The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-08-31


Bryan. divested A. be II now Of his
POpulist silver garments. II = typical
and racial Democrat Yield that he
was wrong on the silver question he
never will. such q thing would be I'M
Democratic. But fight upon Issues that
are manufactured solely for the pur-
pose az antagonism. issues that may be
permanent or may be transitory or
may be nothing more than handle to
swipe a blow 1t his enemy--he will do
at every opportunity.
He has talked silver until Il has be-
come = croouing song TO lull political
antsdiluvIans 70 siumber with. He has
hurled his anathemas at the shining
gold and its followers until his words
are like the distant baying Of the wild
coyote. He has peregrinated among the
hero worshipers and the startled party
fawns Of all states Of the Union until
they receive him ~ q periodical PEN
sioner, better to be received AZ An elee-
mosynary suppliant than to be rejected
- q bore.
but the silver emotionailsm II run
out. The audiences. save those who are
too ignominious to acknowledge their
defeat Of three years ago. bathe
themselves In Isethe's somnoien. flood
when he speaks Either Bryan IL
to decline. say the fates which even
the irrsprcssible. Colonel Of the Prairies
cannot fall to divine. like the fall of
Coxey and the precipitation Of Debs, or
there must be new elements found 10
antagonist new things that others are
prospecting BY to attack and to declare
criminal and plutocratic
Hence Bryan turns TO cxpansion and
10 trusts. and in an address delivered ut
wInnemucea. New. on Tuesday--in the
very stronghold Of the siiverites--he de-
clares: ".rhe two greatest OF the new
Issues that are before the country are:
First. the trusts: second. the Philip
pine question" The mountehank OF
the popalace has discovered that con-
tingent of the American people begin
10 feel upon these subjects a. they
felt on the silver subject In the panic
days Of 1893 to 1855 Some are incense,l
because the industry goes the way that
all things go. namely. 10 the combina-
tion Of the most perfect means with the
most far-reaching end: in other words.
toward simplicity. toward consolidation
Of effort and concentration Of methods
Some are incensed because the peace
fui iaxiness OF their hcme development
Is interrupted by the startling sum
mons 90 enterprise IN islands across the
sea and In the establishment or a fu-
ture commerce In which the United
States shall excel the world and dis.
tance the worlds history.
Democratie-like. Bryan appeals tn
the DISCONTINUED. abandons an Issue
whose appeal 10 discomfort rests only
upon "Reminiscences. turns his tireless
eioQuenec TO the phrasins OF things that
win touch the sympathies and awaken
the reclining passions Of the negative
element of the political community. He
harrs upon the trusts and upon the
Philippine question lie sings them
with the dramatic fervnr 90 bar,
whose spirit Ia that % Job. whose lam
cntations are those az jeremiah. He r.
. Democrat because he is always on the
wrong side. His Democracy cannot win
because the people havs tried 4, before.
and they know that II ~ a destroyer.
that Il leads nowhere save In a circle
Of retreat that II would undo progress
and hold the United STATES within .hc
staying strings at insansise i,npotency.
II In q xatsgeY,st.s u, sAe fs@,noera.s- mar.