Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 20, 1900, Page 5

o -—— e —e His Election Now Would Would Have NOT AFRAID TO EXPRESS FORCIBLE OPINIONS THE « by the election of Mr. Bryan Be as Disast It L nry W, Yates a‘ Isas I'OllS as Henry W. Yates, president Nebr a ) een in 1896. | *VE otice. (hat some democrats WhO voted for McKinley in 150 said Mr. Yates are inclined to get back to the party this yea on the delusion that the silver fssue is dead 1 could »t be revived within the next idential term even if Bryan should be ted Thege people do not seem to realize | the significance of democratic victory this Injecting Imperialism | b as a Bugaboo Cannot Affect the Real Issue to Be | Fought, Four ¥ s ago thousands of democrats Tepudiated the party croed as set forth in| the Chicago platform. As the chief obje tion to the platform was its declaration io favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, the sound money men held an independent convention and placed in the field a second democratic ticket and a platform promising a more con- servative and safer course in financial legls- lation than that proposed by the regular party oganization. To the Palmer and Buck- ner ticket and the Indianapolis platform many of the conservative democrats of the country gave thelr support, not because they expected to elect the ticket, but because such a course afforded them the opportunity to vote for the cause of sound money with- out shock to thelr partisanship This year it has been determined not to place a sound money democratic ticket i the fleld and hence old school democrats must choose between McKinley and Bryan or decline to vote at all What do the leaders intend to do? Owing to the changed conditions it has been considered important to interview a large number of old line democrats, men who speak with a sense of conviction, with a view to reaching a concensus of their opinfon on the questions of this campalgn. It has been ascertained through such int views that these democrats have by no means lost sight of the free silver fssue and that they regard the democratic party's atti- tude on the coinage questions this year as a positive menace to the prosperity of the country, The attempt to make the silver question of minor importance by declaring another issue to be the paramount one has had the expected effect upon the old line democrats. Even it it were not a fact that nearly all of the sound money democrats indorse the policy of President McKinley in the Philip- pine matter, the shifting of the silver issue to a minor place would not have induced them to return to their old party and knock anxiously at the door for re-admittance They seem to have a lingering fear of the 50-cent dollar. Having seen their position of 1896 fortified by the course of subsequent events they are stronger than ever opposed to having the democratic party committed to the 16 10 1 theory and say they will re- main outstde (he portals of democracy so long as Willlam J. Bryan remains the host within and so long as the platform upon which they must enter is tinged with sil- ver flatism. The democrats agree with all husiness men that the triumph of the Kan- #as_ City platform at the polls would en- courage a re-opening of the freo silver agita- tion and fn that way put further into the future the divorce of the obnoxious iwsie from the politics of the country. They say that 8o long as free silver is an issue with the remotest kind of a chance for success the present sound financial system of the country is endangered and general business proznerity fs threatened 1t is the concensus of opinfon among the democratic leaders interviewed that {he Philippine question as well as the money question is safer in the bands of the pres- ent administration than it would be under a presidency of William J. Bryan the general verdict that President McKin ley has pursued the only possible course In dealing with the Fillpinos. There is very Nttle sentiment In favor of Mr. Bryan's proposition to promise the insurgents free and independent government before they have laid down their arms, recognized the authority of this government and demon- strated their ability to maintain a govern- ment of their own. Nearly all of the old line democrats prefer (o rely upon the more prudent policy of the republican party as declared at Philadelphia. Most of them will vote for McKinley, while some may not vote at all Willlam A, Paxton. William A. Paxton, widely known as a ranchman, cattle grower and wholesale grocer and a democrat who has served hi PArty o its great advantage for many will not vote for his fellow Ne- kan, Willlam J. Bryan, for the presidency. It is o Mr. Paxton's influence, more than that of any other one man. that Colonel Bryan owes his two elections to congress. But when it comes to forcing free silver and populism ontu the democracy of the coun try Mr. Paxton demurs and withdraws his support. ‘I will not vote for either Bryan or MoKinley," says Mr. Paxton. “I am hop- ing that four years more of McKinley will bring the demog¢ratic party back to und prioeiples, upog which it can be reunited for a successful campaign. 1 don't know anything about this froe silver proposi tion and neither does Bryan. He is hon est enough in what ho says, but the troublc 1 that he doesn't know, any more than you or I do, how the free and un limited coinage of silver at 18 to 1 will work out. It would be nothing but an experiment, and thls Is no time for ex periments ‘I cAn't see any sense In trying on the free silver coinage theory and letting the business of the country go to the dogs while the experiment progresses. 1 tell you, the peo- ple are scared of Bryan. I know of a couple of big loans that were negotiated only last week, one for $75.000 in Chicago and the other for $80,000 in Omaha, In both cases the borrower asked that the loans run to January nex’, but neither the Chicago nor the Omahi banker would make a loan beyond Movember 1. Thi shows how now, when the campaign is just beginning. and is a good indication of how they will stand in the event of Bryan's election “Our financial system is good enough as It is and when any tampering with it be gios we may look for another panic and another period of hard times." B. Lawrence, Captain F. B. Lawrence, president of the Lawrence Shot and Lead company. presses his views as follows “I began voting the democratic ticket when General McClellan ran against Abra- Captain F bham Lincoln in 1864, said Mr. Lawrence “and voted for every democratic presidential candidate from then un til Bryan was put up in 189¢ 1 did not vote for Bryan in 1506 and will not vote for him now. As & busi ness man of common sense I cannot con- eent to the introduction of a debased cur- rency. The silver issue s as dead a door nail and I propose fo keep it buri and it s | the financlal institutions stand | ex- | | Had it not been for the hard times pre- oding the last presidential election the | free silver cause would not have shown ne-third of the strength that it did at the polls. It would never have become a live Issue in 1598 had it not been for the fact that the people were in a despondent ondition and many of them cager to grasp at anything which was handed to them as a panacea. I think the people who were misied to believe that the 16 to 1 pit good medicine for them four years ugo have had sufficient reason to lose faith in it since then. The flls that were upon us in 1806 have been cured and everybody knows that the cure was ef fected by a rejection of the free silver idea by the majority of our people. Why say more? wers was w ren Switzler, Warren Switzler, the Omaha lawyer headed the straight democratic ticket sandidate for supreme court judge in is stronger than ever in his opposition to sing asked for his by the so platform adopted at Kan Switzler said main features of the Kansas platform are comprised in its arraign- ment of ko-called imperiallsm and its reit eration of the Chicago plank on the silver question. The first arraignment or declara tion of the so-calied doctrine of imperial- ism is a house built upon a foundation of sand, or, In other words, an arraigument of a doctrine in no sense advocated by the republican party. The Kaneas City conven- tion on the subject of imperialism cted A straw man, to furnish, as it were, a punching bag to enable Mr. Bryan to satisty | his acrobatic talents for the balance of the campaign. The imperfalistic plank of the platform s buflt upon the assumption that somewhere, at some time and in some man ner the republican party has pledged itself to the doctrine of imperialism In the dec ation of the president, in the act of congress or In the creed of the party, as found in ite platform, there is no Justification for this assumption. Irom the whole history of the shject, as it now presents iteelf, h-ginuing with the Cuban question, there Is no place where (he doc trine of Imperialism can be tound attached to either party. Practically the only differ- ence between the democratic party and the republican party is one of method rather than of political policy. i who as a 1807 the Bryan party views on salient Upon issues ralsed called democratic sas City, Mr “The two City “While Mr. Bryan, in his speech of ac ceptance of the democratic nomination and of Its platform, says that he would, it elected immediately convene congress aWd recommend a declaration of the nation's purpoke to establish ‘a stable form of gov- ernment in the Philippine islands and to give independence to the Fillpinos, neither the platform nor the speech discloses any method by which, or time in which, this result would be brought about, while the | republican platform pledges to the Filipinos | that ‘the largest measure of self-govern- | ment consistent with their welfare and our | | duties shall be secured to them by law.' Even if it was the declared intention of the | republican party to retain the Philippine | this would not commit the party or the president to the so-called doctrine of imperfalism The history of the acqulsition of the Phil- {ppine islands through the Paris treaty and Mr. Bryan's support of that treaty | 18 well known, and it is likewise well understood that this acquisition was one of the legitimate results which came upon the American nation unsought, unintended and unanticipated, shows that these islands did ot come Into the possession of the United States as the result of any preconcelved plan emanating from either party or based upon any imperialistic policy “Mr. Bryan's position and the position of | his party and the platform in charging th republican party with imperiallsm {s, in my opinion, based entirely upon a fancy and not | upon a fact, and, as I sald before, this plank in the democratic platform can truthfully be likened to the punching bag of an acro- bat which has form without and only wind | within, but serves well the purpose of ena bling the political gymnast to entertain and | amuse his audience while combating with | a fancled enemy ou ask for my views on the attitude of the gold democrats who voted for Me Kinley In 1898 and who now propose to vote for Bryan. 1 have understood that there were such in my own city of Omaha who, together with myself as a gold democrat in 1896, voted agwinst Bryan. 1 have never beard any satisfactory reason for thelr pres ent attitude. The attempt to explain their position, as 1 understand it, by saying that as long as they are opposed to fmpertalism, | and that McKinley favors it, and Bryan op poses it, and In view of the furiher fact that the money question is seitled beyond the reach of the next presidential term, they will favor Bryan as against McKinley on the tmpertalistic issue. In the first place, I think our gold demo- crats who have assumed this attitude are in error in supposing that the preent settlel and substantial basis upon which the finan fal condition of our country rests will re maln secure in tho event of Mr election “While it may possibly be true that the national legislature will be so constituted | for four years to como that the present financial policy cannot be disturbed by leg Islative enactment, at the same time capital | | and the husiness interests of the nation which are known to be sensitive and easily tnfluenced, will be, if Mr. Bryan is elected it once thrown into disorder, either through | fear of what might be the result of his agement of the affairs of the nation or of | views, or fancied views, of the financial result of planting into the presidential chair one who is in league with and supported by & combination of silver democrats, silver r publicans, populists and what not. all of | whom claim to be reformers, but whose pr posed remedies and alleged reforms are largely at varfance with esch other and none of which 1s well defined. In other words, if | islands Bryan's |1t 1s true that congress will be so con- | ‘n(n\nwl for four years that even with Mr. | ‘Brylr‘ A8 president the present financial | policy cannot be changed, at the same time. With his attitude belng so antagonistic the present financial policy of the country | his election would result in immediate lack of confidence, distrust, disquietude and busi lnl‘ln relapse. There is therefore little re | son for democrats who favor honest money to l'“ & sound Baanclal policy to aid in the |S!ghtest changes in the drift of comme | but | its upholders The election of Bryan would have to taken as an endorsement by a majority of the voters of the doctrines enunciated in the Kansas City platform. With Bryan in the executive office, after an endorsement of the 16 to 1 idea at the polls, there tainly would exist a threat against capital which would force upon it and un known condition reating distrust, destroy ing confidence and causing the suspension of commercial undertakings The Kangas City platform year ew which upholds fiat money and attacks the gold standard brings us again to the agitation which caused the deprossion of 1803-6. So long as this fssue is presented, no matter how long it may be clouded with other questions and its discussion shunned and avoided by with the hope ot masking be hind pure and noble declarations thelr reai aims and purposes, there can be no othes question of equal importance before the American people Biyan's only power would be to destroy, and ther now than there was in 1596 ni Ed Riley, the well known wholesale liquor dealer, has changed his opinion since four years ago In 1896, said Mr. Riley, “I voted for Bryan because I had always been a demo crat and could see no reason for changing my politics. This year I am a republican, ready to vote for McKinley “Why have I changed? Simply because experience has taught me something. There was something the matter with all of us in | 1596, Business was bad; when you did sell £00ds you were never sure of getting your money. The republicans attributed this of confidence. Bryan said it on account of the gold standard, a contraction of the currency, and if we should increase the volume of money by coining stagnation to lac silver at 16 to 1 all would be well and pros- | perity would be revived “We elected McKinley, and by doing so found out, through the immediate restora tion of confidence, what ailed us before the election. We have had the revival of pros- ity promised by Bryan, but it has not in the only way he said it could come. “‘Our business has more than dcubled since McKioley's election and every time we sell a bill of goods we know that our money is forthcoming. The people as a whole prospering why they should demand a change As for wyself, 1 want four years more of good business. It I didn't want it 1 would vote ge of administration, which would be cquivalent to hazarding the future I boast that I am no hazard player. You couldn’t induce me to play it on the silver proposition, the Philippine question or any- thing clse.” for a ¢ W. L. May. W. L. May, the wholesale grocer and for- mer state fish commissioner, is talking in this vein “I am in the peculiar position of a man without a party,” said Mr. May. “In 1898, having been a democrat of long standing and believing firmly in the principles of sound money, I voted for Palmer and Buckner. But this year it must be a choice between McKinley and Bryan and 1 am «till undecided as to how my vote should go Mr. Bryan, 1 believe, committed a great rror in forcing the democratic party to a specific reiteration of the 16 to 1 free coinage plank in the platform. I have always been and #till am a believer in a sound and unquestioned currency, a money standard about which there can be no doubts and no dangers. While I am in- clined to think there is little or no pros. pect for free silver legislation during the next presidential term, even {f Bryan does carry the election, I am of the opinion that the the democratic ticket this year, with a 16 to 1 platform, would threaten the destruction of the sound financial condition of today and in that bring about another general business depression “The success of success of way this year's democratic platform at the polls might be construed as an expression of the popular will in favor of free silver and the silverites might take advantage of such a situation to again seriously threaten the gold stand- ard and thus unsettle the financial world 1 am not solicitous as to the welfare of the bankers for their own sake, but as a busi- ness man 1 realize that when you antag- ounize the financial interests you always antagonize the whole field of commerce. 1 believe most all, if not all, of the busi ness men of the country are quite well satisfied with the present healthy condi- tion of business and I cannot what we can possibly gain through any change in the financial system, while I can see the poseibility of injury by such a change I am against the trusts and a high pro- tariff, in favor of the gold standard nd not afrald that' we will ever have an imperial government for the United States ion If you can find a political party in which I will fit I will be much obliged. L. Stone, E Stone, president of the Dewey & tone Furniture company, one of (he largest business concerns in the city of Omaba, says 1 am sure that the business men of this state, regardless of previous party afilla- tions, are almost unanimously in favor of continuing the present natlonal administra- | tion. The increase of business has been so great during the last three and a half years and the present conditions are so highly satisfactory that it would be folly te bring about any change. 1 never voted anything the democratic ticket until four years ago, but so long as the republicans continue in the conservative and businesslike meth- ods they are now pursuing 1 do not to vote anything but the republican ticket. ‘The election of Mr. Bryan would cer- tainly bring on a most undesirable change. It would not only weaken our financial sys- tem by again opening the free silver agita tion, but it would also weaken the govern ment itself by giving encouragement to that element of our people who assail the courts and incline toward revolution Bryan has done more than any huudred men in this country to stir up discontent. It seems to be his idea that the presidency can be gained on revolutionary doctrine—that the majority of our voters can be made to feel discontented with thelr present condition and ready to accept all the radical and so clalistic changes he Bryan has iever appealed 1o the good judgment of the successful men of his time. but prefers to appeal to the passions and prejudices of those who are fallures in life. He holds out 1o this class the welcome consolation that it I8 no fault of their own, but the fault of the government, that they are failure proposes. W. M. Bua W. M. Bushman, who ope warehouse In the cit sition which enables s the largest of Omaha, 18 in a po him to observe the { and 1 can conceive of no reason | expect | | is more to destroy the majority of our people are ignor and tractable, for he Is at all times | pealing to passion and prejudice rather In the course of a recent interview M Bushman said This warehouse of mine is o pretty goe article of commerce exce perishable goods passes through it. When the house is half empty, as it was in 1893-1898, one knows that business in this part of the country Is very near to a standstill. When the house is full and lacks the capacity to take care of all the Roods that are brou to it, as it is at present, o knows that business is thriving. When the warehouses are kept full and overflowing goods of all kinds are moving, and this would not be so inless the people had money in plenty to buy what they need and desire. During the last two or three years we have had to re fuse business frequently because we did not have the capacity to handle it, Such a thing never occurred before and, of course, I am inclined to attribute no small measure of the good times we are now enjoying to favorable conditions in the government of the country. We need not thank the ad- ministration for the bountiful crops of Ne braska, but we cannot refuse the meed of generous prafse to those a sound financial for the movement of the crops. We must get that the good demand fo the consequent good pr who have given us system favorable not for- the crops and 8 can be accounted for largely by the fact that the mills of th east are in full operation, furnishing thou sands of mea with employment and the | means of providing the necessities and com- | . Aperfect Remedy for Conslipa- political organization, constructed on a / ’ iy [ Sutia tasts, magically ewegt away almost ion, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, \”.’|_w l":“hn;m‘h nul]u politiclan. - As |y yeqiately after its triumph by the vagars Worms Convulsions Feverish- KT YOUTR (T O S P o | fes of a new and enigmatical leader that his aess and LOSS OF SLEEP. times he supported McKinley in 1506 agd | NCATt Fevolts against Bryanism will do so again this year for the very good reason that he desires no change in the present conditions. Dr. George Tilden, Dr. George Tilden of Omaha is a dem- ocrat of the old school and one of the hun- dreds of that school in Nebraska who re fuses to bo misled by the vagaries of Wil llam J. Bryan I get my democracy from Jefferson Jackson, Van Buren and Tom Benton, says Dr. Tildeu, “and Bryan says he takes hls from the same source. Mr. Bryan must have read history through glasses decidedly off color, or else he is purposely perverting | bistoric facts to suit his own political pur poses. The democratic party was, until 1806 alwa favorable to the gold standard nd expansion, been gain Bryan says that whatever b 4 for the gold standard has heen Bained by stealth, seeming to forget that the financial legislation of 1834, 1853 and 1873, which tended to establish the gold standard in this country, was given the wil est possible publicity while under consider tlon and approved by the people after en- actment. “When you follow Mr. Bryan you will seldom set foot on the path of rectitude He is evidently imbued with the idea that than to sober thought. The heresy of his mouetary doctrine was known to many in 1896, but it ought to be known to all of us Bow. Certainly the history the last three years, which is the strongest kind of a refutation of his theory, is fresh enough to be clearly understood by everyhody. “I sometimes think it Is because the free silver doctrine has been so thoroughly discredited by recent history that Mr Bryan has seized upon the imperialistic Idea for the thunder of the present cam- palgn. But his position on imperialism is as untenable as his attitude on the finan- clal system. There 15 nothing in the acts or in the avowed intentions of the present administration upon which to basc charge of imperialism, and for that reason | Mr. Bryan's alarm will be sounded without eftect “This government undeniably has cer- tain rights in the Philippines which must be protected. and the only question at is sue involves the methods of guarding these rights. Whatever form of government is ultimately given to the Filipinos must be given to them under our guidance and pro tection, and ordinary prudence should be observed as we proceed in the matter. We should make haste slowly in such an undertaking. We pose today as having the greatest free government of any peo ple on the face of the earth and if we are to extend this form of government to an other nation it must be extended on lines of absolute safety, so that there can be no failure and consequent injury to our reputation and to the cause of freedom ‘The haphazard policy of Mr. Bryan, to set up a free and independent government in the Philippines without having any real assurance of its enduring qualities, has too much of the element of chance in it to be worthy of adoption by this great nation I prefer the policy of President McKinley to proceed orderly and cautiously. Mr Bryan may be a pretty wise man, but his wisdom is not so profound that he can de- cide at present questions that will arise from events of the future. dege B, Wakeley, Judge Eleazer Wakeley of Omaha, who was a conspleuous figure in the democratic ranks half a century ago, when Franklin Pierce led them to a victory which at that time was unprecedented in its magnitude has lived to see his party degenerate into popullsm, where he declines to follow it The judge, who is 78 vears of age, says that he has outlived his party and scarce expects to see it rejuvenated lifetime. His democracy is of such long standing and so deeply rooted that he cannot swear allegiunce to any other p although he hopes for the success of President McKin ley in this campaign. Judge Wakely, who some % ago retired from the bench, is still actively engaged in his profession and cheerily promises to return to political ac- tivity if his party comes back to life be fore he passes away ‘At the present time.” says the judge, 1 am entirely out eof politics. 1 am too old & man and 1 am too fond of the principles of the old democratic party to align myself with the republicans. But in this campaign 1 am making no secret of the fact that | am against Bryan and everything that he rep sent The Chicago platform in 1898 departed widely from the true principles of the demo cratic party and the Kansas City platform is positively revolutionary inNetter and in #pirit. 1 was opposed to the 16 to 1 plank four years ago and the issues added at Kan- sas City only intensify my opposition within his The issue that Mr. Bryan seeks to make paramount in this campaign is not being presented by him with fairness. He talks against imperialiem when no such thing is contemplated by the opposing party. He shouts for freedom and liborty for the i'ili pinos at a time when the opposing party leclares its intention of giving these people the greatest measure of self-government they are capable of exercising. He de claros that the heterogeneous people of the Philippine islands, who have always hecn nied the privileges of free citizen hip and have never had the example of self-govern ment near to them are fit fo the ballot while his party denies the franchise to th negroes of reared in The North Carolina, who have been an environment of re United publicanism fortunes of in no spirit of conquest, acquired of the Philippines. Whether or was wise to take them is a ques‘ion that is now behind us. We must meet con- States, by th war PSS not it rce. | ditions as we find thew, and the problem »i ! triendship and the political tut that is now up for solution, in regard to the Philippinve is wh o do with then Until that question | ved it is the pla dut of the United States to hold onto th ands, and that is exactly what the ent admin stration is doing. Be this governmen a foreign land it has the right to ascertain, to be born therefrom will be cherished 1 agree with the republican party that the Filipinos should be given just that measure 1452 e oo e ot N T e ot e Thun tee | LB SAVRVINE RIVIANUI R RE A fittle of 106 much 1 would be fust as Ay similating the Food and Reguld- {iBES 1 the MALFA A The preset sdmminte ting the Stomachs and Bowe | INFANTS @ CHILDREN Dr. George L. Miller. | whlod Pt a0 I Dr. George L. Miller, for thirty years a - . . leader of t Nebraska democracy, the Promotes Digestion Cheer ful- founder of the Omaha Herald and for Mssn‘flkfilcflmfl"\!f\dm Enenty-four years its elitor and . repre- %mm’mrpmm Ll sy sentative of his state in many national dem cratic conventions of the past, is today the | OT NARCOTIC. most sincere and probably the ablest foe to | [ t of the Miss because Dr. Miller has studied and carefulls digested the practical adjustment, organiza tion aud administration of political affairs | in this and other countries that his mind revolts againgt Bryanism. It I8 because he has spent the test efforts and the best years of his lifo in advancing the principles of tr nocracy In a new and growing west ern commonwealth only to see the resulta Dr. Miller came into the west more than ! forty years ago from New York state, where | in his younger days he enjoyed o personal lage of no than Horatlo Seymour affectionat. esteem in which Seymour is held by the veteran Nebraska editor was nicely shown when some years ago he erected on his Neb ki farm a bronze statue New York statesman It will be remembered that last Miller, feeling that this monument mi by some future tenant of the Nebraska farm be allowed to crumble and fall presented It to the city of Utlca, N. Y., the home of Seymour, where the memory of the states man will always endure and assure good gare for the token in marble and bronze Dr. Miller is somewhat advanced in ars, but ment Tt and fur-sighted as ever. He has 1 from active participation in the business and the politics of the world and less & democr 1o the year Dr. | dent of the | purposes in can have no ulterior consideration in the formulation of his opinions on the questions of important current interest. His views on the great issues commanding public attention in this campaign, being unblased by parti sanship and untrammeled by personal con- siderations, are therefore worthy of more than passing notice. He is pleased to call himselt a McKinley democrat, and if it were not for the fact that he feels pertectly wonfl re-election of the president he might not object to belng designated as an alarmist “1 cannot imagine,” said the doctor. feartul consequences of a Bryan vic The triumph of such dangerous vagari heresies as he advocates would, befo auguration day, be attended by a com- mercial panic &0 dreadful in its nature that it cannot now be pictured. 1 am firmly convinced that such u contingency would bring upon this nation the severest calamity It has ever experienced. excepting, per- haps, the war of the rebellion. The sudden dlsarrangement of our financial system which the Bryan platform portends 1t it means anything, or even a reasonable prob- “the o and in iri river. It is | The FacSimile Signature of NEW YORK. A6 months JHCrNTs the commercial and industrial world have sald before, a general belief in fdency would be sufficient to threaten a res pudiation of all existing obligations, the ruin inseparable from a cheap and fluctuat ing standard of value and currency, and bring upon us an era of unprecedented busi depression, panic and the stagnation | of all industrial pursults, | Upon being asked for his opinion of Bryan's attitude on the Phillppine question, Dr. Miller sald “The cry of imperialism is choice bit of demagogism cateh the votes of the unwary. Knowing that the American people have alway opposed the establishment of a big stand ing army, Mr. Bryan and his henchmen have consilered it expedient to raise thelr cry of militarism. We must remember that 1t was Mr. Bryan and his party who forced the war with Spain, and it was Mr Bryan's influence in tho senate that cured the ratification of the treaty of Pa Mr. Bryan now seeks to escape all respon sibility in relation to the treaty ratifica- tion by dodging behind the Bacon resolu- tion or some other pretext, but as this resolution was defeated before the treaty was ratified, the dodge is neither clever ness another Anything 1 se- Ability ‘ottauch n disaprangextent;; woula/| 105 enectives NOW LIRC B3 trety of Paris throw this country into a confusfon and de- 1810 (eitant And the rasponibility fanileile truction of materlal resources from which it | 41Vided between (he two parties, we find could not recover in a generation. The | Ourselves in possession of the Philippine Bryan idea, that you can, by legislation, add islands and an insurrection What does to or take from the whatever s utterly ab #uch doctrine has been proven time and again and why the intelligent citizens of this country will give respectful attention to the preaching of the nonsense goes be- yond my comprehension. “The inj lue of any commodity urd. The fallacy of tion of this free silver issue into | the McKinley administration propose to do under the circumstance: It proposes, { first, to put down the insurrection and then | to establish for the Filipinos a stable gov | ernment. The ultimate independence of the Filipinos is as well promised by a continu ance of Mr. McKinley's power as it is by the placing of Mr. Bryan in the presidential the politics of the nation was an unforty- | ¢hair. Now, what does Mr. Bryan promise nite proceeding for the initiative of which [ He promises to give the Fillpines an in we may thank the senators from Nevada, | dependent government under a protec- Jones and Stewart. To submit such a sub torate, and what does that mean? b ject to the arbitrament of the ballot boxes | Maintain the protectorate would requ 13 a great misfortune to the country for ob- [ the services of as large an army in the vious reasons. Free silver coinage Is fraud. [ Philippine islands as would be required The free silver theory was put in form for | Under the McKinley program for the estab- political usage by the Nevada Jones, and Bryan, Jones of Arkansas, Town Teller and all others who have seized upon it as a political tool have never in any of their speeches or writings deviated an lota from the notlons expressed in the Nevada man's first speech on the subject ‘It is a theory conceived for the purpose of misleading the people Into the belief that free and unlimlted coinage of silver would put money into their pockets in plenty and enable them to liquidate a dollar of indebt- edness by the production of about one-half of that value. This dishonest notion was put before the people in times of universal pub- lic distress and many of them were found ready to accept it in their eagerness to bring it to an end “It was @& propitious time for the use of just such an instrument of deception and it was particularly available for Mr. Bryan's this state. It was by offering the free silver panacea to the people that Mr. Bryan was enabled to take the leader ship of the Nebraska democracy out of the hands that had led it on sound principles after a struggle of thirty years, to its first victory in the election of Governor Boyd. He succeeded in deluding the majority of the voters in this & p and fondly believes t lishment of a stable government. Is ther any guaranty that a free and independent government in the Philippines would be any less hampered, annoyed and threatened by internal dissensions and revolutionary movements than are the independent r publics of Central America? The only guaranty that [ can see in the Bryan plan would be the maintcnance of an effe tive protectorate by the United States and this smacks as much of militarism as dacs the policy of the present administration The only difference 1 can discern between McKinley and Bryan on the Philippine issue 18 that the former has givem us tangible evidence of his intentions and the latter has given us only vague promises. It is significant that Mr. Bryan does not dare to say that he would withdraw the Ameri- can soldiers from the Philippines before the establishment which work in his day And now I want to state another objec of a stable government 1 believe, would not be ended Drex L's Armored Cruisers— They ave any kind of a weather shoe the e coversd with wminiature delusion still exists. This is why he insisted | hovseshoes of steel, making them ax im upon the 16 to 1 plank going Into the Kan- | penotrable through the sole s one of 8 Clty plattorm. Having carried Nebraska | v 10 gy armored crulsers — then before on the 16 to 1 proposition. he realized | g e 5 ; that without this plank in the platform this | 100k at the good luck that goes with year he would certainly lose the state.|every pair-not only one horseshoe, bhut | Having inculcated the free silver theory | dozens—A hoy always has good luck | In Nebraska four years ago he must neces- |yt vats g pair of them—no matter how | sarily adhere to it at this time in order to : big the boy, just so he Iso’t a4 man, o n the confidence of those he hus brough the boy, just . & man ler his contro! Free silver coinage he how small, just so he isu't a child ards as his salvation in Nebraska. 1f [ Drexel can fit him with a pair of these this delusion he can again secure w ma- | Lorseslioe covered soles—Drexel's hoys jority in this state and elect a popocratic | gizes, Avmored Crulsers, $2.00 -Little legislature, he will seve his own political Tt uixbs &1 standing and a possible seat @ the senate, although he loses the presidential election The loss of Nebraska to him would be tanta |Drexel Shoe Co., mount to casting him into political ob- | livion forever. To revert to the money question, I will 1419 FARNAM STREET. say that there is conclusive proof in his tory that an inflation of th urrency means |~ a contraction of credits, its must rest | upon confidence, and conidence can rec | FIAMES ?—Yes We Make 'Em— only upon a stable currenc What the | people require is an increased volume of Have over five bundred different redi rather than an increased me o mouldings to select from we keep right money. Give us a money that fluc es in | up with all the new novelties and show value and you destroy confidence and th every new mounlding as soon as made destruc 1 of confidenc always paralyzes C Lo T CO LT A Boars the Bignature Tha Kind You Hawe Always Bough CABTORIA. The Kind You Have Always Bought v TASB TORIA. Bears the The Kind You Haie Always Bough Hignature ot we do 5o much framing that we find we ean make a price that is about 0 as the moulding alone we know how to make them right and solicit your fram | Ing, guaranteeing you satlsfaction—we | are showing a number of new pictures by prominent artists that you will en Joy looking at—our art rooms are always open to the public free, A. HOSPE, (Muis wd At (613 Donglnn, | As 1 the probability of Bryan's elcction to the pres GASTORIA ‘For Infants and Children The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature In s8 For Over Thirty Years GASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY. NEW YORK OFPR, tion 1 have to Mr. Bryan, and 1 want (o say that it is the primary, the most Im | portant objection. It is his continuous and unreasonable assaults upon tho established institutions of his country, his unremitting attacks upon the rights of those who own | something and his hostility to the courts | and indirect assaults upon the constitution and law and order. A man who thus pan ders to the desires of the viclous, unsery pulous, envious and irresponsible members of socloty is a dangerous individual to place at the head of our government. 1 can say nothing against Mr. Bryan's private | life, but in public he socialistic revolu | tionist, or he is n in public tend to arr hing. His utterances ¥ class against class and to inculcate the revolutionary spirit among the less fortunate of our people. He is, in truth, a dangerous man. 1 would prefer two or three Philippine wars to one presidency of William J. Bryan." The wolf in the fabie put on sheep's clothing because If ho traveled on his own reputation he couldn't accomplish his pur- pose. Counterfeiters of DeWitt's Witeh Hazel Salve couldn’t sell thelr worthless salves on their merits, o they put them In boxes and wrappers like DeWitt's, Look out for them. Take only DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. It cures piles and all skin diseases s Hix Enemy. I, Aug. 19.—Jogkeph H. 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