Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-10-28
WHO BRYAN'S FRIENDS ARE.
The Democratic Candidate Depends Up
on the Worst Element in Society.

He can count upon the worst element
| IN the Democratic party, the party tC
which he falsely claims to belong. AL
most without exception the Democrat
who are backing Bryan are those who
appear to the best advantage on the
back seats. Consider how it is in this
state-the Bryan contingent has the rot
ten Tammany Hall as it's mainstay
Consider how it is throughout the coun
try-it is not too much to assert that
nine-tenthS of the Democrats of national
| reputation, the men who have labored
! longest and most effectively to conserve
the prosperity of the party are banded
together for the defeat of Bryan. 1t is
for the most part the ragtail and bobtail
of the organization ward-heelers, spoils-
men, hidebound opponents of 'regulari-
| ty" and the like who hG<Ne rallied around
the standard of the candidate who
stands upon the infamous Chicago plat
| form.
Who else can Bryan confidently count
upon, IN addition to these second-rate
| Democrats? He can count upon that
! turbulent element which always exists
in q great country like ours which is
the inevitable foe of law and order.
| There is not an anarchist, not a person
| who takes kindly to mob rule and riot
in the United States who does not desire
to see Bryan elected. Not one. Here
is a fact of tremendous significance
What is popularity known as the danger
Gus class" wants to see the Chicago nom
inee elected and it is easy to understand
why this should be so. The members OF
the dangerous class have heard about the
plank in the Chicago platform which de-
nOunces Federal interference" 1t de-
lights them since it puts premium upon
the laWlessness in which their soul de-
lights. They are for Bryan because they
realize that during the progress of some
well-developed riot Federal interference
would be sure to spoil their favorite
game of pillage.
Still another element in our popula-
ton which Bryan can count upon is
composed of the political cranks of the
country, persons who hold extraordinary
views on economic questions and the
functions of government. POpulism is
but another name for whatever is most
absurd and mischievous in craftsmanship
and the POpulists have taken Bryan for
their leader while he has not hesitated
to accept their nomination.
Who else is on the Bryan roll? The
intelligence and patriotism of the coun-
try? No: The great army of wage
earners? No. The savings-bank depos-
itors, the holders Of life insurance poll,
cies, the members Of building ass0cia-
tons, veterans of the war who draw
richly-earned pensions from the United
States? No. People who believe that
an honest financial policy is the best poll
cy? No. People who have respect
for the sanctity of contracts? No. Any
lawyer or layman who is opposed to turn
ing the Supreme court of the United
States into a football of partisanship:
No. Students of affairs who are I'M
willing that civil-service reform shall 90
backwards? No.
Let candid voters ponder upon these
things. Let them consider the signif-
canoe of the forces arrayed for and
q Ua A I'm hD
the company he keeps. Bryan keeps
very bad company. His partisans do
not represent the sturdy common sense,
the patriotic public spirit, the sober iudg-
great forces are fighting for Mckinley,
the advance agent of prosperity, wise,
experienced. conservative statesman.
Therefore Bryan cannot escape defeat
Rochester Post and Express.
Hayracks and Money.
Well, now, what is currency? 1 am
not going into any big definition of it.
| am going to give you a very homely
one that | have given to the farmers in
one of my counties. If you have a $4,000
house and sell it for $4,000 in gold, you
lent of what you sold. Suns may rise
and set. Dynasties may appear and dis
appear on earth. But so long as you
keep that $4,000 in gold you have got
the value of your house. Now if you
want to buy something with that gold,
you have got before you the potentially
of everything on earth. You can buy a
$4,000 bond; you can buy journey
around the earth, rather luXuriously; you
can buy dancing and music, you can
have orators discourse to you, and you
can have astronomers hunt up stars for
you to the extent of $4,000 Qaughter),
but there are inconviences about this
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and not bulky enough for others. It is
liable TO be stolen.
And hence they have adopted a plan
of substituting a check for it, and they
can substitute any amount Of checks for
that $1,000, as much as the community
will bear. How much the community
will bear depends entirely upon the con-
fidence which the community has in each
other. Now, that confidence varies. In
1892, before we made our little mistake
-Qaughter)-if /. in Portland, Me-. made
my check on a bank in San Francisco,
or had another mans check, put 1t III
my bank and | got credit for it at once,
After the panic came | did not get credit
for it until after it had got to San Fran
cisco and come back:
So YOU see this whole business of the
great transactions of the world rests on
confidence. 1t does not rest on the
amount of money that there is in the
world. 1t is not fact that anybody
ever thinks of the amount of money there
is in the world when he offers his checks
to somebody else. All he thinks of is
will he take it?'' If he does, that is an
end to the transaction.
Now, what is all this paraphernalia Of
checks and gold and currency generally
for? It has only this simple purpose.
1t transfers property from one man to
another. AS l told my farmers in York
county, it is a hayrack; it carries hay
from one place to another, and all you
want is enough hayracks. Now, in the
course of your life, did you ever know
hayracks to fail? Have not they always
come when you wanted them? Has
not a big crop of hay always furnished
its transportation? 1t always has. Well,
now, what would you think of a man
who said to you that the hay crop would
be more abundant if there were more
hayracks? daughter and applause.)
Now, l grant you it is important to have
hayracks enough. But when you get be-
yond that you are wasting your sub
stance in superfuous property. Now, if
a hundred million dollars worth of gold
is enough to do the business of this coun-
try, or any other, any more is dead
waste because every dollar you have of
gold is the result of SO. much property