Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-08-02
BILL ARP UN BRIAN.
saoe of Barrow Predicts Demo-
 cratic Success in November.
hoa Ia Not Drawback-Gold Is So Scarce That He Fears Ills Golden Wedding Win Be
 a Failure.

Never in our recollection has national nolitics been in such a tangle as 1t IS now Never such bitterness and 1r- reconcilabIe differences in the press concerning q platform and candidate Some of their utterances are shame1ui, iDtolerant. disgusting. They speak of tbe Chicago platform as born of an archy and repudiation and use all the odioHs adiectives they can find ill the dictionary. The New York World IS es- necially bitter against both platform and candidate, and because it cannot find blemish in Mr. Bryan's life or record tries to belittle him as the boy orator When Jobs three aged friends charged him with self coneeit and rebellion against his Maker young man listened and at last ventured to speak. He aDolooized for his youth, but added: ssGreat men are not always wise, nor does old age always understand judg- ment" The Lord was wroth against Jobs three friends, but had no word or condemnation for Elihu.
 I don't know how old these belliger- l 7 for his youth, but they seem to have forgotten that Jefferson was only 33 years old when he wrote the deciara- tion of independence. Madison was only 40 when he and Hamilton wrote and published the Federalist, which is still said to be the greatest treatise on po= Htical science that has ever appeared Tn the world John Marshall was only 39 when appointed attorney general by Washington, Patrick Henry was but go when he made the speech that first made him famous, and was 39 when l George Mason said of him. lie is by far the most powerful speaker l ever 1 heard. Your passions are no longer 1 your own when he addresses them. He is the first man upon this continent, as we'll in abilities as public virtues. ; l James Monroe was sent to congress when he was but 2s years old, and when he was but 23 Bancroft says he was the most conspicuous representative upon the floor of the house. Henry Clay was sent to the United States senate when he was 29. John Randolph was leader of the house in 1900 when he was only 28 years old.
 One thing is certain Mir Bryan is old enough to capture and lead the old and the young who are so fortunate as to hear him; and Alfred Lewis, of the New York Journal. who has heard all his speeches, says he has never made a failure or a mistake; that he is stu dent of all history and burns the mid night oil. Every newspaper correspon- dent at Chicago accord to him extraor- dinary abilities and have dared to say so even 10 the disgust of the old stags who stayed at home.
 As to the platform cannot see any thing in it that should arouse such de- nuneiation. One platform is for gold and the other for silver and gold Great and good men differ honestly about that and they have a right to differ. The best editorial I have seen from gold standard paper was in the Rich mond Dispatch under the caption of Don't EXaggerate''- the spirit of which was Don't try to alarm the peo- pie with predictions of ruin and panic and national distress should silver be restored to it's former condition. While we are for single gold standard yet we cannot predict any such evils. The transition will come gradually if it comes at all, and our bankers and com mercial men are smart enough to pre- pare for it and let it come by degrees. Don't eXaggarate the situation"
 That is the way to talk and to write. Let everybody do like my friend Larra- more, who has all the time been a gold bug, bu5 says he shall support Bryan and the platform. I tried, said he, to keep them from putting that silver plank in the platform, but they would do it, and now l am going to stand oil it until it breaks down, and then can tell the boys q told you so." And then he whispered to me: And, besides being a democrat from away back, my mother was Bryan and her father was from Culpepper connty, in old Virginia don't you see" 'Of course, of course," said l, you are right; you are always right"
 There are bigger things than the cur rency and the country has survived them. l haven't seen ten dollars in gold in live years and have survived that. 1t surely has ceased to be the common currency of the country In two years more my wife and I are to have a golden wedding, if we live, and I'm afraid there won't be enough gold in the country to make the event respectable. The bankers keep it all locked up and out of sight, except when they have to ship it to England to pay our gold coupons. History tells of the time in this country when coonsl1ins and deer skins and tobacco were the currency. and the people got along and there is still some remains of the continental money that circulated during the rev olutionary war, and kept on getting worse and worse just like our eonfeder- l ate money did But we oot alano, {; ol,