The Cairo bulletin., 1908-04-28
BRAN SCORED
BY ROD[Nb[RC
EAST ST. LOUIS CONGRESSMAN
TELLS WHEREIN ROOSE
WELT is DIFFERENT.
IMPRACTICAL DRF AMER
Fiatitudnous and observation-disclosures
velt For IntelilGcnt Action,
BRYAN For UninteIi-
gent Agitation.

Washington, April 27.--In the lower
house today Congressman Rcdenbere
of Illinois. spoke briefly on issues oil
the day. He INDUCED in bitter crt
cism of Democrats. particularly OF
VIM J. Bryan, concluding asfollows:
Mr. Rodenberg said that the Demo
Gratis were trying to extract some com
fort out of the fact that the RepuD-
licans were not unit as to who
should lead them to victory in Novem
ber but he was proud to state that the
Republican party was not the personal
asset of any individual No man, he
asserted, held a mortgage On its prin-
ciples, its policies-or its purposes, and
%it had never issued IA commission III
~perpetuity to any one to write its plat
forms and do all its thinking. Thank
God" he exclaimed lit has never been
afflicted with political Sindbad. an
Old Man Of the Sea, who has secured a
strangle hold on its windpipe and
choked it into abject submission to his
every whim and caprice, In all its
history the Republican party had
never developed perennial disappear
less leader who arrogates to himself
the sole power of political excommnni
Tho nnmnnrafG hn hpplarpt
long since had lost their courage, In.
dependence aud manhood. You have, :
he said addressing the Democrats,
been compelled to accept Bryan with
all his idiocyncrasies or suffer the con
sequences OF his mighty wrath You
have not been converted; you are still
the same old Saul of Tarsus. But
your feigned loyalty went last. You
can't keep up the delusion. The his
tcry of the Democratic party teaches
us that the glory of today is the pathos
of tomorrow" He spoke of Grover
Cleveland, in that connection, as "thc
uncrowned hero" to whom the Demo
Gratis swore undying fealty and deyo'
ticn, but, he said when | contem-
plate the fate of Grover Cleveland,
when | recall the once high estate of
that discarded and forgotten idol o;
yours. then indeed do | feel sorry for
one William Jennings Bryan" The
dav would come, he predicted, and It
was not far distant, when Bryan would
be made to walk the gang plank of
Democratic decapitation and 90 to his
political grave ''unhonored unwept
and unsung" He gloried in the fact
that the Republican party always had
been opposed on principle Ito the in,
corporation of presidential nomina
tion trust" and that there was a divis-
ion among Republicans as to the per
sonaIity of their candidate for presi.
dent
Tracing the developments of the last
several presidential campaigns. Mr..
Rodenberg further referring to Mr.
Bryan and his paper, The COmmoner
as we'll, said that he didn't know just
what the paramount issue this year
would be. but he was prepared for
almost any old thing" Il wouldn't be
surprised" he said. "to find in the
Democratic platform this year a de
claration to the effect that the only
clean. legitimate, untainted money in
the United States is that which is de
rived from the lecture platform and
from the publication of the Commoner
a newspaper which. with becoming
% t,,pInufxy ua1JnrA thp
name of its editor oftener than one
hundred times in any issue" Mr.
Rodenberg held up two copies of the
Commoner. iR one of which he said
Bryans name was mentioned 130
times and in the other los times
Stress will no doubt be laid On
Democracy's pretended friendship fof.
labor Crocodile tears will he shed In
great abundance by the Democratic
spellbinder in 1908 as he tells of the
heroic efforts of the minority in this
house to enact legislation in behalf of
the horny-handed sons of toll, and yet
an examination of the record will dis
close the fact that the. only place In
this country where labor is underpaid.
where the efforts of workingmen to
organize themselves into unions meet
with determined opposition. and where
few laws favorable TO the cause of toll
have been incorporated into the stat
utes. are the states that have never
given an electoral vote To the Republi
can party.
Mr.. Rodenberg closed by contrasting
Bryan and Roosevelt. asserting thera
was nothing in common between them
"One is the antithosis of the other
Roosevelt is practical statesman, the
other an impractical dFeamer; one is.
patriotic, the other is simply platitu-
dinous: one is constructive. the other
destructive; one believes in intelligent
action. the other in unintelligent agl
tation :"