Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-10-31

At various times in the past Herman
Ridder, now Treasurer Of the Demo
cratic NationS' Committee, has publish
ed in his new spaper, the New Yorker
Stats Zeitung, frank expressions or
his real opinion of Mr.. Bryan as fol-
lows:
ssRis (Bryan's) selection would
surely cause disturbance In the
Industrial and economical develop
ment of the country
eve deem q Republican victory
less dangerOus for the country than
the election OF Bryan"
"onIy a few intimate friends and
blind admirers of Bryan are still
willing to follow ham. 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 WattersOn.
IT is well known that the most Sc
we're criticisms of Mr.. Bryan in the
campaign of 1900 were from the pen
of Mr.. Henry Watterson, now heading
his press committee. AS late as Febril-
airy, 1908. Mr.. Watterson, in the ed
itorial columns of the COurier-Journal,
had this 10 say OF Bryan:
Snow, for our part, we see In
Mr.. Bryan an agreeable lay-preacher
who wants to be president, and has
shown himself willing to take any
old thing for a paramount issue,
promising to join votes enough, all
the way from Free silver to the
Governmental ownership"
Gas one of the guilty In 1896,
though not in 1900, L am SO sensible
of my lack of desert that, whilst
I'm the coming campaign I shall labor
to elect him--StilI greatly distruSt-
ing him-I shall not expect any
other than negative results from his
advent to power, nor dream of cross
ing his threshold after his election.
"Just before Mr.. Bryan's return
last summer year ago and his bad
break at Madison Square Garden,
Mr.. John G. Carlisle said to me Il
know Mr.. Bryant know him we'll
/ like him, but he has no more idea
OF the responsibilities of government
than n child"
In Politics for Gate Receipts.
In a public statement issued Sept. Z,
1906, Roger @. Sullivan, Democratic
National Committeeman for Illinois and
contributor to the Bryan campaign
fund, said:
ocrntic party to defeat, the second a
worse defeat than the first. If he
is proud of that evidence of the peO-
piles confidence in his sincerity, he
is welcome to it. But Eis boast of
sincerity merits further cOnsidera-
zion. He ins1nuates that I make
money ont OF politics, and thar hfs
sincerity therefore cOmpeIs him to
oppose my participation I'm Demo-
cratic affairs. The plain inference
is that Mr.. Bryan thinks it wrong
to make money out OF politics. This
boast of his puts the stamp OF in
sincerity all over him. If Mr.. Bryan
thinks it wrong TO make money out
of politics, he should quit making
money. Mr.. Bryan has not one dol
lar that ne ever made out of any
thing but politics. He tried to be
n lawyers he was failure at 1T.
He tried to he 81 new Dapc~ editor;
he was "A failure mt that. He is now
a man of property. As fortunes go,
he is rich man. HI m"Aa every
dollar If his fortune OFT 90 ra0Iitics
as stepplng-~t0u" to the lecture
platform. Mr.. Bryan discovered,
many years ago, tlsat-hc could make
his political prominence pay. He
Is shreVvd advertiser, and I'm his
way a clever business man. He has
discovered TINT SO long rs he Is
candidate for President and pos
sibIs nominee, gifted with tho abiI-
ltx to weave flowing sentences into