Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-12-14

cause. Nominal, because the wretched,
rattlc-patcd up-tart, posing in vapid
vanity and mounting resounding rot
tennesS, was not the real leader OF
that league OF hell. He was only q
puppet in the blood-imbucd hands OF
Altgeld, and other despcradoes OF that
stripe. But lie was willing puppet
Bryan was-wllling and eager. Not
one OF his masters was more apt than
he at lies and forgcries and blasphe
mics and all the nameless iniquities of
that campaign against the Ten Com
mandments. He goes down with the
cause, and must abide with it in the
history OF infamy. He had less provo
cation than Benedict Arnold, less in
tellectual force than Aaron Burr, less
manliness and courage than Jefferson
Davis. He was the rival of them all
in deliberate wickedness and treason
to the Republic. His name belongs
with theirs, neither the most brilliant
nor the most hateful in the list. Good
radiance to it all"
There is much more OF it; but our
readers will doubtless find the forego-
ing amply sufficient. 1t is offered as a
fair sample OF the impudent post-elec-
ton utterances OF many OF the Nc
kinley organs. Thousands of col
umns OF that kind OF matter have been
spewed forth by editors posing as
public educators" and whose stom-
achs are still plethoric with bile. 1t
provokes the contemptuous pity
rather than excites the anger of intel
ligent people; for it is impossible for
such blackguards to insult well-bred
American sovereigns.
Such utterances merely 60 to prove
the more conclusively that the consid-
Grafton shown them by Mr.. Bryan was
a mistake-that otis waste of lather
to shave an ass" In treating his OPP
ponents with Chesterfeldian courtesy
and assuming that they were patriots
holding erroneous opinions, he was
casting pearls before creatures whom
it were fulsome tlattery to character.
ize as swine. BY employing legiti-
mate argument he provoked their un-
appeasable anger, and the further they
get from the election the greater
seems their fury. In appealing to
their honor and understanding he adj
dressed the non-extant. 1t appeared
to him impossible that men like Reid
and many other Republican editors,
while posing as tribunes of the peo-
pie, could be mean to the hearts core
could be vulgar as buzzards and
vicious as bulls. And so he appealed
to the reason of the people and ig-
nored the coarse insults of the opposi-
ton.
Think of such man as Bryan--a
man as rigidly honest as that i'll
starred Roman who proposed to coin
his hearts blood into drachms rather
than despoil the poor-being declared
capt at lies and forgeries and blasphe-
mics and all the nameless iniquities
against the Ten Commandment"
And this by a disreputable political
Jonah who eight years ago sought to
attain the Presidency by votes bought
in "blocks of five! Out upon you,
you journalistic peon, you Wall street
pander and anglomaniacal snob-you
and all your tribe;-you canting hyp-
ocrites rolling your watery eyes to
heaven and mounting of God and the
Commandments while trying to steal
by means of malicious lies, the good
name of honest men-men whose
fathers were the first defenders oil
freedoms flag; men who to-day create
two-thirds of the nations wealth, and
who are still striving, as did their
forefathers, to preserve the primal
principles of the Republic!