The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-08-11
TO KILL OFF BRYAN.
GREAT SCHEME PLANNED BY
WHITNEY,, EFT Al.
Want to Use Dewey as Il Catspaw with
Which to Get the Democrats Mixed
Up-Populists May Act Early with
Silver Republicans.

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Up-Populists May Act Early with
Silver Republicans.
There can be no doubt at all but that
". ]. Bryan will be nominated for
president by the Populists. He may be
named as early as February % if it is
deemed proper to call a convention
early. 1t is quite likely that the
Silver Republicans will also nominate
Bryan in ar early convention. These
will declare absolutely for
l6 to /. Finally Bryan will be nominate
ed by the Democrats, despite the fact
that Bill Stone, Bill Whitney, Dick
Croker, and their ilk are showing a
disposition to run things. Whitney
has a pretty plan laid for tossing
Bryan. Dewey is to be the instrument.
Here is what the Atlanta Constitution
has to say about it:
The statement of 0. II. P. Belmont
at Chicago that Mr.. William c.. Whit
ney has gone to Europe to get the con-
sent Of Admiral Dewey to become the
Democratic candidate for president
would be plausible in itself even if it
were not confirmed by the testimony
of such men as the correspondent of
the Cincinnati Enquirer. 1t would be
plausible in itself for the reason that
Mr.. Whitney has been trying to do
something spectacular in politics ever
since some inconsiderate newspaper
man rave him credit for having nomi-
mated Mr.. Cleveland in 1892 by main
strength ts~i % 5,Is..I.
The newspaper man who put forth
this s%tupendous tale was simply try
Ing to get up something to interest the
public. In the newspapers, as in cur
rent fiction, there is no character so
m~ysteriously interesting as the hero
who is supposed to do all the hot work
behind the curtains and in closets and
whose tools and instruments are out
Of sight Of the audience. This hero
everything. When he appears at all
he must seem to be unconscious of the
fact that he is exposed to the public
gaze. He must clench his hands, NUT
ter between his teeth and wrinkle his
marble brow just as he would do if he
were entirely alone. 'a cd.
AS our readers know, Mr.. Cleveland
was nominated in 1892, not because
Mr.. Whitney vas for him, but because
a majority of delegates were for him.
He was opposed by the few who could
see a quarter Of a mile ahead, but the
great bulk Of the delegates preferred
him to Hill. In that, we think they
were right, though we were far from
thinking so at the time. AS the
scheme was to scuttle the ship, there
was not much choice between the men
who were ready and anxious to engage
in that work.
But as soon as Cleveland was nomi-
mated, the newspaper man who saw an
interesting story in the situation i'm.
mediately composed the Whitney mys.
terry and put it forth. Long before the
day Of nomination, MI. Whitney had
with clinched hand, hit his marble
brow and declared that Cleveland
must be the man. Having made VI
his I'll on this point, this North
American Warwick retired to his study
and clapped to the blinds and doors
and proceeded to make his wonderful
influence felt in the remotest n Of
the republic. st.5,-g -,i
Such was the newspaper story, and
1t was put together with such happy
art, that after a while even Mr.. Whit
ney began to believe. Indeed, he had
not read it above a dozen times before
he was ready to make affidavit thereto.
The result is that a very clever mar
has gone off at a wrong tangent, and
has thereby lost such small political in
fluence as he had gained as a very in
d~rstrious and energetic secretary of the
He will be a Warwick or moth
ing; he will have things his own way,
or he will not play. -
1t might be supposed that such a
Warwick as this would have had an
overpowering influence at the demo-
cratic convention in 1896. AS a matter
of fact he could not control the delega-
ton from his W state. And now, in
the face of all this, he proposes to play
a big card and call it Dewey. 1t is
hardly true, as Mr.. Belmont supposes,
that Mr.. Whitney intends to make a
serious effort to get Admiral Dewey
to consent to be a candidate. What he
hopes to do is to inveigle the hero OF
Manila into aiding him in playing a
game Of political duplicity. At the re-
ception which is to be given to the ad-
miral in New York, his name is to be
mentioned, and Mr.. Whitney's mission
is to ecu the admiral's promise tc
make no denial when the statement is
made, but to allow the public to draw
it's own conclusions.
The hope is that in this way the ranl
and file OF the party can be induced tc
refrain from i%nstructing their delega.
tons for Mr.. Bryan with the result OF
sowing chaos and confusion in the or
ganization. The scheme, however,
lacks something more than p%rettiness.
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SLAVES AND MASTERS.
j. I know the slavc-driver and l know
the slave, and | say that the slave
driver selfish as he is il a eant1aman