quor question I regard as settled in
this State," he said. "And now the discussion of the tariff has free
sailing. But you don't want to hear us old fellows, with our
prejudices; you want to hear our young leaders, with their principles."

He introduced young Mason, who made one of his audacious speeches.
"Death is a great friend of youth and progress," he said. "The old men
die, off, thank God! and give young men and new principles a chance. I
tell you, friends and neighbors, the Democratic party is being born
again--it must be born again, in order to be worth saving."

When Bradley stepped forward, he was very pale.

"Friends and fellow-citizens," he began, after the applause had ended,
"I can't find words to express my feeling for the great honor you have
done me. I thank the citizens of Rock River for their aid, but I want
to say--I'm going to run this campaign in the farmers' interest,
because the interests of this county and of this State are
agricultural, and whatever hurts the farmer hurts every other man in
the State. There is no war between the town and the country. The war is
between the people and the monopolist wherever he is, whether he is in
the country or in the town. It is not true that the interests of the
town dweller and of the farmer are necessarily antagonistic; the cause
of the people is the same everywhere. It's like the condition of
affairs between England and Ireland. People say that Ireland is
fighting England--fighting the English people, but that is not the
fact. The antagonism is between the Irish people and the English
landlord. So the fight in America is the people against the special
privileges enjoyed by a few. It's because these few generally live in
towns that we _seem_ to be fighting the towns.

"As the Judge said, we've settled the liquor question in this State; it
won't come up again unless office seekers drag it up. It has been our
State issue--that and the railroads; and now that is settled, we can
turn our attention to the finishing up of the railway problem and to
the discussion of the tariff."

"And the money!" shouted some one; "abolish the national banks!"

Bradley hesitated a little. "No, we can't do that, but we can destroy
any special privilege they hold. But the first thing that stares us in
the face is the war tariff that is eating us up. I'm going to state
just what I think in this campaign, and you can vote for me or not. It
is sheer robbery to continue a tariff