The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1904-10-27

NANAAA "a 1&&@E
reason why Bryan Democrats should
not vote for Parker. With the oxcep-
ton Of the opening paragraph. Mr..
watson's letter is as follows:
Mr.. BRYAN, WHO IS ALWAYS
CAREFUL IN THE STATEMENT OF
MATURED OPINIONS, HAS AS
SIJRED THE COUNTRY THAT THE
INFLUENCES BACK OF THE PARK
ER CANDIDACY ARE so INTIMATE
ny ASSOCIATED WITH TRUSTS
AND GREAT CORPORATIONS THAT
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY COULD
NOT APPEAL TO THE MASSES
WITH SUCH A CANDIDATE" SAID
Mr.. BRYAN: THEY WOULD BEGIN
WITH A FOOT RACE AND END
WITH A ROUT" LIKEWISE HE
STATED A SELFEVIDENT FACT
WHEN HE DECLARED THAT THE
PBUTOCRATIC ELEMENT FOR THE
TIME BEING is IN CONTROL OF
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
1T WAS EQUALLY CLEAR TO MR.
BRYAN. AS 1T WAS TO so MANY
OTHERS. THAT THE NOMINATION.
OF PARKER WAS SECURED BY
CROOKED AND INDISPENSABLE
METHODS AND THAT THE NOM
NATION OF SUCH A MAN. WHO
HAD AS Mr.. BRYAN DECLARED
WON THE HONOR WITH LOADED
DICE" VIRTUALLY NULLIFIED THE
ANTITRUST PLANK IN THE DEMO
CRATIC PLATFORM.
These were fearfully important facts.
and they produced the impression on
the minds Of millions that there was
something stealthy. deceitful. cowardly
and utterly dishonest Ia the Parker
campaign for the nomination. Mr.,
Bryan stated facts. profoundly i'm
portant facts. and they continued to be
facts up 10 the time that Parker ct
ually got the nomination. which he had
sought on a "cowardly and straddling
platform" the honor for which he had
played with loaded dice"
Whether or not the healing virtues.
the nomination, cured all the hypo-
erisy and fraud by which It had been
obtained, Is q question each citizen
should put to his own intelligence be-
fore he votes.
Those things which Mr.. Bryan said
were facts before the nomination were
not obliterated from the catalogue Of
facts by the nomination; they are
facts yet.
ht a MAlAAAAlAaA NNAEf AHi0NlAlE u
menace. Judge Parker was driven by
the New York World into the sending
OF the telegram which told the Demo
cratic convention. for the first time.
and many hours after Parker had Sc.
cured the nomination, that the gold
standard was "~irreyocably fixed"
Neither then nor in any utteance
afterwards did he say that the gold
standard was right. until he had been
shelled so vigorously for having de-
serted the free silverites without say
ing they we're wrong and having gone
Y TO the gold standard without say
ing II was right Even Judge Parker
finally realized that the ground was
caying under his feet, and was literally
driven 20 frmer footing. At last he
has taken his place side by side with
Roosevelt on the most deeply inn
portant issue before the people.
Things to Remember.
Let Il be borne in mind that Wall
street wanted the last Congress 20
issue more bonds. let Il be remem
bored that the Cleveland Democrats
wan the ~greenbacks called In and
burnt: do not forget that the endless
chain" precedent set by Cleveland
stands as a precedent 70 be followed:
recall how easy Il 10 for the money
power 10 hide their plans uLil the
victim Is In their trap-and you viii
begin to realize what terrible dangers
still turk ln this money question.
In Mr.. BrgRn's book called "The
First Battle" be compared the possible
effects Of the British gold standard 70
the ruin wrought BY an Invading army.
sweeping the land with Ere aud sword
Mr.. Bryan was right. The vnat ia,
crease In the worlds stock OF metallic
money and the enormous use Of credit
money. which universal confidence
keeps ahoat postponed the evil day.
but II Is bound 90 come. Let the
supply OF gold fail; let confidence take
wings; let the lnsolvent hanka be
suddenly called upon 10 make good
their Inflated liabilities, and such a
storm will break over The republic as
has not been known IN IS history. Our
financial system Is rotten 10 the very
core. What has been aptly called
hocus-pocus money Is doing the biggest
business Il was ever known 70 do.
What Is entitled frenzied finance IT,
holding such a carnival as Il never
held before. This can not lest. The
CRASH Will HAifl9 1aNtta anu AAh.H WV
live 70 see il will feel as though the
world were coming to an end. Would
20 God that Mr.. Bryan we're with me
In this, the second battle. Together
we could have whipped the fight OF
1896, but the Southern Democratic
bosses would not have IL so. Chair
man Jones had 10 drive the allies apart
by brutal Insults at the very opening
OF the campaign. In 1904 had all the
Bryan Democrats refused 10 be bound
by the Infamous sell-out 20 Wall street
at ST. Louis and had Mr Bryan Joined
forces with me We could have won
this contest The temper OF the peO-
plo Is ripe for revolt. and Is getting
hotter every day. They only need
leaders whom they can trust The
Democratic masses who followed Bryan
are sick al heart. They listen with.