El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-04
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81 did not support Mr.. Bryan in
1896. and do not intend to now
| shall oppose his election this year
with all the vigor and ability L pos
sess / do not feel that L could stanu
to nv convictions by remaining merely
passive and contenting myself with
simply voting against him.
Bryan the Issue
No issue set forth in any platform,
no matter how cunningly devised and
arranged. in this campaign can be
made paramount to the issue or MI.
BRYAN himself. his erroneous views
of public questions. his numerous vag-
aries and his demonstrated desire 10
find popularity and votes in never
absent appeal to class prejudices and
supposed race hatreds.
Il am still a democrat, il believing
in democratic principles correctly in
terpreted and properly enforced as an
agency for good constitutes true DEM
ocracy: but | am not one if he ut
terances of the platform adopted at
Chicago four years since and Just re-
affirmed and reemphasiZed at Kansas
City are the rightful expressions OF
what modern democracy stands Tor.
Isms of Populism.
The many isms of populism were
abhorrent four years since to my
sense OF what is safe and sound in
the operations of government and the
general well-being of the people. be-
cause | viewed them as being funda-
mentally wrong. and. being so. Meth
er lapse of time nor errors OF the par
ty in power reconcile me to their
adoption or make it possible that |
should support n candidate who not
only approves of them, but is their best
embodiment and most vigorous cham
pion.
Il have not read all of Mr.. Bryan's
utterances during the past four years.
but | have taken note of enough of
them to know that his views have not
changed on any important question
since 1896. and his determination to
stir up class strife is not less manifest.
all his addresses. public
and private. is shown uniformly an ap-
parent pleasure n preaching the de-
of discord between employee
and employer. class and class. No ap-
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 un-American
but it is unjust. unfair. and harmful
most of ali to the laborer. for whose
well-being beyond all others it is
necessary that complete harmony be-
tween capital and labor and not con-
tinual antagoniSm should exist. The
interests of labor are never in such
great jeopardy as when intrusted to a
man who has the gift of oratory coup
led with unbounded political ambi-
ton and no business judgment or
training.
No man is fitted for the presidency
who day in and day out proclaims
in the midst of n demonstrated better
of affairs, the reverse to be
true in order to foment a discomfort
which will gain to himself and party
a political advantage.
Ignorant or Blind.
Mr.. Bryan. without the statesman
ship to analyZe the conditions as they
exist, and lind a remedy therefor. gives
utterance to nothing that would i'm
prove 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 be-
walls. | do not believe in the public
value of any man who is. under any
and all circumstances, a Pathfinder
and mere protester against all exist
ing order of things.
Mr.. Bryan's friends insist that he
is nothing if not intellectually honest
and fearless. Granted that their con-
tention is true, the inquiring public
must then be forced to conclude that
he is either woefully ignorant or will
fully blind. At no time since his
into political power has he
made an economic doctrine which has
not in the course OF quick events been
to be an economic fall
lacy.
Dictation of Platform.
IF he does not study grave public
questions IN the light of past history
and present facts and human exper-
fences, but only views them in the
glare of mis- own preconceived notions