The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-25
How to Judge Him.

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Mankind has two simple ways of
Judging the character of a fellow man.
One is by the style of his talk and
the other is by the company he keeps.
Appearances are often deceptive, and
it is not altogether fair to Judge a
man by his looks, but when the tone
of a mans talk as well as his choice
of companionship both give an I'M
favorable impression, distrust in that
man is inevitable. Apply both these
tests to Mr.. Bryan, of Nebraska, and
it is difficult to see how a majority of
the people of the United States can
entrust him with the high Office of
president. Bryan is the man who
urged laborers to find out how CAPT
tai was voting and to vote the other
way, who insults American soldiers
by saying that they walk about in
idleness, who rides hobbies until they
become lame, and who prophesies
evil which never comes to pass He
lAc1OC lAdhN oil uUtCIdACO WOTUuN
only of a curb-stone fakir, for instance
the following extracts from his recent
New York speech.
The Republican party assumes that
the laboring man is like hog that
squeals when it is hungry and sleeps
when it is full.
Solomon has given us a proverb:
1.-THE wise man forseeth the evil and
hideth himself, but the foolish pass
on and are punished" This proverb
condensed reads like this: 1.-THE wise
man gets the idea into his head, the
foolish man gets it in the neck"
Republicans say: Hooray for a
President who doesn't let little
thing like code of morality stand in
the way of progress.
What would you think of God
who would create the Filipinos and
then leave them for thousands of
years helpless until Mr.. Hanna found
them and threw his protecting arms
around them?
The Filipinos can't sing 1.-THE Star
Spangled Banner" What can they
sing? "There'll Be Hot Time in the
Old Town Tonight
| have seen Republicans going up
and down the land telling what God
wanted, what Gods plans were, when
those who knew the Republicans
knew that God would never let the
Republicans know His plans in adj
vance for fear that they would go out
and forestall the markets and try to
defeat them.
Do these utterances strike intelli-
gent citizens as coming from one quail
flied to occupy the position of chief
magistrate? Are they not sufficient
in themselves to repel respect and sup
port from Mr.. Bryan's fellow-citizens?
If not, how can the followers of
Bryan, and his admirers, explain
away that the one man who was
closer to Bryan than all others dur
ing his recent stay in New York was
Richard Croker, whose name is a syn
onym for all that is corrupt in pol
itics. Mr.. Bryan rode with him in
the public streets, sat next to him at
the twelve dollar dinner, and in one
of his speeches in New York city ex-
claimed:
"Great is Tamm011y and CROKER is
its prophet"
If this is not enough, let us quote
from Senator Lindsey, Democrat, of
Kentucky, concerning the manner in
which Mr.. Bryan allowed himself to
share the stigma of Goebelism, as he
is now sharing the stigma of Croker
ism. namely:
Mr.. Bryan has and deserves no bet
ter standing with Kentuckians than
Mr.. Beckham. He not only gave his
| influence and advocacy to the ticket
fraudulently nominated by the Music
Hall convention, but when it was de-
feated at the polls came to the CAPT.
tai of the state and encouraged the
defeated candidates in their contest
for state offices, and so far forgot the
proprieties of his high position as to
congratulate the contestants on the
political complexion of the courts by
which their contests were to be tried
and decided.
If the people of the country have
come to regard the courts of Kentucky
as more or less governed by political
considerations in the administration
of the law, we are as much indebted
to Mr.. Bryan for that unfortunate