Show Bryan Praises The Allies Indianapolis April 8 Facing Facing aVast a arast Vast rast audience of men and women visitors and delegates of the League Club William J. J Bryan lifted his hand to still the cheering and spoke as follows Mr Mr Chairman ladies ladles and gentlemen fellow citizens citizens I I want to congratulate the delegates and others here in the attendance upon the success of the c committee in charge in bringing to your city a representative silver republican of the northwest a representative democrat of the east and a representative repreSentative representative populist of the middle states They have thus brought together those who ar are are fighting side iby side for tor the accomplishment of a great reform I 1 want instead of discussing any question to point your atten atten- to one great truth that has ha s been making itself manifested before the American merican II people eople during the last las t two years vears and that is that an ideis idea ide a ta is greater greater than any person that that- thata a an n idea is the controlling thing in ma man n and in society You have seen in the last two tw o years an idea take possession o of f men anen and that thai idea has turned them 41 about bout and led them whithersoever it t would You have seen the idea revolutionize a party You have s seen en an idea friend from friend father from son neighbor from neighbor You have seen men dominated by an idea going out to face opposition opposition tion yes even ostracism and you have before you this afternoon and lead yesterday an evidence of what an idea can do PRAISES WILLIAMS Yesterday you listened to George Fred Williams of Massachusetts f Yes you do well to cheer his name We ar are in the thc habit of looking back backI I to the age of martyrs and w we have ben n in in the habit of praising those who had the moral courage to face death in defence of th their ir co convictions But my friends there are things harder to tu face than death there are are things that test a mans man's courage as much as u death social death social ostracism the he hostility of friends the enmity of old HJ associates is sometimes harder Co to to hear hea than death itself Z 41 I remember when I was in the toe St St. St Louis convention the republican republica ca can convention w watching the proceedings pro pro- I picked up a morning paper and I read that George Fred Williams had made a t silv silver r sp speech ech At Portland i MeI Me Ie I read cad it over a second time I wondered if that could b bt the George eorge Fred Williams whom I knew in congress and who had often read I. I me out of the he democratic party on account of my views on the silver question But it said George FredI Fred I I Williams of and and even ven then I knew there was gout but one George Fred Williams and sand so I I called a telegraph boy and sent him hima a dispatch BRYAN is CAUTIOUS Now sometimes I J ha have e been considered considered considered consid consid- ered an an emotional man I am not I a am a a cautious man and cau cautious ou even in that hour of rejoicing led Mme to to tob b be careful about my telegram I said Have just read your Port Portland Port land speech If correctly re reported God bless you When I got t to to o Chicago I found him there and I found that his conversion was lik like e the the conversion ion of Saul Sail of Tarsus You ember remember that Saul of larus lar hr 1 ar sus us started out to persecute th the e Christians and I afterward a an n apostle and one of the greatest o of nf f those who advocated Christianity v Saul of Tarsus when he became becam e Paul was Vas a always way prep prepared red to tell tel 1 just when hen and how w he was convert convert- UY i to V 1 1 f i ed And so George Fred Williams came to the Chicago convention with the glory of a new convert in his face and the zeal of ofa a new convert in his heart and he went forth to do b battle in New England And my friends when we have written upon the scroll of fame th the e names of those who rescued seventy millions of people from a foreign financial policy George Fred Williams name will wilt occupy a con Ion con place GREAT ABILITY GREAT CAUSE I am glad you had a c chance ance t thear to hear hi him I 1 am glad that he had hart a chance to come here and t talk lk to th the e people of Indiana and the surround surrounding surrounding ing sta states es because I want you to se see e what a man can do when he dedicates dedicates dedi dedi- dedicates cates to a great cause great ability Y great reat eloquence and great learning I want the who sa say Y that the silver advocate is an ignoramus ignoramus ignoramus amus to gaze upon him and they will find t that a the only excuse they can give ib is that much learning has ha hamade s made him mad I am glad that you had a chance to hear him because when you hear in in the days day s to come that our cause is growing g in New England you wont won't be surf sur surprised sur surprised because you cannot put down that kind of a man no matter ho how ow w much Egyptian darkness may b be around him his light will penetrate e I it Hand r and I lighten un the gloom And I 1 am m glad that you had a chance today to hear that silver silve r r republican from the northwest I became ac acquainted with him trim s some sam me e y years ears ago just as I was leavin leaving g he was entering con con- gr grass griss s He was elected as IS a republican can from th tho district in which h Dulith is situated and he came came down before kris his term began to ge get acquainted with the ways a at Washington and I had a chance t to meet himI himI him I talked with him and I found fours d t that hat he was a bimetallist and m my Y IY heart went out for for him because I knew what a terrible hard time h he e was Wb going to to have I knew that if he tried to be bimetallist and still keep in fellowship fellowship fellow fellow- ship hip s with the republican party he hart had a hard and r rocky road before him REFUSES TO BOWs BOW As s 's I read what he said I could see the growth of an idea and Iwas I Iwas Iwas was not surprised that when the t time ime came for the h holding of the national convention he had reached a p point paint int where his convictions were s stronger strong r than his party ties I saw i him at St. St Louis standing bv by the side of Teller Cannon Boise and Pettigrew wh when n they walked out of the republican convention rather t than han bow down to the golden image I which the republican party had set up I knew then that he refused to togo togo togo go back and serve this golden calf even though promised a a nomination if he would woud do so And I saw him go ou out and begin to battle I saw him serving the ties tics that had held tim him im to his political associates associate I i saw him go through th the campaign of 1896 and when del defeat eat came and he went down do with us 1 saw him rise I the next day after an and d declare that they could not do that again GOLDBUG'S SAFE RETREAT When I 1 saw in that paper that they were too Eno foolish to answer I knew that that paper had fallen tallen back upon uron the only sound soud ground that a goldbug ever took in debate You see see when an argument is too foolish to tu answer you ou don have to tr try to answer it and you know there is no rule in law v or in in morals that thatis is so so well by a goldbug as the rule that God does not require the impossible imposible of man and and therefore they never attempt to answer the arguments made wade in in favor of bimetallism I r r I h tf lr P r i So as Mr Towne has ha's gone among his old acquaintances s he has heard the ar argument which all of you have heard something like this Are you for silver Yes What you Yes What a man like e you Yes Well I declare I 1 am glad my my fi rends ends that you have been permitted to hear this great question presented fr from m the standpoint of a a silv silver r republican I feel proud of the silver cans I was brought up a demo demo- crat All Ml my ancestors were demo democrats democrats cra ts and the only thing in which my son has the the advantage over m me e politically is that he is is one generation generation generation genera genera- tion older than I am as a 1 demo democrat rat because his mother and all he her r ancestors were democrats Mr Bryan then then paid paid a a similarly high compliment n to populists referring to Dr Taylor of Chicago Chicag as an exemplar 1 Those who ef pod enough t to todIe todie die for their countr country are good goodenough goodenough goo d enough to have a voice m In it its s government I would condemn President t tp McKinley's course in regard t to p Cuba but there is rone is-rone one thing I d do du f find true true It is that the events o of the last few weeks prove that th the patr patriotism of democrats can never neve r D' D r rs again be questioned The The democrats democrat s silv silver r republicans aril and populists ar are e ready to uphold the President i in n any policy to to maintain maintain in the dignity y and acid honor ot of our country Mr B Bryan yan then the paid high compliment compliment com to General Lee Lee Consul 1 general at Havana and the warm words of appreciation tion were loudl loudly Y applauded This Illis i is proof sal said d Mr Bryan th that t the e. e civil war tyre i is S over god a era at hand hand While the republicans are quarreling what to d do flu to make Cuba free we can discuss ways w for lor making ou our r own count country y free Many business men who expected d prosperity ar are I today wondering g how much c can n hold ou out t against returning confidence Mr Bryan d at some length h on United Stales States Supreme Court income tax de decision a and d the dissent dissen t te of Justice Justic Brown why hi said that th the e i I decision would ris rise up to menace the country in t times mes of war when extra revenue is ne needed needed- qed Such an hour of peril said Mr Brian Br an is is J much nearer r now but the deci decision ion is there an and i while this gover government melt can take the dependent widows widow's son to lo sa sacrifice ri ce him for his is country jt mu must muS protect the misers miser's hoard M Man n does not not like to have his nose on the he g grindstone and anit when he finds he is is' is turning the grind grindstone grindstone stone ston himself f he he will stop We have j just st to show him he is turning the grindstone and he will do the ther r r st sl |