The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-10-17
|N|lP QARK'SE11ER
Voluble Beveridge Has
His Comb Cut.
- Cages Scheme to Scare the
Natioaal Banks.

q. tIr sSO~SAS'
ApB THEN STAND AID DELIVER
DoneooRone Trsek % Raise 'MsAey
<V10 which 60 CsPpupt vsters
N 4nAss Drsvsss g csvsr..s.s b.
3< 4ouoo-11ask ua.aa's Recent state
n neos Absoe Trosts-sene Pertinent
0oeoeAsos Ansnt the ssbSsst-1As
0ADQbo1saA Dsss Fslly Answered.
louso1a1 washingtoa Lstter.l
N - tAs ssalful and voiuble Beverides
- I'D hl1 comb cuti The Republic
- <nmpnign nanagsrs may not have
<MD eeoocleocs themselves, but they
s f1Donn1saaIly dencnstrate that they
- oAoee who have consciences.
VAon Senator Beveridge delivered
Dn11f g his maiden speech" In the
Dn1a which 10 had been incuba tins
Il = oenthA wAlsA 80 In type IL every
~ nswspapse e6lee Ia America
DoD oeeors Il was spoken. about the
Doenttou of which Beveridge spent
ooO nights and for delivering
4oo ehe veteran senators gave the
~ ,Hoooler the marble heart, some
- fe1k thought Il would be q
- campaign document. IN open ses-
- = Tie American heart. Beveridgs
4e - himself. The Republican
DolDo committee also thoueht "a.
- q had Il printed n largo, very
~ Quantities and started In TO sow
Dooeeoet evsr the land, and that's
fl0 tAs point st which the Re-
- enmpalgn committee dropped
& - yooermelou- Bevsridge's speech 10
- eoqusnt oration In favor OF grand
eeeoy on . mammoth scale. Conse-
0ncntIy y suited the Republican man.
,oooFD 70 . Fl" but there are others
Who have condolences, who do not
bvs In highway robbery, who re-
<v9see st the idea Of taking away from
- eAsose people their lands simply be-
D9e me lands ere said to be rich In
RJM. There are such old fashioned
D6Doe lsft IN this country. thank God!
- oou,a OF them are Republicans,
- frOm these the Republican man.
us began to hear ip such numbers
- ~ euch vigorous protests concern
- tAs mmorality Of Beveridge's
oecA that goosedesh covered the Gu
- OF the Republican managers
9orosaid. They hastily laid their
- together and concluded that n
Dssridge's proposition to despoil the
4u(plnoe OF their lands because they
~ auriferous argentiferous and car.
oolcsrous was circulated any more
ekinley was . gone fawnskin. So
eey sorrowfully committed to the
mes remaining copies Of Beveridge's
psioen effort" There never was but
'ooe place a to circulate that speech
- and that 10 the penitentiary. But.
ekce COM TO think Of It, II ought
Kst TO b circulated even there. for
- pen may have certain Inmates who
- making IN honest effort to reform
- to walk In newness OF nfe, and
1ovefidse's proposition to plunder 10.
1000 people Of their homes might
enoealise the copvIcts.
4 Thsa saA nsw.
"a change has come over the dseam
- the Rspublicaos- strange chansN
= vsse change. When the Atlantic
0ooey btll was under dlscussloa In
- house. I heard at least Q score of
souooScao statesmen rejoics and
1nnse that at last. after 81 years OF
<1nseoees eudeavoF. they were about
- sstnblish the single gold standard.
- 70 put Il beyond the power Of q
, Vocked presideot. such % Bryan. for
0stnuce. TO interfere with the gold
oeAndard basis until the president, SEN
lie and house were all three slmul.
onsously IN favor OF the bimetallic
standard - that q new law favorinR
oemetallIsm could he passed. Repub.
: ocnn leaderu 90 asserted over and over
4od over again. and they asserted the
forutb. for . president. whether Bryan
~ some other man. would have no
'nAore power. without q house and sen.
ofe in harmony with him. to change
- present financial status than would
- man in the moon or the ahkoond
q Swat Every intelllgen: man.
vSI-er Democrat or Republican.
knews that statement to be the truth.
Aevsrtheless and Notwithstanding. Ly-
man J. Gage. McKinley's secretary Of
me treasury, lately issued n pronun.
eiamento To the effect that IL Bryan
= elected be can. by n simple execu-
tive order. place the country on a sill.
ver basis. Lyman's interview Is pre-
posterous. and nobody knows II better
than Mr.. Gage himself. Why, then.
Old he issue II? Simply to scare the
nntional bankers into coming down
with the dust-that Is. to contribute to
Mark Hanna's campaign fund. IL the
nntional bankers are simple enough to
be scared by such n silly cock and bull
story rs that, they are bigger fools
Nan Thompson's addle patcd colt