The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-06
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.

The name Of the Democratic nominee
for the presidency is d household word.
1t is Synonymous with honor; it stands
for truth.
In these days Of centralized power
and aggregated wealth it is well for
the people 10 know a man whom they
can trust: to have a leader to whom
they can turn; TO rely upon champion
who can neither be hoodwinked nor
corrupted. And such a man is William
Jennings Bryan.
No boss can put a collar upon his
neck; no clique can use him TO further
it's selfish interests; no foreign banker
nor local trust nor money power can
dictate the financial policy of this gov
eminent with him in the executive
mansion; no rascalIy aggregation of
contractors and sDOilsmen can borrow
from him the nations flag or influence
with which to cover UD their crooked
ness. For Bryan is an honest man,
and, above all things else, an Ameri-
can.
Vilifed and reviled. ruthlessly
aspersed by a subsidized press, the tar
get for four years of mercenary char
acter assassins, the victim of cowardly
assaults by pretended friends and gold
bugs masqueradiug as bimetallists. he
has run the gauntlet and come out I'M
scathed. The fierce light of public
scrutiny has beat upon him with pitt
less intensity since he first appeared,
the great apostle of financial freedom
from old world scheners, but revealed
no flaw in his character. The hirelings
of plutocracy have logged his footsteps
and scanned his record with dark Ian
terms, bat no foundation has been dis
covered for any Islander circulated
about him. Every assault upon him
has strengthened his hold upon popu-
lar esteem and seasoned the confidence
he has found in the public heart.
The ammunition of calumny has
been exploded; powder once burnt is
never effective again; it has merely
blackened those who handled it, and
out of the smoke the personality of
Bryan shines grander and brighter
than ever
lie is true as steel; as honest as the
day is long. TIE people know where
20 find him. Upon every public issue
H., takes the side of the people; in
every contest he wears the colors and
defends the institutions and traditions
of the republic.
The coming campaign is going to be
the most important since the days of
Lincoln. 1t will decide for years to
come whether we are to have an en-
pire or a republic; whether we are to
revere or reDudiate the Declaration of
Independence; whether we are to have
a government of. by and for the peo-
pie, or a government of, by and for
the trusts; whether we are to elect a
president to govern under the constitu-
tion or outside of it; whether We are to
have financial independence from
Europe or that freedom we enjoyed be-
fore 1873: whether expansion by con-
quest or the consent of the governed;
whether Imperialism or democracy.
These are the questions TO be consid-
cred: these the issues to be decided.
The American people need an Amer
lean rather than Tory at the head
of national affairs They need a man
at the helm who knows that prosperity.
to be permanent, must come hand in
hand with the reconciliation of sill
yer: that the money of the constitu-
tion and the constitution itself will
have 10 be restored to the place they
occupied before the money power cast
down the one and Urampled upon the
other.
If to be constant to a cause, true to |
every obligation, honest in every pur- !
pose and promise is deserving OF COM |
the American voter knows
whom TO reward.