The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-25
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
CRITICISMS ny THE PRESS OF
TODAY ARE INrOLERANr.
The Sage Of Bar ow Secs Many Things
lie Don't Like.


times, and that is the wanton, out
rageous abuse Of the other fellow and
the other side. have not seen any
such abuse Of Mckinley by the demo-
cratic press, bat the northern republic
can journals just TEEN with the vilest
aud most malicious ISLANDERS of Bryan
and his platform. Ho is denounced
and cartooned aa the arch anarchist
and ropudiator; q tool Of the silver
mines; babbling boy; sky seraper;
a bag Of wind, and the punkn Of the
Platte. / don't know what punka
means, but suppose II is some very bad
thing like a polecat. His Madison
Square speech which Ingalls, said was q
very great speech, is ridiculed as an
abortion, q chestnut, a miserable fall
ure and they cartoon him as a little
sophomore echoolboy orator. This is
very bad policy. The people OF all
parties know that Bryan is a very olo-
quent, smart and sincere man and the
reaction comes when such ISLANDERS are
used against him. The iubilant, guy
ing tone of the republican press re-
minds one of Goliath and David
"And when the Philistine saw David
he disdained him for he was but q
youth, aud 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
aeters above reproach and clean re-
cords in their public life and are en-
dowed with very high qualifications in
craftsmanship. The one elected can
not make q law. Then why abuse him2
Each has a host of friends and it
wounds mans feelings to hear his
favorite, his leader, his idol as it
were, lamPooned and villiGed by penny
a-liner scribblers, who have no con-
ception of what constitutes true great
ness. There is no manliness or good
breeding in the modern modes Of con-
Quoting a political canvass. / heard
an old veteran say today that he bad
not intended TO vote for Governor At
klnson, but since Watson and Wright
were denouncing him for pardoning
that man Hinton he had changed his
Mid and should support him. "Can-
didates are in a desperate strait, said
he, when they resort to such dema-
gogism as that. Hinton oughtto have
been perdoned. The governor has
shown more consideration for negro
convicts and pardoned more of them
than any governor we have had"
Hating the railroads and loving the
negro are still campaign capital. 1t
is all 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 a bypo-
critic when he says it. Such declara-
tions are about as sincere as newspa-
per editorials aud governors procla-
nations against lynching negroes for
their horrible outrages. 1t is all for
buncombe. I've forgotten that fell
lows name, but have always admired
him for his frsnkness. When he was
reminded by the speaker that every
body had left the house he replied /:
"That's all right, sir, I'm not speak
ing for them at all, sir. I'm speaking
for Buncombe, my county, sir, and
my constituents, for it will be print
ed, sir" And he kept on with his ar
gument.
But the way read it in the goldbug
papers the republicans are not as jubi-
liant as they were. They are some
what alarmed even about the state OF
New York. 1 see in yesterdays pa.
pers that the rich women of New York
city have organized female Mckinley
clubs in every ward and they have
parceled out the work and are to visit
the tenement houses and canvass among
the toilers. 1 read McKinley's letter tc
these women bidding them godspeed
and saying he was glad to see the noble
women of this country taking an in
terest in politics. This is no fake. i
is published in the republican papers
and to my mind is the first bad break
Mr.. Mckinley has made. The idea o.
encouraging women to go canvassine
IN the slums of great cities for votes
looks like alarm to say the least Of it
Mr.. Bryan has made no break. Every
utterance along his travels has been il
good taste and entirely proper, HI
has not boosted of himself nor abused
his adversaries and we are glad tc SCI
that the people, the common people
heard him gladly and treated him Will
the greatest respect. The other day
fake appeared that for while astound
ed me. The idea that Ben Tillman haC
visited Tom Watson to get him to COM
down and take a cabinet position wa
monstrous, for Mr.. Bryan chooses hi
own cabinet. He will not buy them
and if he did Ben Tillman would no
be his broker. The average politician
seems incapable of measuring Mr.
| BRYAN He can't cOnoaivn Of a stand