The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-09-02

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be applied to the government, and a
change is necessary, and it is more
necessary In the national government
than In a state government. Why is
1t more necessary in national than
IN state government? Because the
further you get the government away
from home, the more difficult 1t is to
control It. The further the repre-
sentative is away from his people, the
easier 1t Is to lead him astray and
make him deceive and disappoint
those for whom he speaks; and 1 be-
iieve, my friends. that am only say
ing what you yourselves will believe
to be true when I tell you that the
Republican party has become SO tied
up with the great interests of the
country that it is Incapable of reform
within itself.
No Way to Reform.
The Republican party of today is
not in position to reform anything.
Why? Because it's conspicuous men,
bers are connected with the very
things that need to be reformed, and
the Republican party cannot reform
things without disgracing it's prom
inent Republicans. Let me give you
an illustration. We are in the midst
of campaign. The Republican party
selected its national committee and
that committee selected its chairman,
and that chairman selected its execu-
tive committee. If you will read the
names of the members of the execu-
tive committee that are now carrying
on this campaign, you will find that
the majority of them are conspicuous
for their connection with the very
corporations that need regulation;
and one of them, Mr.. Dupont of Della
ware, Is today the defendant in suit
brought by the United States govern
ment and still pending for conspiracy
in the violation of law on the trust
question. Mr.. Dupont has that action
now pending, and he is charged by
this government with conspiring
against the government, and yet be
Is one of the executive committee to
carry on the Republican campaign,
and the chairman of the speakers
bureau of that campaign. Now want
to ask you: Do you think Mr.. Dupont
is in good position to pick out the
speakers and train them as to what
they shall say? Do you expect any
speakers to mention government suits
against the powder trusts IL the
speakers are picked out and instructed
by one of the defendants in the suit ?
Do You expect Mr.. Penrose of Penn
sylvania who has been intimately con-
nected with all great corporations of
his state-do you expect him to be a
great reformer, and yet he Is one Of
the executive committee to carry on
the campaign. Now my friends, here
is our proposition. The Republican
party will have to spend a period of
fasting in the wilderness before the
Republican leaders will be in a po-
sition to settle up their. difficulties
from the standpoint of the masses Of
the people. These men have been put
into Office and kept there by great
contributions.
Fooled In a'96."
You did not believe this in 1896
when l told you about 1t, and am
not going to scold you about it, be-
cause have been fooled so easily
myself that 1 have TO be lenlent with
you. told you all knew then, but
didn't know half Of what was going
on, and when remember how little
knew of the iniquities that were
then being practiced, I can excuse
you for not knowing as much as
did, for most of you relied on Repub-
lican papers that didn't tell you much
of what was going on. But since that
time you have had chance to learn
that our denunciation was not only
1,1df ha,t hot
as bitterly and emphatically as we
might have done had we known all
that was being DONE didn't tell you
in go that the Republican party was
getting great sums from Insurance
companies. Why? Because l didn't
know 1t at that time. But we know
1t now and we know that the men
who took the money from widows and
orphans and contributed to the Re-
publican campaign fund escaped pen
itentiary penalties by technicalities.
We know that now. We didn't know
it then. We didn't know even four
years ago that one man went out in
q few hours and collected $260,O00
from few friends. We didn't know
then what we know now, that by the
testimony of one CT the interested
parties one corporation in the State
Of New York contributed $5OO,0O0 to
the Republican campaign fund of
1900. 100000. We didn't have
100000. We couldn't get that much
that year from 100000 Democrats
to carry on the fight IN forty-five
states. But the Republican commit
tee could get 100000 from one cor
poration In one state. Do you under
stand now what has been going on?
Why, my friends, in '96 they had
great meeting in New York of prom
inent fnanciers to protest against my
election, and the papers told how
many hundred millions Of dollars
were represented on the platform, and
Republican farmers out here in North
Dakota and Minnesota, and in Kansas.
Nebraska, Iowa and all these prairie
states-Republican farmers said
Look at those great men denouncing
this enemy of his country" and they
were so greatful that the financiers
came out to save the country from me.