The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-04-28


OF our power to elect a presider
Tor many years TO come.
but say that we relegate siIve
IL to the rear and agree upon til
Il platform, how about the cand1
7 date! 1t Is clear to my mind W
$ cannot nominate Mr.. BRYAN an,
' relegate the silver question. Ill
IS the very incarnation of tia
! question and the very name O
Bryan throughout the whole coun
! try means free silver 16 to / Th,
man this case would he the plat
form. 1t is SAID The stars in theil
courses fought against Sisera, 'anc
truly the stars have fought against
Mr.. Bryan since 1896. His Gas.
sandra, like prophesies have failed
OF fulhllment and the country was
never more prosperous than to-
day. His argument about the
intimate and indissoluble c0nnec-
ton between the prices Of silver,
cotton and wheat now seems posl
lively ludicr0uS in the light Of
|
recent experience, while his pres
ent cry of calamity and tho hor-
rors Of falling prices awakes onr
genuine mirth when we see pros
perlty on every s-de aud prices
jumping into the sky. t is as
good as a show. How can YOU
elect man OF whom the whole
commercial world i, making fua!
But | hear somo Republican, says.
If times are good, why make any
change?' In reply to that | viii
say that the Republicans didn't
bring the good times; they came
in spite Of them, with good crops
increased gold production and
foreign balances. An old doctor
was lecturing his assistant one
day and prescribed q hot ba,h
for u certain disease. The as
sistant replied that be had given
an ice cold bath under such cir
cumstances, and The patlent bad
recovered. " ell said the old
doctor, il merely shows how much
poor human nature can endure
And the good times coming in
spite Of bIcKinIey's tariffs, trusts
aud Imperialism, merely shows |
how great, resourceful and mex
haustible is our country. Mr.. 7
Bryan has all the commerclal and
manufacturing classes unltedly OPP
posed to HIM throughout the whole
country, and these men have more
than an average of brains, lnf1u-
ence and money. Even the poll
ticians who arc shouting for him
admit 1t is impossible for him to
win with this handicap. They say,
however. that il mover pays poll
ticians to be pioneers, and the
people will find out the truth for
themselves in November. Oh, for
leaders North and South who had
the courage Of L. @. c. Lamar to
teach our people that the path Of
duty is the path Of honor, and ul-
Of success
"Whcn the South was crushed
md hepess and bleeding
1T every pore, this great party
stood between be. and annihila-
ton. Let the Democracy Of the
East convince the South that MIR.
BRYAN stands in the way Of Demo
cratic success and she will quickly
show you how to choose between
The two. A similar crisis con.
fronted our party in 1914, when
Mr.. Van Buren was put forward
by New York for he presidentIal
He had been prcsl
dent and was tho leader OF his par
ty, Old Hickory WAS then in re-
Liremcnt at the hermitage. Mr.,
Van Buren had a majority OF the
delegates On the first ballot, but
could never secure the necessary
two-thirds, fer the South
was convinced he could not he
elected if nominated and held out
against him. The North yielded
james K. Polk was nominated and
an impending defeat was turned
into a GLORIOUS victory. | cannot
believe the South loves the party