The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-17
Former Comptroller of the Cur
rency Under President Cleve
land Speaks Plainly.
Says Bryan Is United for the Presi.
dencv and Misconstrues Cur
"
rency Laws.
Do All in His Power to
Elect Him.

who was comptroller of the currency
under President Cleveland, and is now
one OF the most successful business
Z men in Chicago, the head of one OF
its largest financial institutions, has
announced that he will oppose Bryan
with all his might. In the course OF
an interview in the Times-H Herald he
says:
II did not support Mr.. Bryan in 1896
and / don't intend to now. 1 shall oppose
I MS election this year with all the vigo1
and ability l possess. 1 do not feel that
could stand to my convictions by re-
naming merely passive and contenting
myself with simply voting against him.
Bryan the Issue.
mo issue set forth in any platform,
no matter how cunningly devised and
arranged in this campaign can be made
paramount to the issue of Mr. Bryan
himself his erroneous views of public
questions, his numerous vagaries and his
demonstrated desire to find popularity
and votes in never absent appeal to
class prejudices and supposed race
hatreds.
II am still democrat, if believing in
democratic principles correctly inter
preted and properly enforced as an agency
for good constitutes true democracy; but
I am not one if the utterances of the
platform adopted at Chicago four years
since and just reaffirmed and reem-
phasized at Kansas City are the right
full expression of what modern democ-
racy stands for.
Isms of POpulism.
THE many isms of populism were alb
horrent four years since to my sense OF
what was safe and sound in the opera
tons of government and the general well
being of the people. because l viewed
them as being fundamentally wrong, and,
being so, neither lapse of time nor errors
of the party in power reconcile me tc
their adoption or make it possible that
should support candidate who not
only approves of them, but is their best
embodiment and most vigorous champion.
i have not read all of Mr. Bryans ut
terances during the past four years, bu.
j 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
preaching the desirability of discord be-
tween 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.
$50 Harmful to Labor.
"All this is not only un-American, but
1t is unjust, unfair and harmful most OF
all to the laborer. for whose we'll being
beyond all others it is necessary that
complete harmony between capital and
labor and not continual antagonisnl
should exist The interests of labor are
never in such great jeopardy as when
intrusted to man who has the gift OF
oratory coupled with unbounded polt-
zeal 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 demonstrated better condi.
ton of affairs, the reverse to be true In
order to foment discomfort, which viii
gain to himself and party political ad-
vantage.
Ignorant or Blind.
''Mr. Bryan, without the StatesmanshiI
to analyZe the conditions they exis
and find a remedy therefor. gives utter.
ance to nothing that would improve them
but only to that which would make then
worse and cause greater injury to tn,
great mass OF the people, whose fate hi
constantly bewails. | do not believe il
the public value OF any man who is, un.
del. any and all circumstances, fault
finder and mere proteSter against all eX
listing order OF things.
Effect on Gold Basis.
IF elected president the public must b
prepared to Mr.. Bryan as chief ex
ecutive and those associated with him a
cabinet counselors conStrue every Law
bearing upon the currency and the pow
erS Of the treasury department in sucl
q manner as TO nulllfy as best they ca,
its provisions in so far as they bear upoi
the question OF the maintenance of tn
gold standard.
HE can and will keep the country in
state of ferment and uncertainty in al
attempt to bring about the larger us,
of silver as a redemptive money. Tn
experiment is too dangerous a one to b.
entered upon by any ON the grounds tina
the gold standard is SO fixed in law tina
it cannot be disturbed no matter VIII
may be president or secretary of tn
with a construction favorable to it t
fully carry out it's provisions and not ii
manner antagonistc to them
Bryan and Recent War.
'1t will hardly do for any sound none.
man to support Mr.. Bryan because of
supposed better position he occupies thai
Mr.. Mckinley on tho question OF colonia
possessions, despite his worse position o
the question of the monetary standard
the supreme court, the enforcement o
law. and the right of private contract
Mr.. Bryan's position can hardly be
thing growing out of the Spanish war.
He and his friends, in order to g put tn
adm on to the @
with Spain, and when it was over MI
Bryan, personally at Washington, throug
personal advice and solicitation, brough
cratic senators to ratify the treaty o
Paris despite the fact that it provide
for the purchase and taking soyereig
possession of Porto Rico and the Philip
pines without any provision for giving
them any home government whatso
ever The evils and burdens of the pres
emf moment growing out of the SPANS
war are to be laid as much at the doc
of Mr.. Bryan and his party as at that c
Mr. Mckinley and his. The whole thin
reflects credit upon neither
Policy ON Philippines.
1T imagine that self-government wi
come quite as readily through the nd
ministration of Mr.. Mckinley as throug
der either until the Philippines are fitte
Tor it, property rights safe and persona
ones protected. I hardly believe MI
BRYAN could do more than send con
mission there, as the president has don,
in order to take steps looking to SUP