Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-09-27
BRYAN SURPRISES TRUTH.

A great many of the American people
while believing Mr.. Bryan an extremist
and fanatic have been disposed to regard
him as a sincere man. AS the present
campaign has progressed be has, however,
been making q record for insincerity that
has never been equaled by any public
man who has figured so prominently be-
fore the people His attitude on what
he has been pleased to make the paramount
issue in the campaign has not been SO
marked with consistency as to merit the
confidence of any but those who adhere to
his cause from blind partisanry. Any
unprejudiced man who gives careful con-
sideration to Mr.. Bryan's course in con-
nection with tbe war with Spain, and the
results flowing therefrom, will be forced to
conclude that the Democratic candidate
for President is either a very weak or in
sincere man. He seems to haye started
out on a campaign of Misrepresentation
and deception that is rapidly developing
into one Of Justification.
A short while ago it was announced that
Mr.. Bryan would, in few days, give ex-
preston to his views on the suppression OF
the negro vote and the wholesale disfran-
chisement Of Republicans at the South. 1t
was stated in the press that he would GER
tainly express his disapproval of election
methods in the South, and in that way
prove the sincerity of the position he &C.
cupies as to the government of people
without their consent. In a speech at
Fort Scott, Kan, on the 18th inst, an ex-
cellent opportunity was given him to give
his views. When questioned about North
Carolina and the suppression of the negro
vote there his answer was 81 want you
to read the Sulu treaty, and having done
that, think you will blush until election
day and never have time to think of North
Carolina"
This is the way Mr.. Bryan exhibited bis
colors on great question, the suppression
of the right of suffrage at the South. His
answer is disgraceful evasion, and at the
same time is tainted with wilful or ignor'
ant suppression of the truth. Evidently
it is Mr.. Bryan's purpose to justify the
violent AMI fraudulent methods of the
Southern Democracy by which popular
suffrage is destroyed and millions Of peo-
pie are governed without their consent.
To accomplish his design he has presumed
upon the ignorance of Others and has re-
sorted to kind of political pettifogging
that will call his honesty seriously In
question. His answer was intended to
convey the impression that the treaty with
the Sultan of Sulu recognizing the right of
the Sultan to continue slavery in the
island of Sulu, had met with the approval
of President Mckinley. MIR. Bryan must
know that the whole treaty was subject to
the action of Congress, and he should have
known that the President emphatically |
disapproved of anything that approached
the recognition of slavery by the treaty in
question. The following letter on the sub
ject is proof positive:
"War Department,
washington, Oct. q, 1899.
"Sir-The President instructs me to ad-
wise you that the agreement signed Au-
gust 20, 1889, between Brigadier General
John B. Bates, representing the United
States, of the one part; the Sultan of Jolo,
the Dato Rsjah Muda, the Dato Attik, the
Dato Calbi and the Dato Joakanian, OF
the other part, is confirmed and approved,
subject TO the action of Congress provided
in that clause Of the treaty of peace be-
tween the United States and Spain, which
provides, the civil rights and the political
status of the native inhabitants of the ter
~;torv heyehv coded to the United States