Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-12-03
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AEI&2V ~ the ribbon. AS a
supporter of Mr.. Bryan and the policy
he advocates, hope every man who
wotedsfer him in this county will read
this sdiatribe of the Tribune, and in
form himself of the position of the
soldbug press of the country. Not
contentswith calling Mr.. Bryan and
every y'man who supported him repudi-
ataonists, thugs and villains, the sup.
porters of'the gold standard theory fur.
ther insults each and every one of
them by olassing them as worse than
Benedict Arnold, Aaron Burr or old
jeff Davis. whom they gleefully refer
to as an advocate of their financial
heresY- Under the head of "good
riddance.' the gold bug cursed Tri-
bune, says:
TRUMP prompts .magnanimity. vlctors can af-
ford to be generous. And usually there is nothing
more becoRing in a,conquorer than generosity to
the vanquished. When Grant said to Lees veterans
''Take your horses and go home," he added luster
to his brightest fame. But there exceptions to
the rule. ''They enslave their children's children
who make compromise with SIM and they do worse
than that who, having overcome evil with good
condone the evil and let it again become maIefc
There are some movements base, some causes so
depraved, that neither victor justify them nor
defeat entitle them to oeommiseration
Such that we vanquished yoster
day, by the faver OF God and the ballots of the
American people. While it was active and men
acing, it was unsparingly denounced and revealed
as what it WAS, in all its htdeous deformity Now
that is crushed out of the very semblance OF being
there is no reason why such judgement of should
oe revived. Ihe thing WAS conceived in iniquity
and was brought forth in sin 1t had its origin in
malicious conspiracy against the honor and integ-
rlty OF the Nation. 1t gained such monstrous
growth as it enjoyed from assiduous Cutue of the
bases passions OF the least worthy members of the
community. II has been defeated and DESTROYED
~SSe.NNNS
Its nominal head worthy of the cause Nom
1nal, because the wretched rattIe-pated bow posing
in vapid vanity and mouthiDg resoundipg rotten
ness, was not real leader of that league of hell
He was only puppet in the blood-hued hands of
AltgeId the anarchist and Debs the revoIutionist
and other desperadoes OF that stripe. But he
Wiling puppet Bryan was, willing and eager
Not one of his masters was more apt than he at
lies and forgeries and blasphemies and all the
naeless iniquities of that against the Ten
Commandments. He goes down with the cause
and must abide with it in the history of infamy
He had less provocatons than Benedict Arnold.
less intellectual force than Aaron Burr less man-
ness and courage than Jefferson Davis He was the
rival of them in deliberate wickedness and treason
10 the republic. His name belongs with theirs
neither the most brilliant nor the least hateful
in the list
Good riddance to it all, to conspiracy and con-
spirators, and to the foul menace of Reputation
and anarchy against the honor and life of the re-
public. The people have dismissed it with no un-
certain tones. Hereafter let there be whatever
controversies men may please about the tariff,
about the currency, about the Monroe doctrine,
and all the rest. But let there never again be
proposition to repeal the moral law or garble the
constitution, and TO replace the stars and stripes
with the red flag OF anarchy. On those topics hon
est men may honestly differ in full loyalty the
republic. On these latter there is for two
fopinions in the minds of traitors knaves and
fools.
In their efforts to remove Mr.. Bryan
as possible candidate for the presi-
dency in 1900 the position of these
gold standard papers and blasphemous
advocates of>gold monometallism will,
If persisted in, have the opposite re-
suit to the one they are pursuing.
This crusade of malignity mixed with
courseness of invective and a reiter-
alton of the old ISLANDERS and accusa-
tions that were so over-worked during
the campaign has only made friends
for Mr.. Bryan, and raised him materi-
ally in the estimation of the people of
the country, and his reputation for
honesty and probity has not suffered
by this display of hatred and the train
ing of these mud batteries against him.
Such an unmanly, ungentlemanly and
uncalled-fo for warfare against Mr.. Bryan
5tho so gallantly advocated a cause
which was stronger to millions than
partyism, will, moreover, gain him