Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-09-28

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NOR.
Especial Washington letter.
The utter recklessness of goldbug pa
pers in speaking of Bryan, the unprec-
edented rancor with which they pur-
sue him and the wild exaggerations
they indulge in regarding him must be
reckoned as among the most astounding
and inexplicable phenomena Of our
possible, to believe them one would
naturally conclude that Bryan is the
greatest ass that ever roamed the plains,
a rufian of the most pronounced type,
a brainless idiot, an uneducated clown,
a leather lunged, timber tongued wind
jammer- merely this and nothing more.
They do not appear to realize that by
such preposterous characterizations of
the great Nebraskan they are writing
down the bulk of the American people
of all parties and all classes as FOOLS for
/ undertake to say without the fear of
successful contradiction that there is
not another citizen of the republic
whom the people are SO eager to see
and hear, and that, too, without refer
ence to party affiliations or geographical
location. No such crowds as Bryan
drew together in Boston. New Haven
and Philadelphia have ever assembled
in those ancient cities.
SenseIess yituperafion.
Now, notwithstanding the utterances
of these goldbug Solomons, make bold
to affirm that the American people do
not assemble in such vast multitudes
as to run the risk of being squeezed to
death in the crush to see and hear such
a man as the goldbug organ grinders
describe Bryan to be. If this senseless
vituperation were confined to papers
without character and influence, /
would pay no attention to it, but it ap-
pears in great journals claiming a high
moral status, asserting the sacred pre-
negatives CT public teachers. For in
stance, The Globe Democrat seemingly
attempts to out -Herod Herod in this
bad business. The Globe Democrat is
justly accounted a great newspaper. one
of the greatest in the land Its editor,
Captain Henry King, is my personal
friend and is universally taken and ac
cepted as a gentleman of culture, kind
illness of heart, splendid capacity and
broad humanitarianism. That's his
status in general, but mentioning Bryan
to him has the effect of shaking red
rag in the very face of mad bull He
not only fights Bryan principles fero-
ciously, which he has perfect right to
do, but he assails Bryan personally and
viciously, which he has no right to do,
for. whatever else may be said of Bryan,
he is Christian gentleman Of unblem-
ished and fiawless character, a good
husband, kind father, loyal friend,
a man of masterful intellect and vast
learning, an orator whose career estab-
fishes the high water mark of American
eloquence, a man who at SO made the
most amazing campaign since politics
was first invented, defeated candidate
who retains the love and admiration of
the people as only four other defeated
candidates IN our history have done
Jefferson, jackson, Clay and Blaine l
submit to The Globe Democrat and to
my personal friend Captain Henry King
that such man is entitled to fair and
candid treatment at their hands
An Absurd Statement.
Not long since The Globe Democrat
published this editorial squib, which
appears tome entirely unworthy of that
great journal, which arrogates to itself
the title of s.the great religious daily. I"
Common sense would dictate that the
first duty, the paramount duty, of "a
great religious daily is to tell the
truth, and the particular paragraph of
which / complain is false, ridiculously
false, so false that no well informed
schoolboy will believe it. The GID.
says:
Tho Democratic party has several
sorts of troubles which are much more
dangerous to it than the weak head of
its national committee. 1t has the poor
est sort of a candidate which any great
party ever had in this country, and it
lacks votes. 2
How any man of character could OBJ
tain his own consent to write such an
absurd statement | do not know. How
he could persuade himself that anybody
of intelligence would believe it is stran-
ger still, 1t has the poorest sort of a
candidate which any great party ever
had. " Indeedl ! would not be afraid
to stake Bryan's election on this prop
osition Lock me and Captain Henry,
editor in chief Of The Globe Democrat,
up in room in which there shall be no
histories. no biographies and no books
of reference. Let me put him through
a civil service examination ON candi-
dates for the presidency, and be will
not grade IS on scale of 100. Who
ran against Jefferson in 1904 Who
competed with Madison in 1908 and
1922 Who contested the field with
Monroe in 1916? The names of those
aspiring statesmen have almost per-
ished from the memory Of the living,
and yet The Globe Democrat, self styled
"the great religious daily, " has the gall
to state that the Democrats have the
poorest sort Of candidate which any
great party ever had in this country.
Go tol Tell that fable to the marines.
Did The Globe Democrat ever hear of
General William Henry Harrison, who
was defeated by Martin Van Buren, in
1886 and who defeated the Sage Of
Kinderhoolz' in 1sA0l And will Captain
Henry King jeorardize his reputation
for truth and veracity, historic knowl-
edge and ordinary horse sense by assert
ing over his own signature that old
Tippecanoe' possessed tithe Of Bryan's
reputation or a noiety of his capacity
I guess not
Presidential Equipment.
Does not Captain King know that
when James K. Polk, the original dark
horse presidential candidate, was nom
mated the Wing wags made the lives Of
Democrats miserable by maliciously in
quiring, Who is this Mr., Polk 7 and
that the average Democrat had nc
knowledge on TINT subject and, being
unable to answer. remained mute And