Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-10-28

he doubtless felt the great obligation
he was under to prove his worthiness
to command by his willingness to
obey. He gave no uncertain sound,
made no reservation, and left the most
skeptical mind no room to doubt the
intense earnestness of his support of
democratic principles, and the candl-
dates who represent them In this CAM
paign.
Why, then, should any statement be
necessary on the subject of Mr.. Bry-
ans good works Why are not the
columns of his paper sufficient evil
dence of 1t. The answer is that every
body cannot sec his paper, and that
persistent efforts are being made by
the enemy to weaken the force of his
powerful influence by false statements
concerning his attitude. These state:
ments would deceive none who see
what Mr.. Bryan is saying from week
to week but thousands of men do not
see 1t, and VINO are devoted to him,
are being falsely told that he does
not want Parker elected, and is not
laboring to that end. They carry these
tactics so far as to say that in certain
states the Bryan men are ''sulking:"
they hope that such rumors will cause
a feeling of uncertainty among them.
Any democrat protesting friendship
for Mr.. Bryan is false to that friend
ship If he aids by his voice or his vote
to give the republican party the VIC
tory which Mr.. Bryan Is laboring
with all the force he possesses to pre-
vent.
These things are not said as agree
ing with Mr.. Bryan's views on the
money question, which as he said in
his last issue, lis not in the cam.
paign," but they are said as recog-
mixing In him q clear intellect, q
brave heart, and a direct way Of
dgntin
To sum up the whole matter: When
Mr.. Bryan was the candidate Of the
party in 1896 Judge Parker, who diff
fered with him on the money ques-
ton, supported him cordially because
he preferred democratic to republican
rule. When Mr.. Bryan was the candi-
date again In 1900, Judge Parker
again cordially because he preferred
democratic to repu olican rule. Now
that Judge Parker is the candidate Of
| the party, Mr.. Bryan, who differs
with him on the money question, cor
daily supports him because he, too,
prefers democratic to republican rule.
Both are democrats and both submit
to the action of democratic national
conventions.
If Parker and Davis are elected all
democrats will share the honor Of the
victory. If Parker is defeated let it
not be said that 1t was because of the
treachery of Bryan democrats who re-
fused to follow their leader In support
of the ticket.
The united action of the democrats
can elect Parker.
1t undoubtedly is true that people
ought to hesitate to say anything tut
good about the president, whoever
he may be- But when a man occupies
that position who has not hesitated to
disturb the bones of the dead In order
to find some one to Willy. it is q de-
batable question whether he deserves
that immunity. The hyena is the most
despised of all animals, for among
them is the only one which will prey
upon the dead. And so it would seem
that that sort of men who are capable
of Islander 90 base as that pronounced
against Jefferson by Roosevelt, when
he called him a plain liar in the more
euphonious language He had con-
stitutional inability to put proper
value on truthfulness, ought to be
put in q class all by themselves. In
other words Theodore Roosevelt, now
candidate In his own right for the
highest Office within the gift Of the
people. says that Thomas Jefferson.
the author of the great ,"Charter Of
American Liberties, ;" was liar, and
worse than that, q liar who was men,
tally and morally irresponsible, con-
stitutionslly &c. Is the living presi-
dent any more sacred than the mem.
DRY of one of the greatest Of those
gone before7
But Mr.. Roosevelt has not been con-
tent to disturb the sacred memories
of such men as Jefferson and Mon
roe, but Is going about as the Bible
tells as s'as2 roaring lion, seeking
whom he may devour.'': He has even
attacked those good people, .3 the best
people Il may. be in all our land, the
Dunkards, the Mennonites and the
Frienda There is no people in Cd ID the he
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