Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-27
bryan STANDS PA1
He Is For the Old Platform
Adopted at the Kansas
City Convention
still BELIEVES IT is a MODEL
Favor. the Nomination of Candidates
TO Fit tho P,attorm-DecIares He
Is Not Candidate for Any OF.
fee Of Honor Within the Party
Miscellaneous News.

New York. Jan. 27.-The same old
PLATFORM, the Kansas City production
is still good enough for William Jen-
nings Bryan, who declared 1t "a mode
OF clearness and square dealing In
a speech on Moral Issues" delivered
In Madison Square Garden last night
The Nebraskan also added the hope
that the delegates to the democratic
national convention from the various
states would be instructed to indorse
1t. Mr.. Bryan said in part:
II have preferred to speak indepen-
IDENTIFY of any organization because l DC
not care to enlbarrass any friends OF
supporters who may differ from me IN
opinion. Both and they, therefore
are left to pursue in the future. as NC
have In the past the course that seems
to us best.
II do not speak with authority: am
not candidate for any office; am
only a private citizen, and ! can prove
by the editorial pages of nearly all al
our leading dailies that have excel
lent prospects OF remaining priva.e
citizen during the remainder OF my
life.
hut think not that this prospective
obscurity has been forced upon me by
unfortunate circumstances or by crue
fate. can prove by an Interview
which appeared in yesterday morning:
papers that have recently renouncea
prominence that was within ms
grasp, IL had only followed the ad.
vice OF one OF your distinguished finan-
ciers, Mr.. Joseph c. Hendrix, who is
quoted as saying:
"If Mr.. Bryan had come home from
Europe and said that he had learned ,
great deal in his trip abroad, and de-
clared that he was convinced that !,
would be desirable thing for all DEM
ocrats to get together, he would be q
great man and his influence would have
been greatly increased. BY his present
course he Is killing himself
Surely. II Mr. Hendrix is to be be-
|l!eved-and quote him not because a.
deserves special notice but because
having left us In 1896. he Is a fair rep
resentative Of those who for the last
seven years have been giving ou'
hearty advice instead OF votes-if he Is
to be believed. my words ought ;e
challenge your attention and arousf
that interest which usually attaches
to an ante n,ortem statement. wh IN
the speaker is sobered by the thought
OF Impending dissolution.
How can we restore respect for tbs
doctrine OF self-government, how can
we fight the trusts, how can We OBJ
tain rust financial system. how caI
we oppose a high tariff. how can We
safeguard the rights of labor or Sc
cure the election OF senators by popu-
lar votes? The first step forward foi
any party is to write an honest plat
form.
when the next democratic conven-
ton undertakes to write new platform
III will find the last one model OF
clearness and conciseness and OF SQUARE
dealing; and hope that the delegates
to the convention will be instructed
by che various states to indorse It.
Ard how about candidates? 1t doss
not matter much what the name OF the
presidential candidate 49, but 1t doss
matter what he stands for, and in what
direction he is going to lead the party
Let the republican party be challenged
70 meet the moral issue presented-this
IL democratic. this is patriotic. Let this
be done, and unless reason and love
Of, country have fed We shall fight
without being ashamed. II We lose \
will be but a temporary defeat AMI
will bring no disgrace with 1t. II we
win, the victory will mean much for
our country and for the world"