Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1901-03-22
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SOm6JlluGS VIC ICdo UhS OSAASS-~NN
the Richmond Dispatch. Ii we DO IL
is when all else has failed to produce
drowsiness and sleep will not visit our
eyelids. Usually they contain more OF
the soporific than can be found IN the
most refined Opiate or anestbetlc, ana
we are grateful for them on this &C
count. If they produce the same gen
eral effect they are unquestionably
boon and ere long will be found regu-
larly prescribed by physicians, ana
used in hospitals for insomnia. Many
newspapers have been commenting on
the fact that when Mr.. W. j. Bryan
was in New York few days ago there
was no dense throng about him, there
by arguing that Organism. as they
term it, is dead. Into this same yawn-
ing abyss the Dispatch sleepllv seems
to fall, in order to show more COM
pletely if possible than before, that
for eight years it has not at heart sup
ported the Democratic party, but like
it's neighbor, the Times, though not
so boldly, espoused the cause of gold
and it's concomitant evils of Corporate
supremacy, Trusts, Monopolies, and
necessarily Militarism, because the
gold standard idea begat them all.
Had the Democratic party not been
sold out, but stuck loyalty together,
today we would neither have had a
war, billion dollar combines, nor I'M
perialism. We find Bryan closer to
Democratic principles-save and ex-
cept in his advocacy of the free and
unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to l
which is a new question-than any
man who has been before the people
since the days of Jefferson himself. 1t
was therefore, we presume, the silver
issue which took the feryOr out of the
Dispatch's support of the tickets
which Bryan headed, and caused it to
limp along near the tail end OF
the Democratic procession, and which
now places it among those who talk
of democratic Reorganization. ="
There is little need Of reorganization
in an army of over 100000 voters.
but there is need of something in the
army of skulkers and camp followers,
who never got to the front during the
entire campaign, and who let their
pitiful bank accounts stampede them
almost into the camp of the enemy.
We presume the Deity of that portion
of the press of this country, with
which the Dispatch trains, is Grover
Cleveland. If Organism can be called
dead, because Bryan was not followed
by a crowd through New York, and
feted and toasted everywhere on his
recent eastern trip, what can be said
of the illustrious Grover who goes
from place to place and no man re-
CARDS the order of his going nor the
order of his coming? But for a little
duck shooting, and an occasional non
committal letter addressed to some
mugwunp political organization, he
could be no more dead were the earth
to open and swallow him. If he ever
had any principles save those in direct
opposition to Democracy, they too
have gone to that bourne from whence
no traveller returns. We mention this
not regretfully, but to show that as
cutter of ice the Dispatch's ideal is far
less success than the man it openly
espoused, but secretly wished defeated.
Bryan and Organism, no matter what
that may be, will live when Cleveland,
wrapped in his robes of party treache-
ry, will be buried beyond resurrection.
Bryan will live because he Is honest,
bold, fearless, generous and grateful.
Cleveland will die because some of
these essentials were omitted in his
character. Few men would have
been twice elected to the Presidency,
and thrice nominated, who would have
turned on the psrty that made him
and ripped its very bowels out, as did
Grover Cleveland. Yet if such men
be remembered in after years it will
be as Brutus is remembered, only as
the traitor and the assassin. When
the Dispatch, therefore, plays Repub-
lican parrot and repeats the Republi-
can cry that the country has had
enough of Bryan. it makes US, with
the bulk of Its readers, tired, very
tired. sleepy in fact, and if it continues
to press such ideas it will bury itself
beside it's great exemplar Grover,
where the hand of resurrection will
have a deal of trouble finding it.