The sun., 1900-09-04
It pays to ADVERTISED
in the columns Of this
paper.
is NOT FOR BRYAN.
ECKELSTELLSWHYHE'SA AGAINST
THE NEBRASkAN.
Ex-Comptro11er of the Currency Under
President Cleveland Will Vigorously
Oppose the Election of the Demo-
cratic Candidate.


cratic Candidate.
I did not support Mr.. Bryan in 1896, |
and | do not intend to now. / shall op- |
pose his election this year with all the
yigor and ability possess. l do not feel
that could stand to my convictions py
remaining merely passive and contenting
myself with simply voting against him.
Bryan the Issue.
No issue set forth in any platform, no
matter how cunningly devised and ar
ranged, in this campaign can be made
paramount to the issue of Mr.. Bryan
himself, his erroneous views of public
questions, his numerous yagaries and his
demonstrated desire to find popularity
and votes in never-absent appeal to
class prejudices and supposed race ha-
treds.
/ am still Democrat if believing in
Democratic principles correctly interpret
ed and properly enforced us an agency
for good constitutes true Democracy; but
am not one if the utterances of the plat
form adopted at Chicago four years since
and just reafiirmed and re-emphasized at
Kansas City are the rightful expressions
of what modern Democracy stands for.
Isrns of Popu1isrn.
The many isms of Populsm were abb
horrent four years since to my sense of
what is safe and sound in the operations
of government and the general we'll
being of the people, because | viewed
them as being fundamentally wrong, and,
being SO, neither lapse of time nor err
rorS of the party in power reconcile me
to their adoption or make it possible that
should support candidate who not
only approves Of them, but is their best
embodiment and most vigorous champion.
/ have not read all of Mr.. Bryan's
utterances during the past four years,
but have taken note of enough of them
to know that his views have not changed
on any important question since 1886,
and his determination to stir up class
strife is not less manifest. Throughout
ali his addresses, public and private, is
shown uniformly an apparent pleasure in
preaching the desirability of discord be-
tween employe and employer, class and
class. No appeal ever comes from him
which is not tinged with advice to those
who must work to distrust those who
must employ.
Harmful to Labor.
All this is not only un-American, but it
is unjust, unfair and harmful, most Of all
to the laborcr, for whose well-being be-
yond all others it is necessary that com
plete harmony between capital and labor
and not continual antagonism should eX-
ist. The interests of labor are never in
such great jeopardy as when intrusted
to man who has the gift of oratory
coupled with unbounded political ambi-
tion and no business judgment or train
Ing.
No man is fitted for the presidency who
day in and day out proclaims, in the
midst of demonstrated better condition
of affairs, the reverse to be true in order
to foment a discomfort, which will gain
to himself and party political advan-
tage.
Ignorant or Blind.
Mr.. Bryan. without the craftsmanship
to analyze the conditions as they exist
4 and find a remedy therefor, gives utter
ance to nothing that would improve them
II but only to that which would make then
a worse and cause greater injury to the
~ great mass of the people, whose fate he
constantly bewails. 1 do not believe il
the public value of any man who is, I'm
NJ der any and all circumstances, fault
## Under and mere protester against all ex
5# isting order of things.
# Mr.. Bryans friends insist that he i,
nothing il not intellectually honest AM
! y fearless. Granted that their contention
&# is true the inquiring public must theI
be forced TO conclude that he is eithe1
88 woefully ignorant or willfully blind A
M no time since his coming into politica
~ power has he made an economic predic
8 ton which has not failed Of fulfillment
|S# er laid down as truth an economic doc
8 trine which has not in the course of quicl
M events been demonstrated to be an econ
omic fallacy.
M Dictation of Platform.
Ii he does not study grave public ques
$ lions III the light of past history ant
present facts and human experiences, bu
Dnly views them i'll the glare of his owl
preconceived notions and fame of his owl
fiery political oratory, he is unsutcd eth
8er to advise the public as teacher 0
guide them as leader.
) If he was unfit because of his errone
ous views and economic heresies, to b
elected to the presidency in 1896, he i
Equally an unfit man now, for he boasts
with triumphant self-satisfaction, tha
1he stands to-day on all these question
fexactly where he stood then, and to max
3z8 more manifest and clearly defined his pc
25 sition he compels his party to blazon sue
NH fact in a platform so constructed as t
## accord with his views and wishes.
M Alliance with Croker.
@ can conceive of nothing more pitia
# bic than the sight of accredited dele
W gates of a once great political party i
| q national convention supinely surrender
s3pg their own views on a vitally impol
ant economic question at the behcst Q
once defeated presidential candidate
no only had brought that party into di.
ace and disrepute, unless it be the sigh
that presidential candidate and to b
pminec, appealing through his confdel
d il agent, Richard Croker, Tammany dit
4 tor to be his chief aid, trusted frien
pd lieutenant in the emergency whic
II nfronted him.
Heretofore Democratic PRESIDENT;
J ndidates have gained public respect an
5&ength by having the open enmity Z
|( tmmany. Mr. Bryan, who more tha
, of them has boasted of his stand fc
ncipie and his integrity of characte
done what Mr.. Seymour. Mr.. III
a n and Mr.. Cleveland would not d.
3S2<A&35W has formed mr. nnnn 1ltiuucn offanSip