The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-10-15

platform, and then Of the candidate,
endeavoring to follow the Biblical in
junction to speak the truth ih love.
Mr.. Lincoln once criticised the ac-
ton of the Supreme Court IN its de-
cision in the bred Scott case. But
Mr.. Bryan's followers propose to pack
the Court, and that purpose brought
forth the magnificent denunciation of
w. Bourke Cochran and other loyal
Democratic orators.
The plank denouncing the Federal
interference in riots is nothing but
Anarchy; and Governor Boies, of
Iowa, was refused recognition by the
Chicago Convention because it was
known that he favored President
Cleveland's action in calling out
troops to quell the Chicago riots.
The money plank in the platform
stands for reputation. The foul odor
of reputation is more than this
country will stand. If the cause of
free silver triumphs we sSsG+Tr:
brought to the shadow and curse of
compulsory dishonesty. Free
coinage sounds pleasant to the ear,
but it does not mean a free distribu-
ton of money. 1t means that silver
Gratis and mine owners may get their
metal coined at Uncle Sans expense.
1t means bimetallism, which may
mean almost anything. There can
be but one clear, distinct authorized
standard of value This has been the
experience of all mankind in all
ages. Bimetallism really means mono
metallism.
Mr.. Bryan says we are large enough
nation TO make our own standard.
Why did he not say we are great
enough to make our own multiplica-
ton table and our own Ten Com
mandments? Cheap money means
cheat money, to cheat every man who
is compelled by law to accept it. Our
servants, our employees, our pensioners,
are to be paid in cheap and cheat
money. The man who blacks my
boots and who earns his living in the
humblest callings is entitled to receive
the best money i'll the world. When
you talk about the creditor class
and the debtor class, where are you
going to stop? Every man is a credi-
tor of his employer and a debtor of
others. Every pensioner is creditor
Shall they all be cheated? Mr.. Bryan
is meddling with double-edged tools.
Mr.. Bryan is fond Of quoting Scripture
not very happily. | will give him a
text to preach from: divers weights
and divers measures are an abomina
ton to the Lord" .y-2
| don't doubt for a moment that
Mr.. Bryan is a clean pure, irreproach-
able man in all his relations in life.
If he adOrns private life so beautifully
then for Heavens sake, let him re-
main there. What do l care for the
private life of a pilot at Sandy Hook,
if he doesn't know better than to run
us ashore on Romer's Shoals? There
never was a purer character than
Stonewall Jackson, yet he bent all
his energies to perpetuate slavery.
Mr.. Bryan is a lawyer who never
tried case, a failure as newspaper
editor, and never business man.
He is an orator. Members of Con-
gress have told me that he is most
magnificent speaker, yet when his
speeches were printed they were sur
prised to find so little sound sense in
them. a member of the Chicago
Convention who bolted from it told
me the scenes attending Bryan's
nomination reminded him of Carlyle's
description of scenes in the French
Revolution. Mr.. Bryan is a nervous
eXcitable, impulsive, eloquent man,
who believes implicitly that the Presi-
dency is his manifest destiny.
Think of Bryan in the White
House! He would be surrounded by
such men as Debs, PETER, Tillman
(pitchforck and ALL, and the Sheehans
and Suffers and all the other dregs
of Tammany Hall.
Mr.. Bryan says he represents the
toiling masses, the poor who are poor
through the oppression of the money
power, and he tells them they are the
slaves of the moneyed men of the
country. I'd like to face William j.
Bryan for ten minutes I'd tell him
that instead of being the friend he is
the enemy of the toiling men and
women of the world. He talks about
classes. Before the war we had classes
but we have no classes now. We all
stand equal before the land, before
the law and before God. There is
the tanning of flames of dangerous
revolution in this talk of classes.
Every time Bryan touches that coal
he trims off another shred of his
chances for the Presidency.
am no defender of the misdeeds of
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