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*?" *iT v Iclffixf ILLISO.S. Kr-\. 3u*- * V'\' i •; /• „ % " J; *i , * fa? He Unmasks the Hyprocrisy the Democratic Party. J Address Delivered at f " Great cf^:, Republican Rally at Chicago. S0WIGA2. ISSUES EUUC1DATE). The Governor Declares the Demo** crats Are No Longer Looking *or * Statesman to ̂V; •v.; •• 1 Lead Them. ' ' Kbat they Want Is a Maui wtth a Voice--Pitiable Position of the Gold Democrat. Reptibflean In Oswald's grove, corner Halsted and Fifty-second street, In Chicago, Satur­ day evening, Sept. 22, Governor Tan- aer spoke as follows: So serious a matter as the election of 4 president of the United States should engage the thoughtful attention of ev­ ery American voter. In order to pro­ ceed intelligently in a matter so impor­ tant, it is necessary to come down from the lofty plane of mere declamation and assertion and fix our gaze upon a few concrete things. Wise men gather in­ struction from experience; fools and fools only have confidence in noise. Patriotism should appeal to intelligence, not to Ignorance and passion. Hunger JOHN R. TANNER. e. • b"? / IfeA Uf' j*/ • * ; for political spoils, however natural to the Democratic party, is not patriot­ ism. Elocution may be good to amuse * leisure hour, but it is not statesman- ahip. Boldness of statement is often' the result of ignorance, and a resonant Toice is often the accompaniment of an empty head. Howling until one's eyes are bloodshot has no tendency whatever to solve grave political problems. Therefore I shall appeal to experience and to facts. Have Turned to the Babble. The Democrats of the United States seefn to think the whole course of American history can be changed by mere declamation. Nothing makes a man so popular with the Democrats of today, as a good pair of lungs. The Democrats are no longer looking for a statesman to lead them; all they want Is a loud voice. They no longer make a pretense of looking to the conserva­ tive intelligence of the country for sup­ port, but have turned to the rabble, and in the complaints and railings of v the idle, the thriftless, the disaffected ! and discontented, they think they have heard the voice of the great American I people. But, my friends, however much noisy accusation the Democratic leaders may Indulge in, I can tell them that the Republicans of the United States are not going to make a defensive cam­ paign in this goodly year 1900. They have no apologies to offer for the splen­ did achievements of the past three years. The burden of proof is upon Mr. Bryan this year. The country Jcnows that the Democratic party began telling lies and swearing to them more than fifty years ago, and it has been In the business ever since. Further­ more, in that time it has had to swal­ low down thousands upon thousands of its own putrid falsehoods, and what a hill of fare it has had! That party has told so many incendiary and seditious lies, which it afterwards had to eat be­ fore the eyes of the American people, that its reputation for truth and verac­ ity could be successfully impeached by living witnesses before any fair-minded court in any county of the United States. I am not speaking of individual Dem- •tacrats, many of whom are my esteemed friends, but I am speaking of their party as an organization, ruled and run by as reckless a horde of po­ litical cutthroats as any country ever aaw. There does not reside in that party enough consistency or principle or patriotism or character, to enable it to put any adversary upon the de­ fensive before an Intelligent public. It lias abused and cursed and villified ev­ ery great American statesman who has lived in the last fifty years, even more bitterly than it is now abusing McKin­ ley. The verdict of history has com­ pelled the Democrats to retract their calumnies against Lincoln and Grant and the other great Republican states­ men, and in good time they will, in the Same manner, take back their slanders of McKinley. Give the Democratic bosses a little time, my friends, and they will swallow ail their base false­ hoods. There are compensations in nature^ the Democratic maw is ca­ pacious enough to hold all the lies in­ dented by Democratic brains, and all eightt© '•ifr-jjftfl. Tea. yeare flr the full aver- ace lifetime of a Democratic slander. Wtvwmr Produced • gtateamaa. Another quite important fact is, that fen all the time the Democratic party has been slandering the great Repub­ lican statesmen, it has never produced a solitary great statesman of its own. T*ie men it honored and followed through the slavery era and the subse­ quent era of national salvation, all died unwept and unsung. Some of them are remembered, it is true, but they are remembered only, for their crimes against the republic. Just now the great Democratic hero is Mr. Bryan. How long do you suppose Impartial his­ tory will retain the name of Mr. Bryan? I predict he will take the same place in political history that Mr. Schwein- furth and Mr. Dowie will take in the rellgiouf history of the country. Let me ask you what creditable chapter of American history the Democratic party has written in the last fifty yearn To such a party and to such so-called statesmen we shall not apologize for any of the Republican achievements of the past three years. The record of the Republican party Is an open book. Whether you refer to that record as made forty years ago or twenty years ago, or as made in this goodly year 1900, we are equally proud of it, and challenge any , other party to show a history half so iUustriousip Its achievements for the prosperityfand the liberty of mankind. \ In the campaign four years ago) the Republican party made certain prom­ ises, and whatever it promised to db It has done. The policies which the Republicans then advocated have been put into practice. We did not propose one thing to the people when out of office, and then do a different thing when the people, had clothM us with power. We do not shirk the responsi­ bility for any single act of the past three years. We glory in what has been accomplished and point with pride to the grand results of Republican rule. We invite the business intelligence and the p&triotism of the country to scru­ tinize our public acts and to compare the results, both in the nation and fn this state, wtth what took pTace dur­ ing the late Democratic administra­ tions. For once, thank God, we have in four short years brought theories to an actual and decisive test before the very eyes of the American people, and no amount of Democratic shuffling and lying can obscure the results. Beeent American Hlatory. Allow me now to refresh your recol­ lection concerning some very recent American history. On the day- In 1892 when the people voted to make Mr. Cleveland president, this nation was In a high state of prosperity. Does any­ body deny that fact? In all its previ­ ous history the country had never touched so- high a point. American labor was all employed and was paid better wages in 1892 than it had, up tb 'you not ;r;or«rThem whenyou Z ernment was established. Our exports were seeking every port of the civilized world. The farmer, the manufacturer, the merchant, the laborer and the me­ chanic, were all eating the white bread of Republican prosperity. No man de­ nies these facts except some Democrat* who has a case to make out by falsi­ fying the splendid industrial history of his country. But when a Democrat has the audacity to deny these facts to you, Just tell him that you were living here in 1892 and that you per­ sonally know they are trpe, and tell him that you further know thaf he knows they are true and only denies them for campaign purposes. Now It was in the midst of this mar­ velous prosperity that the Republicans were called upon to hand over the gov­ ernment to the Democratic party. The Democrats took the government under a platform threat that they would re­ verse all the Republican policies. The Democratic platform of that year de­ clared that the ^rstem of protection un­ der which business was prospering as never before was only a system of un­ constitutional fraud and robbery. Free Trade the Remedy Offered. Note, please, that free trade, and free trade alone, was the remedy whic-h this Democratic party offered to the voters of the country in 1892, and which the people were persuaded to adopt. The demonetization of silver, which the Democrats now dramatically refer to as the "great crime of 1873," had been ru­ ining the country (so they now tell us) Just nineteen years, when the Demo­ crats adopted their platform and fought the campaign of 1892. It is evident they had not then discovered the "crime of 1873" in all its enormity. It is fur­ ther evident that Mr. Bryan was then a member of the congress elected that year and helped with all his might to pass the Wilson tariff bill. He, in com­ mon with all the Democrats, then at­ tributed a great many imaginary ills to the Republican system of protection, and when Mr. Wilson, the Democratic leader, closed the debate on the Wil­ son bill in the lower house of congress, such was Mr. Bryan's enthusiasm at the prospect of the benign influence which was to result from Democratic free trade, that he grabbed the little weazen-faced Virginian in his brawny arms and carried him off, squirming and grunting on his shoulders, to the cloak room of the house. That was only seven short years a#o, and it proves that free trade was then Bryan's great hobby, as it was the hobby of the whole Democratic party. The free coinage of silver only became impor­ tant after free trade had failed. Please do not forget this fact. Have you forgotten, my friends, what the Demorats said ajbout the free coin­ age of silver in their national platform of 1892? That was but eight years ago, and, among other things, they said this: "We hold to the coinage of both gold and silver without discrimination against either, but the dollar unit of coinage of both metals must be of equal Intrinsic and exchangeable value, or be adjusted through international agreement, or by such safeguards of legislation as shall insure the mainte­ nance of the parity of the two metals." Good Republican doctrine! Did Bryan Support Cleveland? Now did Mr. Bryan support Cleveland •on that platform or not? Four years ago he was accused of having voted the Populist ticket in 1892, but his Demo­ cratic admirers denounced this as a campaign lie. They declared Mr. Bry­ an was then, and had always been, a good, sound Democrat. If he support­ ed that platform in 1892, then he had not yet discovered the great devasta­ tion which was being wrought by the awful "crime of 1873." If he supported that platform, then he must have'be­ lieved in 1892 that dollars of gold and dollars of silver should be kept intrin- . „ _ iA^inF* happen that the great "crime otW$ wasilot discovered by this astute states­ man for more than twenty years after it was committed? He really came-be­ fore the country in 1896 with a vicious afterthought, and he is before, us this year with several more afterthoughts. Just as vicious. In 1892 the Democrats won in all the branches of the government. It was their first real political success «ince they elected James Buchanan In 1856. They were completely in the saddle, with their spurs on and holding both the reina What was the result of Democratic success? Do any of you remember? What followed the enact­ ment of the Wilson tariff bill, whose author the admiring Mr. Bryan qftrried off so triumphantly to the cloak room? Don't ask some Democrats to tell you what took place, for they have the worst memories in the world. When a Democrat is talking about the record of his party, he always remembers things which never happened, and for­ gets what actually took place. I, ap­ peal to your own memories, which cer­ tainly must extend over a brief seven rears. I will tell you only a little of what happened. In the first place, a large treasury surplus which the Re­ publicans turned overwas soon changed into a Democratic deficit, and Mr. Cleve­ land began to borrow money and issue bonds in a time of profound peace--the very thing that his last Democratic predecessor, Buchanan, had done forty years before. Did Mr. Cleveland's ad­ ministration sell these $230,000,000 of bonds to the people in the open mar­ ket for what they would bring? No, they were secretly sold to a Wall street syndicate which made a profit of about f 10.000,000 on them in less than three weeks. So much for their management of the treasury. "VSm* Kfltoct of OemoeaatieTatif^ How did their tariff policy, over which Mr. Bryan cut such fantastic capers, affect the business of the coun­ try? You will remember that the mills nearly all closed down, and industries, hitherto prosperous, went into liquida­ tion. Labor wandered up and down the country with empty hands. The merchants went into bankruptcy. Com­ merce was paralysed. All the custom­ ers of the merchants and of the manu­ facturers had been impoverished by the Democratic tariff. Manufactured arti­ cles were cheap; corn and beef and flour were cheap, but everybody, except the hated capitalist, was too poor to buy them. In four short years there were 60,000 business failures in the United States, aggregating in round numbers $1,000,000,000. That billion dollars was part of the penalty our people paid for their reckless experiment with the Democratic party. In that time 45,000 miles of railway in the United States went into the hands of receivers. I shall not: go into details, for you re­ member these things, and it behooves proach the polls next November. If I should stand here ten hours and talk about nothing else, I could not recount one-half of the wreck and ruin which the last Democratic administration wrought upon the business interests of the country. „ But that Democratic administration served one great end: It demonstrated the capacity of the American people for self-government. It tested the strength and endurance of republican institutions in the United States. A people of less enlightenment and less moral stamina than the American peo­ ple, would have been driven to desper­ ation by the frightful results of that four years of Democratic misrule. The French republic would have fallen un­ der much less strain, but the American people "kept their heads" and abided their time. When these same Demo­ crats came forward in 1896 and tried to inflame the minds of the men whose Industries they had destroyed and whose prosperity they had wrecked, by incendiary appeals to their passions and to their lawless instincts, it was a spec­ tacle inconceivably grand to see those suffering millions calmly walk up to the polls and bury beneath a perfect avalanchv of voie«^ the horde of incom­ petent Democrats who had deceived them with free trade and despoiled theitt of their prosperity. In Bepnbllcan Bands Again. The government came back Into the hands of the Republican party in the spring of 1897, less than.four years ago. What has been the result? You know, don't you? There is one question which should be written in big letters in ev ery high place in the land, for the Dem- ocartic orators to answer, and that question is, "Where are the hard times of 1896?" Blazon this question every where. Write it with chalk in big let­ ters upon the looking-glass behind ev­ ery drinking bar in the United States, where the Democrats will be sure to see It: "What has become of the Dem­ ocratic hard times? Why, the hard times Constituted the entire free silver argument only four years ago. They told us we were slid­ ing straight down into the gulf of ruin, and that the gold standard had done it all. Just ask " your Democratic neighbor how the hard times came to take their departure, and make him answer you. Ask him if wheat and silver are trotting together this year. Ask him if he finds money scarce un­ der the hated "gold standard." Ask him whether the capitalist is getting more interest or less interest for his money than he was getting in 1896. Ask him whether the gold standard is im­ poverishing the wage earner. Ask him how the farmer is getting along under the great conspiracy to strike down the "people's money." Don't allow him to tell you that the last three years have been more productive than former years, for this is not true. All nature smiled kindly on the last Democratic administration. Crops were abundant and granaries were almost bursting with produce for which the farmer could get nothing. Providence did all it could to help out our Democratic friends, but even Providence had to give it up as a bad Job. Said Citizen* Were Bobbed. While you are/juestioning your Dem­ ocratic neighbor about the hard times, do not forget another thing. They told us in 1892 that protection was making the people poor. They said we were robbing American citizens to pamper a lot of plutocrats. Then the campaign of 1896 came on, and the Democratic or­ ators came out on the stump and told us they were not quite so sure on the tariff question as they had been four years before, but they then knew to a dead certainty that the "gold standard" was Impoverishing everybody and ruin­ ing the country. Both these things they tauslc, ana sung them to the whole American people. You remember that, 4£n't yop? Now, Just call the attention if; your Democratic friend to the great Jkad decisive fact that in the last three years this nation has passed from the hardest times it has ever known since *$57, to the most prosperous times in &H its history, and that it did all this under a Republican protective tariff and with the gold standard. Ask him If he thinks even Mr. Bryan has lungs enough to talk this tremendous fact out of the present campaign. ' And while you are having this con­ science talk with your Democratic neighbor, don't forget to remind him kindly of another of these great facts which stand out in our industrial his­ tory like Chimborazo, above the clouds. This is a last year's fact. You know the Democrats used to tell us that if we would only take down the protective tariff, we would have the "great mar­ kets of the world at our disposal." They said protection was restricting our foreign commerce, that it was a policy of isolation and that if the bar­ riers were removed foreign trade would come and enrich Us. Now, remind your Democratic friend of all this, and then show him the report of our foreign trade for the year ending in June, 1900. Show him that under the Dingley pro­ tective tariff law our foreign trade has reached the enormous volume of over $2,000,000,000. Tell him this is $317,000,000 more than our foreign trade ever was before in any year of American history. Don't bully him or laugh at him, for he means well; but be sure you rub the great fact into him so com­ pletely that he will throw bricks at the first Democratic orator who tries to fool him again with the exploded the­ ory that the way to have the great "markets of the world" is to let the Democrats enact a free trade bill. New Iunet Cor Democrats. But the Democrats think they have found some new issues this year which will certainly fool the voters. Some of them now think the free coinage of sil­ ver at the ratio of 16 to 1 is not quite so Important as it fcas In 1896. They remember the sound drubbing they re­ ceived on that issue four years ago. They l.now their blood-curdling pre­ dictions of ruin to the people by the gold standard have all been utterly fal­ sified before the very eyes of Ameri­ can voters. These facts are embarrass­ ing to the Democrats, and a majority of the delegates at Kansas City would gladly have left the silver question en­ tirely out of their platform. The ma­ jority of those delegates know and real­ ize that the silver proposition in their platform is utterly dishonest, and that it would forever disgrace the nation which should put that proposition in practice. They went to Kansas City praying to be delivered from the free silver hoodoo, and the convention would cheerfully have unloaded the free sil­ ver corpse if it had dared to do it. But one step in folly and crime and falsehood always creates the necessity of taking another step in the same di­ rection. Mr. Bryan found he had the Populists and the silver mine owners to satisfy. How could he hold these radical elements in line without putting 16 to 1 in the platform? He had so long proclaimed free coinage at 16 to 1 to be the one particular thing that must save the country from disaster, that he knew he could not hope for the votes of the Populists and for the financial aid of the mine-owners if he should de­ sert silver; so he stretched the long arm of his "imperial" Influence clear over to Kansas City and forced 16 to 1 straight down the throats of the dele­ gates, not sparing even the picturesque demagogue, David B. Hill. And these gold Democrats swallowed the dose down, and are now engaged In trying to look pleasant about it. Mr. Bryan, too, has troubles of his own. His prob­ lem Just now is to make the voters in the eastern states think the silver plank in his platform is merely a little joke and does not mean anything, and at the same time make the voters In the Pop­ ulist and free silver states think he is heroically baring his "great right arm" in the holy cause of free silver at 16 to 1. Do you think, my friends, that Mr. Bryan will present any better spec­ tacle trying to ride two or three hobby horses this year, than he made in 1896 trying to ride one? The Gold Democrat; The position of the gold Democrat, who is now struggling to get back Into line with his party by pretending to support Bryan, is pitiable in the ex­ treme. He has the same unpalatable dish of political crow before him that he gagged at and refused to swallow in 1896. That dish does not look as nice or as inviting as it did then. To him it is a putrid mess, but he must swallow it and swear he likes it. The despised anarchists who ran away with his party in 1896 are still In full con­ trol. His body is black and blue with their cuffs and kicks. They have not even Invited him to come back, and now that he has appeared at the gate, Bry­ an is not killing any calves over his return. He comes, an unwelcome guest, to the feast of old dry bones, without any invitation. A single, ranting. Populist agitator is more honored by Mr. Bryan than the whole crowd of re­ turned gold Democrats. Some of these gold standard Demo­ crats went out to Kansas City with the understanding that they would only be required to subscribe to a little clause in the platform saying: "We hereby affirm the Chicago platform." They felt they could reconcile this to their consciences upon a sort of under­ standing th%t it was a matter of form and would really mean nothing. But you all know what happened. Those of you who have seen a horse doctor drench a sick horse will recognize the process by which the gold standard Demomrats were reduced to subjection in the Kansas City convention. Bryan and Altgeld and Tillman seized upon them with true veterinarian violence, inserted the long neck of the Populist drenching bottle down their rebellious throats, and gave each of them an enormous dose of 16 to 1 without an "international agreement" with any­ body on earth. They reared and snort­ ed and gagged for a whole twenty-four hours before they would swallow, but their persecutors held their noses, in veterinary style, so they could not get their breath until they had swallowed the dose. Came Back Looking Sick. They got it down at last, but they came back from the Kansas City con­ vention looking sick and trying to per­ suaded themselves that Mr. Bryan will not have the power under the law to put the country on a free silver basis, even if he is elected. They have to ad­ mit that their candidate would smash the credit and confidence of the coun­ try to pieces, if he only could, but they say, "Bryan's hands are tied. He can't put his crazy financial views into prac­ tice." What an admirable candidate for president a man must be who has need to be manacled to prevent him from ruining the country! What a comfort it must be to the gold Demo­ crat who is going to support Bryan, to reflect that the man who put the finan­ cial handcuffs on Mr. Bryan, and there­ by rendered him harmless, is McKinley, the man he proposes to beat with Bry­ an. Was such a spectacle ever before presented in the history of this world? According to this logic the wolf who has had his teeth pulled becomes a bet­ ter guardian of the sheep than the shepherd who did the act of dentistry. But I will ask the fi*|i|ig*»«pho poses to vote for Bryantr of hi free sliver views this question: "Do you think Mr. Bryan himself tfeUeves that he will be powerless when presi­ dent to bring the country to a firee sil­ ver basis?" If he so believes, why did he refuse to run on the Democratic platform unless it declared specifically for the free coinage c-f silver at 15 to 1? Why was a mere reaffirmation of the Chicago platform not satisfactory to Mr. Bryan, if Mr. Bryan's hands are tied? Why did he outrage you, Mr. Gold Democrat, with that awful, long- necked drenching bottle of Populism? Why did not Mr. Bryan say, "Leave the ratio out, for It will be beyond my power to affect the silver question dur­ ing my term." If he is not a mere demagogue, who believes party plat­ forms are made to deceive voters, then he must have had some substantial purpose In forcing a specific silver dec­ laration into the Kansas City platform. Many wise financiers are examining the question seriously, since Mr. Bryan thus persisted in his silver views, and they have discovered the fact, which he must have known, viz: that he may af­ fect the financial question, very mate­ rially, if he becomes prestdent, by the rulings of the secretary of the treasury --Tillman or Altgeld. Bryan himself certainly thinks he can do something for silver, or he would not have been so particular to force It into the plat­ form. tTnftt To Be President. But suppose Mr. Bryan cannot bring the country to a silver basis if elected. Does not the fact that he sincerely de­ sires to confiscate more than half the credits of the country, absolutely, dem­ onstrate that he is unfit to be president of the United States? Confidence is the very life and soul of business. How long do you think business confidence would abide in our country, with a wild-eyed financial crank like Mr. Bry­ an in the White House, brandishing the red torch of Populism in the face of American Industry and enterprise? If Mr. Bryan was wrong when he pro­ claimed to thousands Of audiences that the free coinage of silver was the only thing that would save the country from ruin, may it no* be just possible he is wrong this year, when he comes with an alarming tale of woe about trusts and imperialism? A professional alarmist is never a statesman. A man who is forever discovering political mare's-nests may be set down as a charlatan of the first water. A man who beats eternally upon the gong of political alarm, who sees in everything that is done a conspiracy against the liberties of the people, and is perpetual­ ly predicting the total destruction of American institutions unless he is elect­ ed to office, is sure in the end to be found out. as a ghastly political hum­ bug and fraud. Statesmanship does not proceed in that way. The politcal fire- alarm which Mr. Bryan was sounding four years ago has been practically abandoned. He is beating a brand-new gong this year, and expects the country to take him seriously. The people did take him seriously during the first few weeks of the campaign of 1896. They had suffered so greatly from the Demo­ cratic hard times that they were ready to give respectful attention even to the wild declarations and the still wilder promises of even Mr. Bryan. . Befused To Be Deceived. But they refused to be deceived. They saw then that Mr. Bryan was only a lurid political fakir who wanted of­ fice; and now that everything he said four years ago has been disproved by the experience of the last two years, now that all his prophecies have turned out to be false, what do you suppose he can accomplish when he comes for­ ward sounding a new alarm a little more hideous than the old gong of an­ archy which he was pounding four years ago? Mr. Bryan tells us that Imperialism and trusts are just a little more im­ portant this year than free silver. What an admission this is! First, let us see about these terrible trusts. We are told that Republican rule fosters trusts, and I am going to aston­ ish my Democratic friends, perhaps, by admitting that/ there is a certain sense In which the charge is true. Trusts, like every other form of busi­ ness activity, thrive best when times are good. They cannot live on air, any more than legitimate industries can. Four years ago very few trusts were being formed. And why? Simply be­ cause business was dead. There was nothing to put into the trusts. Men do not form business combinations for their health. When the Democrats were In power such trusts as existed were suffering financial tribulations along with the rest of the people. They were j not very aggressive in those gloomy days. If you starve a tiger, It will be­ come gentle. It was no use for them to put up prices to impoverish custom­ ers. Perhaps if Mr. Eryan were in the White House, he could, by the vigor­ ous prosecution of his wild financial and economic theories, again make the country so poor that even the trusts would actually be starved out and driv­ en into bankruptcy. Bamedy Would Be Berolc.' But don't you think the remedy sKwild be rather heroic? What would you think of a man who should set his house on fire in order to kill the cockroaches? If a man should burn down his barn and his granaries. It would certainly play havoc with the rats and mice, but would it not be better to let the rats and mice have a few ears of corn, rath­ er than destroy his whole property? The people could no doubt cripple the trusts by putting the Democrats in power, but the cost would be frightful, as recent experience proves. The remedy would be no wiser than that of the man who became incensed at his dog for keep­ ing him awake by barking on a cold night in January. Arter throwing the bootjack and other convenient utensils through the window at the dog with­ out effect, he finally went down into the back yard in his night shirt, In a towering rage, and taking the dog firm­ ly by the ears, said, "D--n you, I am going to stay right here until morning and freeze you to death." That the trusts of this country need regulation nobody denies. But how are we to proceed? It Is amply proved that the Democrats have no intelligent plan of action. They never rise to the level of practical statesmanship, but simply make stage plays to catch votes. I can prove from their own record that they do not mean a word they are now saying on the subject of trusts. Their Kansas City platform declares that the failure of Republicans, while in con­ trol, to enact legislation curtailing the power of trusts, "proves the Insincerity of the Republican platform." Very well, let us apply their own logic to these Democrats. They have been lit­ erally howling about trusts for at least fifteen years. You have all heard them, and know that I tell the truth. In 1892 they denounced trusts In their national platform precisely as they did this year. They then said,a mong oth­ er things, "Ws believe their worst evils can be abated by law and we demand such further legislation in restraint of their abuses as experience may show to be necessary." Now, under that plat­ form, at the election of 1892 the Demo­ crats won in every branch of the gov­ ernment. They got the president and a good working majority in the senate and house. What did they do about trusts when they had the whole power of the government in their hands? They did nothing %hatever. Having gotten power, which was their only object, they dropped the subject of trusts as they would do again. If the failure of the Republicans to enact effective m platform,. Mttte by the their Kansas City . legislated . The truth is, the Rej legislated against trusts, ocrats never have. ThCf congress against trusts isitj measure, drawn by Johgy) Ohio, a man whom the up nights to abuse. T|» never passed any additii L did they enforce the R«_-, they found in the statutesf and was proposed by the Reput the last session of congress an amendment to the conBtitutiba, ing congress power enough to col the trusts, every Democrat in house voted against it! So much Democratic sincerity on the trust q* tion. Large combinations of capital to be a development of this age. er these combinations could -be 'eat suppressed by legislation I very doubt. Whether it is even to completely suppress them, I doubt. But that the trusts shot restrained and regulated so as to i from them the power of extoi all agree is desirable. How si _ be done? The problem is one of difficulty, which will never be sol by oratory. The remedy must evolved through the cool deliberate of practical statesmen. The Democrats tell us that protect! fosters trusts, but they can't pi their assertion. The oldest and successful of all the trusts Is Standard Oil company. What has tariff to do #ith that? Another v| extortionate trust deals In ant_ coal. What has the tariff to doHS that? Another very extortionate has its abode on Manhattan isl&ttl has the output of ice in all of gtf. New York absolutely cornered, and doubled the price to all the poof pie of that great city. How did" tariff foster that trust? Furthe* " this ice trust was organized owned and run by Tammany, the v< organization which Mr. Bryan depetf upon to carry New York for him. 1 the leaders of Tammany all came dc... to Kansas City with one pocket full | ice trust stock and another pod bulging with Democratic resolution#* nouncing trusts. The gall, the * dence and the effrontery of this i cle was truly Democratic, and how Insincere and dishonest a r_T can be which is devoid of patriot!! and at the same time very hungry offlcew t Question of Imperialism^ The Democrats have in this ci^»| a new and very taking issue which call "Imperialism." They accuse US overthrowing the Declaration of lai pendence and the Constitution. say we have subverted the Reput and established an empire on lts\rui and that unless they are put in offli despotism and plutocracy will coi down like an avalanche and crush o« the liberties of the American people. These Democrats have even the ef®| frontery to appeal to the sacred nam*] of Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Stevensoihi Mr. Altgeld and Mr. Bryan are acc&i'*'| tomed these days to refer to Abraham! Lincoln in terms of positive affecttoiM Just think, fellow citizens, of an war copperhead like Adlai Stevenson#; who spent the years of his prime curs- ; ing Lincoln and cursing everything that ̂ Lincoln stands for in American history* going about at this day mouthing hUi^ name to get votes! To you younger pepple, who cannot! ren.cmber the great days when Lincoln ] and Grant lived and acted, I wish nowi to address myself. It may surprise yoiSf to know that this hypocritical Demo-; cratic party was abusing Lincoln and Grant and all the great men who actedf • with them, throughout their entire ca* reer, more vehemently, if possible, than they are now abusing the Republican' statesmen of the present day. And, to show their utter hypocrisy, they were abusing those great men for the very same alleged causes and in almost the<; same language they employ todays' against Republican statesmen: They said Lincoln and Grant were tyrant* ] and despots who had subverted coa» stitutional government an4^ pvetf* thrown the Declaration of Independ­ ence. Tile and ShaueleM Slanders. Read the Democratic platform of 1864, filled with vile and shameless slaa* ders against Abraham Lincoln and th* great men who acted and suffered withr him; and don't forget that Adlai Stev­ enson, now running for vice presidents was on the slump that year, support* ing that platform and telling the peo­ ple what an old tyrant "Abe" Lincoln' was. Every Democrat then old enoughr to squawk was denouncing Lincoln* All Mr. Stevenson has to do In the s present camapign is to get out his oldi \ copperhead speeches of 1864, rub out tha names of Lincoln and Stanton and Sew­ ard. and write in their places the namea of McKinley and Root and Hay. Ha> need not rack his brain to invent new terms of abuse, for he will find thera all he needs. The name of Abraham Lin* coin ought, in fact, to choke any Demo* crat who utters it, in the present cam­ paign of Democratic denunciation and hypocrisy. But while the general cry Is tha same, It must be confessed the present writers of Democratic paltforms hava not the lurid style and the sulphuroua rhetoric which they had in the days of Lincoln and Grant, when Adlai Steven­ son was in his ranting and riotoua prime. To prove this, let me read am extract from the Democratic platform of 1868. I wish to show you that it ia a fixed habit of this Democratic part* to discover every few years that tha Declaration of Independence has been subverted and that the constitution haa been overthrown. Here Is what they; put in their national platform of 1868: "We arraign the radical party for the unparalleled oppression and ty­ ranny which has marked its career. * • • It has overthrown the liberty of speech and of the press. • • *It haa converted the American capitol into a Bastile Its corruptions and ex­ travagance have exceeded anything known in history. • • * Under its repeat­ ed assaults the pillars of the government are rocking on their base, and, should it succeed in November next, and in­ augurate its president, we will meet an a subjugated and conquered people, amid the ruins of liberty and tha scattered fragments of the constitu­ tion." Democratic Hysterics. How is that for a case of Democrat?* hysterics? Remember, that was away back in 1S68. Who were the men whosa> "corruptions had exceeded anything in history," who had "overthrown tha freedom of, speech and of the press,** and who had "turned the nation's cap­ itol into a bastile?" Abraham Lin* coin and the great rjien who with him saved this nation. And who was tha , Republican candidate whose election in : 1868 was going to scatter the fragment* s of the constitution all over creation?' | It was Ulysses S. Cir&nt, another great Republican who In his day was tha mark of unbounded Democratic malie#» Was he elected president in 1868? Yes* and re-elected in 1872. and the Demo­ cratic statesmen who adopted that plat#; • form have ever since been ntui|K| about with bushel baskets on arms, looking for the "scattere«vtri%wS ments of the constitution." They ar* still searching for them In the present campaign. Did Grant "conquer" and suhjugat* the people, in addition to tearing tha constitution to fragments? Yes, 'J-#** < V 'MW*. \ Iff 1 v! ;' • ¥*'• t'-- "r! ' ;v; ̂