platform of the republican party, and
that is the only platform that I ever
care to stand upon [?] (Applause)
Does my friend stand for the free
and unlimited [?] of silver as a
principle or as a note getter? If he
stands on it as a principle, then why
did he not support Clem Deaver for
congress, who stands on the same plat-
form (Loud applause) If he stands
on it as a vote getter, then you can ex-
plain why he turns down Clem Dea-
ver, the free silver advocate, and sup-
ports James E Boyd, that is a strong
sound money/democrat of the state of
Nebraska, (Applause.) (A voice, "Give
it to him, John.") (Laughter)
Was it because he loved the Ameri-
can people and stood for principle that
he tied up the democratic party of Ne-
braska, in a brown paper parcel, and
tied it with a fusion string and deliv-
ered over to its enemy without even
taking a receipt in return? (Loud ap-
plause and laughters )
If he stands for principal, who was
it that in that convention, which he
manipulated with his right hand, that
he indorsed every populist who had
never smelled gun powder and turned
every populist nominee that had fought
under the flag of his country?. (Loud
applause) (A voice, "Give it to 'em
again.")
If he stood for principal and not for
office why was it that he indorsed Silas
A. Holcomb, a reform democrat, and
turned down John H Powers, that old
time republican and leader, par ex-
cellence of the populists in the state
of Nebraska? (Loud applause)
He says, if I go to congress, will I
stand for Nebraska? He says why
don't you talk about the tariff on
sugar? Great God, I did not need to
talk about the tariff on sugar, it
talk for itself. (Loud ap-
plause)
If I ever go to the senate of the
United States I will stand for legisla-
tion, that will give Nebraska farmers
enough money for their bushels of
wheat, so that they can afford to pay
to support binding twine factories
within the limits of our own common-
wealth (Applanse)
If I ever go to the senate of the United
States I will legislate in this coun-
try so that the American shee can look
a man in the face. (Applause)
If I ever go to the senate of the United
States, I will put up the bars of the
Texas border against the cattle of the
[gleasers], and keep them out of the
American market, and from cutting
down the price of American beef (Ap-
plause)
(A voice: "You'll go all right." Ap-
plause)
Talk about good times coming with
their effervescent influences under the
Wilson bill. He says that Wilson told
the English people that that legislation
was for the United States, but they all
raised up and said, You are a blars*ed
American fool if you think they'll do
anything of the kind (Laughter)
Talk about the rich growing richer
and the poor poorer. Where on the face
of Gods green earth do you find the
rich so rich and the poor so poor as in
free trade England. (Applause)
He says that 70 per cent of Boston
live in rented houses. John Bright
says that 80 per cent of the labor of
Scotland and England live in hovels
of one room to the family. (Loud ap-
plause)
[Wants] Demand for Labor.
Talking about the condemnation of
capital and manufacturing, my friend
wants a law to [arbitrate?] I am with
him on that as far as it can be carried
under the constitution of our country
but I could stand first for cre-
ating enough demand for labor
in the United States
so that labor would be its own arbi-
trator and fix its own price. (Applause)
He says chep in down in South
Omaha. Two years ago you fooled
these people by promising cheap din-
ner pails to the workingmen. Now
they stand idle on a sheif corrner; there
is no dinner in them and their wives
and their babies are asking for bread
You gave them cheap dinner pails and
soup, we will give them employment
(Loud laughter)
Stand up for the success of the re-
publican party. Strike down every
man who stands for the suppression
of a free ballot, for the opening of
American ports to a single day's labor
of anybody on any other part of the
earth that the American flag does not
wave over. Bless God, the American
people only get fooled once in a gen-
eration (Laughter) Old Abraham
Lincoln says, you can fool some of the
people all of the time, but you cannot
fool allof the people all of the time,
and this is not going to be a fool year
in the state of Nebraska. (Loud an
prolonged applause)
