Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-09-14
Is nut FOR BRYAN.
9CkELSTEllSWh HE'S AGAINST
THE NEBRASkAN.
8x.Com ptroIlsr Of the Currency Cmdsr
President Cleveland Will Vigorously
Oppose the Eiection Of the Demo-
cratic Candidate.


I did not support Mr.. Bryan In 1896.
and do not intend 10 now. ! shall OPP
pose his election this year with all the
vigor and ability possess. do not fee!
that could stand TO my convictions by
remaining merely passive and contenting
snyself with simply voting against hin.
Bryan the lssne.
No issue set forth In any platform. no
matter how cunningly devised aud ar
sanged, In this campaign can be made
paramount to the issue OF MIR. Bryan
himself, his erroneous views OF public
questions. his numerous vagaries and his
demon strnted desire TO find popularity
and votes Ia a never absent appeal to
class prejudices and supposed race ha-
treds.
] am still a Democrat, " believing In
Democratic principles correctly Interpret
ed and properly enforced as an agency
for good constitutes true Democracy; but
j am not one if the utterances OF the plat
form adopted at Chicago four years since
and Just reafiirmed and accomplished ut
Kansas City are the rightfui expressions
OF what modern Democracy stands for.
lama OF POpuitsm.
The many isms OF Popuiism were alb
horrent four years since TO my sense or
what IL safe and sound In the operations
of government and the general we'll
being OF the people, because ! viewed
them us being Fundamentally wrong, and
a,elng 10. neither lapse OF time nor err
rors OF the party Ia power reconcile me
10 their adoption OF make II possible that
] should support candidate who not
only approves Of them. but is their best
have not read all OF Mr.. Bryun's
sutteranecs during the past four years,
but have taken note OF enough OF them
90 know that his views have not changed
on any important question since 1896,
and his determination to stir up class
strife is not less manifest. Throughout
ell his addresses. public and private. Is
shown uniformly an apparent pleasure In
4 preaching the desirnbility OF discord be-
tween employc aud employer. class and
class. No appeal ever comes from him
which Is not tinged with advice to those
who must work To distrust those who
must employ
Harmful 20 Labor.
All this Is not only IN American. but Il
il unjust. unfair and harmful. most Of all
10 the lahorer. FOR whose well-being be.
yond all others II IL necessary that com
plete harmony between capital and labor
and not continual aptaaonism should ex.
ist. The interests of labor are never In
such great jeopardy ms when intrnsted
10 man who has the gift OF oratory
coupled with unbounded political nmbi-
ton and no business Judgment or train.
Inc
No man Ii fitted for the presidency who
day In and day ont prociaims, In the
90 .t....
of affairs. the reverse to be- true in order
60 fomcnt u discomfort, which will gain
90 himself aud party n political advan-
tase.
Ignorant or Hllnd.
Mr.. Bryan. without the statesmanship
to Analyxe the conditions ns they exist,
and find y remedy therefor. gives utter
ance to nothing that would Improve them,
but only to that which would make then,
worse and cause greater injury to the
great mass of the people. whose fate he
constantly bewails, I do not believe il,
the public value of any man who Ii. un-
der any aud all circumstances. a fault
finder and mere protcster against all *.
lsting order OF things.
Mr.. Bryan's friends Insist that he IL
nothing IL not intellectually honest aud
fearless. Granted that their contention
IL true. the inuuirin. public must then
b. forced to conclude that he IL either
woefully ignorant or willfully blind. A,
no time sinec his comm. into political
power has he made an economic predic.
ton which has not failed Of fulfilm-ut
or laid down as truth au economic doc
trlnc which has not In the course of quick
-evrats been demonstrated to be- AN econ
ouiic fallacy.
ptctatton Of Piassorwa.
II he does not study grave public aucs
tions In the light Of past history and
present facts and human experiences, bu,
only views them Ia the glare of his owr
preconceived notions aud hame OF his owl
6ery political oratory. h. /. uasuited cith
or To advise the public as q teacher oi
guide them ~ q leader.
II he VAS nnht because OF his CHROME
Gus views and economic hercsies, TO h
elected to the presidency In 1891. he |,
equally an unht man now. for he boasts
With triumphant self satisfaction. tina,
be stands to-day on all these question,
exactly where he stood then. and TO max,
more manifest and clearly denned his po
sition he comp.ls his party TO elsson auei
fact In . platform 40 constructed a. Il
accord With his views aud wishes.
Alliance With Croker.
can r"ncrivr OF nothing more piiia
Ole than the sight OF accredited dole
Eatvs OF oace great political party IL
. sasional convention supineiy surrender
lnG their own view. on a vitality imper
tan, economic question at the bshe<t OF
once defeated presidential candidate
who oaiy had brought tina, party into dis
grace aud dtsrepu,r. unless II be the sigh
OF that presidential candidate aud 10 h,
nominee. appealing through his con.iaet,
tlal agent. Richard Croker. Tammany die
tasor, 10 be his chief aid. trusted frfcnt
and lieutenant in the emergency which
confronted him.
Heretofore Democratic presidential
candidates have gained public respect ans
strength by having the open cnmity o.
Ta@many, Mr.. Bryan. who more th.,