The Van Buren press., 1896-10-10
ARP ON THE PRESS.
aertow,s sage Discusses the Jour-
nails of the Day.
Same Things He Don't Like foii.ica'
abuse Is Criticised : Newspa-
per Necessary for the
Mind.

There is a lamentable usage Oh INV
,,.ass and of partisans during election
times and that is the wanton, out
rooeous abuse of the other fellow ana
the other side. | have not seen any
sucb abuse of Mckinley by the demo-
cratic press, but the northern repup-
lican Journals just TEEN with the VIZ
est and most malicious ISLANDERS OF Bry-
an and his platform, lie IS dehouheeo
sind eartooned as the arch anarchist ana
rpnudiater; tool of the silver mines;
babbling boy; sky scraper; Dag Oh
wind. and the punka of the Platte
don't know what punka means, but sup
nose it is some very bad thing ike
nolecat. His Madison square speech
which ingalls, said was very great
sneeeh. is ridiculed as an abortion, a
chestnut. miserable failure; and they
cartoon him as a little sophomore
schoolboy orator. This is very bad pol
lev. The people of all parties Knew
that Bryan is very eloquent, smart ana
sincere man and the reaction comes
when such ISLANDERS are used against
him. The jubilant guying tone OF the
republican press reminds one of Goliath
and David. "And when the Philistine
saw David he disdained him, for he was
but a youth, and the Philistine cursed
David by his gods and he said, Come to
me and | will give thy flesh to the fowls
of the air and the beasts of the field"
Fortunately for the country both OF
our candidates for president have char
acters above reproach and clean rec
ords in their public life and are en-
dowed with very high qualifications in
craftsmanship. The one elected can
not make law. Then why abuse himT
| Each has a host of friends and it
wounds a mans feelings to hear his
! favorite, his leader, his idol, as it were,
lampooned and vilified by penny-a-liner
| scribblefs, who have no conception of
what constitutes true greatness. There
is no manlipess or good breeding in
the modern modes of conducting po-
! litical canvass. | heard an old vet
eran say to-day that he had not in
| tended to vote for Gov. Atkinson, but
since Watson and Wright were denounc-
ing him for pardoning that man Hinton
he had changed his mind and should sup
port him. Candidates are in a des-
perate strait said he, 'when they re-
sort to such demagogism as that. Hin
ton ought to have been pardoned. The
| governor has shown more consideration
for negro conyicts and pardoned more
| Of than hnf houa
| had"
| Hating the railroads and loving the
negro are still campaign capital. 1t is all
a lie, of course, for no sensible man does
either to any extent in his heart. He
says he does, so as to catch votes, but he
knows that he is hypocrite when he
says it. Such declarations are about as
sincere as newspaper editorials and gov
ernors' preelamations against lynching
negroes for their horrible outrages. 1t
is all for buncombe. I've forgotten that
fellows name, but / have always adj
mired him for his frankness. When he
was reminded by the speaker that every
body had left the house he replied:
THAT'S all right, sir; I'm not speaking
for them at all, sir. I'm speaking
for Buncombe, my county, sir, and my
constituents, for it win be printed, sir. -
And he kept on with his argument.
But the way ! read it in the goldbug
papers the republicans are not as jubi-
liant as they were. They are somewhat
alarmed even about the state of New
York. | see in yesterdays papers that
the rich women of New York city have
organized female Mckinney clubs in
every ward, and they have parceled out
the work and are to visit the tenement
houses and canvass among the toilers
] read McKinley's letter to these
women bidding them godspeed and say
ing he was glad to see the noble women
Of the country taking an interest in
politics. This is no fake. 1t is pub
Iished in the republican papers, and to
my mind it is the first bad break Mr.
Mckinley has made. The idea of en-
souraging women to go canyassing in
the slums of great cities for votes looks
like alarm to say the least of it. Mr.
Bryan has made no break Every ut
terance along his travels has been in
good taste and entirely proper He has
not boosted of himself, nor abused his
hdyersaries, and we are glad to see that
the people, the common people, heard
him gladly and treated him with the
greatest respect. The other day a fake
appear ed that for awhile astounded me
The idea that Ben Tillman had visited
Tom Watson to get him to come down
md take cabinet position was mon.
strous, for Mr. Rryan chooses his own
cabinet He will not buy them, and il
he did Ben Tillman would not he his
broker. The average politician seems
incapable of measuring Mr.. Bryan. He
can't conceive of n standard that is far
above mercenary or ambitious motives
Neither will Mr.. Bryan for a moment en-
courage any attempt to get Sewall
iown. 1t would be dishonorable. and
he knows it. What is the matter with
Sewall, anyhow? Nobody, not even the
republican press, has said word
against him, except that his son is a re-
publican. Well, that is hard on the
boy, but nothing against the old man
save a suspicion that he didn't whip him
enough and make him stay in at night
and keep out of bad company. These
Ipopulists pretend they don't like SewalI
because he has stock in national bank
That's all hypocrisy. Every one of
hem would have it, from Tom Watson
down, if they could get it. Whenever !