The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-07-06
A Fine Retrospect and Contrast.

share the pleasure of Mr. Romans private
letter, which it will afford many, in the
fine contrast he draws, or rather SIM
ilarity he holds up, of the conditions of
thirty-fve or forty years ago with condi-
tions which are shaping events of the
present time. Bryan is surely the Lin
coin of the.present epoch, with bit more
of the bull dog in his make up.
wHEArLAND, No., June Goth, 1900.
! E. e. EWING, EDITOR MIDLAND JOURNAL:
/ have just read Garrsons address at Long
wood you kindly sent me. It. like the tabled |
hunters horn has set my heart old tunes a play
ing. No wonder "Gath" had to assail him over |
Bayard Taylor's shoulders if his former speech |
was such as this one. five could enlist corps |
of young men-independent of Office seekers, to |
make speeches ofthis spirit during this campaign
: it would lift Democracy to a plain never yet !
reached by any political party Alas, l fear the |
best will be able to do will be but to ostle the
machine by changing the drivers. I see the |
leaders ofthe party are turningto the goldbug |
wing in New York for their candidate for Vice |
President. Are willing to take even Dave Hill. |
Now this is foolishness. That contingent is |
whipped and can do Bryan not one 1.-THE of the
harm that such a goldbug nomination will do. AS
old Thad Stevens expressed 1t cit ham strings
all such fellows as myself Bryan has held our
loyalty to himself by the strength he has shown
i in resisting both their threats and deeeits and
standing true to himself
| do not say Towne, but do say some one on
whom we can unite-Rdpath Andrews, or even
Williams, OF Mass. Men of this type, as distin-
guished from the HILL German outfit. They have |
got to support Bryan and it is easier 10 lift them
up to Organism than it is to depress US to Cor |
manism. This thing OF divided beliefs beset the
Republican party in Lincoln's time. justas it now
does the Democratic party i'll its struggle of new |
birth. Fremont was a Democratic radical and |
they hitched on Dayton tor Vice. who was the |
embodiment of Wing conservatism. The enthu- |
siasm was all for Fremont. Then came Lincolns |
opportunity, and he politician enough to |
meet it. Just pick up his Chicago speech in the
/ Douglas debate in 49, and see how he strength
ems the backbone of the radicals in his devotion
to the Declaration of Independence and holds |
the conservatives by his moderation.)
| Hamlin was Democrat and supposed to be a |
radical to Offset Lincoln's Wing conservatism, but
Lincoln was a radical, and in all the actual tests
i was found on that side, but his shrewdness as a |
politician held and won the conservatives while |
it was trying on the patience of the radicals. The
the oligarchy that tried TO control the Democ. |
racy, just as the men who understand BRYAN the |
best now are the bankers and monoposts who |
control the Republican party. The oltgarchs |
were tools enough to go to civil war. The monop-
olists wiser and proflting by the.experience of
their brothers in Europe, give US foreign war.
| l have faith in Bryan's strength of character /
but we have no right to embarrass him with /
yoke-felow in the employ of the enemy. The !
inferno set are none too good to kill Bryan if he
too much interfered with their xploitings ifthey I
! had one of their own kind to take his place.
think l'll go up to Kansas City about the 4th |
and mix with the crowd. OF course they are |
long way off from Garrisons creed, but they are
headed that way-iust as the Mckinley crowd are |
headed toward George Ill.
I have been broken in on by the coming of |
neighbor, an old man whose father was one OF |
the rifemen which whipped the British at Kings |
/ Mountain. one of the last of his generation. He |
can neither read nor write, but few men know |
more of local history than he. He has many OF |
these western incidents in his memory in doggrel |
verse, and now in his dotage he likes TO sing them
to any of us who will encourage him by listening |
| He is no idol of his neghbors but some how my |
heart warns to the lonely old man when he says !
he "has to go around and see people or else to
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fortune not to have been born 200 years hence. Ii
looks this way TO me now when / have climbed
the hill and am looking down the other side
(which by the way looks Steep Old Patrick
Henry said he had no way of judging the future
but by the past. Just about loo years ago Jeffer
son was making things hot for the conservatives
of that day. Ny grandfather was a young man
who had grown mp among conservatism which
bordered on Toryism-the most of which still
clings to the garments of many prominent men
and families about Philadelphia. Amid the angry
debates of that day this element was against JEFF
ferson, and it is no small satisfaction to me to
know that in the midst of it and under personal
restraints we do not have my paternal grand-sire
cast his first vote for Thos Jefferson. His triumph
has made possible the one yet to be. If this
Kansas City convention sacrifices the splendid
position Bryan almost alone has given the Democ-
rocy, then indeed will their stupidity be their
enemies yindication.
| Andy johnson may have been providence
but there were mighty few Republicans that
believed it in 81. Bryan can carry any fit man
along with him that the people believe supports
him, but house divided against itself cannot
stand. Roosevelt was not nominated because of
his military record but because he is known to
have said that agitators and strikers should be
stood against wall and shot. and that is the sort
| of man the oligarchs want in Mckinleys place.
Everybody seems to know Roosevelt has the
Cromwellian disposition well developed and these
chaps want that sort of service. 1t has been more
than limited that Mckinley is not expected to live
ont second term--heart disease he says. Why
else should they force Roosevelt on the ticket?
There is no other explanation-by hook or by
crook he is to be the President.
| think Garrison's address should be sent into