Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-13
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paper and republican newspapers else
where have been injpring the republi-
can chances of success by abusing
Mr.. Bryan" and this complaint has
recently become very popular with the
world-Herald and other followers of
Organism who, when faced with argu-
ments against Bryan and Organism.
answer promptly by declaring that 1t
is unfair, cruel and dishonorable to
abuse Mr.. Bryan"
AS a matter OF fact no candidate for
the presidency has ever been so sue
cessful as MFR. Bryan In escaping abuse.
His personal character his honesty,
his social and domestic life and his
personal integrity have been free from
attack in all his political career. The
trouble appears to be that the blind
partisans of the Nebraska leader per-
slst in finding ''abuse of Mr.. Bryan"
in every utterance that is not lauda-
tory Of the man, his theories and va
carries.
my record is sufficient answer"
wrote Mr.. Bryan in replying to Presi-
dent Roosevelt's letter exposing Gov
ernor Haskell's connection with the
Standard Oil and his chumminess with
Mr.. Bryan. Mr.. Bryan has persis-
tently challenged attention to his rec
ord and discussion of it cannot, there
fore, be construed as "abuse of Mr..
Bryan"
It is not abuse of Mr.. Bryan to call
attention to his record on the silver
issue. to his declaration that no other
question could be settled until he at
tempt to establish the gold standard
in this country had been defeated.
Within the year he has declared that
every plank in the Chicago platform
is stronger today than it was in 1896.
He has never recanted his views on the
silver question and has offered nc as
suranee that he would not, if elected,
inject the issue into congress.
1t is not abuse of Mr.. Bryan to re-
mind the country that he advocated a
scuttle policy in the Philippines in
1900 and within the month has made
speeches advocating the immediate
recognition of the independence of the
Filipinos, with the certainty that such
action would provoke revolution in
the islands and involve this country
in foreign complications that might
lead to war.
1t is not abuse of Mr.. Bryan to recall
his 1900, platform in which he de-
manded the retirement of national
bank notes and the substitution there
for of government paper (greenbacks)
or silver certificates.
1t is not abuse of Mr.. Bryan to call
attention to the fact that he is now
working hand in glove with Roger Sui
livan, "Fingy" Corners, Pat McCarren,
Charley Murphy, Senator Bailey, Col
onel Guffey and other democratic
lights whom he denounced in 1896
and 1900 and whom he accused, in
1904, Of having secured the nominal
ton OF Judge Parker ''by crooked and
i~ndefensible methods" In HIS public
letter on July ~, 1904, pledging per-
functory support to Judge Parker, he
declared "a democratic victory will
mean little, II any, progress on eco
nomic questions SO long as the party
Is under control of the Wall street
element" That element is now work
ing for Bryan and it is considered
abuse of Mr.. Bryan to call atten-
tion to the fact that the Wall street
element of democracy has not changed.
The change is on Mr.. Bryan's part.
1t is not abuse of Mr.. Bryan to
quote from his speech at Cooper Union
hall in New York last April, in which
he endorsed the action of the demo-
Gratis of the solid south in %disfranchis-
ing the negro voters, while he now re-
fuses to discuss the negro question be-
cause it was not mentioned in the
Denver platform.
1t is not abuse of Mr.. Bryan to re-
mind the public that while he is max
ing speeches in favor of railroad regu-
lation he is on record as having ex-
pressed his supreme conviction that
railroad regulation was not possible
and that the only remedy for abuses
growing out of the transportation
business was government ownership
of railroads.
1t is no abuse of Mr.. Bryan to dis
cuss, at his invitation, the collapse of
his economical decisions and the re-
lection of his financial fallacies and
~vagaries. He has invited discussion
of his record and he and his support
ers should accept the results without
whining.