Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-11-01
BRYAN IS A BOXER.
That Is What Don M. Dickinson
Calls Nebraskan.
Postmaster General Under Cleveland, !,
an "American" Democrat, Comes
Out strongly Against the
POpocrat Candidate.

| announces that the following letter has
| been written by Don VI. Dickinson, who
was postmaster general in the first
| cabinet of President Cleveland, to a
gentleman in that city:
Dear Sir: Since the adoption of the
| Kansas City platform and his nomination
l have never entertained thought of vot-
| ing for Mr. Bryan
Il confess, however, that, In common
| with very many democrats, | hoped for a
| time that l might, with a clear con-
science. stay away from the polls But
Mr.. Bryans speeches, particularly his
later ones, have destroyed that illusion
and convinced me that | must vote at the
| coming election.
Il criticise no man of different views
| who can reconcile himself to the other
course, but as for me. with the light |
have, | am forced to the conviction that
l would be a recreant American, false to
my country and false TO my party as
well, if | should take to the woods.
An American Democrat.
| Il am democrat on all the fundamen-
tai issues on which our party Joined
| battle in the past with the republicans.
the wings and the federalsts-a democrat
without the prefix gold because my
party has been the party of sound finance
from Jefferson to Cleveland
II could not be a republican If | would,
and | say the creed OF democracy with
all my old-time sincerity and faith
But | recognize scarcely a vestige of
Democratic principle in either the Chi
cago or Kansas City platforms The
organization is in the hands of the pop
ulists, and by these the livery of true
democracy has been stolen in which to
, serve all the devils that make for So
, cial disorder.
Mr.. Bryan is preaching the gospel of
hat Ia pi hot T,a 1e to, 81
vious, the discontented. the improvident,
the incompetent and unworthy idle.
Calls Bryan Il Boxer.
THE words of the Prophet Samuel were
aptly quoted in Gen. Braggs speech the
other day as applying TO Mr.. Bryan and
his following:
land everyone that was in distress, and
everyone that was in debt. and everyone
that was Disconnected gathered themselves
unto him, and he became a captain over
them
But worse still, he endeavors to set
friend against friend. neighbor against
neighbor, family against family, section
against section and nation against nation.
He makes the always dangerous appeal
to the evil in human nature.
His postulates are Boxer and his prop
aganda is Boxer.
He speaks no encouragement to the un-
successful, but tells him to lay the blame
at the door of his more fortunate neigh
Dor, and that his sole remedy is to attack
, him.
Has No Word of Hope.
He invariably speaks of creditors as
'merciless creditors, and to the debtor he
teaches that his friend who has loaned him
money or trusted him is his enemy.
when a man fails and becomes despond-
ent he does not seek TO inspire him with the
American spirit of perseverance; he does
not appeal to hiE9 to be up and doing and TO
try again, but he tells him to stop trying,
and that the remedy is to pull down the
| more successful.
Where is the intelligent citizen who be-
| lieVesin his heart that his republican neigh
! bors are not as good Americans and as good
| patriots as himself? And yet in connec-
| tion with his making charge that the re-
publicans demanded a larger army can in
| crease, by the way, that was voted for by
| the Bryan men of the senate and carried in
| the house with a minority vote of but 33l,
he has repeatedly said IN his public spec CHI
| ss as he said al indianapolis:
why 90 they wantit it? So that they can
build fort near every large city and use
| the army to suppress by force the disCon-
| tent that ought TO be cured by remedial leg
isationn
Teacher of Treason.
This from candidate for the presidency
of the United States using all the power of
| his eloquence TO carry conviction, especial
| ly to our foreign n-bOrn workingnen whose
votes he soicits
What intelligent citizen loving his coun-
try, with a stake in home in family or
in property. however great his svrnpathy
for the unhappy Beers, would, If he could
have had his government aggressively in
terfere for their protection at the risk OF
war with Great Britain?
I'VE seek no more wars. We want the
| friendship of all nations. But now. as ever,
We stand at peace but ready to battle with
any Of them for the integrity of our terri
tory, the honor of our flag and th. protec-
tiOn of Americans everywhere. Who be-
| licves that man that seriously attacks
| that policy is q safe man to trust with
| power in this country?
imperialism? The theory of our govern
rent fixed in organic law, cannot be
| changed in form or in substance unless our
congress, with its house fresh from the
| people, and the supreme court of the Unit
| ed States are parties with the executive to
| the reasonable conspiracy.
with written constitution, the unique
| feature of our system of government and
| its sheet anchor is that great court at
Washington, removed by the law of its es-
| tablishment from partisan conflicts and
| from the influence of popular clamSr, whose
| chief and exclusive function is to construe
| that constitution and it's distribution of
powers, and which can say to the congress:
| Thus far and no farther and to the chief
executive: Thus far and no farther
This talk about 'despotism' and 'despots'
and airs of eastern potentates,' the eXer-
| else of royal powers governing without
the consent of the governed King George
III and the like, is not at all new in re-
spect of the government Of unorganized
territories of the United States
'All these phrases and epithets were used
and applied to Jefferson and his admins
tration of the newly acquired Louisiana
purchase under the bill signed by him and
drawn by Madison.
Old Cry Is Familiar.
The same is practically true of Flor
ida, when, following the Jefferson prece-
dent, It's government was debated. An
| amendment providing that all the prn-
ciples of the constitution be declared to
be applicable to the said territory as
paramount acts was voted down. Web
ster indorsed the same theory as to Flor
ida in 1928.
But these populists and Boxers set
up sort of Joss and then desecrate our
calendar by labelling it st. jefferson.
THE Philippine question is a problem
to be solved by the congress so far as