The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-02

itical principles of Alexander, Caesar
and Napoleon" Now comes Brother
Greene and goes further than did by
linking William Mchinley's name with
that infamous trio of bloody tyrants
and citing them as models to be inli-
tated.
Personal History.
Now will the reader go back and re-
read that extract from Mr.. Greenes
wonderful speech? He makes it an
ofense in poor Colonel Bryan that he
was ''mewling and puking in his
nurses arms" while Brother Mckin-
leg was sighting the battles of his
country! Alas and alack. Could Bryan
help that? Isn't it the nature of babies
to 'puke and mewr' in their nurses
arms? Didn't even Alexander, Caesar,
Napoleon and Mckinley do that? III
deed, didn't Mr.. Greene perform that
universal caper himself once upon Il
time? | have no doubt that Bryan
was thus engaged when Mr. Mckinley
volunteered in 1861, for Bryan was
born in 1860. Does Mr. Greene think
that Bryan ought to have been fighting
instead of "meWling and puking in his
nurses arms" in 1861? How could he
fix the day of his nativity? A witty
freshman once said that he could have
been born in America just as well as in
Ireland if he had so chosen? But
Bryan was not so fortunately situated.
Was Mr.. Greene? Does Mr.. Greene
doubt that Bryan would have been
soldier during the civil war had he
been old enough? Didn't he offer his
services to Mckinley among the very
first at the outbreak of the Spanish
war? Didn't Mckinley ignore the
tender for petty political reasons?
And didn't Bryan raise a regiment and
go to the war anyway? Where was
Mr.. Greene then? His picture on the
back of his reply to Bryan looks as
though he is not past the military age.
Mr. Greene appears to be woefullY
weak in geography. He informs a
startled world that Mckinley risked
his life for his country before "Bryan's
name was ever heard outside the val
| ley of the Platte" That's a mistake
growing out of Mr.. Greene's disregard
! for the truth of history and his in
ordinate desire TO construct a sonorous
sentence for the delectation of New
Hampshire Republicans. AS matter
of fact Bryan was born and reared in
Illinois, and was never in the Platte
valley till about 1856 or 1887. This
may surprise Mr.. Greene. Judging by
| his speech, most any morsel Of in
| formation would surprise him. Fur
| thermore, about the time Mckinley
was enlisting Bryan was learning to
| walk
Again, we are told, contrary to all the
facts in the case, that mckinley gave
his country the best protective tariff
law it ever enjoyed while Colonel Bry-
an was mastering law and oratory in
| the educational institutions of Nebras-
| ka." Does not Mr.. Greene know that
Bryan never attended a Nebraska edu-
cational institution Il day in his life?
| On the contrary. he was graduate of
| one of the best colleges in Illinois and
a successful practicing lawyer and a
married man before his eyes ever be-
| held Nebraska That he mastered law
and oratory somewhere is clear, for it
| is admitted by all intelligent persons
that he is the greatest living orator,
and as he has refused an offer of $25,-
| 000 per annum for his services as q
lawyer he must be fairly well up in
| his profession.
Dryan's Military Record.
But Mr.. Greene uttered q gross and
| deliberate SANDER when lie said that
| Colonel Bryan found it convenient
and eSpedient to relieve the army of
his presence upon reaching Florida"
Voltaire's motto, Keep on lying and
some of ii win stick" appears TO have
been adopted by Mr.. Greene as his own
theory. Colonel Bryan went, in COM
mand of his regiment, to Florida in
! the Summer of 1898, by orders of the
war department. William Mckinley
being ex otlicio commander in chief.
BY orders he remained in Florida till
the treaty of peace between the United
States and Spain was signed in Paris,
and then resigned. Mr.. Greene must
| have known these facts when he made
his speech He did know them, and on
q cold collar he deliberately misstated
them
He also knew that Colonel Bryan
was kept by the Mckinley administra.
ton in camp in Florida lest if he got
to Cuba be might achieve some meas
ure Of military glory, thereby dmn-
ishing still further William McKin-
ley'S chances OF succeeding himself.
when Bryan resigned. the Spanish war
had really been over for five or six
months ana nobody save a few Repub-
lican j0bber3 near the throne and in
the inner circle Of McHannaitps dream
ed there would be any Philippine war.
The next tiGae good Mr.. Greene makes
| a speech won't he please inform q
palpitating world why General Nelson
! A. Aiiles-the most distinguished
| American soldier now livin%-a lifelong
Republican-w not permitted to go
to Cuba and conduct our campaign
there? For fear Mr.. Greene will be
bashful about answering. will an
swcr myself: Mics was kept out OF