The sun., 1900-01-26
TELL MR.. BRYAN THE TRUTH

From the Philadelphia Times Of Yesterday.
William j. Bryan comes to Pennsyl-
vania today with his plumes bedrag led
by the chilling frosts they struck in
MeTylald, New York and New Jersey.
In Maryland the Democrats refused him
an invitation to visit the capital; in New
York he was compelled to remain for
three days without being permitted to
make speech, and in Jersey City the
political atmosphere was fearfully frosty
He has learned the full truth OF his
statement that when be is in the great
business East he is in ''the enemy's
country"
Mr.. Bryan will meet the Democratic
State Committee Of Pennsylvania at Har-
risbnrg today, and as he hasn't been
permitted to make a speech for MANY
days he will come with an oratorical
thirst on him that nothing less than
mill-race of defamation could satiate.
1t Is cruel not to let him be heard. This
IS a very free country, where every
American citizen is entitled to seek the
Presidency in any lawful way, and he is
entitled TO express his views without re-
straint Let Bryan be heard before tile
representatives Of the Democracy Of
Pennsylvania today, and when he shall
have been heard, let the Democratic
leaders have their say with equal frank
ness to Bryan.
Above all. let the Democratic leaders
OF Pennsylvania tell BRYAN tie trHth.
They have snnhbed ana chilled Bfvan
in Maryland, New York and New ,ler-
sey, but that isn't the way to treat any
body, and especially man who came
within less than a half 4 million votes of
n ,,f
States. Let him have full swing to say
what he believes, or at least what lie
thinks it prudent to express, and then
let the Democratic le lders be houest
enough to tell him the truth.
The one thing that the Pennsylvania
Democratic leaders should tell Mr..
Bryan today is that his r nomination,
with the Chicago platform of 1896 reaf-
firmed, would make the Democratic
National Convention OF 1900 mere Nc
Minley ratification nesting.
The time has come when the truth
should be told not only to Mr.. Bryan for
his own sake, but to the party for the
party's sake. The West, that was
Bryan's stronghold in the great indus
trial depression of 1896, is now prosper
GUS and wants honest money and the
highest standard Of individual State and
national credit, and beyond Colorado
and Nevada there isn't trtain State
for Bryan in the north west Of tho Father
OF Waters. Fast Of the Miss ssippi and
north Of the Ohio and the Potomac, no
human power could give Bryan single
electoral vote, and the two Nirginias,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, North
Carolina and Georgia would be fairly de-
batable, with reasonable certainty that
Bryan would lose half of them.
Let the ,nnsyvania Democratic lead
ers tell MIR. Bryan the truth.
One plausible reason may be given for
the denomination of Mr.. Bryan by the
Democratic National Convention. ii the
Chicago platform Of 1896, with lis de-
grated money, reputation and agrarian
vagaries, is TO be the declared faith Of
the Democracy in 1870, Bryan would be
the Logical candi date and he well meIi
not only the distinction Of eadershi
but I've also well merits the overwhelm-
ing, 'annihilatng defeat that must come
to the party that strikes at national
honor and honest money when the whole
country is more prosperous than ever
b fore in its history, and that has its
most enthusiastic champion in Agnin-
aldo, who is leading cnt.thrnat, anarch.
ial war against the soldiers and tile nag
of the nion.
Iell Mr.. Bryan the truth