Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-18
EIGHTEEN PAGES
SUNDAY. JUNE IS. 1899.
BRYAN IS THE MAN: NOT
ALTGELD.

We cannot agree with certain con-
teulporaries that the appointment oil
Altgeld as Bryans campaign manager
would be inconErous and dangerous TO
Bryan's cause. Altgeld stands for all
that Bryan stands for and no more. TOR
both stand on the Chicago platform.
which is simply the ne plus ultra of all
the dangerous issues in American pol
itics. or the two men Altgeld is far the
ADLER, and while he is deep III error.
there is hardly doubt that he has the
sincerity of conviction. But Altgeld's
ability, zeal and sincere earnestness
will not be able to carry his favorite to
the White MISUNDERSTANDING Index
Appeal.
Mr.. Bryan Is his own campaign man.
ager; but it is very sad to see such
thoughts and feelings expressed in a
journal so worthy of respect as our
Petersburg contemporary. 1t must
really fail to grasp the significance of
such utterances in denunciation of n
man, who. whatever his sins, is a Dem
ocrat, a friend of States rights and the
people, one whom Democrats have hon
ored by making him Governor of n
great State, a brave opponent of all
enemies of American freedom. no mat
ter in what form they come. nor in
what number and array; 4 man most
supremely hated, reviled and cursed by
all the powers of Mammon; the bette
noir OF Hanna Republicanism, imperial
expansion, and of all the impulses
and aspirations of gluttonous greed for
power. position, pelf and privilege, so
fNnifiad nd ctt1f Cd in hn
pines. publicly and privately, (by the
robbery and oppression and SANDER Of
the weak, the poor, the ignorant and
the trusting); and the strong Gin brute
force), the educated lin all the arts of
fraud chicanery and mean cumming
and the rich in all the plumber. public
and private, at home and abroad. posi-
BILE to power and privilege, steadily
bent on grasping and amassing every
thing into the hands of the favored
fd&.
The enemies he has made should Win
him the esteem of all who detest them;
their anathemas should secure him the
plaudits of ali good men; and if ignom-
my seize him and cage and pillory him
to torture ard infamy on some Devils
Island. every patriot and lover of JUS
tice and truth should rally to his de-
liverancc. Ind;screet. extreme, passion
ate and fearless,-all his faults and
vices lean to virtues side; and what
he is In character, profession and per-
forrance. should plead in every manly
heart with trumpet tongue. against
the deep damnation of the conspiracy
TO strike Democracy and the people an
blow through him.
Altsoid is not man after our own
heart. but we love him more FOR the
class of enemies he has made. and he
has qualities that should win him the
regard and admiration of all true men.
all Democrats. and all the people who
love liberty better even than such life
as can be lived under reign of Han
mas. Algers. Quays and other Pluto
Gratis. the Money Trust. and their hire
hrgs. The Index-Appeal was not wont
to sail with that crew. How lie diable
came 1t in that boat?" For, mark. it
not only Joins with the rabble of pollt-
ical iniquity to assail Altgeld (who is
an angel Of light. compared with the
gang now camped in the CapitoD but
1t attacks Bryan from behind the Re-
publican bugaboo. and strikes at the
choice of the people over Altgcld's
shoulder. That Republicans. Hanna
ties. Algerines and billy-bynumites
should do this was to be expected. 1T
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