The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-10-29

"A
Ridder, now Treasurer Of the Demo
cratic National Committee, has publish
ed In his newspaper, the New Yorker
Stats ZeituDg, frank expressions OF
his real opinion of Mr.. Bryan as rol-
lows:
ellis (Bryan's) sei"ctioa would
surely cause disturbance In tine
industrial and economical develop
ment of the country"
GWo deem q Republican Victory
Res. dangerous for tho country than
the election Of Bryan"
.OnIy a few intimate friends ana
blind admirers of Bryan are SIM
willing to follow him. The
miserable intrigues of the man VINO
would again incite the masses cam
not retard this process. Bryan's
strenuous activity will hasten his
entire ANNIHILATION"
Late Views of wattersOu.
It is we'll known that the most Sc
we're criticisms of Mr.. Bryan In the
campaign of 1870 were from the pen
of Mr.. Henry Natterson, now heading
his press committee AS late as Febru
ary. 1908. Mr. Watterson, III the ed
itorial columns of the Courier-Jonrnal
had this 10 say Of bryan:
Snow, for our part, we see In
Mr.. Bryan an agreeable 1ay-preacher
who wants t. ;,H president, and mas
shown himself willing to take any
old thing for n para amount ISSUE
promising to join votes enough, all
the way from Free silver to the
Governmental Ownership"
GAS one Of the guilty in 1895,
though not I'm 1900, am so sensible
OF my lack of desert that, whilst
I'm the coming campaign I shall labor
tn elect him -~tiI. greatly dfstrusf-
ing hfm-I shall NOT expect any
other than negative results froni his
advent to power, nor dream OF cross
aun his threshold after his election.
"Just before Mr. Bryan'* return
last summer a yeaR ago and his bad
break at Madison Square Garden,
Mr., John G. Carlisle said to me 81
know Mr.. Bryan know him we'll
like him, but he has no more ides
of the responsibilities OF government
than q child"
I'm Politics for Gate Receipts.
In a public statement issued Sept. 4
1906, Roger G.. Sullivan, Democratic
National Committeeman for Illinois and
%10 Dpxyn no ion
fund, said:
"NIr. Bryan has twice led the DEM
Ocratic party to defeat, the second a
worse defeat than the first. If he
IL proud of that evidence of the peO-
pIe'a confidence I'm his sincerity, he
Is welcome to it. But his boast of
sincerity merita further cOnsidern-
ton He insinuates that I make
money our .. % ,Iitics, and that his
sincerity t.eregere compeIs him tn
Oppose my pnr, icipatiOn I'm Demo-
cratic affair.". The plain Inference
f. that Mr. Bryan thinks 1t wrong
to make money out of politics. This
boasf of his puts the stamp of in
sincerity all over him. II Mr.. Bryan
thinks 1T wrong ~ make money out
of politics, he should quit maxim G
money. Mr.. Bryan has not one dol
lar that n" ever made out of any
thing but politics. He tried 10 he
lawyer; lac was failure at IL.
He tried t. be newspaper editor;
he was q faiIurs at that. He Is now
a man of property. As fortunes go,
he is q rich He made every
dollar of his fOr-Tn out of politics
aa a step"ing-st ne tn the lecture
DIatfOr1m. Mr.. Bryan discovered,
many years ago. that he could make
his political rinencs pay. He
fs "a shrewd .rtiser, and I'm HIS
xvay n clever T. ,eSS man. He has
discovered 49, long as he is a
candidate fo- r. ident and pos
s.bIe nominee. Ell with the abil-