HAHHA ANALYZES
BRYAN'S ACCEPTANCE.
The
Democratic Leader Again
Switches His Issue.
Bryan and Brjanlsm Punctured at an
Enthusiastic Meetlnr Held at the
Commercial McKinley Club
In Chicago.
Three thousand people tried to crowd
Into the quarters of the McKinley Com
mercial Club in Chicago, Sept. 18, to see
and hear Senator Ilanna. On that occa
sion Senator Ilanna made the following
speech:
I take for my text Mr. Bryan's views
on the minor issues of the campaign as
set forth tn his letter of acceptance pub
lished to-day. Just before the Democrat
ic convention at Kansas City many pil
grimages were made to Lincoln, Neb., by
Democratic missionaries at the urgent
call of Mr. Bryan. This was for the pur
pose of putting Bryan's pet scheme of
free silver in the platform.
But, if you remember correctly, that is
sue was only placed in the platform by a
majority of one vote of the committee.
Now Bryan has relegated the silver issue
to the rear, and brings out imperialism as
the chief issue. Bryan gained this Issue
when the treaty was made with Spain in
which the Philippine Islands were pur
chased, lie went to Washington and by
his own influence forced certain Demo
cratic Senators to adopt the treaty, in
order that the Democratic party might
fight against it in the coming campaign.
That proves that Bryan has not the cour
age to stand by his own convictions.
Bryan's letter speaks of trusts. Yet he
does not mention the ice trust or the cot
ton bale trust. In the latter Senator
JnnM ia henvilT interested. Tverv one
knows the storr o theice tmst. ' As 1 theteafeJ? j,ff th- United Wtatwi; an.
Brran declare l .that 'the trastTVone otTntBU c ' iZ
the main issuii'of this campaign, I can
say that we ar ready to meet him on that
proposition as well as on any other.
Hanna'i Kclationa with Labor.
Bryan also stakes much ado concern
ing the confli t' between capital and or
ganized labor. I For myself, I have this to
say: I was tie first man in Ohio to rec
ognize organized labor. It was in 1871,
when I was in 'the coal business in Cleve
land, Ohio.' John Seaney and John James,
President and Secretary of the first bitu
minous coal mjners' organization in the
United States, tailed upon me and stated
that the miners had organized into a
union. r' I '
As I was I 'leading coal operator, the
two gentlemen; urged me to use my influ
ence in organizing the operators. That
was my first experience with a trust. I
organized the iterators in the district in
which I was interested, and during my
entire experience there we never . had a
strike or trouble of any kind.
I want to make this statement here,
once and tot -all, in reply to all these
charges and insinuations with reference
to my aspect toward labor: If any man
in the United States of America can
bring into my presence a man who has
ever worked for me and truthfully state
and substantiate that I have refused to
meet at any time and anywhere any man
in my employ. that I have ever intention
ally done any man a harm, that I have
ever insisted tn' lowering wages to any
man who woiKs for me, or who can truth
fully say thai"!, have done evil to him, I
will resign f rx turn United States Senate
tormorrow. (Greatapplau'se.) T made
the proposition in 1897 I have found no
takers, and it is still open. (Laughter and
applause.)
i Republican Party Against Trusts.
Now, then, about this trust question, a
few words more. I would like to have
Mr. Bryan or any other Democrat tell me
what a trust is. I don't believe there is
a trust in the United States, for every
State law and national law will destroy
any trust that comes within its jurisdic
tion; and the only laws. State and na
tional, that have ever been put upon stat
ute books were enacted by the Repub
lican party. (A voice Never enforced.)
Yes, they are enforced. (Voices Put him
oat.) No, don't put him out. I don't
want to pnt anybody out. (A voice He
is a good Democrat; he shoots in the
rear.)
We have no objections to the Demo
cratic party being opposed to trusts, but
they have got no patent on it. (Laugh
ter.) Bryan's Policy for Philippines.
Now, then one word more with refer
ence to the position of Mr. Bryan upon
this Philippine question and it has been
so thoroughly exploded that I won't men
tion it except in passing. I recited to
you the part that he took in the execu
tion of that treaty, and the authority
that he used with his party to ratify the
treaty, and I think I have convinced a
great many of my hearers that his pur
pose and motive was not patriotic. lie
tells the people of the United States what
he will do If he is elected President of the
United States. His first act would be to
haul down the American flag in the Phil
ippines. (A Toice: "He never could do
it.")
Then he would establish a stable gov
ernment he doesn't say republican gov
ernment and probably pnt Aguinald'o at
the head of It. Then he said that he
would establish a protectorate by the
United States, pull down the American I
flag, withdraw our soldiers from the soil,
and leave our buried dead there under
the supervision of Aguinaldo, renounce
every vestige of power, which has come
to us legally and lawfully, and then estab
lish a protectorate which means what?
It means that the government of the
United States would be obliged to protect
the government of Aguinaldo from all for
eign foes and interference. And what
would be the result?
Judging the future by the past, the next
actions of Aguinaldo would be such as to
shock the civilized world; nnd, if for no
other reason, the nations would interfere
in the interests of humanity as we did in
Cnba. But if for selfish reasons any
European people should make up their
minds that they wanted a foothold in that
archipelago, and propose to take it, what
would be the duty of the United States
government under Mr. Bryan's ideas?
We would have to say, "No, hands off."
Feat of Intellectual Acrobat.
Mr. Bryan has performed a wonderful
feat, an acrobat isn't in it, when he con-
veys the Monroe doctrine to Asiatic wa
ters. Whoever heard of such a thing?
The Monroe doctrine is founded purely
and pimply on the determination on the
part of the government of the United
States that no foreign country should in
terfere in the western hemisphere. Mr,
Bryan would do what? Spread it all over
the world and we would stand behind and
defend it. What do you call that if it
Isn't imperialism? As a result of that
procedure we would find ourselves in
volved in all kinds of foreign wars. (A
voice That is right.) That is true and
yet Mr. Bryan is for peace. lie was for
peace when he resigned from the army
and he has been for peace ever since. I
am for peace. I'm a Quaker. I am for
peace, but not peace at any price. I am
not for peace, and I know that the ma
jority of the people of this country are
not for peace, with that brigand Agui
naldo as long as he is hiding in the bushes
and shooting down from ambush our boys
in blue. (Applause.)
Bryan Switches Issues.
But Mr. Bryan has already been driven
from his position on imperialism. He
knows now what many of us knew in the
beginning that it was only one rooster
that he was going to put in the pit, and
he would fight it as long as he could.
Now he has got his last gamecock. Trust,
and that goes into the pit for the next
thirty days, and the Republican party
will be prepared to meet him on all such
questions, and if I had the time and voice
and opportunity I would like to speak to
every laboring man in the United States
upon that question; because in warning
the laboring people of this country against
this huge monster, the trusts, in the same
breath he says that the Dingley bill is
the incubntor of trusts.
Now, we are getting to know where we
stand with the laboring people when we
come to the tariff, and we won't allow
him to evade the issue that he has made
on the bald proposition that the protect
ive tariff principle goes hand in hand with
trusts. We keep the protective tariff
principle there and we will furnish our
own definition for trusts. I Ray we are
at home on that proposition because we
have at the head of our national ticket
that great advocate of protection, Will
iam McKinley: because in him we have
Chicago, or in the State of Illinois, or in
the United States, who knows anything
about public affairs, who knows anything
about the career of President McKinley,
that does not know from actual proof the
fact that during his whole public life he
is the only man that the workingmen of
this country always felt at liberty to call
upon to support their interests, and he
never failed them. And he is just as
much their friend to-day as he was fifteen
years ago.
, I'Bryaa and the Laboring Men.
And now let me ask tvhat has W. J
Bryan done for the workingmen hi this
country? (A voice: "Nothing." An-
otbfc" voice: "Yes, he charged us half a
dollar to hear him talk.") Not a thing.
Came near saying damn. Not a thing.
His career in public life is available to
every man. His short service was mark
ed and made conspicuous by his opposi
tion to the tariff bill. And what has he
done since to show any particular inter
est in the working people of this country?
He tells them what he would do. He is
prolific in promises, rosy in painting the
picture as to what would be the result of
his administration, bnt I charge you,
workingmen, turn away from that picture
and look upon the other; and tho' other is
McKinley.
Do not let us take any promise from
any candidate or any man whose whole
record has shown that his overawing am
bition is to be President of the United
States. He will ride any issue, he will
climb on to any platform that is made for
him, he wjll preach anydoctrin,ah.e will
even abse me- to- be -President -Of the
United States.
Most Important Issues.
Now, bringing these issues home to each
and every individual, I want to bring
them there because I expect and I know
that every man who goes to the polls on
election day having heard the arguments
in the case, having considered how the de
cision of these issues will bear upon his
personal interests and those of his family,
will cast that ballot intelligently in his
own interest and not in Mr. Bryan's. But
there is a further responsibility which
comes to every man and to every woman
who can influence a man.
I say that the importanee of the issues
in this campaign at this time and under
these conditions is greater than ever be
fore in the history of our country. I say
so because I believe it. because I know
that any reversing of the present policy
of the administration of this government,
any change in that administration, would
bring about a condition of things in the
business and industrial interests of this
country that would dwarf the flood and
storm at Galveston it would mean a hur
ricane that would carry before it every
interest, it would be a flood that would
ingulf the property and the material in
terests of every man, woman and child
that enjoys the present prosperity.
Where Interests Are.
There is no question where your inter
est is, because every year, every month.
and every day of the administration or
William McKinley has been an object les
son. Every man who has an insurance
on his life for the benefit of his family.
every man who has his deposits in a sav
ings bank or a loan association where he
has gathered together perhaps the sav
ings of a lifetime, where he believes it is
safe, and it is, although that money that
he deposits in a savings bank is not there.
for they don't keep the money in their
vaults. What do they do with it? They
invest it in securities, in bonds and mort
gages, satisfying themselves that the
property behind those securities is per
fectly good for the loan made and it is
under all normal conditions. But sup
Ising that Mr. Bryan should be elected
God forbid. (A voice Amen!) Sup
posing he should be. Remember 1803.
Immediately capital is withdrawn from
the avenues of business panic seizes and
dethrones confidence and we find a condi
tion of things that sends values down the
toboggan slide until they are cut in two
and quartered; and the property that is
represented by the securities in the vaults
of these banks covering yonr deposit is
reduced in value. That is your property, i
It doesn't belong to the savings bank or
the life insurance company. It is yours,
you have put it in their custody for safe
keeping. They are doing their duty. They
have builded vaults of deposit secure
against the burglar and the thief, they
have employed men of integrity and abil
ity to invest your money and protect your
interests, and therefore I say they have
done their duty.
treee All tc Work for McKinley.
Now you do yours. Do yours by not
only depositing your vote for McKinley,
but get as many of your neighbors who
are undecided upon these questions, per
haps for want of knowledge, as you can,
to vote as you do; make it your business
to secure one more vote for the President
of the United States, and that small effort
will put us on a perfectly safe basis.
Won't you do that much for your family?
Won't you do that much for the national
good? Haven't you pride enough to do
that much for the national honor, integ
rity, and the flag? (Voices: "Yes, yes.")
All right, then do it. Good-by.
HUGO DENKENSPRUCT
Relates One of His Experiences as Jus
tice of the Peace.
(By William E. Anderson.)
"Yes, you are right, Jonathan, Mr.
Bryan will do good to his own party
talking about political equality, liberty
and the rights of man, for it was always
hard for his friends to make such things
work in this country among the Ameri
can-born colored citizens. liut it is a
little late to do any good in those States
where Mr. Bryan will get nearly all the
votes cast. No, you are wrong. Jona
than. The very many kvotations he
makes from Washington. Lincoln and
others isn't quite a case of the "Devil
kvoting scripture.' l't goes a long way
ahead of that ami just fits the case I
am about to tell you.
"During my term as justice of the
peace in this town we hail n great deal
of trouble with tramps. They used to
get into the school houses to sleep and
at last they got so bold, a school house
wasn't good enough for them. They be
gan to profane the churches. Big Jo
hannes, neighbor Smith's son, was con
stable and he at last arrested a gang in
the Methodist church down there. He
hail not much experience, you see; and a
schmart lawyer from the village was up
before me to defend them. That nun
really was a fine pleader; and as he knew
the Bible kvotations well, he made a good
impression on the court. He said that
his friends, the defendants, went from
the school houses to the church to get
' - . - - i
K? tVi Tiord was vhnr
"two ir t
-WgWeT-m
His name, and so on. Then he pulled I
out the notes of a sermon which he got 1
! PEOPLE'S BANK DEPOSITS 1
:
:
Prosperity 1 1 si-
The one supreme test of prosperity is
the money in the bank. This is a self-
evident truth. If a man's family is well
clothed and fed and in a comfortable
home, and besides this he can put money
in the bank, it must be admitted that he
is prosperous.
In the following unparalleled showing
of the increase in the number of deposits
from the dark days of the Democratic
Wilson bill regime in 1804 to the glorious
days of McKinley prosperity, the most
marvelous of all is the increase in the
number of depositors and in the amount
of deposits in the savings banks of the
country. These banks are particularly
the ones where the wage earners of the
country put their savings.
Mr. Bryan says the people are not pros
perous. So say all his calamity follow
ers. W e commena to mem ine ionowing
official figures from the report of the
Comptroller of the Currency of the Unit
ed States for 1890. They are unanswer
able!
TOTAL UNITED STATES.
Total No. depositors.
Bank. 18!)4 1S90.
National 1.42-UWG 1 .901.183
State and private. . . 50.5,750
006.301
443.321
4,254,510
Loan and trust com
panies 205.3.8
Savings 3,413,4 1 1
Total 5,545,SG7
7,555,414
2,109,547
Increase in number
of depositors ....
from one of the tramps d said his cli
ents were in church to ; tve divine wor
ship. I remember the tut. It was, 'Go
ye into all the world an. preach the gos
pel to every people.' V4-;u't that a co
incidence to remind ni , f Bryan's pious
remarks on the same t.-t?
"The lawyer got a!. !;- well that I
about made up my mind to kvit the pris
oners. But the schm.ir: young lawyer
didn't know it so he began, to go for big
Johannes and cross-k - ion him. Jo
hannes was the only witness, you see,
and didn't have much experience. By
and by Johan jld not stand
so ranch fun at h: expense, so
he got mad and yell! out: "That
may all be, Mr. Lawyer, what you
say. Yon seem to know that the
notes of the sermon yo'ii got from that
big hobo were his own imps; but I know
what yon don't know, and that is that
the gang you say he w preaching to
tore out of the pulpit 1'. hie all the book
of Genesis and Exodus, including the ten
commandments, to light their pipes with
while they listened to the sermon.' Then
I reversed my decision. Jonathan, and
sent those fellows to the calaboose.'
ARE SOLDIERS T0BE
PAID IN SILVER?
A Pertinent Tptjniry from an Old
Soldier Still l uansweret!.
In Mr. Bryan's sp-e.
No. 1, he said that if S
the office of Prosiut-.v,
States next November i'
was inaugurated lie w
call an extra hession
i of acceptance.
was elected to
.if the United
nit a ; soon us he
aid immediately
t Congress uini
give freedom to the in labitunts of the
Phlippine Islands and r.call the army of
the United States, which would include
the bringing home of the "Stars and
Stripes."
If elected President of the I'nited
States Mr. Bryan will become commander-in-chief
of the army. This l.einc the
case.
Will Mr. Bryan pay t ie soldiers of the
United Mates of Amerrv in silver
It is very
important t.iat the soldiers
ricaa army (understand this
ly and riisriletly-a to what
of the Ameri
matter clearly
raff. Br7CTsriTrrpnTionr7irp-m the nin't er.
OLD SOLIriM:.
New Castle, Pa.. Sept. 1. llxx).
SHOW IMMENSE INCREASE.
Oomo
lo llio t
Total amount of deposits. -
1S04
National. . .$1,155,111,.SS
State and
private.. 214.4-T,.."10
Loan and.
trust cos. 239.501.SIC
Savings.. 1,2G5.4".0.4M
1S0O.
Sl.S30.11,14n
41S,281.2-,7
575.724,117
1.782,974,481
Total . . .$2,S74,5S9.405 $4,50S.09.0"5
Increase in
am't of
deposits.. $1,733,505.500
Average Deposits in AH Banks.
1894 $520
1899 002
Since the Democratic days of 1S94 there
has been an increase of 2,109,547 bank
depositors in the whole United States.
This number more people have had
money to deposit Juring McKinley pros
perity. The total amount of money deposited
to the credit of the people was S2.874.
589,406 in 1S94.
In 1S99 it was Sl,503,09o.005. showing
an increase of alnost one and three-quarter
billions of dollars to the credit of the
people who had b::nk accounts in the five
years since the country was suffering the
agonies of a Democratic administration.
Not only has ti'.ere been this vast in
crease in the aggregate amount of money
placed in the bsnks. but the average
amount of each bank account has in
creased from $52u, in 1894. to an average
of $X)2 per bank account in 1800.
Who will say that the promises of the
Republican party have not been fulfilled?
Who will say that the advance agent of
prosperity has not visited the American
people under the Republican administra
tion of President McKinley?
ELECTION DF 1S00.
Democratic Platform Adopted at
Kansas City, July 4, 1900.
The Party (Democratic) Stands
Where It Did in 18(111 on the
Money Question. William Dry an
at Zancsville, Ohio, Kept. 4, U00.
Nominated:
For President WILI.r.XM J. BRYAN
of Nebraska.
Vice-President ADLAI E. STEVEN
SON of Illinois.
PLATFORM.
We. the Democrats of the United
States, in national convention r.-iu! It !.
do reaffirm our alleginine t. tho-e j;reHt
esseniial principles of justice and liberty
uiKia which otir institutions sv founded,
and which the Democratic party lins ad
vocate.1 from Jefferson's time to our own
freedom of speeeh, freedom of the
press, freedom of conscience, the jre-cr-vation
of personal rirriits, the cpuiKty of
all citizens before the law, and tl.e f.iit
ful observance of constitutional limita
tion. State Hixlit-t.
During uil these years the Democratic
party Jms resisted the tendency of ser":h
interests to the centralization of govern
mental power, and steadfastly maintain
ed the integrity of the dual scheme of
government established by the founders
of this republic or republics. Under its
guidance and teachings tho great princi
ple of loi-.il self-government Iihr found
it best expression in the maintenance
of the rights of the Stntes and in its as
sertion of the necessity of confining the
ceneral government to the eerci-e of the
powers rrrvitcd hr thp jQn.itiU'Q" ,
the United States
The Money (Jumtion.
Recognizing that the money system is
paramount to all others at this time, we
invite attention to the fact that the
Federal Constitution names silver and
gold together as the money metals of the
United States, and that the tirst coinage
Inw passed by Congress under the Coli
stitntion made the silver dollar the mon
etary unit, and admitted gold to free
coinage at a ratio based upon the silve
dollar unit.
We declare that the act of,187i!eyion
etiing silver Avit hout ..tJWf-j At( or
approval of t5je Aiiicric.ni l-eople hfu re
sulted In the appreciation of gold and a
corresponding fa'l in the prices of com
modities produces! by the fx-ople; a heavy
increase in the burden of taxation and of
all debts, public and private; the enrich
ment of the money lending classes at
honie and abroad: prostration of indus
try and impovertshmi nt of the people.
We are unalterably opposed to gold
monometallism, which has locked fat
the prosperity of an industrial people in
the paralysis of hard times. ISold mono
metallism is a British policy, and its
adoption has brought other nations into
financial servitude to London. It is not
only un-American, hut anti-American,
and it can be fastened on the United
States only by the stiilintr of that spirit
nnd love of lilierty w hich proclaimed out
independence in 177! and won it in the
war of the Revolution.
Free Silver.
We rtttni4 the free and uaiimited
eortflr ef both rnfd - nrrl -"Prer nt th
present legal ratio of to 1, without
waiting for th" aid or consent of any
other nation. We demand that the
-tan. lard silver dollar shall In ji f nil legal
tender, equaily with told, for nil bts.
public and private, nnd wo favor Mich
legislation fl will prevent for the future
the demonetization of any kind of Icw-a!
tender money by private contract.
We are opposed to the policy and prac
tice of surrendering to the holders of
the obligations of the I'nited Sttte the
option re-erved by law to the government
of redeeming such obligation in cither
silver coin or gobl coin.
lion'I Isne.
We are opposed to the is'ii t.g of interest-bearing
bonds of the United Stnfts
in time of pence, Htld condemn the tr.if
ficVins: with banking syndicates which,
in exchar.se for bond and at an enor
mous profit to themselves, supply the
Federal treasury with gold to maintain
the policy of gold monometallism.
Congress alone h is the power to coin
and issue money, and President Jackson
leelared that this power co'il.) not be del
gated ro corporations or individuals. We
therefore demand that the p. wcr to issue
notes to circulate a money l.e taken from
the national bank, and that all paper
money shall be issued directly by tiie
Treasury Department, be redeemable in
coin, and receivable f.,r all debts, public
and private.
Tariff for Revenue.
We hold that the tariff duties should be
levied for purposes of revenue, such du
ties to be so adjusted as to operate equal
ly throughout the country and not dis
criminate between class or section, and
that taxation should le limited by the
need of the government honestly and
economically administered. We de
nounce, as disturbing to business, the Re
publican threat to restore the McKinley
law, which has been twice condemned by
the people in national elections, and
which, enacted under the false plea of
protection to home industry, proved a
prolific breeder of trusts and monopolies,
enriched the few- at the expense of many,
restricted trade and deprived the pro
ducers of the great American staples of
access to their natural markets. Until
the money question is settled we are op
pose, to any agitation for further
changes in our tariff law, except such
as are rece-sary to make the deficit in
revenue caused by the adver-e decision
of the Supreme Court on t lie income tax.
The Income Tux.
There would be no deficit in the reve
nue but for the annuiment by the Su
preme Court of a law passed by a Dem
ocratic Congress in strict pursuance rf
the uniform decision of that court for
nearly one hundred years, that court hav
ing sustained constitutional objections to
its enactment which had I-cn overruled
by the ablest judges who have ever sat
on that bench. We declare that it is the
duty of Congr.-s t ne !1 th con-tiru-tioral
power Inch remain after that
decision, or which may cme by if re
versal by the rourt. h it may hereafter
be ronstirnted, o that the burden of tax
ation may le equally and i -npsrtiaUy
laid, to the end that wealth may bear
its due proportion of the expense of th
government.
I m m i a-va t ioa.
We hold that the most enV:ent way r
protect American labor i to prexent the
importation of foreign pauper labor to
com;ete with it In the home market, ici
that the vain of the h.mie market to our
American farmer and artisan i greatly
redii-ed by a vicious monetary yferar
which depresses the price ef their pro
duct below the cost of production. ani
thu deprive them of the n:ei-a of pur
chasing the product of our home macu
f act ore.
(onirmlnntl Appropriation..
We denounce the pr fllite waste of
the money wrung from the people It op
pressive taxation and the l.ivi.h airo
priation of recent Republican u
greses. which have ke,.t ttir l.v'i.
vh !e the labor that pa t'c r.i is i:ner;,
p!oed. and the products of ll- pe..- '
'.'. :ne d ;.re d i.i price um;1 i !, t
!:.. r rep.-.y the co-t of pr. l n i-!i. We
!et.i:i!i, a return t. that n:i .:-i't mu-l
c.eny wl.ii h I cM b. ! t a 1 en. rat..
line, i.t ; i Ti I : I e. ! u i :i in foe lu.rt
l r of i;.. I,-. i.ili, the si.iri.-s of
uhieh di .i.ii the siih-tence of the peopU .
Kc!f ml Interference.
We i.et'. li I,. e II r!.. I r:: .
!' del :: 1 .i u' ..or if .es hi
v .l it ;..u of ; ! I ,n- t
y i:itcr'.-reti -e by
:il nf-iirs :i a
.r.-.ti of the Utiit-
el S::i',s m., a , rune :i : r: -1 free ;,. t-
tiltl'otls. V e epecl l'. ob . t ! L'oV"
ernti!. lit by injun.- i..u t a i,- v ar. 1 !.;'
I.v ;: t; -e:..i!-. f..?:-i of o. o--i .11. ly
win. !i I'ed. ral ji. .!-. i;i iem.f of t.'ie
'.a of tie States a;.,! ii'ifs ri'i.ns.
b eoine at otoe le-: -i a t or . old.:-- nd ft
eeitiet;er. and We apt. r..ve t: e bill pars
ed at the last se.sion of t!- I'nUe.i
State Senate, and now p.tili,i in th
IIoiic, relative to contempt i i I"e li -al
courts, and proii!:t.c f-.r trial, by jury
i:i certain cases of -Tiren.pt.
Purific 1 no linwc Mill.
No discrimination -I...':!. I be ind i'.-.l
by the government -f the Ul..ted St.iv
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XI"
prove of the refusal of trie Fifty-third
tVngre to pn the Picifi. Radra!
ftiudiiig bill, and denounce the effort of
the present Republican Congress to en
act a similar measure.
Pension.
Reengnizing the just claim it deserv
ing Union oldiers. we heartily Indorse
the rule of the present Coii.mi-sioncr of
Pensions that bo imrne shall be arbi
trarily dropped from the persion roil,
and the fact of an enlistment anj ser
vice should be deemed cin."l'iire evi
dence against disease or disability before
f-nlisfrpent. j
f " Cafe ,
Ji
We extend our ymiathy to t ie feot
of Cuba in their heroic atrugg for l.b
erty and independence.
The Civil f-ervlee.
We are opposed to life tenure in the
public service. We favor appointment
based on merit, fixed terms of office, and
snch an administration of the civil ser
vice laws a wiy afford ejual opportuni
ties of all citixen. of ascertained f tnesa.
No Third Trrm.
We declare it to be the unwr-tten law
of this republic, established by fmtom
and nsaee of one hundred year, and
sanctioned by the examples of the great
est and wisest of those who fonajed ami
have maintained our government, that
no man should te eligible for a third
term of the presidential ofT.ee.
Corporate Vralth.
The absorption of wealth by the few,
the consolidation of our leading railroad
wtfm - fortfrflf !"ft f'T" T! '! awi -
poo!s re.juTrc a riefsr control by th
Federal government of th rtrie of
commerce. W'e demand the er ! .trgerueiit
of the powers of the Inter'ate Commerce
'onimi sj.,ri. nnd such restrictions and
guarantees in the control of r.: roads
will protect the people from robbery and
oppression.
Admission of Territories
W'e favor the admUsion of the terri
tories of New Mexico an-1 Arizona Into
the Fnion a State, au.l we favor the
arly admission of ail the territ rie giv
ing the necessary population and re
souree to ii. title them to statehood, and
while they remain territories we held
that the ot!icial appoinfej to ln.Jniver
the government of any territory, togeth
er with the Ibstrict of Odtimbia and
Alaska, should be lon ti !e resident of
the territory or district in which their
duties are to be perform--!. The Ie:i.v
latic party believes in home rale n:;.
that nil public land ,f the Univd St it
houl 1 be appropriated to the esntH-U-r.i'-nt
of free home for American citi
zens. W'e recommend that the territory of
Alaska le granted a d"!erte in Con
gress, and that the general land and t,m
bcr law of the United State be ex
tended to said territory.
Mississippi River Improvement.
The Federal government should cae
for and improve the Mississippi river an!
other great waterwajs rf the Ipublie,
so as to secure for the interior people
easy and cheap transportation to tide
water. When any waterway of the re
public is of sufficient importance to de
mand aid of the government, such aid
should be extended npon a definite plan
of continuous work nntil permanent im
provement is seen red.
Confiding in the justice ef our co
and the necessity of it) aaeeesa at the
polls, we submit the foregoang declara
tion of principle and pnrpoe f( th
considerate judgment of the American
people. We invite the support of all citi
zen who approve them, and who deii.-e
to have them made effective through leg
islation for the relief of the people and
the restoration of the country's proa
peri ty.
W'rlister Davis on McKinley.
"I.tstei., my Democratic friend ard
neighbors, for I have friend snd neigh
bor in this city, which is my home; Jis'en
to what I am about to say. When the
Democratic party antagonize. and at-!:i.-ks
the administration of I'r"-id-ii t Me
Kinley. u-.on its policy in Cuba. Por'o
Rico and the Philippine Isla'ds. THU
DEMOCRATIC PARTY ISCAMPIMJ
in tjii: ;ravi:yard or di:ad
ISSUF.X." From r speech d iivered by
the Hon. W'-bstei- Davis jr. (,;.,!.r,
1 :', to the Republican of Kansas City.
Mo., when the first meeting was held In
the first convention hall that was only
partially completed.
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