The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-07-21

~ the platform adopted at Chicago four
years since and just reaffirmed and re-
emphasized at Kansas City are the right
full expression of what modern democ-
racy stands for.
Issue of POpulism.
"The many isms OF popuism were alb
horrent four years since to my sense OF
what was safe and sound in the opera
tions of government and the general we'll
being OF the people. because 1 viewed
them as being fundamentally wrong, and,
being so, neither lapse of time nor errors
of the party in power reconcile me to
their adoption or make II possible that
/ should support a candidate who not
only approves OF them but Is their best
embodiment and most vigorous champion.
II have not read all of Mr.. Bryans Ut
terances during the past four years, but
I have taken note OF enough Of them to
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 all his
addresses. public and private, Is shown
uniformly an apparent pleasure in preach
ing the desirability of dscord between
employe and 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 to Labor.
"All this is not only un-American, but
It Is unjust, unfair and harmful most OF
all to the laborer, for whose well-being
beyond all others 1t Is necessary that
complete harmony between capital and
labor and not continual antagonism
should exist The interests of labor are
never in such great jeopardy as when in
trusted to a man who has the gift of
oratory coupled with unbounded political
ambition and no business judgment or
training.
mo man is fitted for the presidency
who day in and day out proclaims, in the
midst of O demonstrated better condition
of affairs, the reverse to be true In or
der to foment a discomfort, which will
gain to himself and party a political ad-
vantage.
Ignorant or Blind.
"Mr Bryan, without the statesmanship
to analyze the conditions as they exist
and find a remedy therefor gives utter
ance to nothing that would improve them,
but only to that which would make them
worse and cause greater injury to the
great mass of the people, whose fate he
constantly bewails. l do not believe in
the public value Of any man who Is, I'M
der any and all circumstances, a fault
finder and mere protester against all ex-
listing order of things.
"Mr. Bryan's friends insist that he is
nothing II not intellectually honest and
fearless. tndt COntentlOn
Is true. the induiring public must then
be forced to conclude that he Is either
woefully ignorant or willfully blind. At
no time since his coming into political
power has he made an economic predic-
ton which has not failed of fulfllment
or laid down as truth an economic doc
trine which has not in the course Of
quick events been demonstrated to be an
economic fallacy.
Dictation of Platform.
'If he does not study grave public ques-
tions in the light of past history and
present facts and human experience, but
only views them In the glare Of his own
preconceived notions and flame of his
own fiery political oratory, he Is insult
ed either to advise the public as a teach
er or guide them as a leader.
'If he was unfit, because Of his erron-
eous views and economic heresies. to be
elected to the presidency in 1885, he Is
equally an unfit man now, for he boasts,
with triumphant dissatisfaction, that he
stands to-day on all these questions ex-
actly where he stood then, and to make
more manifest and clearly defined his po-
sition he compels his party to blazon such
fact In a platform so constructed as to
accord with his views and wishes.
Alliance with Croker.
at can conceive Of nothing more pitt
able than the sight OF accredited dele
gates of once great political party in a
national convention supinely surrender
ing their own Views on vitality impor-
tant economic question at the behest of a
once defeated presidential candidate. who
only had brought that party into dis
grace and disnepute, unless 1t be the
siehfJof that presidential candidate and
to-b3 nominee appealing through his con-
fidential agent to Richard Croker, Tam
many dictator. to be his chief aid. trust