Show BRYAN BRYA TALKS IN T Opens the tl e Wisconsin Cam CalU Campaign Campaign to Big Crowd I SPEAKS BEAKS OF SILVER AJ DoF OF IMPERIALISM T Points Out Inconsistencies of the Republicans Milwaukee Win Wis Sept 8 W J JB Bryan B an made a tI rail rall railroad railroad road run from Chicago to Milwaukee today to open th Democratic national campaign In lp Wisconsin Ninetysix minutes after the candidates special train left Chicago Mr Bryan Brjan B an was bow bowing bowing ing lug to an enthusiastic crowd which met him at the th station hire here h re I Chicago hUd a It conspicuous share in inthe Inthe inthe the days doings Mayor layor Harrison and the Cook County Democratic Marching club with a brass band accompanying Mr lIr Bryan Bran on the train The special was met at Western Union junction by Mayor 11 or Rose and other ather Milwaukee officials dais and citizens of At Atthe Atthe Atthe the Milwaukee ee station a band was play playIng Ing lug Mr Bryan Br an and Mayor Harrison were w re retaken taken in carriages at the head of a procession to the city hall hail where the national candidate made mute acknowledgment acknowledgment to the crowds greeting After a brief pause vause Mr Bryan was driven to the residence of W V G Bruce chairman of the Milwaukee and county Democratic committee for luncheon Mayors in a Ball Bail Game Gams Mayor Harrison Harrson and Mayor Rose went to National park to pitch a base baseball baseball baseball ball aral and the Cook county march marchers ers were nore ken in street cars to Na National park where they the were served a luncheon until the speakers arrived at The crowd croud grew impatient Impatient tient with waiting The band played 1 popular airs and colored minstrels sang sangin itt in a win vin e effort Tort to assuage the weariness weariness ness of the tho throng thronS Finally nor Peek Peck introduced Mayor Harrison who apologized for his part in the de do delay deIllY lay IllY pleading his engagement at the ball bail game and complaining because e the Chicago JIl w re d Louis is x r j candidate for governor gov fi r followed Mayor M Harrison speaking un Mr Mt Bryan who was cheered en enthusiastically enthusiastically was ready to begin his address Mr Brah smiled as he walked to the front of the platform adjusted his blue and white battered necktie flicked the dust off his blue serge coat waited for Cot the cheering to abate and proceed proceeded I ed d to attack the Republican party Darty and Its platform with which he said the I Republican party was engaged in joint argument Bryan Speaks on Silver Mr lIr Bran saId sad in r part art Jart The Re Republican Republican publican party is not prepared to de do defend defend fend its posit 1 on upon any an auction quion now before b fore the country It is out the defensive on every question and yet et it itis itIs itis is not able to defend itself The Te ques question question question tion that t leaders lenders want to talk about is the money mone question and yet the are no better able to defend the Republican position on the money question than they are on other ques questions questiOns The only reason they prefer to talk about the money question is that when they talk on the trusts and im imperialism they cannot use any arguments arguments ments meats and nr laughter iau The difference between the Republican Republican lican party ary tart and the Democratic party Darty in was that both favored the double standard the Republican wanted to secure the double standard I Iby by bv foreign forel aid and the Democrats wanted to secure it without the aid aidor aidor or 01 consent of any nation on earth Ap Applause Applause Applause Since 1896 the Republican party part has put Jut itself in favor of the two metals as against the one metal For how else can you defend I the action of a president in sending a I commission to Europe to ask other na nations nations to help helD hel us restore the double standard How else can rou you defend the action of a n Republican congress Which is appropriating money morey to pay I Ithe the expenses ex of or a commission while in j to get the th double stand standI I 1 ard How can you defend it except on the theory theora that the double standard is i good goodRead I Read the financial bill 1311 that was passed within a n year and section 14 declares that the bill is not intended to stand as an obstacle in the way of I restoring the double standard when I Iother other nations will help us to restore it Applause se That is within a year and that bill received the sanction of ofa a Republican house of representatives and a Republican senate and a Republican Republican lican Hcan president put his signature to the bill bilI that had section 14 in it Ap Applause Applause Applause Since when did the Republican par party party party ty become convinced that the gold standard was good That conversion took place at Philadelphia and only since the national convention has the Republican party stood openly and avowedly for the gold standard You will find that the Republican party now is in joint debate with its platform Laughter Points Out Inconsistency Read what their platform said at Philadelphia We Vc renew our allegiance allegiance allegiance ance to the people for the gold stand standard standard standard ard We Ve e renew our allegiance why to renew means to restate what you said before and that is the first time they ever stated that position and declare our confidence in the wisdom of the legislation of the congress by b which the parity of all our money and the stability of our curren currency cy on a gold basis has been secured congratulated the country that it had been done that now it Is secure and within two months they are afraid it itIs itIs ItIs Is not so Laughter The position of the Democratic par party party party ty on the money question Is known It has undergone no change Applause The same Democratic platform that de declared dared cared In favor of the restoration o of bi bl bimetallism bimetallism also declared that In this campaign the restoration of the principles plea pIes of found in the Declaration of Independence the paramount issue of the hour Ap Applause Applause Applause UN Now ow the Republicans say that the I maintenance ce of the th gold standard is isi J i Continued on Page Pasc 2 BRYAN j TALKS IH IN I MILWAUKEE Continued from fro page 1 1 the paramount question queston If I there th e is s any man here who believes that any financial system is more Important than the form of government under he lives then he he can agree agee with the Republican party I want to show how you the th kind of argument that the Re publican party presents to the Ger mans nans who you all al know are opposed Gr to militarism The German Gena says I dont want ant a a large lare amy The Republican leader leter slaps him on the back jack and says Never mind about your army any just so you have a abut gold dollar dolar Iii h your pocket pocket Laughter The German Geran says I dont believe In n a system that takes the best years of a young mans life and devotes army arY and the Republican leader slaps him on the shoulder and says Never mind your boys bys provided you have got a gold dollar doUaI In your pocket pocket Laughter The German says I came to this country count because I believe beleve in liberty 1 I came here because I believe bel eve the te people are ire the source of power I am here because I want ant the individual to have his rights respected r ted ed and his tion in the government protected and the Republican leader pats Dats him on the shoulder and says Never mind liber ty never neer mind never neer mind anything but the dollar doUar Laugh ter and applause We are not responsible for the in of this question into politics If 11 the Republican party had not brought these questions into existence we wc might mj ht have fought this presidential I campaign c on domestic and economic Questions ns As A to a a Ful Full Dinner Dier Pail Pa If I a laboring man that ma says he does doe I not like the menace of a large lare army if ary he says sav that he does not like imperi what is the Republican Imper answer to him It I is not the gold standard te it is the gold old dinner pail pal Laughter It Tf a man aT Ys hn 1 head bead the Republican party says nays par What do you talk about your head for if It your stomach is full fuU T The Thi full fun dinner nail nai argument Is an a insult to the man ma who Is complaining that there thre are forces at work which mean his de do and the overthrow of the government he loves But the dinner rail pail is not always full fuU I read in this mornings paper a Republican paper naper down at Chicago an article artcle which describes a threatened strike in Ia the anthracite region reg on and ad I find the figures given by a member of the National Board of ot United Mine Workers of America now in session at Indianapolis I find that the average daily daly wages received by miners miner is 2135 The average wages to day men at mines is 90 DO cents and one of ot them Fred Dilcher of Ohio it i was stated spoke for all aU when he said that it was merely merlY a question queston whether the men should starve to death at work or starve tare in idleness Great applause Ninety cents cent a day for their work at the te mine Six days in the week six nines Think of It I my friends frends 50 a week for a man to sup port a family on It gives no chance for a man to rise in the th world Refers er to Duns Dus Report Take the statistics furnished by b Duns Dans report in which you will find every eer week that the number of ot wU failures this week is a little larger than the same week last lat year and that every month of this year yea has ha shown more failures than the same month of last Year vear Down Dow in Massachusetts the op are discussing the reduction of at wages of employees in cotton mills mUs 10 it per ver cent and this mornings paper an announces announces flounces that a man in New Haven had discharged men and being a Re Republican publican and not being willing to ad admit admit admit mit the truth he said he did It for fear I was going goin to be elected and he could not take tae them back bak until the ther r f n Tt o over t QT But what did the Republican party promise In the way of money Noth ing ing and what we got we e got got not be because because because cause of the Republicans but without regard recard to them Did the Republican party discover gold In the Klondike There is nothing said in the platform about it i Laughter Lu We did not know that tat If the te Republican party ex expected expected expected to find gold anywhere It would in British possessions They had hada a famine In Europe and ad we sold them breadstuffs at a high price and got in some money mone Did the Republican par ty cause the famine But suppose the Republican party was wa responsible for everything that has hn happened that gave any benefit for those who worked for tor wages the Republican party has offset also the benefits that the laboring man has ha re received receIved received by allowing aloin trusts to extort from him when he comes to buy what nhat hat he has to buy Tauy buy Great applause Let the laboring laboring man spend send his money for something that he needs and then he will wi find fn fin for whom the Republican party has ha been looking lookIng out He will find that the trusts have raised wi the price for what he has hn to buy more mor rap rp idly Idly than any Republican legislation has hn or can cn raise rise the amount of his In Income Income income come You will wU find that the laboring man the ordinary business ma man has no share in these trusts and yet he suffers from all aU of them n |