The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-10-18
Bryan, Croker and New York.

lSed by Mr.. Croker, was prompt ana
carried out in every detail according to
schedule. It appears that both MIR.
Bryan and Mr.. Croker are highly salts
fed with the occasion. Mr.. Bryan has
told some of the people of New York
how to vote, and Mr.. Croker has shown
to Mr.. Bryan and the. rest Of the people
of the United States what he can do IN
and with the American metropolis.
| Mr.. Croker no doubt looks with great
| pride on the success of his part of the
| proceeding, but there may be a fair
question whether the same is true OF
Mr.. Bryan. 1t has long been suspect
ed that Mr.. Bryan had talked himself
out and the character of his speeches
at New York substantiates the belief.
While one would suppose that N New
York city, so essential point in the
political battle, and especially SO for
Mr.. Bryan, he would have summoned
his best arguments, one is surprised
and mortified, even though he be not
of Mr.. Bryan's politics, to find his
New York speeches so mediocre, SO
weak.
Four years ago Mr.. Bryan appeared
in New York and the good people of
that city, many of them, bowed down
to the prophet come out of the West.
| Then he told them how to vote. He
told them that the Republican party
stood for all that is bad. He told them
that to vote for Mckinley was to bring
down upon themselves dearer money,
cheaper property, increased business
! failures, more mortgages and debts,
closed mills, id1eness, general hard
times, restitution, despair and crime.
Now, after four years of Mckinley
and Republican administration, Mr..
Bryan goes back to New York to tell
its good people how to vote, He does
not make any mention of what he told
them four years ago. In fact he shows
strong aversion to talking of the
past ''It is the future that interests
me-" says Mr.. Bryan. He proceeds to
show the people of New York how to
vote, in the old familiar way, by telling
them what will befa1l if they vote for
Mr.. Mckinley. He exhorts them not
to- vote for Mckinley, because by so
doing, they would be voting to have
their cherished liberties carried away
at the point of the bayonet, to make of
themselves slaves with no possession
in the world but full dinner pail, to
rob themselves of their citizenship and
deprive themselves of their suffrage:
because Mr.. Mckinley is a despot the
Republican party mercinaries, whose
purpose it is to make of the republic
military despotism, to carry conquest
to the ends of the world, to beat plow-
shares into swords and pruning hooks
into spears, to make slaves of the til1er
and toi1er, and over all to place an i'm
mense standing army, the survile in
strument of the despot, to maintain
their servitude.
In the midst of his speeches Mr..
Croker took Mr.. Bryan by the arm,
and, waving his hand in the direction
of the vast multitude, with an air of
proprietorship, asked: "What do you
think of that?'' To which Mr.. Bryan
submitted Wonderful, wonderful
The resolutions of the Hall were to be
read. There was a long one on the
''trusts." When it's turn came, how
ever, some insubordinate started the
cry of Fice'' and ''cotton'' whereupon
Mr.. Croker signi6edO his imperial
wish, and the reso1utioneon ''trusts"
was cut out. Then Mr.. Bryan con-
tinued with his speech. He talked
about the Republican party and the
crushing trusts He told the peo-
pie that their hope of rescue from these
crushing combinations is in the Demo
cratic party. Messrs. Croker, Van
Wyck, Jones, ETC., sat on the platform
back of the speaker. He said that he
and the Democratic party was not op-
posed to honest money. Mr.. Croker
1OOhSO OSuAS HdulIy upon INC CO1A-
pany. Mr.. Bryan told the people
that all he and the Democratic party
are interested in is keeping other peo-
pies hands out of their pockets" Mr..
Croker smiled approval. Mr.. Bryan
said to the people that he could:not
appeal to their avarice because ''We
have no money with which to buy
votes, no trust magnates to intimi-
date.' There was an suneasy move
ment of the chairs occupied by Messrs.
| Croker and VanWyck, and shortly
after Mr.. Bryan came to the conclu-
sion he had said enough.
One is inclined to think Chow have
the mighty fallen" The 1udicrous in
consistency of Mr.. Bryan's position in
| New York and the freshness of his
speeches are evidence enough that he
has fallen pitiab1y below the place in