The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-11-14
ADAM AND ONE OF HIS SONS.
Pathetic Efforts of "The Peerless" tc
Revive a Corpse.


While the democratic contingent OF
Mr.. Bryan's triune combine is irving
hard to forget the free silver question
and all the affections il has brought
upon the democratic party: while Mr..
Rrvan's democratic brethren in Ohio
MARYLAND and other states where cleo
tions are pending are doing their best
70 keep that hobgcb,in ont of sight:
while the great mass of intelligent
! democrats are saddened bv the re-
| fsction that circumstances bevond
their easv control compelled them to
permit Mr.. BRYAN to force Is to into
the platform of 1900: while the intel
ligence of the country. irrespective
of parties or sections. realizes that
free coinage is an absolutely dead
and a practically buried issue. Mr..
BRYAN continues to shout for it with
as much gusto, apparently. as he did
in the Chicago convention of 1896.
Although condemned bv the coun-
try in two great national campaigns.
16 to is still dear to the heart and
springs eternal in the thought of Will
liam ]. BRYAN. Although all the argu-
ments on which rs to / was support
ed in 1896 were ruthlessly swept away
nv the logic of events soon after the
elose of that campaign. Mr. BRYAN ig-
7ores that logic Whenever an on
portunitv occurs the peerless leader"
exalts his horn and toots it as gaily
for the old cadaver as ever the trou-
badour twanged his guitar An on
portunitv occurred in st. Louis the
other day. The BRYAN Travelling
Mems club OF that citv held some sor.
of meeting and to the official head Of
that organization the eloquent Neb-
-askan addressed an epistle in which
he strongly opposed anv concession
on silver "You will find" he said
that with the opponents of free sil-
yer once in control of the party. the
partv will be in the condition In which
il was when Mr. Cleveland filed al
the offices with go1dbugs. refused to
prosecute the trusts and brought the
nartv to the verge OF ruin. The mo-
ment YOU allow the silver question
to be ignored YOU will find that the
cornoGticns will push forward their
candidates for Office, and the party
will be imnotent to accomplish sim
gle reform,
The persistent of Mr. BRYAN in keep
ing before the democracy one of the
most affective of its mistakes reminds
US of sweetlv solemn poem rece1tlv
perpetrated bv Mr.. Frank L. Stanton
the poet. humorist and PHILOSOPHER of
the Atlanta Constitution. The last
verse of that inspired outburst win
suffice for our present purpose. It
reads thus:
Adam wuz driv fun Eden
Out in de fer en- wood:
But gwine eriong. he sing dis sing:
Apples is mighty good"
As the apple was the cause OF
Adams expulsion from Eden -out in
de fel en- wood so free silver has
put Mr.. Bryan's party. or the demo-
cratic section OF II. out OF the control
OF great states. out OF many seats in
the United States senate. out of the
confidence OF conservative citizens
and. to a lamentabIe extent. out Of
its Own self-respect. And as Adam.
after he ~wuz driv FUN Eden roam
ed through the .ieF en- wood sing
ing apples is mighty good so Mr.
Bryan. looking at the wreck OF his
party. at the blasting OF its hopes. at
the good things il has lost. al the bet
ter things II might have <aized.
shouts -feer coinage is mighty good,