Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-08-20
cnmmeuts Of Representative Papers on
Bryan's'New York Speech,


some later day. The candidate HIM
self furnishes the complete ASSURANCE
If its fulfillment. He has come 10 the
first great test of the campaign, and he
has wretchedly failed to meet it. His
managers had deliberately planned for
him a vast spectacular demonstration
"in the euenys country As he pleas
.n,,v nut it. The swelterina thousands
who pressed into Madison square Car
den expecting to be thrilled and it
.r,re,l by the magical tongue of the
hoy orator were treated instead To I;
series of discounted utterance> upon SIX
I, eu to one which are dull enough in
the ,eadin z and proved int"lerahle IN
the hearing These tragnlentary OBJ
.ervatiens may have peen noted down
mon the pack, of envelopes AS they
occurred to the orator during his rail-
way jOurlryiug, ~ in the Intervals of
his commuuings with II. Il. Bland.
After all tine antecedent heralding of
this surprising boys flights of clio
nueuce, it WAS an audaciOuS and risky
thing for MIN to stupefy an audience
which wished to sympathize with him
by droning out seven columns OF wa
tery theOrizing about the effects of free
..oinage. unrelieved 10y single thought
or sentence that rises above the iivel Of
plodding commonplace.
The appeal which Mr. Bryan makes
ITO the holders Of fixed Investments
20 think of "posterity" and in "A noble
burst of pos,humous generosity to give
up the advantages they are reapi'T
from vicious financial SYSTEM af-
lords lair measure of this man 5 intel
!isence and of his understanding of
the lines upon which al Official cam
paiyn can he successfully conducted.
We have not the slightest wish to treat
Mr.. Bryan other than in the most re-
s,ectful manner. He is not To be
beaten by abuse or 10y erithets, but
only hy IL candid exhibition of HIM as
he is. When, therefore, We describe
him as II cheap mOuntebank ii Is be-
cause We believe him to he one, and
wish calmly to speak the truth about
him.-New York Times.
The boy orator was not tiattercd 10y
his reception at Madison Square Gar
den. Tan,many train bands flied the
body of the floor, and responded with
mechanical reg uiarity, as at amy ma
chine ward meeting. t" the signals OF
leaders. The rest of the audience, COM
posed very largely of sightseers, began
to drift out before Mr.. BRYAN had been
speaking five minutes, and soon the
noise made by hundreds leaving every
minute was such that few could hear
the speaker. Instead of the thrilling
appeals of the orator who had been
nominated because Of single passion
ate speech, the audience was afflicted
with m address read from manuscript
long, so carefully pruned that il scarce
~ touched the sympathies of his hear
ers, and so moderate in language and
statement that neither the Tammany
train bands nor any Western audienc.
would have heartily cheered more than
once or twice, but from Il sense o. duty.
The entire ar. ument is radically de-
ceptiv, and at n" point more plainly
than in its labored attempts to moth
over and explain away the proposals
TO reconstruct the Supreme Court, tC
deprave creditors of the government oi
payment in the kind Of money Dor,
r,wcd and the kind pledged, and tn
deprive all private and business credi.
tors Of their rights in the same way.
1t is Utmost significant, too, that with
all his anxiety to make the Chicago
platform appear harmless, Mr.. Bryan
had not the hardihood to refer to the
declarations against national interior.
ance to suppress rioting or revolution
in state. But they are part Of the
doctrine OF his platform, which Mr.
Bryan b roadly declares that he accept,
without alteration.
1t Is to Mr.. Bryan's friends II mos'
disappointing speech. He is not at his
best in an attempt to 'eason soberiy
and with moderation OF language
The speech disappointed the audience
quite IA keenly rs the rapidly vanish
Ing audience must have disappointed
the speaker. and that l. saying much
New York Tribune.
AS II plea for bimetallism the -peeci
OF Mr.. Bryan is failure. 1t is really
demand for silver mOnometallism
and SD Is in harmony with the rlatforn
on which ne stands. 1t is full Of dan
gerous financial heresies. That thes,
will be exposed by the sound-mone,
speakers in such II way that the r"opi.
viii understand the situation We dc