New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-22
TILE Roy AS A BRAGGART.

Everybody krOws about tne sinah Nv! VIM
n taste for brae who, when a visitor ha"
called TO see his mamma and remarked Oh inc
beauty of piece Of statary, replica les' II
* pretty. | made it myself That type vi
vanity and sublime disregard Of truth Is not
uncommon among children, who frequehuy
have no real conception Of the immortality OF
living and n fOndness for making themselves
the heroes of wonderful tales, due, perhaps 10
Imagination stimulated by story-pooks. IL ~
something new, however to ma this COLOSSAL
impudencc invading the domain OF serious po
ltica discussion
Already this campaign has seen the apotheo-
sis of falsehood and forgery. everywhere
when the freesilvcr advocates have thought
lie could not be caught and strangled, they
have set one afoat to fool people. Ihey nave
had the meanness to misuse the good name
of n foreign financial expert who was nm
self friend of silver, by forging CONFESSIONS
that he gave bribcs to carry through n Dill
which, in fact. he opposed. They ialsely AZ
tribute TO various writer's and papers STATE
mcnts in favor Of their cause and they faDrl-
cate speeches which they put in the mouths
Of their opponents They fasify The Con-
grcssional Record" and other public documents
But even these crimes had not prepared the
way for the monumental impudcnce or the BOY
they are running for President, in standing up
before the people. who are saying how nice
the increasing gold reserve is, and exclaiming:
Eyes, indeed, it is nice. | made 1t all myset.
The Boy down in Virginia on Friday,
and made a speech at Richmond. in which he
said:
want you to remember that the mere nomi-
nation Of the candidate for President on frce-
MIA IN bringing gold
country for the last few weeks. My friends II
a nomination will start this much or now or
gold TO the United States. what will be the
enormous flow when we actually have a Pres-
dent who is for free silver?
This Just takes ones breath away. If he
had pointed out to the tobacco fields and told
the virgnans that they had a good crop be-
cause Of his nomination he would not have
been funner in his self-asSurance, nor more
utterly regardless Of consequences. He acted
Just like any other boy, bound to tell a big
story and forgctful that his elders would be sure
to know the truth and give him sharp spank
ing for his smartness He Is so carried away by
his love of big talk that he tells different stories
on different days. He went over to Fredercks-
burg Saturday and INDUCED in some glib smart
ness about George Washingtons having thrown
a silver dollar across the river there and after
his habit of substituting end-man impertinences
for argument said: I'VE have fnancers now
who can leave George Washingtons achievement
far behind We have financiers who have been
able to throw gold dollars all the way across the
Atlantic and then bring them back by an issue OF
bonds" He forgot that he msef had claimed
credit for bringing the gold dollars back.
The Boy has been going about the country
for weeks denouncing the bankers and foreign
exchange dealers. declaring that they had been
made the rulers Of the country by the mainten-
ance of the gold standard. and prOclaiming
himself the leader Of a revolution TO give back
to the people control of their own finances
His newspaper organs. taking up the cry, have
abused the bankers for sending gold abroad.
and when these bankers combined TO protect
the Treasury. they said this was evidence that
they controlled the movement of gold, and
were exporting or holding il as their selfish in
tcrcsts might make a panic or confidence de-
srable When the gold mpOrtations began
the freo-Siver press brStled with denuncia-
lions of the gold barons for bringing the yellow
metal here for political purposes and using
their power TO turn the course Of trade for the
benefit of Mckinley. This movement of gold
was pointed 10 with virtuous Indignation as
another exhibition of the way the money
power played with our credit, convincing
proof Of the necessity Of declaring our indie
pendence of Lombard Street. which, by the
turn of its hand. could take orr gold or over
whelm us with II.
And now the Boy rises up and at one minute
says that he did 1t all, and the next. that the
wicked bankers throw gold across the At
lantic and bring 1t back at their will Was
there ever boy more childish. Perhaps he
thought the people of Richmond were ig-
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and the vain Dragging fit was so overpower-
ing that he could not stop to think that others
would read what he said and take from 1t
their measure Of Presidential candidate. In
his craze for posing he posed for himself and
revealed the big-talklng boy to perfection.