The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-04
CHAMP CLARK 5 LETTER
Republicans Keeping Up
i Slander of Bryan.
SILLY LIES CIRCULATED.
Change In the Tenor Of Roose-
velt's Speeches.
SILLY LIES CIRCULATED.
VAIN BULLY BECOMES A PLEADER.

Dwfndling Prospects of Success
Have SOftened His FerOciOusness.
Bryan n Mental and Physical Mar
vel Stevenson's Good Campaign
WOrk-N0 Doubt That the German
son Refuses to Speak New York
Safe.
Especial Washington letter.
Voltaire once said, Keep on lying. and
some of it win stick" which appears
to be the motto of certain Republicans
with reference to Bryan. No man of
higher or more spotless character was
ever nominated for Office since the
world began, yet some Republicans ap-
pear to deem it their duty-:t any rate,
it is their pleasure-to Stagger human
credulity with the most monstrous and
astounding lies about him. Ananias
and Sapphire are not markers to these
latter day prevaricators. Not long
since a fellow over in Illinois whose
name am happy to say have forgot
ten declared that he could prove that
Bryan was paid $4,000 by the silver
barOns to force silver into the Kansas
City platform. Bryan promptly de-
MED the SANDER and demanded the
proof, since which time nothing has
been heard from that particularly
stupid lie and that extraordinarily ma
licious liar. Not single human being
believed it, for even if Bryan were
knave enough to do such a thing he is
not fool enough.
That rascally liar having been
squelched, another arises in the person
of Chairman Hernly of Indiana, who
says that he can prove that Bryan re-
ceiyed pay for the speeches recently
delivered in Indiana. OF course the
tale is a silly lie. Nobody believes it
because nobody believes If Bryan were
greedy enough to Go it that he is
idiot enough The charge that he ac
cepted money to force Il plank into the
Kansas City platform. if true, would
be proof positive that he is Il scoCn-
drel The churge that he, the pres
idential candidate of great party
with every prospect Of success. would
accept pay for making speech to Sc
cure lis own election would be evil
dence enough. if established. to con-
sign him to strait waistcoat and pad
ded cell in proceedings under a writ
de lunatico inquirendo."
Pertinent Questions.
Republican editors, instead of ex-
plotting these incredible lies. ought to
remember the old aJage that they
who live in glass houses should not
throw stones" Why 90 not they ex-
plot and Investigate the solemn charge
of General Charles Henry Grosvenor of
Ohio, the dry nurse TO William Mckin-
ley, that some palpitating Republican
patriot @stole. took and carried away
three planks of tile Philadelphia plat
form and that no man has laid eyes on
them since the thief gobblcd them?
General GrOsyenor stands high in the
councils of his party. He solcmnly as
severated the truth Of the charge both
by word Of mouth and in the public
prints. have no doubt he stands
ready to prove his assertions. And
they made what the late lamented Hor-
ace Greeley WAS wont to denominate
mighty rich reading"
Why do not these sapient Republican
tripod sitters look vigilantly and with
Argus eyes into the charge banded
about last summer that Lemuel Ell
Quigg received $1,000 spot cash for
changing the word "Nicaraguan" into
'''isthmian" in the fragments of that
Mo al, N liobf
of day? If Quigg did get that fee. he
is the best paid literary man Of all
time.
Why is it that Republicans who ar
rogate to themselves all virtue can't
let an election pass without lying
about Democratic candidates? In 1896
Senator Thurston of Nebraska declar-
ed that Bryan had been in the pay Of
the silver barons for years, and Thurs
ton had to swallow his own words in q
few days.
The reputation of our public men
should be the pride of all our people.
and to the credit of Democrats be it
said that IN this campaign not one
charge has been made by any respon-
sible man calculated to injure the good
name of Mr.. Mckinley. We fight his
policies, as we have right TO. but we
do not SANDER the man. and while
am no more authorized to speak for
Bryan than is any other good Demo
crat / am sure that he would be the
first to rebuke any of his followers
who would SANDER Mr.. Mckinley.
Roosevelt Getting Tame
As the campaign progresses and as
Republican chances of success dwin-
die, Colonel Roosevelt's speeches lose
somewhat of their righteousness and
increase in their pleading qualities.
Whether the redoubtable colonel has
been disciplined by Mark and the
other leaders this deponent saith not.
but at any rate change has come Ger
Teddy's style of oratory if not DER his
dream. At st. Paul not many months
ago he dealt damnation round the
land" in great gobs and denounced all
Democrats as rascals, fools. towards
and traitors. whereas at Covington.