Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-09-28
POPULEST.
Bryan's PretensiOns DiSseCted
by a Former Supporter.
Democracy's Death Is a Prerequisite to
Any Political Reform, Says George
Rutherford, the POpulist.


County, H., Bryan's home county, is out
against Bryan.
Mr.. Rutherford has been Populist
ever since that party was formed and
has quite a following in this State. as he
is well and favorably known as a man
Of high integrity. When giving his rea-
eons for not voting for Bryan this year,
as he did in 1896, Mr.. Rutherford said;
II severed my connection with the he-
publican party solely on the question OF
Snance, voting for Peter Cooper In lSIo'
Since then, till 1896, / uniformly voted,
when voting at all, for the presidential
candidate Of the third party.
81 supported w. j. Bryan four years
sg1 because;
II. He stood for bimetallsm at the
ratio of 10 to I. demanding also in the
platform that the standard silver dollar
ehculd be full legal tender, equal with
GOLD, for all debts public and private
''2 Tho Democratic party for the first
dine since the Civil War, took the affirm
alive side of the live issues, and we Popu-
lists duped ourselves into the belief that
Mr.. Bryan and his party really meant 1t
for, at least, as many years as five.
"8. That party actually named can
didate for President outside Of New
York, political hcresy they had not dar'
ed to be guilty of but twice in thirty-siX
years.
"T cannot support Bryan and Steven
eon this year for various reasons, some
Of which are:
"1. They stand for 45-cent silver dol
lar. BY purposcly leaving out Of their
silver plank ut Kansas City the legal ten
der clause, their so-calcd silver dollar
shrinks TO its bullion value.
''2. Mr.. Bryan said in accepting the
Populist nomination: 1t Is true that the
Populists believe in an irrcdeenIablC
greenback, while the Democrats believe
IN greenback rcdccmable in coin.
'Tom Merit OF Salem says In iishinl
for Populists YOU need no bait. Instead
throw in the naked hook; they will bit,
at anything Bryan and Tom attended
the same school
'8. Bryan's party relegated to the real
the silver question-h by .paranAounting, th'
bogy imperialism, which is child o
Bryan's bcgeiting, he acting as accouch
eur in securing the one majority for tn
Spanish American treaty. Then he too
the place OF wet nurse, having the chill
dressed at Kansas City, afterwards cuI
Yied TO Indianapolis, and holding the pub
lie weakling up before the gaze Of hi
auditors he attempts to Justify his LA
son by the following selr-cOnyicting test
nOny:
Il believe that we are now in u bette
position TO wage successful contes
against Imperialism than we would hav
been had the treaty been rejected.
''He, not like st. Paul, would do ev
that good to his party might come.
His actions in urging the members O
his party in the Senate to vote for tn
ratification OF that treaty, and his lar
g,iage in justification convicts him b,
yOn0 doubt, TO say the least, of duplicit!
That treaty provided for the payment Q
$2O,000,000 to Spain for the Philippine
the United States agreeing to certai
stipUlatjons, the performance Of whic
requires ten years from the date OF tn
ratification Of the treaty. A fight ha
occurred between the American soldier
and the FillpinoS two days before tn
treaty was ratified; and that treaty col
tains the following section: THE civ
rights and political status OF the natiy
Inhabitants Of the territory herein cedc
TO the United States shall be determine
by Congress-
"All of this Mr.. Bryan knew, yet h
poses as the champion OF the ratlhcGtio
that spawned imperialism as well as I'll
champion Onti-imperialist
"a, The Kansas City platform chara,
terizes the Philippine war as "a war
criminal aggression Mr.. Bryan runnin
upon that platform said in substance 1
indianapolis: III elected President, m
first net after inauguration will be to COZ
Vene Congress in extraordinary sessio
and give to the Filiplnos u stable aud IL
dependent government
III Mr.. Bryan is friend OF the Anne
lean soldier, as well as friend to I'll
Filipinos, how can he be consistent
the Endorsement OF that clause OF h
platform knowing, as he does, that It ca
have no other effect than the encourage
ment Of the latter to fight on till aft,
November 62
HE may be able to reconcile II wit
his superabuudant love for humanity, c
pecially the Democratic portion of II, G
the theory that II puts him and them
better position to wage a successf
war against imperialism than IL It W,
not In the platform.
"The Democratic party has the bold G
frontery TO talk about the consent OF q
governed, when they are the only par
In the United States that has been nj
Is guilty Of governing people witho
their consent, aud not long since believ,
In the divine right Of one man to ov
another.
Had il not been Tor the transfusit
Of oNidacd pOpulist blood into the vel
Of the Democratic party In 1896 the %
"reminiscences would have ceased chcatil
the undertaken, aud II sandstone 81,
would now be marking the spot OF I
everlasting home, Its death Is prereQu
site TO any political reform. 1t is Il
yeritable dog in the manger. 1t stan,
to-day as II has always stood, asinine
and stubbornly across the pathway
progress.
"rbe party with which | have bee
identified for nearly twenty-five years la
committed suicide. and am. aphoi
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