The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-07-10

reSents not the doctrine or peace, nut
the doctrine that the destinies Of ma
tons are still settled by their wars.
cloud applause.l win you Of New
york present graver indictment
against President Roosevelt than that?
IWill YOU Of the south present graver
indictment against President Roose-
welt than that? I do not ask what Is
the character OF the man. He may
have every virtue. He may be ex-
emplary in every way. But If the
president shares the idea of the man
who nominated him; If the president
believes with his sponsor at Chicago
that wars must settle the destinies Of
nations; that peace Is but dream;
that women may pray for 1t; that men
may prophesy about 1t: that all these
talks OF orderly tribunals and all this
are but empty sounds; II he believes
these things he is dangerous man for
our country and the world. (Pro-
longed applause. cheering and ap-
plause.) ! believe he ought to be de-
|feated. / believe he can be defeated
and if the democratic party does what
it ought to do I believe he viii be
defeated. How can you defeat him? /
tried to defeat the republican party as
your candidate i failed. you say. Yes.
II did; but received a million more
votes than any democrat had ever re-
ceived before and yet I failed. Why
did fail? Because there were some
who had affiliated with the democratic
party who thought my election dan
Igerous to the country and they left
and helped to elect my opponent That
is why failed. / have no words Of
criticism for them. (Applause.) But,
my friends, il I failed with six million
and half to defeat the republican
party, can those who defeated me sue
ceed in defeating the republican par
ty? If under the leadership Of those
who were loyal in 1896 (applause) we
failed, shall we succeed under the
Leadership Of those who were not loyal
in 1896? (Applause.)
If we are going to have some other
god besides this war god that is pre-
sented us by Governor Black, what
kind of god is 1t to be? Must we
choose between god of war and a
god of gold? Is there no choice be-
tween them?
Nebraska is not here asking for the
nomination Of any man. We now have
platform on which we can all stand.
cloud applause and cheering) Now
give us a ticket behind which all of
us can stand.
Mr.. Bryan here declared the willing
ness of Nebraska to support Mr..
Hearst, Mr.. Wall of wisconsin or ex-
Governor Pattison of Pennsylvania,
and then he paid glowing tribute to
Senator Cockrell. He resumed his
argument as follows:
My friends, / believe that the great
issue in this country today is plu-
tocracy versus democracy. You have
said that / had just one idea, the sill
yer idea. Well, while back they
said / had only one, but then 1t was
the tariff idea. There is an issue
greater than the silver issue, the tariff
issue, the trust issue. 1t Is the issue
between plutocracy and democracy
Whether this is to be government OF
(, the people, by the people, administered
| in behalf Of the people. 1t is either
this or it is to be rule of the mon
L
eyed element Of the country for their
own interest alone. The issue has
been growing. / want you as demo
Gratis here assembled to help us meet
this question. The people must un-
derstand that we are to have equa
rights tn all and special privileges Il
none. (Applause.)
4 / came to get as good a platform al
1 could. / have helped to get goot
platform. (Applause.) came to ge
as good a candidate as can get, and
1 hope that he will be one who car
draw the factions together; who car
! give to us, who believe in aggressive
! positive democratic reforms something
to hope for and those who have diff
lfered from us on the main question
that he can give them something t.
! hope for, and / close with an appea
that I make from my heart to tn
hearts Of those who hear me. Civ
us pilot who will guide the demo
! cratic ship away from the scylla o
. militarism without wrecking her upol
3 the charybidis Of commercialism.
E Demonstration
5 The speaker almost reeled with ex