The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-06
SOME REMARKABLE REASONING.
Girls Learnedly Discuss Bryan and the
Political Situation.

q vision of the club on the question of
finance. Ronald started it all when he
came from saunter over to the Noun
tain House, and the bees hive which
buzzed about his ears afterwards, only
made him laugh the harder, while Har-
ry joined him, and the two made fun
Of feminine political knowledge until
/ Iphegenia went upstairs in a high
dudgeon and Claribel refused the usual
4 ''uightcap" of claret to the culprits.
Ronald began it by saying:
/ Il hear that Bryan's managers are
/ trying to shut him up, and they can't
do it."
j Good thing" remarked Harry, sen
tentiously; "if he talks little more
even the fools will see the fallacy of
his arguments"
"Fallacy!" cried Iphegenia. "Fallacy
from that lovely Bryant Why, Ronald,
he has perfectly magnificent pro-
file"
Really" said Ronald, with smile,
lurking in his eyes, land | suppose, you
enthusiast, that magnificent profles
and fallacies cannot go together!"
"Of course, l don't mean that" re-
piled the artist, but I know that no
man could look as much like the busts
of julius Caesar as Bryan does and not
make a good President"
And he has he sweetest wife, put in
Martha, timidly ''She makes all her
own preserves and eschews frivolity.
! am sure she would make a good mis-
tress of the White House"
WHY BRYAN OPPOSES GOLD.
Boys, do tell MS what the money
question is all about, said Nan, with
her pretty air of seeking after knowl-
edge. "What does 16 to ! mean?"
"Oh, don't you know" queried Name,
with an air of surprise. "Why, it means
that for every silver dollar which you
have now, Bryan will give you sixteen
gold dollars when he is elected. / knew
all that long ago, because we girls in
the store take an interest in the ques-
tion and read it all up"
! 'Why will he do that" asked Nan
little obviously, while Ronald fell
off the porch suddenly, and Harry I'M
fortunately choked over his cigarette
which caused some little excitement
among us. But Nan repeated her ques-
tion as soon as things quoted, and
Name put her pretty head on one side
while she explained:
''Why, Bryan does not like gold. I
believe he thinks it is emblematic of
riches and incites people to tyranny.
Then there was some connection be-
tween gold and a dreadful murder in
1873, and he has had a horror of it
ever since, so that he wants to get rid
of it and establish silver as the stand
ard coin of the realm"
We were all surprised at Names
explanation. Even the boys looked at
her with respectful wonder in their
eyes. Harry seemed to have such an
unfortunate habit of choking that
night, but Ronald was beautifully in
terested and remarked after little
silence:
"Bryan's hatred for gold is response
bic for the fact that his wife wears
so little jewelry,," he murmured after
q moment.
"Oh, yes, / think that must be so, -
said Claribel, with animation, for, of
course, he could not preach against the
cross of gold for the nation" and al
low his wife to wear the metal But,
Name, dear / think you are a little
mistaken about the 16 to / question.
1 think that Mckinley has a majority
over Bryan of IS to /, or else that sill
yer dollar will be reduced m weight
from 10 ounces to 1 ounce"
TRUTH OF THE CRIME OF 1873.
so as to fit into the dear, fashiona-
BILE purses which will come out this
winter" said Harry softly. Bryan is
nothing if not gallant"
"Well, what was the crime of 70, of
which they are always talking" asked
Martha, growing SO interested as to
drop her everlasting knitting.
"Oh, that was something which
Sherman wanted DONE said Name,
who really came out as an expounder
that night. Grant didn't want to sign
the order for an execution, or some
thing, don't know just what; but
have always thought it was
the wiping out of Indians,
somehow, or rebel regiment
called Demons" because they called
it Decentralization" and that is some
thing about demons, isn't it? Well,
Grant didn't read the order when it
was handed to him, but made his secre-
tary or typewriter read it over and
then he signed it without knowing
that it condemned those poor DE
mons" to death. He was awful sorry
afterwards, | hear, and said if he had
only known, he would not have signed
it, but it was done then, and although
| don't know anything about the de-
tails, | know that it has been called the
crime of 1872 ever since. All the peo-
pie who did not want it signed have
regarded gold with horror, because
somehow silver was concerned in the
signing of the bill"
''Oh, thank you, dear, your explana-
tions are always SO lucid; have often
wondered what that term meant. |
never thought of connecting demons
with demonetization. / always just
skipped that word when | came to it."
THAT is not good way to do, said
Name, pluming herself a little; al
ways analyze word, syllable by sylla-
BILE, until / know the meaning Demon
forms the first syllable of this word,
therefore it must refer to demons,
or people called by such a nickname
''Ization" sounds like emigration
and humiliation, so 1T must mean
something the same, and the middle
! syllable, 'it,' is just put in for eupho-
ny. You never learn these things with
out little work, you know, girls"