The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1900-10-26
BURTON Al TIE OPERA HOUSE
me RepubIlean spelI-bindsr IIIumInates
the Benightened IntelIeets Of Good
Iandites win PyrOtsehnIe Oratory.

the opera house Tuesday evening.
There was a good sized audience and
aRiehard was himself again" Small
boys made some noise at first and there
vas some jollying and replies by older
persons later, but when he desisted
from IampOoning Bryan and sneering
at DR.. Dykes a quiet and respectful
hearing was given him.
By some people Mr.. Burton is con-
sidered the greatest orator in Kansas,
by others as a mere elOcutionist, and
By large number OF people as a bad
man. Cicero said an orator must be a
good man. As a mere elOcutionist he
is q failure. He murdered the kings
English all through his speech. He
used the nominative repeatedly where
he should have used the objective
case; and he connected a singular sub
jet and a plural predicate, and vice
versa, not once, but time and again in
the course Of the evening.
His ignorance Of English grammar
is the least Of his failings. He is chill
ling and forbidding in appearance.
Hauteur, eOnceit and vanity mingle
with q soulIess and towering ambition
make his manners coarse and the
man repuIsiye. One is reminded, with
all his affected polish, of IagO in the
tragedy Of OthellO, or Of MephistOph-
eles in Goethe's. Faust. His methods
are those Of the conscinceless dema-
gogUe who makes the worse appear
the better reason.
He assumes to teach morality and
told parents how to rear their children.
As everyone knows his own example
has been the worst possible and his
-maIodorOus reputation has extended
even to other states. According to O.
Leland, his failures to honor his prom
isOry notes amount to tens Of thou
sands Of dollars. This is the man who
presumes to teach morality, and was
by a scratch prevented from breaking
into the United States senate by the
decent element Of his party rushing to
the rescue and urging their represen-
tatives to vote against him.
He began his speech by reading a clip
ping from q newspaper where Bryan
was reported to have said that the re-
publican party would attempt to bride
voters; that they would resort to cOer-
ciOn, intimidation, the corruption of
judges Of election and the-COurts, in
order to win. He made a great ado
about this. His party must be immac-
ulate, just down from heaven with
sunshine on their wings. Has he for
gotten the Kansas legislative war, the
charges made at the time and believed
BY many ever since, that Willis, the
alliance candidate for governor, was
deprived Of his Office by fraud and
chicanery?
Has he forgotten about assassination
in Kentucky, the charges Of bribery
against Mark Hanna, the Hayes Tilden
electoral commission? According to
the sanity Burton his party is like
Caesars wiIe-"abOve suspicion" How
about brother Abner Mckinley, Capt.
Carter, Nelly and Rathbone in Cuba?
A little farther back, how about "credit
mobiler,n the whisky ring, and
the "star route" frauds?
As a canting hypOcrite Burton is
bowling success. After this specification
OF Bryan for the authorship OF the al
edged charges in the newspaper clip.
be launched out on prosperity" claim
ing the earth, Of course. He didn't
remember the panic Of 1873, under
Grants administration, and that the
characterization act did it. 1t also slip
ped his mind that the panic Of1S93 was
on the very heels Of Harrison's ad-
ministratiOn,, he retiring March 4, 1898,
and, the panic cOmming q few months
later.
Then, also, he failed to remark that
Cleveland was a goldbug, that his
second term was as good as repub-
hcsn; that in the special session called
to repeal the Sherman silver purchase
law he had to rely on republican sen
atOrs and representatives to carry his
pet measure. And for this and other
things, the democrats dumped him
and be is still on the dump; SO if there
was hard times under Cleveland it was
becaue Of his turning traitor aud fol-
lowing republican policies.
Burton declared what the democrats
called imperialism was destiny under
Cod He said that the policy Of Mr..
Bryan was to haul down the flag and
abandon the Philippines. This is false
as everyone knows. The policy pro-
posed is to call for a cessation Of hos
tilities, and to assemble congress to
take action; to recommend to congress
the application Of the same policy to
the EiIipinOs as that declared to Cuba.
This is the only reasonable, the only
honorable, and the only constitutional