The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-29
LAN|ER IS FOR N k|N|EY
THE ST. PAUL GENTLEMAN REPLIES
TO A QUERY OF HON HEN
RY R. WELLS
CAUsTICALLY AssAILs BRYAN
Includes in His Denunciation
Mayor Van Wycl1, OF New
York, and Richard f.
Croker.

The following letter, written by
Hon. D. w. Lawler to Hon. Henry r.
Wells in reply to a communication as TO
his position in this campaign was made
public yesterday:
st. Paul, Oct. 25, 1900. My Dear
Judge-Your letter is at hand. | am
out Of politics and shall stay out, but
in view of your opinion that my old
Democratic associates are entitled to
sta atement OF my position, L desire to say
that am 2 Democrat ana not Bryan
ite. -Four Years ago we had Demo-
cratic ticket IN the field; this year we
can. most faithfully discharge our duty
to the Democratic party and our country
by voting for Mckinley and Roosevelt.
Let us bury Organism this time, aud
four years from now, the party of your
love and mine, reorganized and reunited,
with a Democratic platform and a Dem
oeratic leader will march to victory.
The development of the past four
years nave not recommended Mr.. Bry-
an or his managers to the confidence of
Democrats who SpuFned his leadership
in 1856. He sill stands tor a. debased
financial system, a packed and partisan
supreme court, and the impotence of
the national government to preserve
law and order. He stands for these po-
hI1cal hereSieS, because they were pro-
mulgated in the platform of 1896, and
that platform is indorsed in its every
word ana syllable in the platform of
1850. With a platform framed on the
principles of jefferson, Tilden and Cleve-
land, and with such leader as David
=. Hill, we should this year have won a
rave been ashamed. Not the least of
the political crimes which are charge
able to Bryanisn is the hideous blunder
which in the very hour of a golden on
portun:ty dominated the Kansas CIV
convention, and again forced on a dis
Term I'm and a discredited candidate.
Inc grotesque pranks of Mr. BRYAN
ana ms colleagues in this campaign have
meflted the condemnation of the people
Mr. Bryan issued to the national con-
poIc lnan was ever issued by an ;m-
perlaI Caesar to an enslaved senate.
,ae when n, he ordered that free silver be ex-
pressiy indersed in the platform. This
was the god of his idolatry the mission
OF his life, the paramount issue OF
o1e San cadInpadga; oSad a. But as the campaign
lended only for home consumpflon in
Nebraska and Colorado. 1t was smoth
eIeo ere, II, IN Minnesota and Wisconsin and on
ai4e al1T1fof EafSJern sea-beard was consigned to
Sepuicher OF silence.
WI. Bryan, when president, will Sup
press the trusts and yet the Chairman
of W ms ms natlonal committee is a member
OF the cotton bale trust and the worthy
croker, who has contracted. to deliver
the the vote of New York, is a member of
the ice trust.
d representative of the plain people
Wnom Lincoln loved, and he will have
none his 60 OF 2 P2lutocracy; In New York he eats
the diXans of the Turkish room. on his
T1ght van Wyck, the magnate of the ice
trust, and on his left the statesman
otrbOheT, otbaT whose son commenced college the
bull dogs T''OO' WI III VI
He constitutes himself as the snecial
champion OF the Declaration of Independ-
ence, ana ne charges the opposing candi-
dates With harboring treasons and strat-
agems against our Institutions And who
are are the opposing candidates? Mckinley,
Hao Mno Gari1ea S1,ril musket and fought for the
nag curing the four years, when it is
openly charged Stevenson was conner
nsa nead q ana knight of the Golden Circle.
fbe fie ,11f 191ofSeVelt a =, VINO barred his breast to
had commenced to learn tactics on m I'M 81.
bloodless. fields of Nebraska. oi INC
i ne recklessness with which Mr.. BRYAN
d and ms associates attempt to turn the
south African war to their own advan1
tage brands them as utterly unfit to he
trus1ees Of the national well-be ng and
security. By inSinuat ation. rather than hU
open accusation, they try to CONVINCE orr
Fellow citizens of Teutonic descent thar a
Bryan administration would have done
sppIileLnihg TO prevent the extinction of
thee gallant Dutch republics But thev
know that the president went to the ut-
termost verge allowed by international
law law when he made his oTer of mediation.
of international law are part of that law
of the land which the president swears
to obey. Would Mr.. Bryan, in the execu-
tive chair, have gone farther than an Of
fer of media ton? By so doing he would
have violated his oath of office would
have exposed our country to a war neces-
stating an army of million instead of
the army of a hundred thousand, at which
he rails today, and would have exposed
the people of this land to the horrors of
that very militarism from which our fel-
low citizens of foreign blood escaped
when they came to this country
Mr. Bryan and his colleagues have car
ried their policy of insincerity and in
cendiarism to the extreme. They want
the flag hauled down in the Philippines
and yet this is the territory conveyed TO
us by the treaty of Paris, the ratitlca-
ton of which Mr.. Bryan aided in pro-
curing. He is now attempting to undo
the work cf his own hands. Would it
not be manlier and more American to
put his shoulder to the wheel ahd fin
ish the work which has been commeuc-
ed? If the Kansas City convention had
adopted a, plank condemning the Philip
pine rebellion and demanding its suppress
sion, or if Mr.. Bryan would today cable
to Aguinaldo similar order, how much
longer would our flag be fired upon and
our soldiers slaughtered? Mr.. Bryan
and his managers would today in Iheir
heart of hearts hail with satisfaction
the decisive defeat of the American arms
in the Philippines, and would receive
fiGinCS of an American victory with f15a