Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-10-29
BRYAN'S LEADERS.
THEY ARE NOT FIRsT-CLASS AND
WISE MEN.

he Men Who Lead Brvan's Campaign
cad the Vicious Character 81 Bryant
Daily oliticai Conduct Will Never u
Approved by the American Voters.
There is IIenty Of proof Of the truth
Of the statement that a man IL known
by the company he keeps. A philoso-
pher doesn't select fools to be his
friends and companions.
Who are the conspicuous leaders of
the Bryan campaign? Are they men
whom you would trust to manage your
private business interests? The mine
owners are both shrewd and alert but
they are supplying the money for Bry-
an and the Popocracy and are not
properly to be called the leaders Of
Bryan's campaign. The real leaders,
who are they? What are they? What
has been the measure Of their success
anywhere or at any time? Are they
able business men? Are they learned
and successful lawyers? Are they emf
nent as merchants, mechanics, doc
tors, or farmers?
Can man who has failed to do his
own business do the business Of the
public? Are the prudent, successful,
intelligent and honorable men, as a
class, working for Bryan and repudia-
tion? Surely not. Are the human fall
ures, the cranks, the demagogues, the
indolent and the ignorant, as a class,
working for Mr. Mckinley, protection,
and honest money? Certainly not.
1t is easy to write down the names Of
those who are leading the forces which
are day by day battering Organism
into bits and are beating Bryan out Of
his boots. but they are all pluto
Gratis" says the mine owner or his
agent. Is General Harrison a pluto
crat? Are Thomas B. Reed and Sena-
tors Cullom and Allison plutocrats? Is
Carl Schurz a plutocrat?
Opposed to Bryan and Organism are
the best men In the Democratic party
Cleveland, Carlisle, Flower, Palmer,
Buckner, Watterson Dana, Whitney,
Lamont, Harmon and Cochran. Nor
ton of Nebraska, a farmer who farms
and one OF the most successful in +
America, stands for good money and !
the faithful observance of all agree
ments and contracts. In every COM
munity the best men, rich and poor,
are fighting Bryan and the mine own
ers' trust. So are the newspapers, big
and little, Republican and Democrat.
But who are consplcuously to the
front for Bryan and Organism? TILL
man, the foul-mouthed; Donnelly, the
crank; Coxey, the wind bag; Carl
Browne, the braggart; Altgeld, the
anarchist, who makes gold contracts;
Mrs. Lease, Of Kansas; Debs, who in
suits American workingmen by saying
that they are towards and live by per-
Tom Watson, Sam Small,
PETER and Jerry Simpson; Stewart,
The mine owner, who voted for the
crime Of 1873" and spoke for gold in
congress, end who now says that the
silver dollar was denied the privilege
# the mint by stealth and treachery;
Ind Richard Croker.
These are the leaders. But what Is
he general plan Of their campaign? Is
t patriotic or wholesome? Bryan
bitches the wall Of calamity and the
est follow. Debs, for instance, says
hat Americans are divided into
hree classes-the capitalist, the mid
lie class. and the working class He
nd Bryan and Coxey and Tilman pre-
end to believe that those of the work
ny class" 1.-The toiling Masses" as
Bryan calls them, are ground into the
ust and that the arrogant heel of cap ,
tai Is on their necks Mr.. Mckinley,
owever, says that in America ALL
1en have chance
And this Is so. Mr. Mckinley him
elf is the son of an iron WORKER. Gar
ED was boatman, carpenter, and
arm laborer Lincoln was the child of I
overly. The big merchants, the man. t
facturers, the successful business and
PROFESSIONAL men generally of this {
ountry have come from the toiling :
'asses." They have worked, worked, /
orked. And now demagogues like =
ryan assert that these men have /,
lrned against their country, have lost i,
leir sympathy with humanity, and are s.
olives in the fold.
The men who lead Bryan's campaign
nd the vicious and fraudulent char
ter Of Bryan's daily political conduct '
III never be approved by the voters i
America. Bryan and Organism h
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