Omaha daily bee., 1896-08-18
rouoEs or MADISON SQUARE.

Philadelphia Ledger Tep): There sho
/ De inscribed over his political mOnumC'
! Died of failure at Madison Square Gard,
! august l2, 1896. Such was the passing
! William J, Bryan"
! Louisville Ceurier-Journal (dem): HW
! at least consistent that he referred to
convention which nominated him not as { Y
! convention Of the democracy. but as Z
| convention at Chicago.
Chicago Tribune (rep); Bryan's prot
| ises OF prosperity are very plausible AZ.
/ agreeable. 1t must be admitted But :
| were his promises four years ago. whe
| free trade was his pet nostrum.
| Globo-Democrat TepO; In his specc
| OF acceptance MIR, Bryan used the Wort
| democratic once and the word populisl
| once So far as political principles are
| concerned, be might have omitted the word
| democratic.
! Baltimore Sun (dcm): The stagnation
and hard times caused in the United states
! by the agitation Of free coinage MIR. Bryan
| lngeniously asCnbes to the gold standard
! forgetting that with the same STANDARD
France, Germany England and even our
noighbor Canada, are decidedly prosperous
| Philadelphia Record (dcmO: The Madison
| square mistake is not without advantage
| AS the convention at Chicago refused Ia
| listen to the pleadings or to act upon the
| suggestions Of faithful aud stalwart demo.
Gratis. so there has followed acceptance with
/ 'Nt ldtluNdAlNi. NtHuNlHllOU mas pfuNtlcallN
been repudiated. The populsst campaign
begins with a failure.
| New York Times CiemO: We have not
the slightest wish to treat Mr.. Bryan other
than in the most respectful manner. He is
not to be beaten by abuse or by epithets..
but only by candid exhibition of him as
he is When therefore, we describe him as.
cheap mountebank 1t is because we really.
believe him to be one and wish calmly to,
speak the truth about him.
Louisville Times dem): Mr.. Bryan ex-
plains that he read his New York speech be-
cause he thought best mot to risk the
errors which always creep into the report
of an eNtemporancous speech" But such
errors would have been of small moment
as compared with the errors of fact, of
! logic, OF theory, of science and of sentiment,
with which the delverance, carefully written
out as 1t was aboundcd.
New York World CdemJ: To the assertion
, that the free coinage of silver is intended
only for the benefit Of the mine owners"
Mr. Bryan replies: at must be remem-
bered that free coinage cannot restore to the
mine owners any more than demonetization
took away" But decentralization took away
no value from silver. The mint price,
was below the market price in 1873 and
for many years before Consequently few
dollars were coined and none circulated.
New York Sun (dem); If William ].
Bryan were another Abraham Lincoln, or
the tenth part of another Lincoln he
would have succeeded for the conditions
were favorable for his experiment. As IL
was he failed, dismally and notoriously
Even as an actor he is not up to the role
he tried to play. There never was a more
disheartcning, humiliating failure on the
part of mimetic politicians and considering
Mr.. Bryan as human creature with loft,
political aspirations and a good share
personal vanity, the spectacle in the Madison
Square garden on Wednesday night wa.
both pathetic and diverting.
Brooklyn Eagle (dem): We want to trea
this man respectfully. The great office he
seeks suggests that treatment albeit his
| nomination and the way in which he as
quired it tend to belittle the presidency.
The once great party which has put him
at its head suggests respectful treatment
of him Civility, however does not call for
untruth. Courtesy prescribes not false
hood. This man, how little he knows,
knows enough to know that what he says
is false; that the net effect of what he says
is deceit; its purpose is to deceive and that
the passions which he withheld for an OBJ
iect here rage in his following for free re
pudiation, for free riot and for annhilism
| of all moral obligations of government, maxi
ing him their apologist and their advocate. (