The commonwealth., 1898-02-03
SAYS BRYAN rs THE MAN.

believes Bryan dead man. he VINO
believes him dead, or back issue, is
the dead dog in the manger himself.
If dead, he Is the llvest dead man since
the resurrection of Christ. And he
will vet. with his following, surprise
and conquer his enemies and the
enemies to silver and the masses OF the
people, as Christ surprised and con-
auored the enemies to truth and was
crowned victor.
Nothing but the Chicago platform
and It's candidate can save silver, the
democratic party or the liberties of the
people.
To repudiate any part of that plat
form would be the reputation OF the
principles OF reform and the principles
Of democracy.
To repudiate Bryan would be the
signal gun for the disbandment OF the
SLY er forces and the dispossession OF
the Southern and Western Democracy
No other living man could have re-
ceived as many votes as he did in the
last election under the same circum-
stances. No other living man can
carry as many votes for silver in the
next campaign as he can.
He can carry for silver one million
voters more than any other living
American.
To repudiate him or the platform
would be political madness run to seed,
self-stultification, suicide.
He is the only man in America
that can be elected at the head of the
silver forces.
His power over the people and his
influence are growing daily.
He is the embodiment of reform :;
the sum and substance of true de
mocracy. He is the center around
which the hopes of the great body OF
the American people revolve.
He Is the leading and brightest light
of the silver forces; extinguish that
light and you cast shadow over all
the land, and at one stroke blast and
shatter the hopes of more than six
| million voters.
If the Great I Am should see fit in
his kind dispensatlon to take him from
US, He could and would give us another
in his stead, but we cannot substitute
or find substitute for him.
William Jennings Bryan is any
thing but dead, "back issue," out Of
date. The principles he typifea
are eternal, and though he may die,
will live forever.
| He who cannot stand the Chicago
platform as the embodiment OF demo-
cratic principles or w. ]. Bryan as its
leader in the next National Convention
had as well take time by the forelock,
and get out of the democratic organiza-
ton, not because he is not gentle
man or good citizen or clever fel-
low, because he may be all these, but
because he is not democrat.
I heard a gentleman say day or so
ago, the democratic party must not
wiring the silver question or financial
question in this fall or summers cam
paign, but "must make the negro
question, the issue and the doings OF
the two last legislatures"
l admit the doings of the last legisa-
ture, with the Kirby Smiths, the Han
cocks, the Judge Suttons, the John
Smiths and many others of that stripe,
are more than sufficient to disgust not
only the angels In Heaven, the right
eous on earth and all decent people in
and out of the State, and to drive the
whole tribe of mongrels and plunderers
from place and power into outer dark
ness, where devils rend each other
| but why leave out the financial Ques-
ton, the silver question? That is the
issue upon which the national election
hinges.
We must win Congress and the
presidency upon that issue or not win
at all.
| Are we all liars, when we say the
want of money, Is the cause of low
prices and hard times? Are we hypo-
critics? Are we afraid of the issuesand
are we ashamed of our cause?
Let all those who do not propose to
abide by the will Of the majority as ex-
pressed by the convention, pack up
their baggage, and move their head
quarters.
I. don't mean to invite any gentle
man out of the party, nor to drive any
one out, but would rather invite all in,
and encourage all to stay in. We need
every man. We need all the honest,
patriotic populists; all the honest,
patriotic gold-bugs; all the honest,
patriotic silver republicans, and every
man in the State who loves his coun-
try, his wife and children, and down
trodden oppressed humanity. We need
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