The Enid Democrat. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 3, No. 59, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 31, 1896 Page: 3 of 8
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A GREAT 1SATTLEIS ON
organized labor is for the
ELECTION OF BRYAN.
CcMilts of Null
cm £<> st iid Eli
thu Clilcugu
eroui Teat Vote* in Chl-
iwliere—The 1'riuters of
Cold Hug 1'apsrs for
liryuu and Free Silver.
In Omaha 25 per cent of the repub-
lican vote is enrolled in Bryan free su-
rer clubs, while in the country the pro-
portion is larger. These facts are suf-
ficient to justify the national demo-
cratic managers in the belief that the
November election will result in a free
6ilver landslide.
In the little town of Canton, Ills.,
there is a silver republican club of 318
members.
Hon. Emil Hoechester, of Chicago,
has been making speeches to Germans
all over Illinois, and reports that with
ei few exceptions in the targe towns the
German-American vote of the state is
almost solid for Bryan, Altgeld and
tree silver. In St. Clair county, where
a large proportion of the population i«
composed of substantial German farm-
ers, the free silver sentiiftent is over-
whelming, many former republican
Germans ardently supporting Mr.
Bryan.
In order to further their plans of
coercion, intimidation and persecution
of facts, the big corporations have been
taking alleged ballots of their work-
men. In each instance these ballots
were notoriously unfair, the workmen
being obliged to cast their ballots in
boxes designated "McKinley," "Bryan"
or "Palmer," and in plain view of fore-
men or other subordinate officials of
the corporations, the result being that
very few men dared to express their
real sentiments. At the Crane Manu
facturing company of this city the men
were forced to cast ballots of red and
white, the red ballots being for McKin-
ley and the white for Bryan, and these
they were compelled to cast in full
view of the officials of the company
The result, of course, was an over-
whelming majority for McKinley
when, ae a matter of fact, three-fourths
of the men will vote for Bryan.
At the Illinois Steel works in South
Chicago three ballot boxes were used
for voting purposes, labelled, respect
ively, "McKinley," "Bryan" and "Pi '
mer." The men being afraid to cast
ballots in the Bryan boxes naturally
deposited them in the boxes labelled
"McKinley." The result of the ballot
ing, however, was astonishing. Out of
2,700 votes cast, 2,200 of them were for
Bryan, and the remaining 500 were for
McKinley or Palmer. The Bryan bal
lots being deposited in the McKinley
box, the officials were unable to spot
the men. It is unnecessary to say that
this vote was never given to the public
It is known, however, to be absolutely
true.
The five big morning papers of Chi
cago are engaged in an attempt to
show that organized labor is opposed
to Bryan and free silver. It may be
interesting to the goldbug publishers
of those newspapers to show that
361 men employed in their composing
and press rooms, 317 will vote for Bry
an, while but 44 will vote for McKin
ley. These men belong to
labor organization in the world,a:
cannot be bulldozed or coeixed into
stifling their convictions. A ballot w
taken yesterday in the mechanical de-
partments of the newspapers aTOlderi
to with the following result:
Bryan. McKinley.
sentiment Is, however, Increasing so
rapidly in the agricultural districts
thit he feels absolutely certain that
the state will give even a much larger
majority. Mr. Bailey said: "If there It-
any one state of the Union that ie
sure to go for Bryan Indiana is that
one. I know what I am talking about;
a canvass of the state by counties as-
sured me of this fact."
The workingmen of Mark Hanna's
own neighborhood in Cleveland, O.,
have repudiated him. The employes
in the shops of the Walker Manufac-
turing company of Cleveland, located
within a mile of Mark Hanna's resi-
dence, have in a secret and perfectly
fair ballot declared in favor of Bryan
by an overwhelming majority. The
company employs over 300 men in both
departments, and nearly all are voters.
In a total vote of 326 Bryan gets 273
votes and McKinley 33. The ballot was
fair and a secret one.
Reports from Ohio also indicate a
regular stampede of republican farm-
ers to Bryan. A canvass of Tusca-
aras county shows that in ten town-
ships the republicans who intend to
ote for Bryan are as follows: No. 1,
1; No. 2, 74; No. 3, 18; No. 4, 18;
3. 5, 37; No. 6, 56; No. 7, 74; No.
117; No. 9, 176; No. 10, 44, making
total of 685 voters who are le|ving
the republican party, or a net gam ol
72 in that county, as the canvass
..towed that there were only thirteen
anti-silver democrats. Similar reports
come from Knox, Coshocton and
Wayne counties.
Hon. W. S. McComes arrived Thurs-
day from making a series of speeches
in Maryland. He reports that Mary-
land is aflame with free silver senti-
ment. In a conversation had with Sen
ator Gorman just before coming ti
Chicago Mr. McComas says that Mr.
Gorman informed him that Bryan
would carry every county in Maryland
and that the only fight at all is in Bal-
timore, and that Baltimore will go for
Bryan by a safe majority.
Fusion between the democrats and
populist3 has been completed in Indi-
ana, the democrats having ten electors
and the populists five electors on the
national ticket. This fusion is perfect-
ly satisfactory to all parties, and as-
sures Indiana to Bryan by a majority
of not less than 25,000.
The demand at national democratic
headquarters for free silver literature
i3 on the increase, and has reached pro-
portions during the presentweek which
tax every effort of the literary bureau
to meet. These requests come from
every state in the union and are almost
invariably accompanied by statements
that the free silver sentiment is grow-
ing and gaining strength every day.
They show that the feeling for Bryan
instead of being on the wane, as as
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.^•M^iF^cUSa FREE SILVER VIEW II 1894.
l... Lt. A i.ear as 1.-1 A r-uslmt nicotlni! W
w:t! bo 000 votes [ ' _ ||„B b> tlio McKinley
no Democrats who prediction of tlio London Financial t,.p Jiew headquarter*
Many of them will flews Ancnt Possible Adoption ol ,itreot. Mpecclys
Chrup Mcacy hy America. KOtt,
i for MftKmley. hut
hold the orranlza-
ratJo rurposes. Al- |
r friends arc nbiuj- ,f SPECIAL CABLE BY BALLARD SMITH. 1
111 working for tho fcondon, Oct. 2.—[Copyr!ght, 18DC, by the
Ay tlckct. But wo presv. Publlahlr.fr Company, New York
.""and Is now a I World.]-The World correspondent exam-
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others.
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Tho Eons of Out#
series of monthly lj
Oct. 7. at 12:30 p. r
Is as much worse I Inod today a file of thu 1-innncial News in gubject for discuss
man as flat money I its office and quotes the following cxtrart |,<ln -nces." Willis
iaro. Tlio sound fr0m an editorial In its lssuo of April i>0, state's Attorney,
nent will he chiefly 1594 • go of silv-1. anil
lere in tr.o State. .. Thero can b6 no <joubt about lt tiir.t If 'ol the National
the United Buu. ■won, -to £* •}*« ^LuoVu^
car publicly, but basis tomorrow, British tradewouldbe
UQy ruined before a year was out, for American
P D Industry would bo protected not only at Dnkern* McICIv
f tern or twenty homo but in overy other market." The night force
are ostensible ——- ... , . , 1 ranlr.od the Bak
William W. Oiliorne DlabsrM. Thursday evening
Washington, P. C., Oct. 2,-Secretary wlth -'01 member*
but who will
ey pet by them-
nd their vote is
ts to Palmar,
section want to
Dlib.iri'ed.
w Oct. 2.—Secretary
Francis has disbarred from practice before those officers: Pi
tho interior department William W. Osborne Vice President. Pav
section want to x"° 1 * .f . f receiving lllcnal poa- Michael Crampton;
J. If he should of Lansing. Uich.. for welting J.iegai yen garget-**-*
raoc at Illinois j loa £ec«
The Chicago Tribune, after charging an article in the London Financial News, (which prophesied great pros
perity for the United States and ruin for England in event of free coinage of silver in this country) to be a
forgery, has finally acknowledged through its own columns the truth of the Financial News article. The pho-
tographic reproduction printed above is from the Chicago Tribune of Saturday, Oct. 3. Read it, and then vote
for the conditions to be brought about by free silver coinage.
BRYAN IS A WINNER.
REPORTS FROM DEMOCRATIC
CAMPAIGN ENCOURAGING.
Pulling Hanna's Leg — That Is What the
Southern Republicans Have lieen Do-
ing in the Most Artistic Manner—
Silver Sentiment Coutiuuos.
This, it will be seen, will make a differ-
ence of 8,000 votes In the majority, and
will carry that congressional district
by the largest majority ever known.
Similar reports come from Ohio, Wis-
consin and Iowa.
Chicago, Oct. 8.—(Special.)—Convinc-
ing evidence is accumulating daily at
National Democratic headquarters that
Mr. Bryan will sweep the southern,
western and central middle states in
November. This claim is not based
upon reports of enthusiastic politicians,
but is the result of careful investiga-
tion, and very careful canvasses made
in the debatable territory by national,
state and local managers of the free sil-
ver campaign. The wild statements
sent out during the past four or five
days by the Republican managers, in
which they claim certain western
states by majorities so large that they
appear ridiculous even to Republicans,
NOT A FORCEFY.
The
is further evidence that they have
i'prted'bv'eoldbug organs, is assuming I nothing on which to base their claims,
the proportions of a national political —•u-: 1
revolution. There is an overwhelming
demand this week for German litera-
ture, the reports Bliowing a remarkable
change of sentiment among German
voters toward Bryan and free silver.
There are about 275 reporters and
editorial writers employed on the Chi-
cago papers. A careful canvass shows
that 255 of them will vote for William
Bryan. Of the 61 writers on the staff
of the Chicago Times-Herald 56 are for
free silver and are earnest personal
workers for Bryan and Sewall,
INGERSOLL FOR SILVER.
Tribune
Record
Chronicle
Inter Ocean...
Times-Herald
63
62
CO
57
55
Total 317 44
The vote for governor of Illinois
stood aa follows:
Altgeld.
Tribune 71
Record
Chronicle
Inter Ocean 61
Times-Herald 59
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\n Eloquent Eirtaet from lIlJ Addregl
to the Farmer* of Illinois.
Republican newspapers have some-
times referred to Colonel Robert G.
Ingersoll in this campaign as an op-
ponent of free silver and a supporter
of the single gold standard. We aro
sure this must do Colonel Ingersoll
great Injustice, for he does not ordi-
narily place himselt on both sides of I have actually
while their only hope lies in making
unsupported claims in the vain hope of
bolstering up a lost cause. It is known,
however, that inside reports obtained
at the McKinley headquarters are
widely different from those given out to
the gold press. For instance, it Is
known that a Republican canv&ss of
Nebraska gives that state to McKinley
by only 3,000 majority. This report is
clouded hy the statement that, in o. der
to carry Nebraska work must be done
between now and November, a sure
indication that the Republicans have
no hope of carrying that state.
A Democratic canvass or Nebraska
shows that Bryan will carry it by not
less than 25,000; the Democratic poll
showing a Republican defection in
every county of the state, including
Douglass county, and Omaha, of from
20 to 25 per cent. The Republican man-
agers are sure of this fact, and rely
wholly upon wild and unsupported
claims to keep up the courage of th?ir
followers. The same thing is true in
Kansas, except that Republican leaders
conceded that state.
1
Total 354
It will be seen from the above bal
lots that the estimate made by labor
leaders in Chicago that nine-tenths of
the organized labor vote of Chicago
will be cast for Bryan and free silver,
is a correct one.
A Wisconsin banker and cattleman,
n strong advocate of the gold standard,
writes from Fargo, S. D., where he
has been for several weeks looking
after his interests—that he has been
converted to the eause of "sound mon-
ey," gold and silver at 16 to 1. He
says: "I have learned more ot the
true condition and the needs of the
producing classes—the farmer, cattle-
men and laborers of the west, on this
trip than I ever knew before, and
am at libirty to confess that I have
been compelled to make a complete
change in front on the financial ques-
tion. You may count upon me to do
what I can henceforward to secure
the election of Mr. Bryan ae well as
the silver congressman in my dis-
trict."
In one of Armour & Co. s shops at
the stock >ards a similar vote resulted:
C75 for Bryan and 125 for McKinley.
This vote was also suppressed. Wher-
ever the men have had a fair chance
to express their views the result has
been an overwhelming majority for
Bryan.
lion. Thomas N. Patterson, ot Colo-
rado, will speak in Michigan from Oc-
tober 7 to 13, Inclusive; in Illinois from
October 15 to 21, inclusive; in Iowa
from October 23 to 27, Inclusive; in
KuiiHas from October 29 to 31, iuclu-
slve.
lion. Leon Halley, of Indianapolis,
■wan nt national headquarter® to-day.
Mr. Bailey nays that if the election
any great public question. In an ad-
dress to the farmers of Illinois, deliv-
ered in 1891 and given in full in hia
volume of speeches and lectures pub-
lished by the Rhodes & McClure Pub-
lishing company, of Chicago, Colonel
Ingersoll thus spoke in his own pictur-
esque style on this subject:
"For my part I do not ask any inter-
ference on the part of the government,
except to undo the wrong it has done.
I do not ask that money be made out
of nothing. I do not ask for the pros-
perity born of paper. But I do ask
for the remonetization of silver. Sil-
ver was demonetized by fraud. It was
an imposition upon every solvent -nan;
a fraud upon every honest debtor in
the United States, lt assassinated la-
bor. It wa6 done in the interest of
avarice and greed, and should be un-
done by honest men."
This eloquent extract is to be found
on page 19 of the volume of his
speeches above referred to. One who
spoke from such strong convictions
then cannot have gone over to the sup-
port of the single gold standard now
and become an apologist for the very
crime here so strongly denounced. We
are satisfied, therefore, that the nub-
liehed report that Colonel Ingersoll is
opposed to the remonetization of sil
ver is gross and unfounded libel.
The Republican goldbug papers have
already begun to fear that, as one of
them prints, "in the event of McKin
ley's election, the Republican political
managers will find themselves handi-
capped with expectations which can-
not be easily realized." It is entirely
unnecessary that McKinley's backers
should begin, either now or later, to
pave the way for their utter failure
to redeem any of the extravagant prom-
ises they have been making the coun-
try of great prosperity and good times
in the event of McKinley's eleotion,
for that contingency will never arise,
and they will have no occasion after
the eleotion to explain.
The railroad hosses mav drive their
men into McKinley clubs and compel
them to go to Canton, but they cannot
were hi Id to-day, Indiana would give i compel them to vote a McKinley bal-
Bryan 25,000 majority. Free sllvor j lot.
This .being the case, it is absolutely
certain that Bryan will carry every
state west of the Missouri river, clear
to the Pacific coast.
It is also known that the Republican
managers have privately conceded to
Bryan every southern state. A prom-
inent Chicago railway official, in close
touch with Republican national head-
quarters, has, within the past two
days, made the candid admission that
McKinley stood no more chance of
carrying any southern state than he
has of carrying Colorado, and he ad-
mitted that Bryan would carry Colo-
rado by 75,000 majority. This railway
official, in the same private conversa-
tion, stated that any man who offered
to bet $1 on McKinley was cither a
born fool or painfully anxiously to part
with hiB money. He further stated that
the talk about carrying Texas, Tennes-
see, North Carolina and other south-
ern states for McKinley has been man-
ufactured by a clique of southern Re-
publican politicians solely for the pur-
pose of "pulling Mark Hanna's leg;"
that they had succeeded in doing so,
and that was all they expected; lhat
not one of the states would fail in
giving Bryan an overwhelming major-
ity. This view, he stated, was ob-
tained from a personal trip throughout
the states in auestion.
R'.ports from every so-called debata-
ble state received during the past two
weeks show that the silver sentiment is
increasing at a rate never before
known since the inception of the move-
ment. Republicans, everywhere, espe-
cially amoi.K the farmers nnd laboring
men, are coming out boldly and joining
the Bryan ranks. In many of the
counties of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minne-
sota there is a wholesale stampede of
Republican farmers to the support of
Bryan. Instead of being on the wane,
the silver movement is growing more
rapidly ihan it has at any time dur-
ing tho paBt two months. One or two
instances will show this feeling. D. H.
Harts of Lincoln. 111., reports that a
careful poll has been made of Clay:
Wayne, Christian, Logan and Sanga-
mon counties, showing a net gain over
all dlBafTected Democrats of twenty
votes to a precinct, making a total net
gain of 4,000 voteB In tnese counties.
it* 1,miilon Financial N«w
Article Proviin to He Genuine.
Chicago, Oct. 9.—(Special.)—The fol-
lowing cablegram from London ap-
peared in the Chicago Tribune, the
most partisan goldbug newspaper in
America, and should forever set at rest
any doubt as to the authenticity of the
celebrated London Financial News ar-
ticle, which has oeen so vigorously de-
nied by the goldbug press:
"London, Oct. 2.—(Copyrighted, 189G,
by the Press Publishing Company, New
York World.)—The World correspond-
ent examined to-day a file of the Lon-
don Financial News in its office, and
quotes the following extract from an
editorial in its issue of April 30, 1894:
"There can be no doubt about it that
if the United States were to adopt a sil-
ver basis to-morrow British trade
would be ruined before a year was out,
because American industry would be
protected not only at home, but in
every other market."
In addition to the above proof, the
following affidavit has been received
by the national Democratic press bu-
reau at national headquarters:
"I, William Durant, proprietor of The
Press Cutting agency, of 57 Holborn
Viaduct, Iti the County of London, do
solemnly and sincerely declare that I
have examined the file of 'Financial
News' newspapers at the British mu-
seum (London) and that the article at-
tached hereto, now produced and
shown to me marked: 'A' and headed
'England and the Silver Question,' ap-
peared in that journal on the 30th day
of April, 1894, and that the reprint at-
tached as aforesaid Is an exact copy.
And I make this solemn declaration
conscientiously believing the same to
be true and by virtue of the provisions
of the statutory declarations act of
1835. (Signed.) W. DURANT."
"Declared at Giltspur Chambers, Hol-
born Viaduct, in the city of London,
the 25th day of September, one thou-
sand eight hundred and ninety-six, be-
fore me,
"ROBERT H. HUMPHREY,
"A Commissioner for Oath."
Notwithstanding the fact that the
Chicago Tribune printed the above ca-
blegram from London in its news col-
umns, its editorial columns to-day de-
nounces the London Financial News
article as a Democratic forgery. It
only shows the Tribune's capacity for
lying is only exceeded by its love for
British gold power. If the Chicago
Tribune can lie so cgregiously In this
instance, what confidence can the pub-
lic place in any statement made by
that mendacious sheet?
BRYAN SURE OF VICTORVt
Wane* a Meneri Statement Kxprennlr
Confluence In IIIff SuoeMl.
W. J. Bryan will certainly be the
next president of the United States
Tho campaign has progressed far
enough to show that the result la mere
ly a question o£ how largo a majority
tho people will roll up against the
domination of Wall street and the
supremacy of the English gold stand
ard. Mr. Bryan has Issued the follow
Ing signed statement which fully coin
cides wltli and verifies the judgment
and sentiment of the overwhelming
majority of the people. It looks as If
the election was going to be a land
slide, a tidal wave which will sweep all
before it. The following is Mr. Bryan
statement, issued to the press Satur
day morning from Cincinnati:
"I have no doubt of my election.
base my confidence upon the fact that
the free coinage sentiment is growing
every day. The people are studying
the money question, and the study of
it is convincing the people generally
that there can be no prosperity so long
as the gold standard is maintained
"The gold standard makes a dearer
dollar. A dearer dollar makes falling
prices, and falling prices mean hard
times. The people who profit by hard
times arc relatively so few in number
that they would amount to nothing at
all but for the fact that they are aided
by a considerable number of people
who, not having studied the money
question themselves, have received in-
structions from a few financiers.
"The number of republicans who
have declared for free silver outnum-
bers the democrats who have deserted
the ticket, and while the number of
silver republicans Is Increasing all the
time, the number of bolting democrats
is all the time decreasing.
"While I have no doubt as to my elec-
tion, I believe that the advocates of
free coinage should work from now
to election day to make the majority
in the electoral college so large that no
party hereafter will ever dare to pro
pose submission to a foreign financial
policy.
"W. J. BRYAN.
UlYAN AFTERTiiUSTS
Y POCFI3Y OF THOSE WHO
PROF L^jS TO FEAR LAWS.
i* Kin ley 1
Candidate
Against
linn.
Kepnblirat.
ord to Say
Tliry Own
CENTER SHOT.
Here I« the Opion of a Well Known
Kngllfthman the Double Standard.
Lord Liddesdale, for many years
governor of the Bank of England, and
a gentleman well versed in the finances
of the world, made the following state-
ment at a recent banquet held in Lon-
don:
"If the American people had the
courage of their conviction and adopt
the double standard of gold and silver,
no matter at what ratio, they would in-
side of a year command the trade of
the East—India Straits Settlements,
China and Japan. Unless England
should follow suit and adopt a bimetal-
lic standard she would inside of
eighteen months cease to be a com-
mercial factor of the markets of the
world. "i1W whole of the silver using
countries of the earth would throw
their trade to this country. They
would buy of that nation that places
the highest value upon their currency
In addition to the oriental countries
sending their trade to America, in the
event of the silver issue carrying the
day, the whole of the South American
republics would at once become a
great commercial factor abroad, for
gain is greater than sentiment in build-
ing up trade. American cargoes would
find their way into the waters of every
silver-using country.
"The fanners of America would not
have to compete with depreciated India
wheat."—(See page 701 of Arena for
September.)
FALSEHOOD AND MENDACITY
Weapons Used by tlio Republicans To
ward tho Closo of the Campaign.
President E. Benjamin Andrews of
Brown university, the distinguished bi-
metalliet and most famous educator of
New England, declares that never
since the slavery fight of forty years
ago, has the press of the country been
so completely given over to malicious
misrepresentations and the mendacity
of greed as it is today in its fight
against bimetallism. As the campaign
proceeds, it becomes more and more
venomous and unscrupulous, and it is
perfectly evident that the Republicans
and their allies will hesitate at no-
thing, however desperate, that offers
them a hope of success.
The Democratic national committee
is advised from several different
sources that the Republicans have
sprung the charge in certain communi-
ties that Mr. Bryan Is a member of the
A. P. A., and that he once edited an
A. P. A. paper. In other communities
lt is alleged that Mr. Bryan boarded In
Washington with a Catholic family
and attended mass oftener than he did
his own church. To such contemptible
methods has the Republican campaign
to maintain tho gold standard come,
Against all sueh as these the public Is
warned. The dally peddlers of malice
and mendacity will do their worst be-
tween this time and the day of elec-
Mr. Bryan and Major McKinley art
making speeches daily to crowds of
people. Mr. Bryan discusses every is-
sut> Involved in the campaign in the
most direct and unequivocal manner.
1c does not quibble and he evades
othlng. He is especially outspoken In
opposition to and in denunciation of
he trusts, syndicates and combina-
tions formed to throttle legitimate
business and exact unreasonable profits
from the people.
Major McKinley, on the other hand,
deals largely in generalities and mean-
ingless platitudes, and seems all the
line to be trying to talk without say-
ing anything. Ho uses words chiefly
o conceal Ills ideas, If, indeed, he has
ideas, lie is direct and explicit in
nothing. He is especially silent and
evasive on the subject of trusts, syndi-
cates and combinations, and doesn't
even seem to know that such things
exist. His silence In regard to them
can mean nothing else than his en-
dorsement of them, If not, indeed, their
absolute ownership of him. If McKin-
ley should be elected, every trust and
syndicate and ring and combination in
restraint of trade In all the land could
go to Washington and demand of him
its compensation for electing him
in additional privileges and profits at
the expense of the people, and they
would not be slow In going, cither.
In striking contrast to this position
of entire subserviency to those special
Interests that need the strong curb of
the law was Mr. Bryan's severe de-
nunciation of the trusts in his recent
speech In Tammany hall. Mr. Bryan
began his remarks with a reference
to the charge recently made In a speech
by ex-President Harrison that the
democratic national platform Is a men-
ace to the government, and follows
that with his denunciation of the
trusts. He said:
"My friends, I call your attention to
the fact that ex-President Harrison as-
serts that our platform places the gov-
ernment In danger. If that were true,
we might well turn from tho discussion
of any other question to consldM
wherein it mcnaces the continuation ol
constitutional government, and there li
nothing in tho Chicago platform that
menaces constitutional government.
There Is nothing in the Chicago plat-
form that would make the executiva
of the United States feeble in enforo-
ing all the laws of the nation or feeblt
in defending the constitution of thf
nation; and there Is nothing In thai
platform that assails the Integrity or
questions the honesty of the supreme
court of the United States or of any
one state. (Applause.)
"I challenge you to read that plat-
form and find In that platform a singly
sentence that justifies the languag*
used by the ex-preBident.
"Our criticism of the supreme court
is not as severe as the criticism and
the platform upon which Abraham Llni
coin was elected in 1860. The languag*
that I have used in regard to the su-
premo court has not been as severe aa
the language used by Abraham Lln«
coin both before his election and aftei
his election to the presidency. (Ap-
plause.) There is nothing in our plat*
form concerning tho invasion of thl
state by federal troops; that appoari
in force and Is emphasized In the plat«
form of 1860 upon which Mr. Llnooln
was elected. There Is nothing that hai
been said In the platform or by its can-
didate that justifies tho charge that th«
democratic party is assailing constitu-
tional government or interfering witb
the preservation of law and order. (Ap-
plause.)
"Who Is lt that Is so afraid that lat
will not be enforced? (Cries of 'Hanna?
Hanna!' and applause.) Those wh^
are most fearful that there will be (
lax enforcement of the law are ti/
very persons who would suffer most 1)
tho laws were enforced. (Applause.)
"ThoBe persons who are afraid tha(
law will be violated with Impunity ar<
the ones who have violated the law
with Impunity.
"If Mr. Harrison wants to raise thl
question of the survival of our Institu-
tions, I will tell him that the great
trusts of this country that are support-
ing the republican ticket are the great-
est menace to our government.
"The trusts of this country, wlU
their representatives, are collectlni
tribute from the people, and when w
protest against it they call us disturb-
ers of the peace and anarchists. (Ap-
plause.)
"I am opposed to trusts. (Applause.)
As an executive I shall use what powet
I have to drive every trust out of ex-
istence. (Tremendous applause.)
"If present laws are not sufficient to
meet this evil, I, If elected, will recom-
mend such laws as will. (Applause.)
"If the constitution of the United
States Is so construed as to prevent
tion. During the next two weeks the
Republican press will revel In false- I any interference with the operations ol
hoods and misrepresentations. Let no
friend of Bryan and free silver be mis-
led, discouraged or influenced lu tlio
slightest degree thereby.
The bolting Democrats who have
nominated Palmer and Buckner aro the
same men who accomplished the com-
plete destruction of silver as money In
1873. Since then wages have gone
down one-half, and 3,000,000 able
bodied men have been thrown out of
employment.
The farmers must Btand together and
protect themselves against the drone*
of society, who produce nothing but
law ."—Prince Bismarck In 1895.
the trust, I shall recommend such
amendment to the constitution as will
permit tho punishment of these men.
(Applause.)
"My friends, there Is a great contest
In this country, which must be settled,
and that Is whether a few men, banded
together, are more powerful than uH
the people.
"And while I do not wish to array
class against class, I am willing to
array all tho people who will suffer
from the operations of these trusts
agalnBt the few people who operata
tho trusts." (Applause.)
Friends of Mr. Bryan figure for him «
majority as high as 35 000 lu N tshu
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Mair, L. G. & Jones, A. J. The Enid Democrat. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 3, No. 59, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 31, 1896, newspaper, October 31, 1896; Enid, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc157066/m1/3/: accessed June 12, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.