Arizona republican., 1898-01-18
THE WANING BRYAN.

MT. Bryan's speech suggests rather too plainly for his purpose it's own in terpretation. There is nothing sur prising or particularly suggestive in his railing at everything republican i nor in his gross misrepresentat of i the tariff, of its effect thus far, of the l presidents position on the currency question, or of the elaborate plan which Secretary Gage advocates. MT. 1 Bryan would not be what he is if he were candid or honorable in discus sion, nor would he capture the sort i of support he does. It would be amaZ l ing, indeed, if he did not dishonor- i ably represent the reduction in wages in a single branch of manufacture as evidence of the change in wages gen. erally, ignoring the advances recently made in wages of a vastly greater number of persons in many industries. These advances, in most cases made voluntarily, and in. nearly all with out any strife and by mutual agree ment, could not be passed in utter si lence by any man who possessed intel lectual honesty or cared to have any body suppose he possessed it. But such traits in MT. Bryan require no nterpretation.-New York Tribune.
 There is one characteristic of this man Bryan that comments him to the public, and that is his insistence He started out Tn 1896 along a certain line and since that time-in spite of his defeat at the polls, in spite of the refutation of all his declarations and observations in Mexico-close to that bad line he has stuck. He calmly ig- nores existing conditions-change and improved conditions-and contin- ues to harp upon the one theme with which he has saturated his mind. He seems to know but the one thing. and he relieved the pressure on his brain space few nights ago by calling down vengeance upon the republican party, by feeble attempt to deny the truth as it now exists, and by an appeal to the passions of men, just as he did during his tour of the country in 1896.
 All this is not surprising to those who know what manner of man it was who sprang up suddenly in the west in the early summer of 1896. Bryan, we fancy, sees that he cannot become the candidate of the same old aggre- gation in 1900, but he intends to keep himself to the fore so long as he c2n find men willing to provide him with a living.
 But Bryan is, unfortunately, not alone in his aenunciation of existing conditions, his repeated misr6 r6presen- tations, and his half truths. There are democratic papers, that once stood for sound money, now setting up the same clamor that is set up by Bryan. These papers stood for the right during the campaign of 1896, but now thsy are closing their eyes to the truth, and opening them wide to the false. They point with the usual democratic pride to the bad condition of the New England cotton mills, and refuse to see the marked improvement that is going on in every direction These men are evidently hedging, or else they were insincere in 1896.
 There can be no half way attitude in this matter. Those who are decry- ing the changed and improved condi- tions are as much enemies of the country as is the blatant Bryan, who is 10 hypocrite, no matter whatever else he may be. If the popocratic horde should manage to capture the government in 1900-for which calam- ity we have no fears-these very dem ocratic advocates of sound money in 1896, but falsifiers in 1897 and 1898, will be responsible for the terrible mistake. They refuse to see the much that has resulted for the better and enlarge upon the little that is not for the good. The good far overbalances the bad, and there is much for which to be truly thankful Nations and men should always hold that which is for the best before that which is for the bad