Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-10-07
BRYAN AND CLARKE.

BRYAN AND CLARKE.
A Combination That Has All the Ear
Marks Of Trust Promoters
! Prosperity.
| In his long apology for casting his
powerful influence in favor of the cleo
ton of john H. Clarke, the gold DEM
ccrat who has been nominated for
United States senator from Ohio, Mr..
preston which do not become gen.
| tleman who is popularity believed to
be the richest man in Nebraska.
II am satisfied" he says, that Mr.
Clarke's sympathies are with the peo-
pie in their fight against organized
wealth" Again he declares: His
sympathies are with the masses"
Once again he asserts: "He is not the
representative of plutocracy; his
| sympathies are right, and l shall trust
him. / believe his sympathies will
| lead him to our side when he thor
oughly understands the (money) ques-
ton"
The gentleman whose sympathies
Mr.. Bryan thus depends upon to lead
him into hostility to organized wealth,
and who is unequivOcally vOuched for
as not representative of plutocracy,
says the Chicago Chronicle (dem.) is
corporation lawyer of ability and good
| character, who in 1898 denounced the
| Bryan platform as meaning "the
breaking of all honest ties between
man and man." In the course of the
| same speech Mr.. Clarke addressed
himself to the organization of capital
with which Mr.. Bryan has been rea-
sonably familiar for many years, as
| follows: Il believe in smashing
trusts, but I believe this year we
ought all to vote to smash the most
gigantic and the most impudently in.
famous trust-the silver trust"
/ This particular trust, or organiza-
tion Of capital, started out in the
early SOS to double the value of its
product-silver bullion-by convinc-
ing the people that it was their duty
to coin about so cents worth of it
into dollar free of cost, and with
out limit. Mr.. Bryan came to it's
rescue early in the '90's, poor young
man, with a surprising gift Of ora
tory. For ten years he has devoted
himself to this proposition, with the
result that he has been nominated
twice for the presidency, and has
passed from poverty to aff1uence.
Classifying the gentleman from Ne
braska as he deserves to be classified,
it will be found that few of the trust
promoters OF the last decade have
Jared better than he. Many of them
have nothing. Some of them are
very rich. A good many of them are
struggling desperately to keep what
they have.
Ii MI. Bryan could acquire great
wealth by the mere advocacy of he
big bonanza enterprise to transmute.
say, $35,OOO,O00 worth of American
silver bullion annually into $4,000.
600 OF legal tender money, what
would not his fortune have been if
4 he and his associates had succeeaed9
IN view OF Mr.. Clarke's attitude on
thls question, which has undergone
no change whatever, why should the
/ plutocrat from Nebraska assume that
his "sympathies" are all right. and
that eventually they will land him
in the ranks of the silver trust promo
tiers, whose principles break all the
honest ties between man and manoo
IL sympathy were ever to control in
the case Of Mr.. Clarke, it would have
asserted itself in 1885, when youne
lawyer, without reputation, without
money and without practice was bv an
| amazing piece of good fortune pitch.
| forked into the leadership of great
party, and when most people believed
him to be honest. Now that he has
/ grown rich and famous. now thar very
| few people believe him to be disinter-
ested, is hard-headed brother pluto
crat and corporation lawyer. at that
likely to waste much sympathy unon
him and his very lucrative "cause?"
0Although the Ohio democratic plat
form Endorsed the Kansas City platform
and Mr.. Bryan was invited to make some
addresses during the campaign. John A
/ Clarke, the party candidate for senator
leads on In the campaign by openly re-
| pud1at1ng free silver He said he had
no apologies to make for having opposed
free silver In the past, as he is opposed
to it yet. Mr.. Clarke voted against Mr..
Bryan at both presidential elections. and
is OF the same opinion still This makes
IN interesting situation for Mr. Bryan
when he begins his series Of speeches
which he has promised to mane.-Pitts.
| burg ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.