Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-10-05
The Marietta Daily Leader.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1900.
ADVERTISING AGENT ABBOTT
Is the Father Of Some Original and Great
Ideas.

Mr.. Abbot, the literary manager and
champion of the tripartite Bryan party
raid upon the United States, with a
viw to establish imperialism in the
Philippines, shows up his wild notion
of meddlesome radicalism. As | un-
derstand him he is in favor first of
paying off the national debt in green
backs, and using the power of the gov
ernment to break the banks, then to
buy the telegraph lines, telephone also,
the steam and electric roads, trunk
lines and trolleys, every conceivable
means of transportation on the street
and rivers and to spend about $780,
100000 a year for the gratuitous cir
culation of administration newspapers,
as soon as the administration is Demo-
cratic. and to organize cavalry
force of letter carriers, say 10000
strong, and put up wires to each post
Office and engage relays and operators.
This would put in United States uni
form all the employees of all the rail-
roads, transcontinental ndtrolley. and
all the telegraph forces. The whole
grand army would be about 100000.
perhaps 5000 000-but few millions
more or less is nothing to a Pop or a
paramount platform. This would in
clude a tax on transatlantic travel,
preventing so many Americans going
abroad to spend money. These are the
persons known in the literature Of Alb
bot as absentee landlordism in it's
various FORMS" The Populist reforms
would multiply by ten the power of the
President, and raise up an actual and
colossal imperialism.
Mr.. Abbot seems to be almost out of
patience with me for not wandering
with him through threshed straws of
other days. | am willing to debate
the question of paying the national
debt in cornstalks, and insisting upon
having our cotton spun abroad. and
might, if his agony should increase.
discuss the propriety of paying an ex-
port tax on American citizens that
would detain them at home. but when
Mr.. Bryan flops from one paramount
question TO another, and is evidently
ready for anything that will poll
few votes. do not care to undertake
to follow him fast and furiously until
I know where he proposes to go.
Mr.. Bryan started this campaign on
the 18th of December 1898, at Savan-
nah, Ga, and when he came down as
far as Indianapolis, he endeavored to
take it out of our country. He an
nounced an extraordinary session of
congress to free the Philippines from
our criminal aggression" and he pro-
poses to set up the government" of
Aguinaldo and use our army and navy
10 protect it, and to carry the Monroe
doctrine across the Pacific and under
it defy all Europe to provoke us to
war" There never was such a Jeffer-
son brick as this before, a candidate
for the presidency. The amount of
it Is, Mr.. Bryan tried TO carry the is
sues of this presidential campaign out
OF this country, to fight on the Phil
ippine questions for two presidents,
Aguinaldo for the Philippines and Bry-
an for the United States, and Dick
Croker, boss of all, cooling his heated
heels on a block of the Tammany ice
trust made up to extract 500 for 81
worth of ice
Mr. Bryan made it necessary to dis |
cuss and dissect Aguinaldo, and that | |
have done. | have established that he |
was bribed rascal before we ever
heard of him; that he tried to bribe
Uncle Sam; that the first we ever heard |
of him was when in an official report |
from Manila he was among others |
denounced as accepting cash bribe, |
and theneXt time he showed up he !
was making a dishonorable proposal |
to the United States: that he was in !
an intrigue with the Spaniards to keep |
them against us, and. then in an in |
trigue with us to help against the |
opaniards and play an eager part. |
That is the man. He is a fraud and /
scoundrel. The Democratic platform is |
according TO his dictation. | am per- |
sonally good wtnes sto that point,
and if am eyading anything | do not |
know it,
When will Mr.. Abbot explain about .
the transplanting of the Monroe doc |
trine into Asia?
MURAT HALSTEAD.