The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-12

poration-fed papers own utterances.
Attend, We people Of honest judgment
and pure mind, to the Posts record for
the past thirty days and say whether
we be right or wrong in our anti Bryan
conclusions:
While the party leaders were in Kan
sas City trying to formulate platform
and name a good ticket, we find the Post
doing all in its power to discredit their
work in advance.
On July 8, the day before the conven-
ton met, it said:
1.-The forecast of things to come sent
out from Kansas City seems to be pitch
ed along the same lines of reports OF
war conditions in China, only the Aat-
ter are seriously tragical while the Kan
sas City performances belong sulctly
20 the comedy class
'It will be a disappointment TO learn
that Mr. Bryan's silver-skin onion crop
does not promise so we'll this year.
On July 4th the Post continued its eff
forts to discredit:
sas City seemed to be in unison upon
one thing only, and that was that Mr..
BRYAN would dominate the convention,
debating both the letter as we'll as the
spirit OF the platform and the candidate
who is to share with him the honors of
victory-or defeat
'Tammany was considerable enough to
send a large portion of its ice trust to
Kansas City
This bright thought was followed up
en- July 5th by the following:
Croker and the New Workers. are
''solid for Bryan" =? ? 1t required
an ice trust to produce such solidity.'
And this on July 9th:
'Those reported and uncomfortable de-
monstrations in honor of Governor ID.
Bennett Hill by the Kansas City Demo-
cratic convention, 1--WE have to designate
our convention, there being two or three
other hybridized performances going on
at the same time in the same city, mean
something-fUur years hence probably
Mr. Bryans new porch just added 10
his home in Lincoln, is not only at
tracing national attention, but common
dation. 1t was built to permit him the
better to receive his friends who call ON
HIM Having built new and better
platform for himself to stand on at his
home. it may be questioned whether he
should have so persistenly refused to
hermit the national convention to follow
its own inclination and good judgment
and construct a new and better one for
the party generally to unite and stand
on"
THE outcome of the fight for common
sense in the platform was of some SER
vice, and though it is only one of posi-
ton" and relative Importance proper
discrimination was made"
Then there's long pause in which the
Post apparently takes a deep breath,
preparatory to continuing its work of
undermining the Democratic ticket. On
July 18th it said:
st is certain that as none of the east
ern States can be carried, the central
and northwestern must be if Mr.. Bryan
is elected"
On July 14th, long after Mr. Stevenson's
thereby to poison the honest Democratic
mind with doubt as to whether or not
Mr.. Stevenson would stay on the ticket:
"The Philadelphia Record suggests
Neither Bryan nor Roosevelt can resist
the love of hearing himself talk to ad-
miring multitudes. Why, then, could not
a Joint debate be arranged between them,
with free silver and imperialism as the
subjects of discussion?' We object to
cd fx.s ann
he is ours now-to tackle the Rough
Rider, and we will bet On Towne coming
out best
On July oath it posed Mr.. Bryan in the
light Of a boss:
There can be no doubt, since his domi-
nation of the Kansas City convention, of
Mr.. Bryan's spinal column being in the
right place and very perpendicular.
And on July 91st it sought to cause
discomfort among North Carolina Dem
ocrats by printing this:
"After doing all he possibly could to
turn the State over to the Republicans
at the August election and thereby make
it possible for the State to go for Nc
Kinley in November, Senator Butler is to
take charge Oh Tire 1OpulISL CdlhPe1lSh
in the South Atlantic States with head
quarters at Washington lin the interest
of Mr.. Bryan The Congress districts
are specially to be looked after by him,
in whose interest it is not stated. It is
Just such things as this that, give us
that tired feeling
And on August 10th the Post, with evil
dent evil intent toward Bryan, made
use of these words, in referring to
Towne's withdrawal from the race for
Vice President:
''He not only did this, but he entered
into an engagement to canvass actively
for the Democratic ticket. The announce
ment of this agreement to canvass is
accompanied with the statement that
Mr.. Bryan has rendered Mr. Towne a
position in his cabinet, which has caused
some criticism"
And hardly anywhere in all the dreary
expanse Of the Posts eight pages daily
is there one word for Bryan-all is ridi-
cule and fault-finding. Even the clip