The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-09-13
THE LOWEST APPEAL YET.
Depths Of Demagogy Reached by the
Popocratic Candidate.

New York sun. Dem.
on Friday flying westward. Mr.. VIII
liam Jennings Bryan the communistic
candidate for president, stopped in
orleans county long enough to tell this
story:
| met a farmer over in Illinois He
was a schoolmate Of mine in college,
a graduate from college. He is a man
OF exemplary habits. honest. frugal and
Industrious. He had his three children
with him in the room and the tears
rolled down his cheeks as he told me
that II conditions remained as they
We're 1t was the saddest thing he had
TO contemplate that he could not give
those children the education and ad-
vantages he wanted TO. His home is
multiplied by thousands and tens of
thousands in this land, and you tell
me that II is just To have a system
OF legislation that takes away from the
parent the possibility Of educating ihs
children as he would, and he is COM
pensated for it by giving money unde-
served into the hands OF those who by
Vaccinations corner the money mar
ket and spend the money by buying
foreign titles for their daughters?
or course Mr.. Bryan never heard Of
a merchant or manufactures, Sr
clerk, or clergyman. or a lawyer,
whose circumstances had become such,
through no fault Of his own, that he
was unable TO give his children the ed
ucation he desired for them. 1t is only
the farmer that suffers in this way.
And his sufferings are always attrib-
uted to the system of legislation" un-
der which he lives as though the law
of the land were responsible for all the
evils that exist therein, and every Ill
could be cured by changing the law.
But We are not so much concerned
with the happiness of Mr.. Bryans story
as with the light thrown upon the nah
and his methods by the reference at |
the end to those who by machipation |
corner the money market, and spend |
the money by buying foreign titles for
their daughters"
This language is the language of a
pot-house politician. who is either
without much intellect himself, or as
sumes lack OF intellect on the part |
Of those he speaks to.
Bear in mind, however, that It was
uttered in all seriousness by a candi-
late for the presidency of the United |
States, a candidate proclaimed far and |
vide to be one of the greatest orators
hat ever lived in America, the peer
IF Daniel Webster and John c. CAL
loun and Henry Clay.
Can any one imagine Webster or
Calhoun or Clay. or any man having a
proper idea of the great office of pres
dent, talking as Mr.. Bryan talked to
he Orleans county farmers? There is
10 more digniied place in the world
han the presidency of the United
states. No person who does not pos
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hosen to fill it. The common people,
# whom Mr.. Bryan prates. do not
want man in the White House who
loes not himself respect the presiden-
ial office; yet how can man respect
t who asks that it be bestowed upon
Tim because, forsooth. some rich men,
whom he cannot name, have spent
heir money, as he asserts in buying
oreign titles for their daughters?
Such an appeal is an insult to those
o whom it is addressed, 1t is neither
rgument nor oratory. 1t would be
itiable in a pettifogger. 1t is dis
raceful to a candidate for president.
Birds that never dwelt in any cline