The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-09-12

AssgeId Portrays the Braggart In
Hsas Trse Ceiors--stroug Possibility
That the Democrats May Carry
0h1e-Philippins Policy of the Ad-
nAsistration - Different Kinds of
Enpansion.
Especial Washington Letterl
In prize ring parlance Bryan Is a
wonder.
He succeeded In making speech at
Indianapolis against which even the
most bitter Republicans have nothing
% say except that he ought to have
discussed 10 to instead Of imperial.
Inn. which the Kansas City convention
declared to be "the paramount ISSUE"
what q contrast oil this forms to the
howl OF ribald execration with which
his wondrous speech at Chicago In
1898 was received! Truly Bryan is TO
Be congratulated on having conquered
the good opinion OF his enemies.
Sure as a gun Is made of iron the
white man Is mighty uncertain.
1t grieves me sorely to state 1t, but 1t
now appears that the theory embodied
IN the presidential questions PROFOUND
ed at banquet down south at .
o'clock In the mornlng-"who will haul
down the American flag? Men of Dix
ie. will you haul 1t down?"-is an ad-
Unstable theory made to fit circum-
stances. This discovery causes me to
somewhat lose faith I'm human nature.
Tor many moons rantankerous Repub-
licans have ut long range denounced as
traitors all who would not subscribe to
the idiotic doctrine that under no cir
eumstances whatsoever should we pull
our nag down from any place where
We had foated 1t for any reason. Such
1abber rs they got Off was not pleasant
10 hear or easy to bear.
Hauling Down the Flag.
But. mirabile dictu! now. after all
this boasting and cavorting around.
after all this playing of the Pharisee,
Colonel John Hay, secretary Of state.
gives away TO Johnnie Bull q strip Of
Alaska 20 miles wide and over 100
miles long! Didn't our flag float over
that strip OF auriferous soil? Hadn't
IL foated there trlumphantly since
1907. when Andrew Johnson and vii.
Ham III. Seward added Alaska to our
possessions? And In order to make
Mr.. Bull this valuable present. will II
not be necessary to haul Old Glory
down? Isn't this the swiftest and most
thorough expose Of rank hypocrisy I'm
modern times?
Colonel Hay Is one Of the most anna.
Die or mortals. He is a scholar and writ.
er OF rare ability. His "Pike County
Ballads" are famous. and his Life of
Abraham Lincoln" Is q standard work.
but fear that Colonel Hays residence
at the court of st. James has given a
bias to his thoughts and sentiments In
favor OK Mr.. Bull which Is detrimen.
tal to his country. Ii Colonel Hay
coesn't quilt coquetting with John. his
name Is not likely to blossom In the
dust The Hay-Pauncefote treaty was
q nauseating dose for the American
people. When they discover that the
colonel has presented Mr. Bull with
valuable strip Of gold bearing land sew.
erni times rs large as Rhode Island.
they are quite likely to make It un-
pleasant for the amiable Colonel Hay.
Teddy Ii IL.
Colonel Teddy Is 1t. lie has been II
ever since he delivered that st. Paul
harangue. BY this time 1t has perhaps
percolated through his noddlc that IL Is
dangerous for the occupant Of n glass
house To throw stones. Ex-Governor
John Peter Altgcld In that Toledo
speech to which referred I'm my last
letter says:
Who. then. Is this man. and what Ia his history2
rersonaIiths are offensive. and will not indulge
In them. But surely. when we are thus brutally
assaulted. We may ask who II Is that is beratinc
uA viii notice only few Of the incidents az
ms public career. which throw light on the cues.
ton OF his sincerity and discretion. I find A. re.
corded that years ago he was a member Of the
New York legislature. and on one occasion n,
reused the hopes Of the cocrtry by making a
speech ageinst class which he called the Grim.
inai rich But he at once dashed these bspes by
turning around and voting with and for these very
criminal rich whom he had denounced.
In the years ISy1's he held a fedora. Office in
washington. and In order 10 escape paying Inf.
taxes In New York he signed an affidavit and
s~ore before the ever living God that he was not
citizen OF New York n this was true. then. under
the constitution Of New York. he would not have
been eligible ior the governor OF that state By
subsequently, accepting a nomination and election
to that office he showed that he did not elicvs
his own affidavit. This being so. may II not be
that he does not believe the charge he has made
against u.s.
IL Is next recorded that he entered the Spanish
war In Cuba, and. although his regiment was
commanded by another man. hc succeeded. by
means OF that modern weapon Of warfare known
% newspaper bureau. in winning more rcnown
IN week than General Grant did IN four years Of
hard hshting. and lie seems to be the only man
ON this continent who boasts % having. with his
own hand. shot down and billed Spanilrd that
vas heCing from the battlefield. In his book he
says: AS they turned TO run I closed in and
hred twice. missing the nrst aud killiag the sec
ond. Tic then boasts that he had considered
this feat unique. And 50 d, g.. lie Is the Grst