Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-09-19
BRYANALTERSISSUES
CHANGES PARAMOUNT" ONE
WITH EVERY CAMPAIGN.
Country Better Off Because of His De-
feat Four Years A.o-His Aid to
Aguinaldo's Insur.ent Eabble-Porto
RicO's Trade Is Growing.

often and apparently quite thoughtless-
ly, that in accepting-he had better say
achieving and conquering-the gold
selves to England.
On the contrary it is the very declar-
alton and establishment of our equality
with England that we hold with her i'll
common use the best money in the
world. We pay no tribute to her-Our
money is as good as hers, our credit is
better and the demonstration is that
we are lending England gold now. In
stead Of our going there to borrow it
she comes TO us to borrow it.
AS to this ascent and advance in our
position which Mr.. Bryan opposed and
prophesied downfall for, and all his as
serted calamitieS and ruination, he has
no faculty that is not too clouded to tell
him what has happened. He was mis-
taken in his representation of the is
sues on which he made the presentation
raised four years ago. The country is
immensely better off because he was
defeated. He probably knows that that
is the opinion OF the vast majority of
his fellow citizens, though he claims
that he is certain Of the election, think
ing he has a new toy to rattle that will
please the population.
He seems also, in his declaration of
the silver question. and We welcome
his evasions on this thing-he was not
worn out, but his countrymen, friends
and foes, were tired Out-when there
fell upon him an inertia that could not
be overcome and he escaped from the
silver question al the beginning of the
second battle" He lodged it, and it is
well to turn that which has been aban-
doned over to the cranks and the fanat-
les who had the insanity of insomnia
AZ adherentS and crusaders for the inn
practicable. Mr.. Bryan fails to see and
standard of money is and has long been
signal of the poverty of the people
who have it. \ secondary place belongs
to them among nations, measured by
every standard that gives an account
of potentiality and international re-
mcnt of labor in silver coins or their
paper representatives means the impOv-
eriShment of the laborer. Where Ia Dor
is paid in gold, it is sign that labor is
elevated and honorable in the broadest
sense Of honor, and that the wages are
so considerable they can conveniently
be counted in gold.
Mr.. Bryan has been an anxious stu
dent Of current events. and through his
prOtracted canvassing candidacy has
acquired the habit Of watching the turn
Of events. He has been keen to see ey-
cry sign of the times, as in sweltering
city one watches the weather reports,
and the necessity of a new thing to
give him even a ShadoWy chance of sue
cess in the second Presidential cam
paign with Mckinley has been a live
coal on his brain. His first thought no
doubt was that the trust question"
was the very thing, and he has sounded
the trumpet over that for years, but his
music was rather sensational than CON
vincing.
Whatever may be the strength or
weakness Of the Democrats in their
political organizations Or as individuals
they have not caught the confidence of
the people as reformers. They are not
executive in removing abuses. They
displayed. during the Cleveland admin
istration, that they had been outgrown
by the country. They were small and
the country great.
They did not appreciate the relation
Of the figures that tell the population
and the wealth and power Of the Amer
lean people, and followed their leaders,
dwelling upon extravaganza without a
consciousness of the magnitude of the
resources or the necessities Of under
standing the demands Of the growth OF
the country. The United States has be-
come too big, too prosperous, too glori-
Gus for the happiness of the Democracy
who haven't been regenerated. They
have no statesman tall enough to look
over the scenery Of our splendor. They
are not business men of the caliber to
attend to our national business. The
clamor that trusts are progeny of bro
lection is overcome by European statis-
tics. The Democracy are as much
trust organization as others. and moth
ing has ever been found in Republican,
ism as obviously improper as the Dem
ocratic silver and ice trusts.
There was nothing left for Mr. BRYAN
to do but to find or create another is-
sue. Wars are always influential in
politics. In our country they have
made many Presidents Mr.. BRYAN
needed to get something out of the
Spanish Filipino war on which he conld
raise an issue. The demand was SIM
piled from his overweight imacina-
ton, with Imperialism and on this Mr.
Bryan, i'll his ratification speech. placed
the success or failure of the camnaipn
for himself and party. He located.
formulated, and emphasized it, so that
there could be no mistake He PLAYED
it like gambler and played it on the
war in the Philippines, risking the for
tunes Of his party and his own on the.
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