The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-06-11
BRYAN FOR THE PHILIPPINES.

BRYAN FOR THE PHILIPPINES.
In last Sundays issue of the Chicago
Times-Herald we find an editorial under
J tho above heading which is character
! Anglo-Saxonism. The writer tries to be
funny at the expense Of William j.
| Bryan, and says there is much wailing
! and gnashing OF teeth among the sill
! the 3rd Nebraska regiment 20
the Philippines. He declares that
Mr.. Dryan's political supporters
expect to make capital out
Of his enlistment for the presidential
! campaign Of 1900. and that they seem to
! think that his particular function in his
! military Office will be to exhibit himself
i at the head of his regiment as the ad-
vance agent of the coming campaign.
"But," says the subsidized sheet of pluto
cracy. while he has never shouldered
| a mlsket nor handled a sword. he has
enough conception of the duties Of a
! colonel to Know that he is not expected
to mount cracker box and make a
! free silver speech every time he sends Il
| detail of men after u stray horse. If he
is inclined to initiate Rienzi and on the
eve of battle stir the blood of his soldiers
by IL forensic outburst he can do That
! as we'll in the Philippines as anywhere
else. True, the speech would not get
into the newspapers, but Colonel Bryan
would care nothing for that"
The proprietor of the paper Mr.. Kohl
saat, was booming Mckinley long before
! the ST. Louis convention and heralding
| him as the advance agent of prosperity
He was one of the men with Mark Han
ma who helped Mckinley out of his
! financial difficulties when he became a
BANKRUPT, and worked with might and
main to eject him to the presidency SO
that he could get his money back
Doubtless he will work for his re-elec-
ton, and the only man he fears most to
defeat Mckinley is the patriotic Ne
/ braskan.
| We predict for him." continues the
/ Chicago sheet. "a splendid military
career in the Philippines and shall await
with confidence reports of his first vic
torious conflict in which he leads his
gallant regiment shouting its we'll
known battle cry: Remember the
crime OF '73." The INSCRIPTIONS owner
of the Times-Herald would be glad to
get the news from Manila that William
J. Bryan fell mortally wounded wheE
! charging the Spanish enemy. Instead OF
commenting him for his patriotism as a
distinguished American of spotlcss
reputation in public and private life
| this Chicago Jew sneers at him and at
the principles he represents in the fol-
| lowing strain:
in the Philippines every prospect is
| pleasing and only man is vile. They
have the blessed silver standard which
brings happiness and prosperity to the
| people. The conditions there are much
the same as these Colonel Bryan en-
dcavorcd to impose upon the United
States in 1896, and for this reason. if for
no other. he will be glad no doubt to
dwell in such a utopan land"
We have no doubt but William J.
Bryan will render good account Of
himself as a volunteer soldier in the
Orient or wherever he goes. He Of
fcrcd his services to Kohlsaat's protege
to serve his country IN any capacity.
but he was treated with silent contempt.
Now, when appointed to command Il
regiment by the governor of his own
state, double III" Kohlaast casts ridi-
Guile upon him. He is sorry to see Bry-
an 20 to the war, for he knows that he
will be much stronger candidate for
the presidency than il he stayed at home.