New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-05
CALLS BRYAN A COWARD.
DR.. CUYLER ALSO WARNS AGAINST
MAKING THAT BRUTAL DESPOT"
CROKER A POWER IN NATION.

William Jennings Bryan was called a skulking
coward and Richard Croker a brutal despot by the
Rev. DR.. Theodore L. Cuyler. pastor emeritus OF
the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church. Brook
Ign, in a spirited address before the Republican
district associations of the Eleventh and Twelfth
districts of the Twentieth Ward, Brooklyn, at No.
lO4 South Oxford-st., last night. DR.. Cuyler has
for years been known independent and
fearless campaign orator. He is now well along in
years but retains his powers a speaker.
Shall We Make a Change OF PiIots?" the
subject chosen by DR.. Cuyler. In beginning he
said that personally both Mckinley and Bryan were
clean American citizens Bryan, he said
fine orator but speechmaking was of the
necessary qualifications for a President In
tinung Dr. Cuyler said that some years ago Major
Mckinley favored free silver, but being the honest
that he is he threw 1t all overheard soon
he recognized what unsound and dangerous
doctrine II was.
1T is not Bryan alone but Organism that
oppose" said the speaker. He is out and
Populist. The Popust National Convention
nominated him and the Kansas City Convention
Endorsed the nomination. The Kansas City plat
form is a witchs cauldron. There is little Pop
usm in 1t. free silver doctrine and spice
Of Socialism; Bryan is stirring it all up with a
Dr. CqYler then spoke Of silver as the paramount
had right to govern the Philippines against the
consent of the people and he did not believe that
u deny that Bryan has right to stand and as
champion OF anil.lnpeIlallSIn, uGIuIuereo Ut
ago declared himself in favor of Imperialism Then
John B. Stanchfeld. who by the gracious goodness
OF that brutal despot Croker nominated for
Governor, has declared himself an expansionist
and imperialist.
our brave Brooklyn citizen, Mr. Coler, who looked
him in the face and told him he was in politics
only for his own pocket, turned down by this
brutal despot Croker That brutal deSpot Croker
fought Coler and Will do and year hence, when
we all will want to make him honest Mayor
Dr.. Cuyler related that while Bryan ad-
dressing meeting out West in aid of the brown
about the black man of South Carolina, and he
had evaded the question
II desire before this meeting, said the speaker,
before this community and before this entire
Nation TO brand William Jennings Bryan
skulkng coward for not standing up for the rights
of the colored man while defending the brown
man
would happen should Bryan be elected.
he carried Illinois. What will be get? x place
in the Cabinet. And then will come Tillman and
Towne and George Fred Williams They all will
ask places in the &c binet. Last. but not least will
neck of this city of New-York He will go and
demand his pound of flesh for every blow that he
struck in the fight.
''Tammany Hall. the cancer of New-York, will
in the event of Bryan's election. spread out and
become power in the Nation. VIII you take this
brutal despot Croker and make him power in the
Nation?"
political axe. but speaking from a profound and
Independent conviction. Among other things which
the election Of Mckinley would accomplish Dr.
Cuyler added, would be the retention at the head
of the State Department of that "astute, brilliant
diplomat. John Hay