The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-29
THE BABBLING BRYAN.

blessed is the man who, having nothing
to say, abstains from giving US wordy evil
dence of the fact" So says an English
writer. Mr.. Bryan has had nothing to say
for several days. yet he insists on giving
very wordy evidence of his mental poverty.
He is talked out. His voice holds out re-
markably well, but his thoughts gave out
some time ago.. He repeats himself con-
stantly and makes the same speech over
and over again. turning the topics around
with tiresome iteration. One who has fol-
lowed his talking itinerary can almost out
line his speeches ,from day to day. The
talk about 20, OOo, 900 freemen being able to
maintain a financial policy Of their own;
the appeal to throw off British domination;
the assurance that the money fiat Of the
United States is better than that of Mexico
because this is a bigger country; the re-
mark that money may be too good. so
good that you ma long for it and pray
for it, but cannot get it," the varied APP
peals TO greed and dishonesty, to passion
and prejudice; the artful attempts to array
labor against capital and the poor against
the rich; these and many other platitudes
and sophisms have become very familiar
that they nave ceased TO look for anything
new in Mr.. Bryan's speeches or for any
thing approaching an argument or a can
did discussion OF facts, principles or legis-
lation. The man is incurably shallow. He
possesses 1.-The gift of CAB" and that is all.
His speech flows on in one weak, wishy-
washy. everlasting flood.
But let us not do Mr.. Bryan an injustice.
He does say some new things. AT Syracuse
n. Y, he said:
Who are the men who are now telling
the laboring man that he must stand by
the gold standard If he wants TO prosper?
Why, whenever one of these Eastern finan-
ciers is troubled with sleeplessness the doc
tor does not ask any Questions. He just
says: Just stop worrying about the labor
int; men and go to sleep"
At Albany: Our opponents say that all
We need Is a restoration of confidence.
Whenever the confidence man is abroad in
"A community the man who has the least
confidence gets off with the most money.
And j am very much afraid that the con-
fidence man is abroad In this campaign.
preaching. Have confidence, and all will
be WELL
At Rome. -. V: Some of our opponents
tell us that II we had free coinage of silver
We will have so much money that we won't
KNOW Wnat 10 90 with IL Inen, again. they
tell us that the gold of the country would
go out of circulation. and that we would
not be able TO coin enough silver for our
use. 1t rather amuses ms that they expect
the people to believe this. because there are
lots OF towns in this country hat would
not object to the locating of minis in their
midst
The American people are proud of their
government. They know that the Office of
President Of the United States is the high
est elective office in the world. and they
feel instinctively that it ought TO be filed
by a man whose seriousness and dignity of
nifty of the office. What do they think of
a candidate for President who travels about
the country splicing his vicious teachings
witt such fippant remarks as those above
quoted?