The herald., 1896-07-15
TWO CANDIDATES

There is a vast difference between the
presidential candidates Of the Republi-
can and Democratic parties and the cir
cumstances attending their candidates.
before the conventions which nominated
them.
Mckinley is of the party Of special
privilege, the party which is not guided
by the light of any fundamental princi-
pie. but which, when not working In the
interest of private parties who seek to
use the public power for their own sell
fish ends, is waited hither and thither on
the sea of political effort by the winds
of passing fancy; the party with no
anchorage in creed, no comprehension
of, and consequently no faith in, the i'm
mutable laws of political economy, with
out the observance Of which no people
can be prosperous and contented. Mo
Kinley is a mediocre individual who
drifted into prominent view on the tide
of circumstances, unlearned in the sci
ence of government, an inglorious fail
ure Ia private business and with interest
and lrowledge of but one side of one
question, the protection side of the tariff
question, the apostle Of the theories that
prosperity is the fruit of taxation on
what people consume. that free ex-
change is an evil and that congress can
better arrange for the individuals of the
country the channels Of their CONNER
cial and Industrial activities than they
can themselves. This nomination for
the presidency was only achieved
through corruption and deception. He
was named by combination of southern
and western delegates: the first were
handled at so much per head. The west
ern delegates were sent by conventions
which had either been controlled by
machine methods or deceived by McKin-
ley's alleged friendship for silver and his
timely but despicable silence into the be.
lief that their financial views would
find in him a sincere sympathizer. He
goes forth into the fight as the product
of a convention ruled with a hand Of
iron by man whose chief distinction
before his debut as national political
boss, was found in his headship OF
tyrannical corporations and dangerous
trusts.
William Jennings Bryan is, like the
party of which he is most f1ttingly and
gloriously the standard bearer of the
people. He is a statesman versed in
and loyal to the creed of a party which
rests upon an observance of the truths
of political economy and a recognition
of the inalienable rights Of the individ-
ual. He stands for equal rights to all
and special privileges to none. On the
platform and in the congress of the
United States he has demonstrated his
| knowledge, profound and wide, of the
| questions that affect the public welfare
and proved his ability to irnpart with in
terest and instruction his views to his
fellow men. He is fertile in reason and
frankness, not evasion and ambiguity.
He is no dealer in platitudes. ancient and
meaning less; what he says he means
and what he means can be understood by
all. No bosS-ridden convention thrust
him on an unwilling party, but without
intrigue, chicane, generalization or one
dollar of corruption he was made the
nominee of the greatest and grandest
party the country has ever known. He
is the unpledged candidate of an un-
trammeled convention.
Mckinley is the candidate of the
classes.
BRYAN is the candidate of the roasSec