The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1897-08-14
Wears Silk Ni6htShlFtS Embroidered
Down the Front,
SYMPTOMS OF REPUBLICANTSM.
He Is Evidently Owned by Lombard
Street-DemOcraCy'S Hope Busted
Crushing Truths for the Dear Plain
People.

Bill Morgan in the Hutchinson
News: There was an item of news
in the papers last week which will fill
the hearts of the great plain people
with despair. A reporter of the Kan
sas City Times, one of the bulwarks
of popular liberty, interviewed Hon.
William Jennings Bryan at Ottowa,
and found him preparing for bath
attired in silk nightshirt, with EN-.
broidery down the front" At first wa
were inclined TO Believe that the
agents of the money power were try
ing to steal base on the people. But
the source from whence the report
comes is too reliable to allow of anv
such suggestion. The fact stands out
in great big letters that Mr.. BRYAN
was going to take bath. Mr.. BRYAN
has been accused of being a Demo.
crat, he has been charged with being
Populist, but here we find him be-
traying symptoms of Republicanism.
We all KIN ow how one false step leads
to another, how easy it is when a man
starts down hill for him to 90 on
with constantly increasing speed. The
taking of bath may seem to some
people a very slight departure from
the Chicago platform, but we warn
them that it is likely to he followed
by other advances toward Republic
anism, Mr.. Bryan had just spoken at
Carthage, Mo-, and received 1000 for
telling the people they were serfs and
slaves; he was about to repeat the
dose at OttOwa and put $500 more in
his inside pocket; he felt the advance
of prosperity; he was living wit
ness to the success of McKinleyism,
and he gave way to the feeling which
came from confidence and prosperity.
prepared to take a bath aud doubt
less in his heart was considering
whether SO many 1900 cent dollars
were not enough to make him vote
the Republican ticket. And then mark
the remainder of the disclosure Eat
tired in a silk nightshirt with en-
broidery down the front" Think of
N''''B ANiiA W uboOI tSllu GllbE anu MIS-.
Lease! Do you wear silk nightshirts?
DO you have embroidery down the
front? Is not the clOven hoof of the
great red dragon plainly perceptible be-
meath the silk and embroidery? Here
we have a representative of 1.-The toll.
ing masses" leader, who, up to this .
time, was without reproach, who was
never known to work or miss a chance
to make a speech, arrayed in the gar
ments of plutOcTat, clad in the ha-
biliments of Lombard street, forgetful
that nightshirts are emblems of the
British money power, and that "em-
broidery down the front" is only step :
from the gold standard. Once more
our hopes have been blasted. We
placed our trust in MIR. Simpson, and
he went off with golf stockings, We
pinned our faith to Mr.. Leedy and he
took his abode in railroad excursions.
We would have wagered our pile on
Mr.. Lewelling. and he fell with a
dull, sickening thud. But Mr.. Bryan
was left to us. We kept his angelic
face before our soul and believed that
though Kansas TefOrmers had weaken
ed, Bryan would never falter. The
truth is crushing US, and as it perco-
lates through the minds of the plain
people we can hear them say: No
crown of thorns, no cross of gold, no
silk nightshirts with embroidery down
ths front"
SIC Semper tyTGnniS.