The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-08-14
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
NATIONAL POLITICS IN Ak IRuE.
CONClLABLE TANGLE.
Inc Scarcity o. Gold Threatens the
Success Of Iils Golden Wedding.


coneilablo difference In the press con.
corning platform and candidate.
Some Of their utleranoes are shame.
full, intolerant disgusting. They
speak Of the Chicago platform as born
Of anarchy and ropadialiou, and use
all the odious adieetives they can find
in tho dictionary. The New York
World ia especially bitter against both
platform and candidate, and becaufe
Il cannot end a blemish in Mr.. Bryans
lie on record, tries 10 belittle him a.
the boy orator. When Jobs three
aged friends charged him with self
cOneeit aud rebellion against his Maker
young man listened and at last vent
ured to speak. He apologized for his
youth, but added: "Great men are not
always wise, nor does old age always
understand judgment" The Lord
was wroth against Jobs three aged
friends, but had no word of condemna-
ton for Elihu.
/ don't know how old these belliger-
ent editors are who denounce Mr..
Bryan for his youth, but they seem 10
have forgotten that Jefferson was only
thirty-three years old when he wrote
the declaration Of Independence, Madi-
son was only forty when he aud Hamil-
ton wrote and published the Federalist,
which is still said to be the greatest
treatise on political science that has
ever appeared in the world. John
Marshall was only thirty-nine when
appointed attorney general by Wash
ington, Patrick Henry was but twenty
nine when he made the speech that
first made him famous, and was thirty
nine when George Mason said of him,
''Heis by far the most powerful speaker
] ever heard. Your passions are no
longer your own when he addresses
them. He is the first man upon this
continent as we'll in abilities as public
virtues. James Monroe was sent to
congress when he was but twenty-eight
years old, and when he was but twenty
three Bancroft says he was the most
conspicuous representative upon the
floor of the house. Henry Clay was
sent to the United States senate when
he was twenty-nine. John Randolph
was leader of the house in 1900 when
he was only twenty-eight years old.
One thing is certain. Mr. Bryan il
old enough to capture and lead the
old and the young who are SO fortunate
as to hear him; and Alfred Lewis, OF
the New York Journal, who has heard
all his speeches, says he has never
made failure or a mistake; that he il
a student of all history and burns tht
midnight oil. Every newspaper cor.
respondent at Chicago aecords to hin
extraordinary abilities, and have dared
to say so, even to the disgust of the
old stays who stayed at home.
As to the platform cannot see any
thing in it that should cause such de
nunciation. One platform is for golt
and the other for silver and gold
Great and good men differ honestly
about that and they have a right t
differ. The best editorial have seer
from gold standard paper w0s in th,
Richmond Dispatch under the caption
of "Don't Exaggerate" the spirit o
which was Don't try to alarm tn,
people with predictions of ruin anC
panic and national distress should sill
yer be restored to its former condi
ton. While we are for a single golC
standard yet we cannot predict an,
such evils. The transition will com,
gradually if it comes at ell and ou
bankers and commercial men are snar
enough to prepare for it and let i
come by degrees. Don't exsggerat
the situation"
That is the way to talk and TO write
Let everybody do like my friend Lar
ramore, who has all the time been
goldbug, but says he shall suppor
Bryan and the platform. / tried, sal,
he, to keep them from putting that oil
YER plank in the platform, but the
would do it, and now / am going I
stand on it until it breaks down, an
then can tell the boys, ST told 20
so" And then he whispered to me
''and besides being a democrat fror
away back, my mother was a Brya
and her father was from Oulpeppe
county, in old Virginia, don't 20
see" "Of course, of course, said
you are right; you are always right
There are bigger things than th
currency and the country has survive
them. / haven't seen ten dollars j
gold in five years and have survive
that. It surely has ceased to be th
common currency Of the country. /
two years more my wife and are
have golden wedding, If we live, an
I'm afraid there won't be enough gol
in the country to make the ever
respectable. The bankers keep it a
locked up and out of sight, exoeI
when they have to ship it to Englsn
to pay our gold coupons. History tel
Of The time in this country when coor