (Cheers.) If you think
that BRYAN can do it better than /,
put him on these principles just as
am on them tonight and | will serve
as one of his lieutenants. If Bailey, or
Tillman, or Carmack or Williams or
any other leader whom you trust can
do it better than l. won't sulk in the
tent and will do my duty in the ranks
as far as can. But you must under
stand this, boys, we can not give up
our organization any more. MANY
voices, mo, no, no. cheers.)
1t was the coal OF fire which the
peoples party put upon the backs of
the old democratic leaders in SO that
made them begin to move toward JEFF
ferson, and when they thought the
party was dead and the coal of fire
was dead, they got back to the old
place where they had been, and very
many of them-very many of them
cpnsoled themselves for the result of
the campaigns of $50 and 1900 by say
ing: We'll, we did one good thing
anyhow. We killed the peoples par
ty" Is she dead? MANY voices, mo,
no, no. No, no, and she is not going
to die. prolonged cheering.) We
did not link our efforts to any tenn
porary issue. We are not bound by
the luck of an eyanescent notion
Ever since human society has been or
ganized there has been a conflict be-
tween the oppressors and the OPP
pressed-the few who wanted too
much and the many who wanted a
fair distribution. Tonight we stand
for the many as against the few.
(CheerS) We stand upon that rock
of ages in governmental construction
which seeks to uphold the rights of
the common man against the rights
of him who by class legislation would
create himself an aristocrat and a
master (Cheers) Standing thus, we
can not die until truth itself dies; can
not die until the instinct of liberty
dies, but we will gather up strength
and march on and as sure as God
lives, we have got the best opportunity
that we ever had. (Cheers.)
In Nebraska where l opened the
campaign, heard the rebel yell and
the band played Dixie" In New
York-think of it-in New Yorl--in
New York-in New York, | heard the
rebel yell and when | spoke Of the
south. and said 1.-The dear old south"
as did say it-feeling every word of
it--that great audience of Yankees
rocked with sympathetic applause and
the Yankee band struck up Dixie"
Great applause.) And at st. Louis,
the other night, on the Worlds fair
grounds. again, again the same spirit
brought the same cheers and the same
yell when the band struck up Dixie. >
There is the spirit of religious re-
viyal in this movement have seen
old men embrace and cry and laugh
over coming together again Of the dis
ordered. disbanded populists. We had
not had meeting in Georgia in six
years. TO send delegates to Spring
field only fifteen men volunteered to
go TO Atlanta; and the other night.
after fifteen days notice--after they
saw what had taken place In Nebras-
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