The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1900-07-28
Mckinley and Roosevelt
Bryan and Stevenson.

InS SHOHSH lOI MY VI ar" ""'N NV"
inncI, more the Republicans won!d
do it they were entrusted with
power. In the Republican, cOnven-
ton four years ago he WAS afraid
To have "goll' mentioned. Now
he is "A partisan oI the absolute, 0n
miljSated, single gold standard.
In congress, when he had no
oflic. $ o distribute, Mr.. Mckinley
was an % dent civil service reform =
rr. he became Governor of Ohio
and turned over the helpless luna
ties in the insane asylumS and the
inmateS,Of all the other state char.
table institutions, to the tender
mercies of the SpoilSmen. When
he was Il candidate Tor president
the first time he promised that he
would take "nO step backward" III
the matter OF civil service reform.
When he took office he became the
first president to take backward
step since the reform was first IN
Stilnted nndor Arthur, fourteen
years brGOrc.
President Mckinley said that We
could never be guilty OF "climinal
aggression" and then he began aud
carried on an unnecessary war in
the Philippines.
He said that it was cur plain
duty to give the Porto Ricans free
admission 10 our markets and then
he not only accepted but actually
forced through congress u bill levy
ing heavy taxes both ways OH Por.
to Rican trade.
He promised q pure government
Of our dependencies, and he filled
tine -PUDnC service or CUBA WIN
thieves.
All these Inconsistencies have Il
single cauSe-Mr. Mckinley is not
his own master. He speaks tron,
The good impulses Of his heart, and
then lie does what he is told to do.
1t is impossible even to imagine
William Mckinley making such u
stand for his principles against the
pressure of party leaders as VIII
liam J. Bryan has made this week.
When we elect Mckinley to Office
therefore, his words furnish lis no
CleW whatever to Lis probable
course after lie gets into power. To
know what he is going to Ito We
must know the man, WHO, for the
time being, is running him. In
this case it is Mark Hanna.
William J. Bryan is tie very az
titheSis Of his opponent. No man
has had more ylmlcnt or more un-
SCrupuIous enemies; 10 man has
been more Outrageonsly lniSTpre-
sented; no man has had his char
aeter, opinions aud conduct more
distorted and Caricatnrel, but III
all the whirlpool of detractiOn that
has surgcd about him nobody has
venlured to suggest that Mr.
Bryan is owned by anybody but
William J. Bryan,
He takes orders from no Hanna
He does not have to call anybody
into consultation to find out what
he thinks. His convictions based
on his own matured study, are his
own property, and when he han
once formed them no one OIL eartl
can induce hin to give them mp
OF modify theM, or hide them under
II mask.
The country ID coming to know
and admire that splendid stubborn
ness of Mr.. Bryan'S. The Demo
Gratis, who did not agree with hin
OH the silver question, annoyed q
they were with what seemed t
them an unnecessary sacrifice u
ipolitical strength, are beginning +
DO glad that they have had that rev
citation of unconquerab!e, infexibl
conviction. While it is agains
them on one point it gives thel
confidence that upon the otEe
points on which they and the Cal
didate agree they will not be b.
trayed.
What we need in the presidenc
, now above all things is an hone'
. man-not merely one who is aboN