The bee., 1908-10-29
Candidate Blamed For Dssertli
Friend.
INGRATITUDE CHARGE MADE
When He Was AssaIIed, Old You
Stand by His SIde7 Did You
Even So Much as Attempt to
Defend Him? The Wolves We're.
Closing in on You, and Yol/
Threw Them Mr.. Haskell"
From the New York Americana

(From the New York American.) j
MIR. Bryan, that last letter to Mr,N
Roosevelt is matchless I'm its impu-
dence. With an effrOntery that 10
like an inspiration, you charge Mr..
Roosevelt with the Haskell dismiss
sal. IL was the Roosevelt refusal to
hear him, You urge, that caused Mr..
Haskell ito resign"
What, MIR. Bryan, had Mr.. ROose-
welt to do with Mr.. Haskell? Had
the latter been his platform builderg
Was he collecting money from stand
ard Oil for him?' You speak OF Mr..
HasIxeIl's "resignatiOn." Here again
you invite correction, If not fiat con-
tradiction. MIR. Haskell did not re-
sign. He said "No' in Oklahoma,
"NO" in Kansas City, 'NO'' in Chi
cagO after he arrived.
There was no Haskell resignation,
as you, Mr.. Bryan, of all men, best1'
know. He was thrown out; thrown
out by you, Mr.. Bryan, with every
mark of ignOminious hurry, every de-
tail of main force. Grasping at the
casing, he was thrust through the
door; clutching at the wainscot, he
was bundled down the stair of yourN
affairs.
And in what You. MIR. Bryan, thus
did to MIR. Haskell your cOwardice
became apparent, your ingratitudel4
stood revealed. Mr.. Haskell had
worked for you. got money for you
You were deep within his debt
Whatever were his general DESERT
you at least owed him support. AnH
when he was assailed, what courl
did you adopt? Did you take
hand? Did you stand by his sid
Did you even so much as attempt
defend him? Instead of finding TAU
with MIR. Roosevelt, who had hal
nothing to do with him, you should
find fault with yourself, who had had
everything to do with him.
When MIR. Haskell sought you IN
Chicago you wouldn't so much as see.
him. In your haIp's heart you feared
lest the ruin that was overtaking him
might seize also upon you.
MIR. Bryan, you have pretended AZ
since the Haskell downfall to an in
nOcent ignorance of that gentleman
heretofore. Do you imagine that tins
public accepts your weak pretense
Many people no more believe Il tina
you believe it yourself. Better taA
any other, you knew the Haske
past. The moment he was Dro0S
TO bay by it, you saw that all was u ~
Wherefore, when he came seekins
YOU in his troubles, you, like anothei
Joab with another Abner, drove thcN
knife under his fifth rib. You did
this, trusting that the treason 20
friend might be received as proof q
your own purity.
THE ANSWER YOUR RECORD~
MAKES.
Your conscience, Mr.. Bryan, must
be Russian conscience. The wolves
were closing i'm ON you, and yout
threw them MIR. Haskell.
You say i'm your letter, Mr.. Bryan
ssNIy record is a sufficient answer,
Still harping on ''my record" fon
said the same when that workingman
put his 'pubIic beggars" question.
What is this marvellous record
against which you so braveiy place
your back? Is there fence OF poll
lev uDOn both sides of which You
haven't stood? Is there a pathway
of principle which you haven't trod
both ways? Is there an interest or
an issue which you haven't alternate-
Iy advocated and opposed? Once the
champion of the crucifled, you have
become the right arm of the cruci- 4
fiePs. You denounced "A cross OF gold,
n crown of thorns. Now you find IN
that crown of thOrns the wreath Of
DossibIe victory. Uplift that cross o.
cold as the emblem of every prosper-
Gus hope.
"a SUNSHINE PATRIOT"
Your record" MIR. Bryan, is OF Al
many hues as Joseph's coat. Also
like Joseph, you have come down
into the Egypt of the East, and ara
already beginning to interpret tnos
dreams of the PharaOhs of Wall
Street. Your record is a record on
abandonment, of desertiOn. With +
seIfshness so satanic that Il touches
nearly the sublime, yOu have run
from every cause you ever spoke Iors
every friend You ever had. lou
would share in the triumph OF AN
enemy, sooner than taste defeat with
your own people. "A summer solqlers
a sunshine patriot, of the sycopl -
and the smell-feasts, You are pl ent
I'm prosperity only to be absent "a adj
versity.
Mr. Bryan, you suffer from pur~
blind esOtism that sees only itself.
You look too often in the glass, TOO
seldom from the window. You are
too fond of your own image. tooN
much the Narcissus of politics. and
fool yourself into believing that oiii
ers think as well of you as you
think OF yourself. Secure Of youp
own favor. you feel secure Of tho
public favor, and this encourages you
10 turn false, pursue the expedient,
desert principles, abandon friends