Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20
Former Comptroller Of the Cur
renoy Under President Cleve
land Speaks Plainly.
Says Bryan Is United for the Presi'
dencv and Misconstrues Cur
rency Laws. r..
Fayors Mckinley's Policies and Will
Do All in His Power to
Elect Him. Vs."

under President Cleveland, ana is now
one of the most successful business
men in Chicago, the head of one of
it's largest financial institutions, has
announced that he will oppose Bryan
with all his might. In the course of
an interview in the Times-Herald he
says:
II did not support Mr. Bryan in 1896,
and I don't intend to now. l shall oppose
his election this year with all the vlgor
and ability I possess. l do not feel tina t
l could stand to my convictions by re-
naming merely passive and contentins
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 a never absent appeal to
class prejudices and supposed race
hatredS.
Il am still a 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 dem &C.
racy stands for.
Isms of Populism.
1.-The many isms Of pOpulism were abb
horrent four years since to my sense of
what was safe and sound in the opera
tions of government and the general well
being of the people, because I viewed
them as being fundamentally wrong, and,
being so, neither lapse of time nor errors
of the party in power reconcile me to
their adoption or make it possible that
I should support candidate who not
only approves of them. but is their best
embodiment and most vigorous champion.
Il have not read all of Mr.. Bryans ut
terances during the past four years. but
I have taken note of enough of them to
know that his views have not changed
on any important question since 1886,
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 employee 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.
Harmful to Labor.
'All this is not only unAmerican, but
1t is unjust, unfair and harmful most OF
all to the laborer. for whose well being
beyond all others it is necessary that
complete harmony between capital and
labor and not continual antagonism
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 polit-
ical ambition and no business judgment
or training.
NO man is fitted for the presidency
who day in and day out proclaims, in the
midst of a demonstrated better cond1-
ton of affairs, the reverse to be true In
order to foment discomfort, which Will
gain to himself and party political ad-
vantage
Ignorant or blind.
"Mr. Bryan, without the craftsmanship
to analyze the conditions as they exist
| and find a remedy therefor. gives utter
ance to nothing that would improve them,
! but only to that which would make them
, worse and cause greater injury to the
great mass of the people, whose fate he
! constantly bewails. l do not believe In
the public value of any man who Is, I'M
| finder and mere protester against all ex
| listing order OF things.
| Effect ON Cold Basis.
| eff elected president the public must bt
| prepared to see Mr.. Bryan as chief ex
J ecutive apd those associated with MIN a.
/ cabinet counSelors conStrue every law
bearing upon the currency and the pow,
ers of the treasury department in sucl
a manner as to nullify as best they car
its provisions in SO far as they bear upol
the question of the maintenance of tn
! gold standard.
HE can and will keep the country in I
state Of ferment and uncertainty IN al
attempt to bring about the larger use
of silver as a redemptive money. Tn
| experiment Is too dangerous a one to b.
entered upon by any on the grounds tina
it cannot be disturbed. no matter. whe
may be president or secretary of tn
treasury. The law ought to be executet
with construction favorable to 1t t.
fully carry out its provisions and not II
manner antagonistic 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 the question of colonia
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 De
thing growing out of the Spanish war.
He and his friends In order to put tn
! administration to polltica! dlsadVan
tage, urged on the declaration Of wa
with Spain. and when 1t was over MI
Bryan, personally DIT Washington, throug
personal advice and solicitation brough
into line sufficient number of demo
cratic senator's to ratify the treaty o
Paris despite the fact that it provided
, for the purchase and taking sovereign
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
ent 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 q
Mr. Mckinley and his. The whole thin
reflects credit upon neither.
i Policy ON Philippines.
II imagine that .self-government wi
come quite as readily through the ad
, ministration Of Mr.. Mckinley as throug
that of Mr.. Bryan. 1t will not come un
. der either until the Philippines are fitte
for 1t. property rights safe and persona
ones protected. I hardly believe MI
Bryan could do more than send com
mission there, as the president has done
n order to take steps looking to sup