Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-14
THE LATEST LIE ABOUT BRYAN.

THE LATEST LIE ABOUT BRYAN.
Never in the history of the country
has there been a candidate more sys,e-
matically lied about by his opponents
than Mr.. Bryan, the present Demo-
cratic candidate who has been called by
the people TO lead their cause against
the money power, and who has accept
ed the mission and carried it out in a
manner that has thrown Hanna and his
jackals into CONSERVATION.
Hanna's candidate dare not take the
stump gainst him; not one Of his oppo-
nents will meet him, not one OF them
have ever tried TO honestly answer him;
because they know they can't All they
can do. all the Hanna literary bureau
can do is to lie about him and villify
him The fact that this manly man holds
these hirelings in contempt and pays no
attention 10 either their falsehoods or
their villifcation enrages them and in
cites them TO throw more mud and in
crease the measure OF absurdity in the
falsehoods they tell about Mr.. Bryan in
lieu Of answer to him on the great issue
of the day.
The latest instance of this is furnished
by the local Hanna organ, whose editor
thinks he is laying the ropes so that in
the event of Republican success, he will
be L. S. Senator. The Intelligencer
makes the absurd charge against Mr..
Bryan in connection with his tour
through this State that he promised to
say a word for Gen. Watts and was dis
suaded from doing so by the Populists
who represented to him that if he advo-
Gated Watts's election he would lose the
Populist vote.
This will be news to the Populists,
whose candidates expressed their will
ingness to resign in favor of the Demo-
cratic ticket if fusion could be brought
about. at the Clarksburg meeting. The
Republican committee and its organ who
have invented this falsehOod about Mr..
BRYAN. because they dare not tell the
truth about him, know that this is the
truth.
The absurd feature of this goldbug lie
about the Democratic candidate for
President is the amusing assertion that
Mr.. Bryan made the promise to give Gen.
Watts a "send-off" and then broke his
promise. Now the Republican commit
tee and the Hanna organ know full well
that from Washington City to the enc
Of his tour of this State Mr.. Bryan was
surrounded by those who are closest to
Gen. Watts and are taking care Of his
campaign. The assertion that Mr.. Bry-
an made any promise to these gentlemen
which he deliberately broke is as absurd
as the closing paragraph Of the article
in question in the Hanna organ, which
reads as follows:
Being more of a Populist than Demo,
Graf he was more anxious TOT the Boou
graces of the POpulists than ne was 4OI
| the Democratic organization.
In other words. the Hanna organ says
tha, Mr.. Bryan would ignore the party
that has most votes in this State to please
the party that has the least. Mr.. Bryan
has never been a Populist, and has new
er advocated anything but true Demo-
cracy. The literary slaves of Hanna
Wall Street Slush Fund Committee can
only cite the fact that he voted the Popu-
list ticket in Nebraska at the last cleo
ton. but they don't tell why he did 1t
and they don't give the vote cast at that
election. They don't tell their readers
that the fight in that campaign in Ne
braska was not between the Democrats
and Republicans but between the POpu-
lists and the Republicans; and these
falsifers don't tell their readers that the
only possible chance to beat the Repub-
lican party in that State was through the
Populist ticket, for the reason that Inc
Democrats, as the returns show cast
only about one-ffth of the total vote.
They don't give their readers these fig
ures and they don't tell them that the
only reason Mr.. Bryan voted the Popu-
lis, ticket at tina, election was TO DE-
FEAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
AND NOT BECAUSE HE WAS A POP
ULIST.
Many and many a Republican will vote
the Democratic ticket this year, but that
will not make them Democrats. They
will simply do it, as Mr.. Bryan did, to
defeat the plutocrats who have gotten
control Of the Republican organization
and corrupted ii.
Mr.. Bryan has been a Democrat from
the inception of his public career and