Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-08-30

too scientific and too full Of supreme con-
tempt for the plain, common people 10
discuss common sense. Bryan was an
swered. though nearly as well as Bailey
was answered al Belyidert Hail. Cochran
Is brilliant orator. but was never ac-
cused OF craftsmanship, and II is a pity
that he should have thus thrown himself
away. When was Benedict Arnold born;
where and how did he die7 Strange to
say. the metropolitan press. like Cochran
and his fellow-kickers. with very scanty
exception. unites in chorus OF denun-
citation against Bryan and the Chicago
platform. Some OF those who are de-
nouncing once endorsed the declaration
that the Constitution of the United States
was "a covenant with death and
league with hell" They and those they
have followed have more than once as
sailed the Supreme Court more bitterly
than 1t has ever been assailed from any
other source.
This same press calls the Chicago plat
form anarchy. reputation, communism,
rebellion, and what not The so-calied
Democratic press is now more violent
than the Republican. Yet l speak the
truth when / say that the whole outnt
does not amount to a hill of beans in
influencing votes. Mr. Bryan Will be
elected with many votes TO spare, ana
the promises Of the platform will be car
ried out, not substantially, but literally,
literally, in full measure pressed down.
The South viii be made to feel at home,
the Constitution will again become
textbook, and wealth will pay its proper
part of the taxes.
Certainly, under Bryan's administration
Atsorney-General Ayers won't go 10 jail
till jury says he is guilty. and Federal
judges will come down off the stalking
horses they have so long ridden, to the
injury of all interests, except those OF
the trusts. Many down-trodden equities
will find recognition again, and the South,
especially will feel for the first time in
thirty years free OF It's chains To doubt
the results Of the poll is to doubt the good
sense and courage or American manhood.
But did not set out TO discuss the bright
future which rises unclouded upon our
people; but to prove the weakness OF the
wall of the city press. That press fought
free silver from Dan TO Beersheba; from
the Atlantic shores TO the Golden Gate,
from the soughing pines of Maine TO the
orange groves of Florida, and the
country went. overwhelmingly for IS to l.
That same press was for Douglas In
1860. and he received the vote of one State
in the electoral college. That press de-
clared with absolute unanimity that there
would be no civil war. and, If there was,
1t would not last sixty days. The same
sponsors for all wisdom defied Mcclellan.
and denounced Grant. They called Lin
coin a babboon, and Fernando Wood
statesman. They tabooed the emancipa
ton proclamation as n sop to Greeley's
Tribune. They advocated Andrew John
sons policy OF reconstruction, when
failure was written across the face OF It.
They have written free-trade articles by
md tIt. hoo
more or less protectlonlst. They were
almost a unit for Cleveland when Harri-
son defeated him. They have steadily
supported John Sherman, of Eliza Pink
ston fame. the most unpopular public
man I'm the country. Even Beast Butler
could be elected Governor of Massachu-
sets, with all their pens poking fun at
him. They tried in the spring OF this
year to belittle McKinley's candidacy,
and Mark Hanna was constant Jest
with them. At st. Louis no one so much
as remembered the concerted attack Of
these self-constituted solons against the
Ohio man.
No, the city press can truthfully boast
Of great enterprise in finding out things,
but IN the direction OF things II Is nil.
Only two scalps hang at its belt-those
OF poor Colfax a OIL James c.. Blaine. It's
assault upon Bryan, of Nebraska will
make votes In the only places where
votes are needed. None are needed in
New York this year. Mr.. Bryan was ac-
corded a reception there such as was
never witnessed I'm this country before.
and the press said II was a failure. BIr.
Cochran had an audience drummed up,
and n vas tame I'm comparison. There
are educators, telling everything but the
truth, and ordering men to disregard their
word Mr.. Hanna has announced that
he will supply with money all Democrats
DESTROYS OF defeating Bryan. We hear
OF wspapers being left at peoples
homes for three months free. Has Hanna
been around?
JOSEPH II. SHEPHERD.