The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1908-08-20

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weigh at all with him, but has fought
side by side with men in every State
for the principles he and they have
advocated in common.
The attempt to injure Mr. Bryan
in the South (the policy of the Taft
management evidently is to try to
do this by methods akin to the
above) will not have any weight.
Almost every voter in the South has
seen Mr. Bryan and every one knows
what he stands for. He has visited
the South often and felt at home
here. The people know him. They
have twice voted for him. They
know that every falsehood that paid
hirelings can invent will be put in
circulation and that the money OF
trust hirelings will be employed to
put these lies in circulation. These
enemies OF Democracy will not try to
eXtol Mr.. Taft but seek to undermine
the faith of the people in Mr.. Bryan
by inuendoes and insinuations. That
is the programme mapped out and
being engineered by bureau Of
shrewd fellows. Their lies ought to
find no place in any decent journal.
Every man who votes for Mr..
Bryan will do so knowing where the
Nebraskan stands on all public ques-
tions. During the present year,
when Mr.. Bryan was speaking in
Cooper Union on public questions,
some person in the audience asked
him what he had to say on the sub
| ject of DISTINGUISHING ignorant ne
groes by certain Southern States.
| Without a moments hesitation and
quick as a fash, Mr.. Bryan answered:
| "The man who asked the question
If he is a black man voting the Re
publican ticket or a white Republican
cannot in justice ask it. But | will
answer it frankly and tell you that
the white man in the South puts on
that qualification as a matter OF
self-protection, and that there is not
a Republican community in the
North that would not put it on when
necessary. The white race in the
| North and in the South will not per-
NIT few men to take the solid black
vote and use it as personal property
for the making of money, regardless
of the welfare of the community, and
that was done in the South. The
South is giving the black man better
law than the black man would give
the white man in the South If the
black man made the law"
| Upon the action of the President
in the matter of Diminishing the negro
troops at Brownsville, Mr. Bryan
made no cOncealment of his views,
| but in the COnmOner declared if the
| facts stated by the President were
true that Mr.. Roosevelt did right in
that action.
There is no action by Mr.. Bryan
| that is not open to the world, and
he has no set of views for one partic-
ular section and another set of views
for another section He lives in the
calcium light and is one statesman
who thinks out loud. What he thinks
he declares and all the world knows
where he stands. The only serious
criticism friends have made Of Mr.
Bryan is that he is SO plain-spOken
that he loses support he might OBJ
tain by concealing his views. If he
had been a sectional politician, Mr..
Bryan in 1892 wouldn't have recon-
mended a Confederate soldier for the
most important office in his district,
and in 1904 would not have urged
the nomination of Senator Cockerell,
a Confederate soldier, for President.
If he had been a politician seeking
favor with the Northern negro voters
he would never have written a line
about the Brownsville affair or made
the Cooper Union speech on the ques-
ton Of restricting negro suffrage in
the South. He is frank, genuine,
sincere, and seeks no support by con-
cealing his views, pandering to
prejudice, or being Influenced by sec
tional or peanut political considera-
tions. In other words, Mr.. Bryan
has never changed his convictions
or shaped his views to get votes. He
has sought the support of his coun-
trymen by boldly and consistently
stating his opinions upon great
questions.
| In this campaign, he will wage the
campaign upon the declarations con
tanned in the Democratic National
platform, which treats in an unequiv
ocal way every great issue that is
today before the American people
| He will not permit the mud-slingers
and penny-a-liners to cause him te
run rabbits or to deny the canards
and paid ISLANDERS that trust money
puts in circulation.
The people know Mr.. Bryan. For
tunately, too, they know the cam
paign liars and their methods.