Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-25
BRYAN AND TRUSTS.

BRYAN AND TRUSTS.
sThe Presidential candidate Of the Demo.
cratic party may be sincere man, but his
acts and record do not prove him to be
SUCH lie constantly abuses rich men, or
the rich asa class, and then selects as his po-
litical associates and advisers men who
have grown rich by questionable practices.
He denouuces tine employers of labor in
the North and West, if they undertake to
influence their employees to vote the Re-
publican ticket, saying: "Let us have
law that will make it a pententiary offense
for man TO try to rob another man of his
citizenship because he works for him, " but
at the came time acquiesces in the outrages
committed in North and South Carolina
and in nearly all the Southern States by
which hundreds of thousands of men are
robbed of their citizenship. Besides, he
has gone to Kentucky on two occasions
and given sanction, in the most unquall-
fed terms, to Goebelism, which not only
robbed thousands of men of their citizen
ship, but robbed the people of all the
Stata offices in that State
Inconsistent in manv things, Mr.. Bryan
is, perhaps, more inconsistent upon the
trust question than any other. He has
recently been treating that as the para
mount question before the people. The
English vocabulary has been almost ex-
hausted by Mr.. Bryan in the use of de-
mandatory language about trusts.
In the face of all this, however, Mr..
Bryan is hale.felIow we'll met with some
of the directing spirits in the most dis
reputable trusts that exist. 1t has been
charged, by Democratic authority, that he
was in the employ of the Silver Smelling
Trust in 1896. Now we find the chairman
of the National Democratic Committee,
who is directing the campaign for Mr..
Bryan, indicted in the State of Texas for
being connected with the "Gotton Bale
Trust" And it is not denied that Sena-
tor Jones has made a million dollars by
his shares in that trust.
When Mr.. Bryan went to New York
last week, who took charge of him9 Who
sat down with him at that magnificent
banquet, which cost SIP per plate, at the
Hoffman House? Who sat and stood
with him OH the platform at Madison
Square Garden when he addressed the
immense thrOng of Tammanyites? The
men who were with him and were direct
ing his thoughts and acts were the most
corrupt politicians Of the most corrupt
political organization on earth, and most
of them large shareholders in the vic
ious "Ice Trust" At Madison Square
Garden be had Richard Croker on
his right hand and Robert Van
WICK on his left, and the meeting
was presided over by Edward NJ. Shepard.
Emperor Dick" Croker has 500, 900 of
stock in the Ice Trust; Robert Van Wyck
has $525, COO of stock in the same trust; and
both of these men are charged with hav-
ing secured their shares for acts of favort-
ism to the Ice Trust in Greater New York.
The leading stockholders of this infamous
trust are Democrats.
Ldward NJ. Shepard, who presided over
the meeting and introduced Mr.. Bryan at
Madison Square Garden, drew up the Ar
ticles of Incorporation for the Sugar Trust,
and for years has been devoting his entire
time to giving legal ADVICE, to that notori'
Gus monopoly.
Now, don't Mr.. Bryan select very
strange friends and political associates,
standing, as he declares himself, an enemy
to all monopoles and trusts?