Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-09
DEFENDS HIS RECORD
Bryan Tells of His Work for
the Party.
HAS NO CANDIDATE
NAMES MEN WHOM he IS WILL
ING TO SUPPORT.
Knew Before the Convention He
Couldn't Have Former Plat
forms Reafirmed.

ST. LOUIS, July 9.-Mr. William ]. Bryan
made the following speech before the cemo-
cratic convention last night:
Gentlemen of TIE Convention: Two
lights without sleep and cold make 1t
difficult Tor me to make myself heard. l
trust that it will be easier in a moment. but
as desire to speak to the delegates rather
than to the visitors, 1 hope that they at
least can hear.
Eight years ago a democratic conven-
ton place d in my lands the standard of the
PARTY and gave me the commission as its
candidate Four years later that commits
sion was renewed. / come tonight to this
democratic convention to return the COM
rrisson and to say that you may dispute
whether 1 fought a good fight. you may dis
rute whether l finished my course. but you
cannot deny that 1 have kept tie faith.
lChee-s)
"As your candidate l did all 1 could to
bring success to the party. AS private
citizen today / am more Interested In oemo-
cratic success than l ever was when L was
a candidate. (Cheers) The reasons that
made tne election of a democrat desirable
were stronger in 1900 than in 1896. and the
reasons that make the election Of the demo-
cratic candidate desirable are stronger In
1904 than they were in 1900.
Gov. Black Quoted.
THE gentleman who presented New
Yorks candidate Gwclt Upon the Danger of
rrilitarsm and he did not ovcrstate the dan
gers. Let me quote the most remarkable
uassage that ever occurred or that was
ever found in the speech of nomination of
any candidate for President. Gov Black
o. New York in presenting the name OF
Theodore Roosevelt to the republican con-
yention used these WORDS: The fate of ma
tons is still decided by their wars. YOU
IL f,r1ar fri
referees You may sing III your schools the
gentle praises of the quiet life You may
strike from your books the last note of
every martial anthem. and yet out IN the
smoke and thunder will always be the
tramp Of horses and the silent, rigid, up
turned faces.
MEN may prophesy and women pray. but
peace will come here to abide forever on
this earth only when the dreams of child
hood are the accepted charts to guide the
destinies of men. Events are numberlesS
and mighty, and no man can tell which
wire runs around the world. The nation
basking today in the quiet of contentment
and repose may still be on a deadly cir
cult and tomorrow writhing in the tolls
of war. This is the time when great nsufes
must be kept in front. II the pressure Is
great the material to resist it must be
granite and iron.
This is an eulogy of war. This is
declaration that the time hoped for. prayed
for of perpetual peace will never come,
thus eulogizing the doctrine of brute force
and giving denial to the hopes of the race.
And this President, a candidate for re-elec-
ton is presented the embodiment OF
that ideal. the granite and the iron. to rep
resent the new idea of militarism. DO you
say you want to defeat the military idea?
Friends of the south, are you trying to de-
feat the military idea? Let me tell you
that not one of you. north. east or south.
more fears the triumph Of that idea than l
do. If this is the doctrine that our nation
is to stand for, ii is retrogression. not pro-
Is 80 ,rra rtyny ~
the nation; 1t Is the turning backward to
the age of force. More than that it Is
challenge to the Christian civilization OF
the world and nothing less loud APP
plause)
Peace Proclaimed.
"Twenty-seven hundred years ago a
prophet foretold the coming Of one man
who was to be called the prince Of peace.
Two thousand years ago he came upon the
earth and the song that was sung at his
birth was Peace on earth. good will to-
ward men cloud cheering and applauSe-)
For two thousand years this doctrine OF
peace has been growing. 1t has been taxi
ing hold upon the hearts of men, For doc
trine of peace millions have given their
lives For this doctrine of peace thousands
have crossed oceans and given their lives
among savage tribes and among foreign ma
lions This doctrine of peace the founda-
ton of Christian civilization, has been the
growing hope of the world.
And now the ex-governor of the greatest
state of the nation presents for the Office
a President of the greatest republic of all
history a man who Is granite and iron and
who represents, not the doctrine of peace,
but the doctrine that the deStinieS of ma
lions are still settled by their wars. cloud
applause) Will you of New York present
graver indictment against President Roose-
Welt than that? VIII you of the south pre-
sent a graver indictment against President
Roosevelt than that? | do not ask what is
the character of the man; he may have
every virtue. He may be exemplary in ev-
cry way. but IL the President shares the
idea OF the man who nominated him, IL
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 II; that
| men may prophesy about 1t: that all
| these talks of orderly tribunals and all
| this are but empty sounds: IL he believes
these things he is dangerous man for our
| country and the world. (F<oionged cheer
| ing and applause.)
81 believe he ought to be defeated; I be-
| lieve he can be defeated. and IL the demo-
/ cratic party does what 1t ought to do be-
| lieve he will be defeated.
How to Defeat Roosevelt.
| How can you defeat him? I tried TO