The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-07-21
"a friend and lieutenant in the emergency


and strength by having the open enmity
of rammany. Mr.. Bryan, who more than
any of them has boosted of his stand for
a principle and his integrity of character,
has done what Mr.. Seymour, Mr.. Tilden
and Mr.. Cleveland would not do. He has
formed an open alliance. offensive and
defensive, with Tammany. and that, too,
at time when that organization II
known to be thoroughly corrupt and q
constant menace to all the best interests
Of good government
Unity with Populists.
''Mr: Bryan hardly appeals to the
thoughtful citizen, with whom political
parties are only agencies for public good
to the extent that they stand for funda-
mentally right principles and honest ad-
ministration, when upon the one hand he
is presented by the populists and on the
other by Tammany. The Joining hands
with the one constitutes an offense
against political decency. making It
doubtful as to his ability. no matter how
strenuously he might try. to secure hon.
esty In the conduct Of public affairs In
an administration over which he pre-
sided.
''It is not difficult to predict what would
be the outcome OF any administration
based upon the socialism of populism and
the rapacity Of Tammany.
Reamrming of 10 to 4.
1T am told that not a few democrats
who refused to sanction the nominee and
platform of the Chicago convention will
aid the nominee and platform presented
at Kansas City. I doubt IL there are
many who will do so. Why should they!
The same candidate has been named.
the same doctrines announced. only In a
more offensive way.
'It must not be forgotten that the re-
af prr In ~ no nj Chicago
platform was the repledging OF an in
tention. when opportunity Is afforded. to
debase the country's currency. 1t was
reassaulting the supreme court OF the
country. 1t means a realliance with the
elements Of disorder. as against the
properly constituted authorities OF peace.
integrity of property and person. 1t Is
the announcing once more the desire to
get into power that the sacred right OF
private contract under the guaranty OF
law may be abrogated. 1t Is the accept
ance of those elements of socialism which
works injury to both government and
people.
"In fine, the reaffirmation at Kansas
City was the reasserting OF the utter
ances made at Chicago. which, revolu-
tionary then, are none the less so now.
source of menace to the country then.
they are equally so now; and every man
who stood out against them then ought
not on some new issue, which does not
in any degree lessen the danger of these
for harm, fail to denounce and defeat
them.
IT do not think that the fact that here
and there there may be some elements
more conservative in the party than
seemed to be the case in 1896 makes any
difference. Mr.. Bryan still gives official
voice to the party's views, maps out Its
campaigns and writes its platforms. Mr..
w. Int taS
populists and self-seekers. with the added
contingent of Tammany bosses. He has
neither use nor care for any man who Is
conservative in his views or careful In
his utterances.
Eject on Gold Basis.
IF elected president the public must be
prepared to see Mr.. Bryan as chief ex-
ecutive and those associated with him
as cabinet counselors construe every law
bearing upon the currency and the pow
ers of the treasury department In such a
manner as to nuilify as best they can
its provisions In so far as they bear upon
the question of the maintenance of the
gold standard.
He can and will keep the country In a
state of ferment and uncertainty In an
attempt to bring about the larger use OF
silver as redemptive money. The ex-
pertinent Is too dangerous one to be en-
tered upon by any on the grounds that
the gold standard Is so fixed in law that
II cannot be disturbed, no matter who
may be president or secretary of the
treasury. The law ought to be executed
with a construction favorable to IL to
fully carry out its provisions and not In a
manner antagonistic to them.
Bryan and Recent War.
''It will hardly do for any sound money
man to support Mr. Bryan because Of a
hot neit ha n
Mr.. Mckinley on the question of colonial
possessions, despite his worse position
on the question of the monetary stand
ard, the supreme court. the enforcement
OF law, and the right of private contract
Mr. Bryan's position can hardly be a sat
isfactory one on an analysis of anything
growing out of the Spanish war.
He and his friends, in order to put
the administration to a political disad-
vantage, urged on the declaration OF war
with SPAIN and when Ii was over Mr..
Bryan, personally at Washington, through
personal advice and solicitation. brought
into line a sufficient number OF democrat
ic senator's to ratify the treaty of Paris,
despite the fact that 1t provided for the
purchase and taking sovereign possession
of Porto Rico and the Philippines, with
out any provision for giving them any
home government whatsoever. The evils
and burdens of the present moment grow
Ing out OF the spanish war are 10 De ldlu
as much at the door of Mr.. Bryan and
his party as at that of Mr.. Mckinley and
his. The whole thing reflects credit upon
neither.
Policy on Philippines.
1T imagine that self-government Will
come quite as readily through the admin
istration CT Mr.. Mckinley as through
that of Mr.. Bryan 1t will not come un-
der either until the Philippines are fitted
for 1t. property rights safe and personal
ones protected. hardly believe Mr.. Bry-
an could do more than send commits
sion there. as the president has done. In
order to take steps looking to supplant-
ing the military government with civil
one.
1.-The country will not sanction the I'M
mediate abandonment of those Islands to
disorder and pillage. When time comes
that there Is safety In constituted home
government, only remaining within the
sphere of the influence of the United
States. and public sentiment Is to this
end 1t can be put down that Mr.. Mckin-
leys administration will readily grant 1t.
for I believe II Is generally admitted that
no one Is more ready to put himself In
touch with public sentiment than the
president or act in accordance herewith
with more alacrity.
Would Not Trust Him.
'If Mr.. Bryan and his party had stood
out, as they should have, against the UNI
necessary and useless Spanish war and
had opposed instead Of assisted In ratify-