The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-02

yho are in favor of reorganizing it and
not few who think that Mr.. Justice
Shi:ay disgaced himself aud the court
by his sudden and miraculous judicial
somersault on the income tax case.
A great many good Americans would
like to know, don't you know.Swhy he
changed, what motive impelled him.
But how dares Mr.. Greene or any other
Republican make mouths at anybody
for wanting to reorganize the supreme
court? How comes it that that tri-
bunal is SO sacred to them now? Every
intelligent man knows that it is only
about 80 years since the Republicans
enlarged, reorganized and packed-yes,
packed is the word-packed the SD
preme court in order to secure the
decision which they wanted in the
legal tender cases? III order to do
that, they had to reverse a decision
made few months before in the very
same cases.
What's sauce for the goose is sauce
for the gan3or. If it was right for
President Grant and a Republican
congress to 10 that thing 80 years ago,
how can ii be wrong for President
Bryan ard Democratic congress to do
it next year? Brother Greene should
rub up on the history of the Republic
an party and not stultify himself ana
insult the intelligence Of the country
by lambasting Democrats for enter
tanning a desire to perform an action
hallowed by the example of Republic
ans-conspicuous Republicans at that.
Mr.. Greene oyertaxes the credulity
of mankind by saying that Governor
eAltgeld raised the blood red banner,
bearing in letters of funereai black the
traitorous motto, Within the law IL
we may, but in spite of the law If we
mustr" OF course there is not one
syllable of truth in the statement and
it only shows to what forbidden and
disreputable methods Republicans are
driven in the vain endeavor to bolster
up an unrightoous cause.
Again we have from Mr.. Greene this
monstrous lie: "He"-meaning Bryan
'He has never denied but what he re-
ceives his 'sinew of war from the
silver mine owners" That particular
lie was never told before. Greene de-
! serves all the credit of originality; but
the charge was made in 1896 by a
prominent Republican that Bryan was
paid by silver mine owners, and was
promptly denied by him, and the prom
inent Republican took back the charge
declaring in his apology that when
| Bryan states a fact it is true. Lis
, word goes with me-"
Four Of u Kind.
The Republican president, senator's,
representatives and cabinet ministers
have been wabblng around as TO
what they thought on Imperialism, but
in Mr.. Greene's remarkable speech we
find this luscious Morceau: Greece
had her Alexander, Rome her Caesar,
France her Napoleon, who each in his
turn made his country mistress OF the
world. Each age evolves its issues,
each age produces its leaders. !"
A new epoch is now upon our nation,
and our leader, tried and true, for a
second time bears aloft the standard
OF the Republican party--a leader, born
of the occasion and the hour; a leader,
statesman, who was a representative
of the people, serving his country while
Colonel Bryan was 'mewling and puk-
ing in his nurses arms; q leader, q
soldier. who SO loved his country that
he risked his all, his very life, on many
hard fought battlefield before the
name Of Bryan was ever heard out
side the valley of the Platte; leader
who gave his country the best pro-
tectiye tariff it ever enjoyed, while
! Colonel Bryan was mastering law and
oratory in the educational institutions
| Of Nebraska: leader who, with mas
| ter mind and giant ability sent the
| Spanish ships to the bottom of the sea
AMI the Spanish soldiers home in dis
| grace, while Colonel Bryan found it
| convenient and expedient to relieve the
army OF his presence upon reaching
| Florida; q leader who is as far above
| his would be rival as is the heaven
! above the earth, outshining him as the
dazzling brilliancy of the midday sun
outshines the fickering fame Of the
| tal,ow dip; a leader who is sure to be
/ called Epoa to preside over the affairs
of our country for another four years
| President William Mckinley"
Most assuredly that is an amazing
passage. and ought to make Mr.
| Greene's calling and election sure OF
the postofiice ut Moultonboro, pro
/ vided Mark Hanna secures q second
| term in the White House for his pro
| tege. But let US examine it closely
and see how it looks when analysed
| Alexander Cesar, Napoleon and vii.
! liam of Canton"-a conspicuous quar-
! tet truly; but. ny countrymen, how
| do you. even Republicans, like to sec
an American president placed in such
evil company? Is Mr.. Greene's speech
a ''feeIer" Oh Imperialism? Is he play
| ing the role of Mark Antony to our
American Cesar. offering him q crown
to see how the people viii take it?
When Louis Napoleon was meditating
| his bloody coup d'etat he felt the public
pulse in this ingenious fashion: He
had displayed in all the shop windows
Of Paris Il fine engraving Of the great