Eureka Reporter | 1904-09-23 | Page 3 | Bryan's Revenge

bryan s revenge fhe original tariff plans submitted to the committee on resolutions ot the democratic national convention the one that bryan knocked out read we favor a wise conservative and business like i and a gradual reduction of the tariff by the friends of the masses and for the common weal and not by the friends of its abuses its extortions and its nations in its place was adopted the moss back free trade declaration which has been in every democratic platform for almost a century that the tariff should be restored to a revenue basis and administered for revenue only this is the same plank that has been voted down by the american people repeatedly and will be again par ker s friends wanted to straddle the tariff for the benefit of the east but bryan wouldn t permit them evi dently bryan is open to the charge of conspiring at democratic annihilation winona minn republican