Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-26
that was expected, and that If the ext
gencies of the campaign demanded it.,
more money would be collected.
Disqraceiul.


tonight, for the purpose of seeing the
Bryan demonstration and take along
with them the idea that it devolves
Upon them to make themselves as
Objectionable as did the Yale students
at New Haven, Thursday. We do not
think it likely that they will but ii
seems entirely fitting to allude to the
matter.
While condemning the Yale students,
however, it would be unjust to overlook
the fact that Bryan has invited this
sort of thing and deserves all the dis
approval that has greeted him at any
of his meetings, whatever may
sible manner in which some of
those demonstrations have been made
He has INDUCED in remarks that de-
served kissing, If ever kissing be al
lowable, and in lack of other and better
means of expressing that disapproval
perhaps kissing is permissible. But
| and that the best of all is for those,
| who feel indignant at the incendiary
| spirit of his remarks and nauseated at
| the twaddle that flows from him, to get
up and leave his presence. Two thirds
| of the people go out of curiosity. That,
however, is no excuse. To lower their
| own dignity to the low level where he has
brought the dignity of Presidential
candidate is not excusable.
We believe Bryan to be the arch
mischief maker of this generation of
| politics; also that he is aware of the
fact and recks not so long as he thinks
he can gain a point from it. We be-
lieve his melting of class spirit to be
deserving of the severest condemna
| ton. 1t is not one whit better than
that of such men as Ben Tillman and
| AltGeld. or of that rabid Bryan sup
porter Judge Kerr of Pueblo, Col, who
| in single speech in Iowa last week
described the honest-money men--Re
publcans and Democrats-as scoun-
drels, thieves, traitors prisoners, liars,
Dribers anarchists, manufacturers of
paupers, beggars. suicides, hoboes. and
dirty, yellow jaundice whelps. Indeed
Bryan, occupying such a conspicu-
Gus position before the country,
is d far more dangerous man
than either of them. 1t is evident that
| he has magnetism as an orator, that
he has the faculty in his cooler mo-
ments to clothe the thought that stirs
| the worst passions of the disconnected
in seemingly moderate language and to
make lie serve the place of fact in
| the minds of the unthinkng What
\ ever may be his private virtues he is
public menace so long as he goes about
spreading his incendiarism.
We think this view of him is being
wildly impressed on the minds of the
thinking people, that he is also excit-
ing disgust by his antics, his hippo
droming, his shallow reasoning, his
utter instability, unreliabilty and alb
solute want of appreciation of the
| dignity which in the minds of the ma
| jority Of people invests the office of
President of the United States or
candidate of a great party for that
place. For these reasons and because of
the viciousness of his cause we expect
him to be overwhelmingly defeated
But we fear that the seed he is SOW
ing will not become barren of result
| when the sower becomes So
Under such conditions it is exceeding-
ly desirable that the passion he is en-
deavoring to excite be not met with
passion; that the bowling, cat-caliing
Kisses and jcers for law and order that
are heard among those who listen to
him and like him, such pandemonium
for instance, as was witnessed at his
| Brooklyn meetings among his sympa-
thizers, find no counterpart among
those who are opposed to him. Es-
pecially is it incumbent upon the stu
dents of our great universities at this
time, when the broad knowledge con-
servatism and the comprehension born
of knowledge, supposed to characterize
those centers of learning are opposed
to the revolutionary principles of Bry-
anism, not to initiate the hoodlumism
of those who shrek, I'VE like YOU.
Willie; go it Bill, were for YER:
Down with the rich" etc. The vast
majority of the people of Maine are
: utterly opposed to the work BRYAN is
doing, but those who go to hear him
at Bath tonight Will treat him decent
~, we believe. Nt
; Looks Like Bluff.
| "A prominent member of Tho. Doro