The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1900-09-27
Washington Letter.
fFrom our own Correspondent

are in the east. he had better quit
talking. The general comment one
hears about his efforts is that they
are worthy only of a cheap dema-
gogue, and that Bryan has degcnerat-
ed into a third-rate stump speaker.
The paltry trash he has been turning
out evidently elbows how hard Bryan
finds the effort to talk .imperialism"
when his ideas have been trained to
free coinage Of silver at 16 to l.
Speaking of 16 to calls to mind the
fact that Secretary Gage has
pnnctured Bryan Demagogic utter
auce. Bryan says the government is
coming every day silver dollars at 16
to 1, leaving his hearers under the
impression that the present admins
tration endorses one of the things
which he (Bryan) stands for. Now
the government is coming the sur
plus silver it acquired under the sill
ver-purchase law, aud coming it, BY
direction of Congress, into dollars
which the government can float as
dollars because they can, under the
gold standard, exchanged for gold.
But there is vast difference between
coming this surplus and the free and
unlimited coinage of silver which
Bryan wants SO badly, and which the
country won't have.
Charley Towne VS. Theodore Roose-
Welt seems to be one of the issues
joined for the campaign. That being
the case little comparison of the
two men will not be uninteresting.
Roosevelt is a man who has accom-
plished something. Roosevelt was a
young man when he became MEM
Der of the New York legislature. He
made his name known throughout
the length and breadth of the land
by his staunch advocacy Of onesty
in legislative affair. He has twice
been delegate to Republican nation
al con ventions. He has been q men,
Der of the Civil Service Commission
Police Commissioner of New York
City, Assistant Secretary of the navy
Lieutanant Colonel; and Colonel of
the First United States Volunteer
Cavalry (the Rough Riders) and par
ticipated in the war with Spain, in
which he distinguished himself. He
has been governor of the largest
state in the Union and administered
it's affairs with great satisfaction.
He is an author, having written a
number of books. all of which have
added to the literature of the world.
He has travelled extensively in the
west and is thoroughly acquainted
people and conditions.
Charley Towne first came to the
surface inrMinnesota about eight years
ago. He had good presence, good
people of Minnesota, especially the
Republicans, anxious to encourage
promising young men, sent him to
congress from the Duluth district.
! This mark of favor swelled his head
to enormous proportions. He be-
lieved himself the leader of the state.
Without knowing anything of the
subject he took up finance. Captured
by the phrase "frce and unlimited
coinage Of silver" he followed it and
went off at tangent. Earnest and
intelligent Republican leaders like the
late Nelson Dingley of Maine, Serene
Payne of New York, Joseph G. Can
non of Illinois, General Grosvernor
of Ohio and others, labOred with him
| in vain to convince him that he was
wrong. He stubbornly followed
what he believed was to become
popular in the country. So he made
great speech in Congress-. 1t was
applauded by the Democrats aud
Populists, who flattered Towne by
saying it was the ablest speech ever
delivered in Congress on the money
question. AS matter of fact there
was nothing Of it,. Representative
j. r. McCleary of Minnesota, who
had not posed as financier or an ora
tor, took up Towne's speech and rid
died it point by point. Still convinced
in his own egotism that silver was
the popular issue, Towne continued
in his course. AT the st. Louis con.
vention he obtained possession of an
alternate's badge from Minnesota
man, and followed Teller Dubois,