The Indianapolis journal., 1896-10-13
IF BRYAN WE'RE PRESIDENT.
Men who Would BE His Advisers
More Dangerous than He.
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In his Tammany Hall speech Mr.. Bryan
said In referring to the distinguished men
who denounce his desperate programme of
adulterated money and repudiation: There
is one great consolation l have in the OPP
ponents that have arrayed themselves
against me-that by not having their aid
ir the campaign I will not have their domi-
nation after the campaign From this the
logical conclusion is that when made Presi-
dent (of which his boyish spirit permits no
doubt Mr.. Bryan would subject himself to
the domination of those only who had aided
in his election.
The question then arises: Who would sit
in the Cabinet of Mr.. Bryan and assist in
guiding the policy of his administration?
This is of more concern to the American
the more or less remote chance Of Mr. Rry-
ans election. There is a possibility that
this, fanatical champion of base money
might prove exceedingly moderate when
brought to face the disastrous consequences
II Populistic policy, and ali would depend
upon the character of his official advisers
To begin by elimination, Mr.. Bryan has
very repeatedly informed the country that
he would have no Secretary of the Treas
ury like Secretary Carlisle. who pays gold
instead of silver to the public creditors and
who exerts all the power granted by law to
Mr.. Bryan says he would select a Secretary
of the Treasury who would redeem the
bonds and greenbacks in silver, and who
would neither issue loans nor do any other
act to maintain the gold resumption fund
Nor would Mr.. Bryan appoint an Attorney
general such as Richard Olney and Jud-
son Harmon, nor a Secretary of War to
vigorously enforce the federal laws for the
protection of person and property whenever
assalied by mob violence and riot in any
State. The Chicago platform and the Popo-
cratic candidates own utterances distinctly
such official advisers.
In the next place, it is quite as clear that
Mr.. Bryan would not admit to his councils
the type of Senator German of MARYLAND
Senator Faulkner. of West Virginia and
ex-Secretary Hoke Smith of Georgia. who
In t,nC @f
at the sacrifice of their principles To the
credit of the country, there are not many
these men have been given to understand
that they will be held at arms length in
the remote event of Mr.. Bryan's election
Senator Butler. the Populist chairman. has
officially designated them as secret foes of
the whole cheap money programme, and as
objects of profound distrust. So there is no
prospect that any of these retromingents
would find their way into Mr.. Bryan S
councils. They. are as much suspected by
by their former political associates.
Who, then, would become the official
props. of Mr.: Bryans Popocratic admin
istration If the country should be visited
with such an affiietion as a punishment for
its manifold sins? In the first rank stand
the senatorial conspirators who in the re-
cent session of Congress laid the plot which
has resulted in the disruption of the DEM
ocratic party and in the delivery of one of
Among these Mr. Bryan would have an an
barrassment of choice for members of his
1aDlneE WITHOUT gong Iurtner. For Sec
retary of the Treasury the strongest claim
is that of Populist Butler. of North Caro-
lima. who introduced into the Senate the
resolution now imbedded in the Chicago
platform to destroy the gold resumption
fund and compel the government to pay
silver dollars to the public creditors Who
is better qualified than this malignant en-
emy of the Democratic party to enforce the
programme of adulterated money and re-
rudiation?
For Secretary of State there is Senator
Vest, of Missouri, or Senator Morgan, of
Alabama, leading conspirators and cham
pions OF the Butter resolution to cripple the
government in its efforts to preserve the
public credit Both have additioall claims
upon Mr.. Bryan in their Bitter personal
hostility to President Cleveland. Senator
1tllmal's qualities and his experience as a
Kuklux rider peculiarly commend him for
Secretary of War in a Popoe rattle admins
tration and Senator Call of Florida would
serve equally we'll in such an administers
ton for Secretary of the Navy. with es-
pecial view TO the early conquest of Cuba
PETER, of Kansas. would dc for Secretary
Of the Interior, unless Teller. of Colorado.