Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-06-09
BkYAN'S BIG BLUFF.
The Cheap Money Moses Is Hound to
Keep His Name Before
the Public.

William j. Bryan has been authorized
by the governor of Nebraska TO raise
regiment of volunteers. Mr.. Bryan will
begin recruiting at once and says that
he thinks he will have no difficulty in
getting 1000 healthy, able-boded
Young men to serve under him, not as
home guards, but where Spanish bullets
are flying. Mr.. Bryan was commits
stoned at his own request. He states
that while he has had no military train
ing he feels that it is his duty to do some
thing for his country. He announces
that II desire to see service, and shall
lead the regiment if the rules will per-
nit one without military service to do
so. will claim the right under the cir
cumstances, and of course expect some
consideration will be shown me-"
The personal friends of the new as
pirant for military honors unite in re-
pudiating the report that the deal is
merely for political effect. AS rule
it is impossible to state positively what
the motives are which actuate man to
pursue a given course. 1t may be that
Mr.. Bryan is governed by a patriotic
desire to do his country some service in
the field He may think that he will
be the best recruiting officer there is in
Nebraska. On the other hand, it is
more than likely that he is going into
the war mainly for the purpose of keep
ing himself before public which might
forget all about him if he did not do so.
Bryan's lectures are failure. Free
silver is not a drawing card at this time.
The people will not turn out to hear
man who has nothing but that or the
income tax or government by iniunc-
ton" to talk about. If Mr.. Bryan
wishes to keep on advertising himself,
as he certainly does, he sees that he can
do so only by identifying himself with
the war. That will enable him to re-
tain his hold on the attention of the
public until war is over and he can re-
turn to business at the old free silver
stand.
If Mr.. Bryan raises a regiment and it
is mustered into the service and is sent
where there is fighting to be done he
may turn out, after little experience,
to be an efficient officer and do some
good work. But he can do his country
more service-if he chooses-by re-
naming in civil life and insisting on his
followers in congress standing patriot
ically by the government than he can
by putting on shoulder straps. Sen
ator Jones, of Arkansas, and other
Bryanites are endeavoring to debase
the currency and destroy the credit OF
the country. Bryan should demand
publicly that they behave themselves.
He has not done so.
When the rebellion broke out Stephen
A. Douglas, who had been President
Lincoln's political opponent for years
who had won political victories over
him and had met with the greatest of
political defeats at his hands-forgot
all the differences which had divided
them and called on all the democrats
who had followed him to give the presi-
dent their cordial and unfaltering sup
port in the field and in congress. He
set an example which Mr.. Bryan would
have done well to initiate. but he has
not done so.
While he is raising men in Nebraska
to fight the battles of the United States
his lieutenants in the senate are deny
ing the government the money which
scheming to get rid of the gold standard
and substitute that cheap silver stand
ard of which Bryan is so prominent and
energetic an advocate.-Chicago Trib-