Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1899-10-20
4 SMALL BUSINESS
Is Tactics Of MI. Bryal's 0p-
p0Helty in Nebraska.
MAY PROVE BOOMERANG.

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1MAY PROVE BOOMERANG
]. Sterling Morton and Others At.
tempt to Besmirch the Motives
Of the Great Leader--Publish a
> Letter That Proves Nothing.
| It is very small business in which the
political opponents of Mr.. Bryan in
Nebraska are now engaged. and it will;
in all probability. prove boomerang
says the Washington Post. Mr.. Bryan
ten years ago, when he was a strug-
Cling lawyer, was frank enough to say
respecting his candidacy for the secre-
taryshlp of the state board of trans
portation, ut is the money that ls in
the office and not the honor that at
tracts me-" He said this In a letter to
the Hon. ]. Sterling Morton, who was
then his personal and political friend.
And why should he not have said it 7
He needed the money, and the very
limited amount of honor in the posi-
ti0n was a secondary consideration.
He wanted his friend to know his stu
alton, and, knowing it, to help him get
the of1ce-not for glory, but for the
pecuniary assistance it would render
him. 1t was straightforward sensi-
BILE and manly letter in which that
statement was made. Here it is, re-
produced from the Posts Omaha spec
ial in yesterdays issue:
Lincoln, Neb. Jan. IL, 1889.
"Hon. j. Sterling Morton, Nebraska
City, Neb.:
Dear Friend: Your kind letter to
Mr.. Lease was received and noted. l
think it was we'll received. The P. s.
was judicious, think. I am grateful
to you for your Endorsement. Had hes
itated to write you because I dislike
soliciting aid. l assure you that it is
the money that is in the office, not the
honor, that attracts me. If successful
In getting it. it will tide oyer the be-
ginning here. With regard to ladies,
| am yours very truly,
NV. ]. BRYAN"
The Omaha dispatch states that dur
ing the present State campaign the
statement has frequently been made
that ex- Secretary J. Sterling Morton
had in his possession the letter written
by w. J. Bryan in which the latter
said that it is the money that is in
Office and not the honor that attracts
him. It is further stated that not long
ago Mr.. Morton made the positive
assertion in his paper, the Conserva-
tive, that such letter was in exis-
tence; that the charge made by Nor
ton was copied by a number. of news
papers, and on September 26, MI.
Bryan was interviewed by a cores.
pondent for the Omaha Bee as to
whether or not he had ever made the
assertion referred to by Mr.. Morton,
and that he said:
Il am willing to stand on my record
and let the people judge whether I
ever made such a statement. I posi-
lively deny the assertion; but do not
care to be quoted as saying SO. If I
took occasion to deny all of the false
statements made about me I would
be kept busy all the time. I do not
propose to travel around the country
denying all of Morton's statements"
There is a world wide difference be-
tween the statement made IN the let
ter and the one charged to and denied
by Bryan. One applies to a certain
little Office not endowed with any large
amount Of honor. The other applies
to Office in the general meaning of the
word. Mr.. Bryan, in face of the lat
ter, published with a flourish of cam
paign trumpets as if it were intended
toprove that he had lied, can still hon
estly adhere to his denial. He did not
say, 1T is the money that is in Office,
and not the honor that attracts me. !"
He said that of one particular Office,
and for good reason. To dig up and
garble that ten-year old letter written
to a friend; to attempt to place Mr..
Bryan, as he stands today, the leader
of great party, in the attitude of seek
ing the Presidency of the United
States for the money there is init, is to
adopt tactics which cannot win.
Yesterday the Omaha Bee and Mr..
Morton 3 paper, the Conservative, pub
lished fac-similes of the Bryan letter of
January II. 1899, in order to prove that
William ]. Bryan, the leader of the
great combination of 1896 and pre-
destined leader of the Democratic par
ty and its allies in 1900. admits that it
is not honor. but pelf be is pursuing.
1t is the smallest variety of peanut
politics. There Is not word in that
letter which is, in the slightest degree,
Idibcreditable to the man who wrote it.
The worst that it proves is lack of a
liberal supply of cash. The Post has
found frequent occasion to dissent
from Mr.. Bryan's utterances, and has
no sympathy with his views on many
questions; but it sees nothing that
calls for condemnation in that letter te
Mr.. Morton, nor does it find in his re
ported denial any departure from strict
veracity.
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