The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-06-25
Did Not GO
Charles Broadway Rouss De-
clines to Attend the cele-
bration
On Account of Bryan.

handsome building, spiendidiy
equipped for scientific research
he presented to the University OF
Virginia, at Charlottesville, in
honor of Thomas Jefferson.
William Jennings Bryan was the
orator invited to be the champ
ion of Thomas Jefferson. whose
principle he had repudiated, and
Mr.. Rouss declined to be pres.
ent.
In a letter to Prof. Green, Mr..
Rouss gives the following rea-
sons for his refusal
while it would give me great
pleasure. !" he writes, ITO enter
into the enjoyment of the pro.
ceedings. / would not be able, to
listen with any satisfaction to an
address delivered by Mr.. Bryan
upon Thomas Jefferson. He and
his co.conspirators succeeded at
Chicago in stealing the time
honored Democratic party or,
ganization and now they want
to steal ITS great founder.
mo, he and his conglomerate
political fusion will not be per.
mitted by my presence and silent
acquiescence. humble citizen
though / be-. to become the
champion of Thomas Jefferson.
Letus at least prevent this mon.
strous usurpation and robbery.
Thomas Jefferson is about all
that true and loyal Democrats
have left of the great party. Let
us at least hold on to him until
we can get right ourselves. To
permit a heterogeneous combina-
ton of party wreckers to use
Thomas Jefferson as a shield for
their dlsloyalty to the public
veal would be unpatriotic and
! criminal in the highest degree. "
The indignant merchant then
proceeds in his letter to discuss
the political principles of Mr..
Bryan, and among other things
draws the following picture Of
what would have followed had
the Nebraskan been elected last
November.
"The banks throughout the
country would have suspended
specie payments instantaneously,
the United States treasury would
have been depleted of all its
gold between sun and sun, and
the ability to preserve the parity
of metals destroyed. Thus would
have followed individual, institu-
tional and national bankruptcy.
Confidence would have been des.
troyed everywhere. Our securi-
ties would have come back from
every direction, to be dishonorel
and obligations of every descrlr-
ton would have demanded i'm
mediate settlement. These things
would have produced uni
versal business paralysis, includ-
ing stoppage of factories, fol-
lowed by industrial discomfort
because there was no work; then
the logical climax of a bloody
revolution, because there was
hunger in the land which could
not be satisfied by the employ
ment and earnings of labor; fin
ally would come the swift and
terrible reckoning for those reck-
less men who had brought on the
terrific troubles.
"The operation of the inexora-
BILE law of supply and demand.
which no human power can sue
cessfully resist. is responsible
for these results, and legislation
can only give the needed help by
furnishing an equivalent in some
way for the difference in parity.
AS the indorser Of a note makes
the pecuniary deficiency of the
principal good by his acceptable
name, so the government makes
the weaker metal maintain its
ratio-equally with the stronger
oue-by its guarantee of parity,
which obligates it to redeem
either metal with the other at
the will of the holder. The only
way to do away with this neces.
sity is to decrease the production
of silver to the point where the