Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-12-19
The Man With the Iron law.

The San Francisco Chronicle printed
during the last presidential campaign,
an X ray view of w. j. Bryan's profile.
True to it's nature, the searching ray
showed beneath Mr.. Bryan's massive
cheek the heavy. dark lines of a
wrought-iron jaw. Thus it appeared
how it was that he vas able to main
tain in continuous, unremittant opera
ton, in almost perpetual motion that
vocal machinery of his, from dewy
morn till dewy eve, with no postpone
ment on account of weather. The say
ing, The hand that shook so often was
become THE jaw that wagged so Oft
en- and from the Bryan presence, arni-
ca and liniment fakirs, st. Jacobs oil
and salve manufacturers fled abashed.
The jaw that never wearied from one
weeks end to another, rose in sublime
majesty above the need of such things
as medicinal reliefs or alleviating
agents, and during all of the campaign
that merciless maxillary got in it's dire
full work until the ghost of the burro
that owned the jawbone welded by
Sampson, stood humble and abashed
in the presence of such superior excel
lency.
And now the country is to suffer an
other and prolonged siege from that
wrought-iron jaw. It's more or less dis
tinguished proprietor has just escaped
from the army after an extinguishment
Of speech for a number of months-mil-
itary lockjaw, he facetiously termed it;
and now he has turned those maXillary
processes of his into action onthe princi-
pie topicso of the day with all the music Of
an electric restaurant fan. Mr.. Bryan,
like Mr.. Bailey, of Texas, and Senator
Vest, of Missouri, opposes any expan-
sion of the United States territory, and
these three political (dis)eraces are vo-
ciferating their misguided views in a
profusion Of verbal bathos. Br. Bryan
made haste to be interviewed, ere the
ink of the presidents acceptance of his
resignation as colonel was dry, and he
has evidently started in again to bore a
long suffering public with all the per-
tinacity and puncturing irritation of an
Alaskan mosquito. Mr.. Bryan evidently
aims to be a Moses in the new Demo-
cratic obstructionist policy which, like
the Irishman, is very feminist the gov
eminent on general principles, the fact
hat the governments position may be
11oaritnrinIS hainu utvon no nnnci1aro-
ton whatever. Mr.. Bryan, like Bailey,
Vest, Teller and a few other worthy
~quidnuncs, would like to see the new
colonial possessions of the United States
either sold or given away and the lines
of the country's domain restored to
their ante-bellum location. They are a
fine lot of political hare-brains. For
weeks they have been racking their UNI
steady and erratic minds for an issue,
for the whole country seemed turned
towards the administration and the
glory of the American flag, and unless
something was done shortly to raise
what Petroleum V. Nasty would call
IN %"issoo," the Democratic party would
Dt out VI II JbD. oo MT. bryan anu OlIleT
politico-mental cripples have conjured
up an "issoo," and it is restriction and
construction of national domain, on the
ground that it is contrary to the spirit,
if not the letter of the constitution, to
expand, and, if possible, a reduction of
the regular army instead of its increase,
On the ground that increase is fraught
with peril to the liberties of a free and
enlightened people. There is more
strength in a bread-and-mil poultice
than in this new Democratic doctrine.
But, come to think of it, such a doctrine
Is not worth Identifying with such an
adjective as democratic, for Jefferson's
policies were true democratic doctrine,
and the idea Of such political nonsense
as this being called democratic is
enough to make the exponent of the