The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-23
METHODS OF THE GoLDBUGs.

Men who enlist in the army in time
of war expect the maledicttons of the
enemy. and go prepared to meet all
the dangers of hate and opposition to
the country that can be sent against
them.
But men who volunteer who place
their lives and liberty of movement at
the disposal of the commander-in-chief
do not expect to be assailed by those
who claim protection of the flag. They
have a right to look upon their fellow
citizens as fellow patriots as well, and
the man who wraps about himself the
stars and stripes while he ISLANDERS and
maligns the boys in blue, is none the
less a traitor because he claims the
sanction of those in power.
When the war began and a call for
men was made, no more generous or
patriotic response was made than by
the volunteers OF the young west,
whose life blood was poured in libation
upon the rugged hills of Santiago. And
yet a goldbug congressman, close
friend of the president, a Republican
of national distinction, gave utterance
some time ago 10 the following coward
ly, partisan lie:
Our people have observed that in the
call for volunteers there is hardly a
state whose Democratic representatives
SO elOquently pledged their people to
the cause that has furnished its quota
under the call.
Official cOgnizance of the SANDER was
lrrr nr1t 70 Q~tHr f-h
pretends to run this war was in the
majority, and no correction was ex-
acted nor has any apology or eXplana-
ton been made. But more and worse,
few days after Mr.. Overstreet made
that statement he was renominated by
his party, which thus approved his
falsehood and applauded his infamy.
The goldbug leaders and their press
in general have shown more intoler-
ant hatred Of the western volunteer
than the fanatics of Spain, in their
ignorance, have been able to express
concerning the Yankee pigs"
From the day that William j. Bryan
enlisted as a private soldier in a COM
pany of Nebraska volunteers, the or
gans of the administration have hurled
their darts of ridicule and shafts of
libel against his uniform. There has
never been a day since he rendered his
services to the president, which offer
was haughtily ignored, that Bryan has
been secure from the insults OF Briber
Hanna and his horde.
The Boston Journal, Mail and Ex-
"a h 81;
Journal, Chicago Times Herald, New
York Press and other journalistic big
OTIS, whose owners are specializing off
the blood and patriotism of the people,
founding fortunes on the graves of fall
len heroes of the west and east,
are slandering the men whose lives
have been placed upon the altar OF ma
tional defense.
When the Third Nebraska was final
ly ordered to the front, and there are
scores of others which have not re-
ceived the first order of the kind, it
was a signal for the financial coyotes
to begin barking again, and they are
still keeping it up, swapping at the
heels of Colonel Bryan, snaTling at his
gallant band of western men and he
roes, all the way from Omaha to the
Atlantic. The regiment was greeted
with one continuous ovation from the
people. and one never-ceasing growl
from the goldbug press.
One of the boldest wolves of all the
savage pack is the Philadelphia Times.
It says:
After more than two months of ac-
tual war. the silver battalion or Bryan
regiment is finally declared to be COM
pleted, but there is little likelihood
that it will he able to reach the front
in time to render any service in battle.
So extremely anxious was this Han
matte to question Bryan's motives that
it blamed him for not moving out from
Omaha before his orders were received
to that effect. Colonies have no power
to leave a post and cross the continent
without orders from superior officer.
The Times knew this. but refused to
admit the fact. for such admission
would deprive it of an excuse to criti
cise an officer whom it dislikes poIiti-
can-r.
A score of Republican states have not
yet filed their quota on the second call.
but the Times takes no notice of that