The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-30

the best part of the year. Look at him
himself; he wears straw hat with a noie
in the top. He has beard all around his
face because he is too lazy 10 shave and
too mean to pay barber. He has an uIl-
washed look He is too lazy to go to the
river, and he's too lazy to carry the wa
ter from the river TO his house. He
spends the day sitting on a log reading
book, one of Haryey's books on coin. He
says, I've tried everything else and It
didn't go, so gless II try this free sill
ver.' daughter and applause.)
Happily for the country these Popu-
Lists are a compare lively small minority.
What they lack in intelligence they make
up IN noise and wind. Instead of sup-
porting the Governments they want the
Government to support them. They OBJ
Ject to a standing army because they see
IN the Soldier the representation OF law
and order. They want the Government
to own the railroads and telegraph lines
and carry people and send messages free.
They call that political economy. Qsaugh-
ter and cheers.) If the Government did
that he would have a million employees, a
regular standing army. Now Mr.. Bryan
IS a Populist If he is not, he is nothing.
He is not q Democrat nor a Republican.
voted for Weaver in 1892 OF his own
free will? No! He put his vote in trust
with others to be cast for the party with
whom the best deal could be made
| When Bryan asks to be made President,
! the man who cast his vote over to a
committee to be cast as the best deal
L
the man who sells his vote for money, in
stead Of eIecting him to the Presidency
would disfranchise him.
Bryan would accept any nomination
and stand on any platform to gain his
vote. His capacity is like the River
Platte where he comes from, 1t is 500
miles of nothing The Chicago platform
is not Democratic. You may put a cross
over saloon but that does not make it a
church. You may label a Populistic plat
Tlrr-.
Democratic for me. But, General, it's
regular some of my friends say and
reply that l want to be right as well as
! regular
aIn our tour we didn't fail to visit
Nebraska. I attended no larger meetings
anywhere than those they had in Nebras-
ka. Bryan won't have the vote of his
| own town. 1 served in Congress with
him. He occupied a respectable position
among $50 Methodists I don't remember
anything he said that remembered three
days afterward He gave no evidence of
any capacity to direct the affairs of this
great country. If any one predicted then
| that Bryan would be a candidate for
President the laughter that would have
Of the Capital. ] asked at Bryan's home
| If he had ever been Governor of the State
| and the reply was no, they had no use for
4 him. Has he been Mayor? / asked.
No Even constable?' Mo- What
| did he do for you the four years he was
| IN C0ngressg The man / asked scratched
his head refiectively, and said Well, he
| got an appropriation for a new elevator
| in the Post Office building We made a
| canvass Of the city of Lincoln and found
| that Bryan won't carry his own city, ward
or precinct. For a prophet in his own
| country that's pretty low down
There are nine houses on Bryan's
| block, four on each side Of him. The
| men in the four on the right are going
| to vote for Mckinley and the four on the
| left are going to vote for Mckinley. If
| Bryan gets vote on that block ne will
| have to cast it himself I ask candid
/ Democrats what advantage their party
viii derive from such man? If 1t is
ever to be trusted again with the affairs
| OF this nation it must make the defeat of
| this denagogue and inpostor so deep
/ again. The Democrats have as much at
stake in this election as Republcans I
| think we could do little better than
| the Republicans. We think we did better
| in '92 and the people thought so. too.
| and sustained us, but in '9e I am ashamed
1 OF my party. Democrats owe ii to their
| self-respeet, their pride in their party
| and their hope of its future usefulness to
make defeat of this man as emphatic
| as possible.
ION our tour we were greeted with
cries of The war is over, go homie, you
| wrecks do not like this strife. I would
| rather enjoy the retirement which l think
! / have justly earned. Office has no
| charm for me and the Republican party
HAS uOlHlnS III It's SlIl Inaf would ac-
| cept. Why do leave my home then and
| travel through the Western States? It is
| TO arouse my ceuntrymen and to call
upon my comrades to stand with me
| once again, as they did before in the de-
Tense of the country. Tell me the war
| is over when sectionalism is again
aroused? Rebellion was the offspring OF
that cry. There is nothing to prevent
| Mr. Bryan from inviting Union Generals
| to go around with him He might have
asked some Confederate Generals, but
they would not have accepted They ali
love the old flag. He might ask nv
! friend Longstreet, who shot away my lee
| at Gettysburg, but he would tell him
| he was too late, he was a Mckinley
elector in Georgia. He might ask General
| Buckner, but he would tell him he had a
previous engagement with General
Palmer. He might ask David B, Hill
| but the Chicago convention struck Hill
| dumb and he mas not recovered yet. He
| may come to his senses on November
Suppose Bryan should ask Cleveland to
go around with him, Cleveland would tell
him he would rather shoot ducks"
The General referred to a statement
made by Bryan that this country is nc
place for a poor man and showed how
Lincoln, Grant, Garfield and even Bryar
himself were poor He closed with q
| strong appeal to every voter present tc
do all he could to crush Bryan and al
he stood for
General Avery also spoke and the audi.
ence dispersed after singing the Stal
Spangled Banner.
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