Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-10-09
CAMPAIGN ISSUES
From the Standpoint Of the Crowd Of Self.
appointed Reformers,

witness the manly form of the Hon.
William Sulzer rise before me like
dream and am more than ever struck
by his remarkable resemblance to the
late Henry Clay. l have had Cuban
sympathies with Mr.. Sulzer, but he
has such a far-flashing brain that he
carries one off on the wings of his
expansive voice beyond the ordinary
horizon. He seems to be assisting in
giving the public bath of modern
Democratic literature. The other day
Mr.. Bryan's machine seemed to wob-
Ole In one of Mr.. Bryans several
railroad trips recently he ran over
something on the track in the night,
and there had to be a change of para
mount issue in the morning. Bryan
in his sleep-his only calm moments
are given to sleep-had changed his
mind He seems to have had Tip"
that penetrated his hide and aroused
him. The car did not get off the
track, as it should have done when the
function of changing a great issue in
the middle of the night was performed.
The "tip" that Bryan got, is, so far as
official history is concerned, mystery,
but we can get at it by scientific pro-
cess-triangulation for example. The
"tip" was that Bryan had made anoth-
er bad break" in his letter of accept
ance. Jones cannot watch him all the
time and it is just the same with Abb
bot. who has to sleep two or three
hours out of the twenty-four.
Bryan breaks whenever he strikes
the Monroe dictrne. He was brought
I'D on that doctrine, but whenever
anybody told him something he ought
to know there was reticence about
that doctrine so that practically Bryan
was the most ignorant man in the
country about that very thing. He
thought, as it was one ofUncle Sans
great principles, it covered the whole
world at once, and so Bryan rose up
at Indianapolis and slapped the old
Monroe doctrine, cut out to fit the Am
orleans only, over Asia, just slammed
it over Asia as if it had been an old
fashioned wagon cover. Jones was
not there, and Abbot was not there, so
Bryan went into his inner uncon-
sciousness and managed it all himself,
hence the break. Bryan's mouth was
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seven weeks, but he had to write let
ter, as he had not accepted every
thing enough, and his lead pencil got
loose. There was bigger break than
ever Bryan just defed the powers
of Europe over there in Asia, standing
up in a row making ready to make
square meal off the carcass of the
Chinese empire. Now Bryan just told
them that if when he got TO be pres
ident they interfered with his friend
Aguinaldo, they would provoke him to
war, and the German emperor was
much moved about it, but he was so
staggered he has not said anything
yet, and Bryan, he just lets it go at
that.
And so Mr.. Sulzer made a break on
the tariff just to call attention away
from Bryan. Sulzer wants free trade
so as to put down the price of wheat
in this country so low that white
bread will be cheaper than black bread.
That is what he says to the farmers.
He is judicious American eagle, is
Sulzer. And here comes Abbot, want
ing law that shall forbid Americans
to go to Europe and spend money
there. And so we strike basic econo-
mics which is the yeast that raises
Democratic literature for the Chicago
American. MURAT HALSTEAD.
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