Show BRYAN A SPEAKS S ON ILLI ILLINOIS OIS CO CONTESTI Says in the Convention of That State the Majority Was Vas Not Allowed to Kule Hule FRAUD DELIBERATELY PUNNED PLANtED Was Openly and anil anI Notorious ly I jail ling Hilled and Gaul Gang Him Ilan It II fly Men Ien In Control St Louis July Jul 7 J mints made two speeches In lit tho the convention on the Ule report of the UIl committee on ere cre credentials In III which he tae used u ed bitter ling bang tinge ungo 11 Ills IH opening speech follows I cuine canoe to this title convention convection In the tho hope ho o that we WC e would bo he able to agree on platform on candidates and have 1110 nothing to tl stir lilli the feelings or rouse roUM contention 1 I still hope that wo we shall be he able to upon a n platform that hut will represent thu tho of or nil df Of Ofus us HO sO tint that wo ire 10 cnn can present It to the tho country us ON the platform of a 1 united wilted parly hurt I 1 will go KO than that thill I still hope that We wu be able to 10 pre Ire present sent to the thO country u a ticket behind which It u rat can stout stand u I united party And AndI I regret that I nm am compelled II ell to 10 come como In nt lit this time nod and present a n subject upon which your yum votes voles will bo lie nut Hut If there Is IH one olle Democratic principle more fundamental that than another anether It Is In the tho tight of or a II to rule If It you destroy the hi a 1 tI lorto of ot that t hI i t principle h le theta then IH Is I nothing that can caul hold hell n II party to together together gether gother And And Ancl my 11 friends It Il Is because I 1 want the Democratic party to 10 stunt stand on nn tho the principle of ot majority that I tome cum I item hero wad and present the mi nil minority nor ty in this case epee caseIn In lit tho state of or Illinois the law lie majority was not allowed to rule That co colt on wax tile dominated by it a clique of or men lIell who deliberately purposed bodily LOlli trampled on the rights of ho time people of nt Illinois My lily nettle friends the evi evidence fence dence shown that no nn band bluish of ot train rob robbers bees bers ever r planned a n robbery robber upon A Atrain 1 atrain train snore more deliberately or ur with Ilith less conscience thin than they did And Anil these men melt who planned It II and who curried carried cart led It out have the tho audacity the Impudence and ond the Insolence to its say suy that they certify that what they did regular r you cannot RO go behind their certificates Ir It that Is good law In iii tine tho Democratic convention Il It ought aught to he be good doctrine In a 1 court and If It It Is good doctrine In n II court then the only thing lg that thul train robbers have to di do 10 In lit tho the future Is in In to make n a 1 I of their over their own I l reply that after they have committed ll their crime aline all 1111 that train robbers will hove have to do Is 18 to certify over their th It own signatures that It Il wan tuns n II voluntary collection taken up I for or n r religious g purposes n n and deny deity you the right to RO go If 0 behind the line returns Mr mode n a severe arraign arraignment arraignment ment of or tho the methods of oC State Chair Chairman man Quinn and Convention Chairman III hl n suppressing their opponents opponent inthe In Inthe Inthe the state slate convention nod appealed for Cor fair treatment of or the Illinois Demo DenIO He lie continued That rho convention was waR so openly op nh s BO II notoriously n a 1 and convention that two of ot the men area who had been bee II out and had made a 1 canvass In ht tho state for tor governor refused to tobo bo but IJ modulates candidate before that convention And I honor Judge fudge s of Chica hlen Chicago go and Mayor of 01 Toilet Joliet 1 I honor hon honor honor or men mon who refused to 10 RO go If 0 out as n of or that convention and If Mr MI Hopkins 1111 1104 Mr bar Cable had hn any In respect for tor the rights of ot a 1 majority to lo rule th they y would be hI ashamed to tl b here her Iho the representatives of ot n 1 minor miuor minority ity Hut my m friends If II they have not I learned to be he d to 10 a great state stale you ought to 10 teach tench I ch them then I that they cannot do It with the ap tilt approval of or the Democratic party of or the tho I United States Now their sin sill rests upon these there men You Yet do not hear bear It hat when you jou If II you do decide to toI sent cent I t these men these delegates from the th districts against the evidence pre pro presented In regard to m the contestants from the Iho district In spite of the protest of or members If you do that you take tako from the shoulders of oC Hopkins and Cubic Cable and nOli Quinn the odium that they boar bear anti and put It upon the Democratic party port of the nation anti Indorse that attempt You have not ant this condition In other states slates today but hilt let this convention Indorse this conduct and the next nn on convention will see ee le more morn than one state here hern ns OR the result remit of or gavel rule And nellt It Is because this question ul transcends the Interests of or any Rny state or any candidate or any nay notion faction that I nm here to present the minority report and to 10 ask you to do the Democrats of 01 Illinois the Justice tint that this thin Rang gang de do denied need nied them deliberately and Insolently i In his hili concluding address Mr Bryan fryan said The Tho first speaker said Mid that I had hadnot hadnot not heard the evidence I staved In InthA tin thA room of or th Ih Iho na national committee and hem rl evidence until 3 2 In the morning anti I have heard morn more evidence than the tho gen gon In who talked to you yon mid end who Impeached my m knowledge nf ot this case call The Thi gentleman tries treat to credit from the Ih report of or the national com Conn committe mitten mitte The national committee re me referred r I this cane rase to tn th the credentials rom corn committee on the ground that the HIP national j committee lid did hl not hove turns time to the merits and by so no doing said raid that In some districts there was vas evi 01 evidence evidence dence to show how that questionable questionable lue meth methods methode ode prevailed And I now this committee listens listen two hours and does not give she a chance for n II single bit of ot evidence eld but only onh argument argument ment and ROll then tells you that them was no fraud mid and that you yon ought to In rent pent these The Tho gentleman says rays that ho he tuns 1118 unanimously ly reelected re reflected elected five ve hours houra after he began his gavel 1011 rule rull Yes Yea Y my thy friends i every everything everything thing done In that convention was wall unanimous If It you dont believe It II rend the tho sworn testimony of or the tho highwayman high highwayman wayman who called the convention to order The fhe gentleman says MY that he hp Is III not a II aman aman man who bolts bolt or 01 who waits until after tho tam convention to decide that he tho thoman thoman man with a I gavel lene rule tries to force Corre upon Ih the he loyal Democrats of ot his hili state two men who supported Palmer and In 1800 Ig O Mr Ir Bryan Brynn closed with the declara declaration lion tion that while he was willing that them o men should return to the Ih Demo Denin Democratic cratic part h Ire ltd did not want avant loyal Democrats forced to walk jenrath enN th their soiled banner I I |