New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-12
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MR.. BRYAN, OF NEBRASKA.

Mr. William ] Bryan. of Nebraska. is In town
He is making his first important public Visit 10
New-York His coming hither has been mucn
proclaimed by enterprsing press agents Win
all the devices so we'll known TO them 10 whet
the popular interest This evening in one OF the
largest public halls of the city. he will make his
first appearance before metropolitan audience
and will deliver an Grafton which. the public Is
assured has been carefully prepared and re-
hearsed in advance. He will no doubt display
that copious fuency Of speech and that agility
of action which have won for him emincnce as
the Boy Orator of the Platte" He will he
heard by numerous and probably somewhat
tumultuous audience. attracted in part by SYM
pathy with his political beliefs and in part-the
major partly simple curiosity. He will be
treated with the courtesy which New ork IS
accustomed to besow upon visitors according
10 their worth. and will find himself to morrow
morning the subject of more extended notice in
the public press than he has ever before enjoyed.
Nor is 1t uniting that this should be so Mr..
Bryans advent in this capital Is an incident OF
more than passing interest For Mr. Bryan Is
himself. apart from his oratorical distinction.
parsonage of uncommon attraction to the curl
ous-minded He is the gentleman who earnestly
declared he was not a Democrat, and yet was
nominated for the Presidency by what purport-
ed TO BIZ the Democratic National Convention.
and has now come hither formally TO accept that
nomination He it Is whose sponsors declare
him to be as good Populist as any in the land.
vet who does not venture openly to accept the
Presidential nomination Of the Popust party.
He stands as a candidate upon what is called
the Democratic platform--a platform which. in
almost every important plank. violates and re-
pudiates all the best principles and traditions
of the party of jefferson. Jackson and Tilden.
He calls himself bmetallist. yet advocates and
is irreversibly pledged to absolute monometal-
ism He has been Congressman and aspires
to he President, yet in almost every speech he
makes proclaims his ignorance Of or his defiance
of the Constitution He is a processing Chris
tan of unQuestioned fervor. yet he travestes
the most solemn passages in Holy Writ, and
countenances his followers In making a raree-
show of the emblems of his SaviOur's Passion.
Nor are these his only claims to recognition.
There are Others even more practical and more
directly appealing to the immediate considera-
ton of NEWCOMERS than most Of these. Mr..
Bryan Is the arch-apostle OF reputation He
believes in and is trying to impose upon this
Nation a system under which the settlement of
all debts at fifty three cents on the dollar would
be obligatory He would have every working
mans wages paid at fifty-three cents on the
dollar; every savings bank account repaid to
the deposltor at fifty three cents on the dollar;
every life insurance policy paid when due at
ffty-three cents on the dollar; every pension due
to crippled Union veteran. or TO the widow or
| orphs ms Of dead soldier. scaled down 10 fifty
three cents on the dollar. He would discourage
thrift by taxing the industrious and saving man
twice as heavily as the lazy and improvident.
He would defile the stream of justice at its foun-
tain head by making the Supreme Court po-
| lltica machine. and membership thereof a re-
ward Of partisan activities. He would over
throw the National Government itself. by depriv-
ing it of the power to enforce its own DEGREES
Such is the distinguished visitor whom this
metropolis is called upon to honor. Such Is the
facund orator upon whose grandloquent ex-
patiations a multitude will presently he dwell
| ing with mingled amusement and dsmay. Such
| is the accomplished and altruistc statesman in
! whose behalf the SURFACES of the citizens Of
! New-York are solicited His coming hither is an
event Of transcendent magnitude. His Grafton
may mark an epoch in the history Of political
| controversy. And the majority cast against him
! in New-York at next falls election should be
! so enormous as TO restrain him and all men from
ever again seeking 10 beray. for a few pieces
of silver the prosperity of their fellows and the
! honor Of their fatherland