The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1896-08-27
Bourke Cochran in the Swim.

We can see now that Mr.. Whitney
was unfortunate in not having had Mr..
Bourke Cochran in his train at Chicago
last month. OF course we understand
that those who went on to the conven-
tion city to convert the wild-eyed, long
haired fanatics did everything they
could to offend those same fanatics and
to confirm them in their evil ways.
What we mean to say is that Mr..
Bourke Cochran possesses o larger ca
pacity for being offensive than any of
Mr.. Whitney,s companions at Chicago.
It was a mistake, therefore, to have
overlooked him in making up the ex-
petition. He would have come over
from Europe at that time just as readi-
ly as at any other perhaps q little
more readily, for the prospect Of going
west in a special train, with o specially
selected company representing the
social set he SO longs to enter, would
have appealed to Cochran with an elo-
quence Of peculiar force. To travel in
special car, as member of special
party made up of W. G. Whitney, Per-
~ Belmont, g. @. Baldwin. and others
who bear the hill mark of real swell
dom, would have fetched Cochran with
even more eager haste than he dis
played on the subsequent occasion.
And, as we say, he would have done
the work with on expedition of which
the others, powerful as they were, did
not SO much as dream. Take, for ex-
ample, the following allnsion to the
men who now compose the democratic
party:
"Men of New York, toilers of Amer.
lea, guardians of your own homes, will
you allow your rates Of wages to be af-
fected (cries of 'Neverg) by any man
who never has paid wages at all, if he
could get out Of it? Will you submit
to this conspiracy between the profess
sional farmers, the farmers who cult.
vate the quarrels of their neighbors,
farmers who labor with their jaws, pop
ulist arbitrator of the west, and the
unreconciled shareholders of the south
This is conspiracy between profes.
sional farmers, who want to pay low
wages, and the unreconciled slave
holders, who would like to pay nc
wages at all. (Applause.) Here is the
root of this conspiracy. Mr. Bryan did
not create it. No man can create Q
movement like this. The forces that
created it are active and have been
working in q thousand different direc.
tions Mr.. Bryan, representing this
theory, is but like drop of water il
the crest of the wave, more conspicu
Gus, but no more important, than ths
millions of drops that find its base
The populistic movement is the at
tempt of these professional farmers, o.
these men who are unwilling to shars
with the laborer, to appeal to theil
greed. He is an enemy of public order
he is an obstacle to progress. He is {
conspirator against the peace and pros
perity of the industrial masses of the
country"
Here is a fine piece of invectiv,
against the farmers of the west, the ed
ucated classes of the south against all
in fact, who oppose what Mr.. Bourk,
Cochran, for the moment and for hi
own personal purposes, thinks it con
venient to espouse. The farmers of tn,
west are swindlers who never pay thei
debts if they can help it, and the bet
ter classes of the south are unreconeilet
shareholders, who want to achieve
new revolution. Then come the popu
listic agitators, who are mere scum il
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