The Globe-republican., 1900-09-20
Bryan's Professions Dissected
by a Former Supporter.
Demncracy's Death is Prerequisite TO
Any Political Reform. Says George
Rutherford. the PopaIis1-

County, H.. Bryan's hou.e county, - cut
against Bryan
Mr. Rutherford has been a Populisr
ever since that parry was formed and
has quite a following in this State. as he
is we'll and favorably known a man
or high integrity When giving his rea-
for not voting for Bryan this year.
AS he did in 1896. Mr. Rutherford said:
Il severed nay connection with the Re
publican party solely on the question of
finance, voting Tor Peter Cooper in 1876.
Since then. till 1896. 1 uniformly voted,
when voting at all, for the presidential
candidate OF the shird party
II supported w. J. Bryan FOUR years
aga because:
81 He stood for birnetallisIn at the
ratio of &c TO j. demanding also in the
platform tthar the standard silver dollar
Should be full legal tender, equal with
gold. for all debts public and private
- The Democratic party, for the first
time 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 it
for, at least many years five
%'3- That party actually named can
didate <or President outside of New
York. a political heresy they had not dar-
ed to be guilty At hut twice in thirty-six
years.
1T cannot support Bryan and Steven
son this year for various reasons, some
OF which
II. They stand for # 43-cent silver dol
lar By pu-poSeiy leaving out of their
silver plank at Kansas City the legal ten
der clause, their so-called silver dollar
Sbrinks TO its bullion value
- Mr. Bryan said in accepting the
PoDuiist nomination 1t is true that the
P"pEhsts believe irredeenIa BILE
greenba>k. while the Democrats believe
in n s,reenback redeemable in coin.
'-Yom Merritt of Salem says: In fishing
Tor Pcpu!isLs you need DO bait. Instead
throw in the naked hook; they will bite
at anything Bryan and Tom attended
the school
g. Bryan's party relegated to the rear
the silver question by 'paramounting' the
boEy imperialism, which is n child of
Bryan's begettinS, he acting accouch-
eur in securing the one majority for the
Spanish American treaty Then he took
the place of wet nurse, having the child
dressed at Kansas City. afterwards car
ried 20 Indiana polls. and holding the pub
lie veakiinE up before the gaze of his
auditors, ne attempts 10 justify his liai
by the following self-convicting testi-
mony:
~ believe that we are now in a better
position wage successful contest
against iuiperiaiis than we would have
been had the treaty been rejec. ed
He, not like St Paul. would do evil
that good TO his party might come.
His actions in urging the members of
his party in the Senate to vote for the
ratification of that treaty, AMI HIS Ian
CuaEe in justification convicts him be-
yOnd doubt, to say the least, of duplicity-
That treaty provided for the payment of
$50, 1000. 600 to Spain for the Philippines,
the United States agreeing to certain
stipulationS. the performance of which
requires zen years from the date of the
ratification of the treaty. n fight had
occurred between the American soldiers
and tine Eilipinos days before the
treaty was ratified; and that treaty
fainS the following section: The civil
rights ana cciiticai status of the native
inhabitants OF the territory herein ceded
to the United States shall be determined
by Congress-
'<All OF this ar. Bryan knew yet he
poses as the champion of the ratification
that spawned Imperialism as well as the
champion anti-inlperialst.
- The Kansas City platform charac-
teTizes the Philippine n war of
criminal aggression Mr. Bryan running
uHOn THAI platform said in substance at
indianapolis: If elected President, my
FIRST act after inauguration will be to con-
vene Congress in extraordinary session
and give 10 the EilipinoS q stable aud in.
dependent government
''If Mr.. Bryan is friend of the Amer
icsn soldler. well Il friend the
Fnipinos. how can he be consistent in
the Endorsement Of that clause Of his
platform knowing. he does. that il can
have other effect than the encourage
mems OF the latter 20 fight till after
November So
He may be able to reconcile it with
his superb bundant love for humanity es-
pecially the Democratic portion of it. on
the theory that II puts him and them in
a better position TO wage a successful
war against Imperialism than if 1t was
not in the platform
The Democratic party has the bold eff
froEtery 20 talk about the consent of the
governed when they the only party
in the United States that has been and
is guilty of governing people without
their consent. and not long since believed
In the divine right of one man to own
another
Had it not been for the TRANSMISSION
of oxidized Popuist blood into the veins
OF the Democratic party in 1896 the old
"reminiscences W ould have ceased cheating
the undertaken and a sandstone slab
would noR be marking the spot of ITS
everlasting home. It's death is prereo III
site TO any political reform. 1t is the
~critable dog in the manger- 1t stands
to-day as IL has always stood, asininely
and stubbornly across the pathway of
progress
'-The party with which I have been
identified for nearly twenty-five years has
committed suicide, and am. metaphor
(Conttnues at bottOn Of second column.l