Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-08
BRYAh'S ACCEPTANCE.

BRyAh'S ACCEPTANCE.
I, In accepting the presidential nominal
tion to day William ]. Bryan uses eight
times as many words as William McKin-
ley did on a similar occasion several
weeks ago. His verbosity, however,
seems to be in inverse proportion to the
clearness of his utterances. There is not
a practical suggestion in h entire
tedious rigmarole. 1t is all fault finding,
ill tempered, envious criticism. based upon
allegations without semblance OF fact.
The silver men of the west were in hopes
he would give them some ringing shib-
boleth on silver, even though he might
not be able to present an argument owing
to the changed condition of things, but he
does not even mention the word silver,
or the ratio or the crime of 49, And yet
they talk about the courage and con-
sistency of this man. He has executed
"a complete somersault on the issue of
free coinage. The Inter Mountain prints
his acceptance speech entire only in or
der that the men of Montana may see
for themselves how completely he has
evaded and ignored the subject once
dearest to their hearts. Bryan's refer
ences to the trusts contain nothing new,
and he does not pa%rticularize the Ice
trust of New York, which his admirers
thought he would courageously grapple
with. p He d~enounces all trusts alike,
good, bad and Indifferent, farmers
trusts, labor trusts and all other COM
binations for justifable protection as
well as for eXtortion and tyranny. In
this he shows the spirit of III dema-
gogue. His windy Nominations against
the presidents policy in the Philippines
amount to nothing, as they contain not
a Single practical suggestion and display
only ignorance of the situation there.
The best answer to all the Bryan trash
about what happened in the Philippines
and the situation which grew out of the
Tagal rebellion is contained in some re-
marks of Admiral Dewey at Washing
ton last week, where he said:
Later I gave permission to A~guinaldo
and about a dozen others to come to
Manila. All that they were anxious
about at that time was an end of the
tyranny of Spain, against which thew
had been fighting. After the destruction
of Montejo's fleet the city virtually sur
rendered. and I am satisfied that if we
had had 5000 troops there at that time
we could have gone ashore and been re-
ceived by the Filipinos as deliverers.
They had absolutely no thought then of
independence. That was an a~fterthought
of their leaders during the interim be-
tween the smashing of the Spanish fleet
and the arrival of the United States
troops"
Mr.. Bryan makes painfully apparent
the fact that if he We're in the presiden-
tial chair his riends would have fire.
quent occasion to blush for him. Lung
power and a capacity to find fault do not
maxi a statesman. The democratic nom
inee has certainly added nothing to his
reputation by his speech of acceptance
His desertion of the silver issue is base
in the extreme after his insistence upo1
a silver plank at the democratic conven
ton, when three-ffths of the delegate
We're earnestly opposed to it's adoption
His talk about the Philippines will carr,
no weight in view of the fact that il hi
party We're in power it would not dare re
linqulsh the islands to the Tagal rebels
before their complete subjugation. Hi.
fhedemontade concerning trusts is al
appeal to the galleries, as he knows tn.
republicans are on record against al
harmful trusts, and that the others can
not be reached.
The Inter Mountain gives up mucl
VALUABLE to Mr.. Bryan's speed
INT hopes that every man who ca,
command the time will give it careful
perusal, keeping a sharp lookout mean
while for any mention of the words "sil
YER" free coinage" '16 to l." ratio,
'crime Of '7S," gold bugs" or any othe
word which silver advocates ~recogniz
as belonging to the b~imetallists' vocab
ulary.