Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1908-10-14
HASKELL AND BRYAN.
Candidate Blamed For Deserving
Friend. e
INeRA7I1uDE CHARGE MADE

| Defend Him! Inc wolves were
Closing in on You, and You
Threw ITEM Mt. Haskell"
| (From the New York American.)
Mr.. Bryan, that last letter to Mr..
Roosevelt is Ilhatchless In Its impu-
dence. With an effrontery that Is
like an inspiration, You charge Mr.
sal. 1t was the Roosevelt refusal to
hear him, you urge, that caused MIR.
Haskell ito resign"
What, Mr.. Bryan, had MIR. Roose-
welt to do with Mr.. Haskell? Had
| the latter been his platform builder?
Was he collecting money from Stand
ard Oil for him. You speak OF MIR.
HaskelI's ''resignation." Here again
YOU invite correction, il not flat con-
tradiction. Mr.. Haskell did not re-
sign. He said mo" in Oklahoma,
mo- in Kansas City, "No" in Chi
cago after he arrived.
| There was no Haskell resignation,
as you, Mr.. Bryan, of all men, best
know, He was thrown out; thrown
ont by you, Mr.. Bryan, with every
4 mark of ignominious hurry, every de-
tail of main force. Gresping at the
casing, he was thrust through the
door; clutching at the wainscot, he
was bundled down the stair OF your
affairs.
"YOU KNEW HASKELL'S PAST"
And in what you, MIR. Bryan, thus
did to MIR. Haskell your cowardice
| became apparent, your ingratitude
| stood revealed. Mr.. Haskell had
worked for you, got money for you.
You were deep within his debt.
| Whatever were his general deserts
you at least owed him support. And
| when he was assailed. what course
did you adopt? Did you take, his
hand? Did you stand by his side?
| Did you even so much as attempt to
defend him? Instead Of finding fault
with MIR. Roosevelt, who had Ehad
nothing to do with him. you should
find fault with yourself, who had had
everything to do with him.
4 When Mr.. Haskell sought you in
Chicago you wouldn't so much as see
him. In your hare's heart you feared
lest the ruin that was overtaking him
might seize also upon yOu.
Mr.. Bryan, you have pretended
since the Haskell downfall to an in
nocent ignorance of that gentleman's
heretofore. Do you imagine that the
public accepts your weak pretense?
MANY people no more believe it than
Won believe it yourself. Better than
any other, you knew the Haskell
past. The moment he was brought
to bay by it, you saw that all was up.
Wherefore, when he came seeking
you in his troubles, you, like another
Joab with another Abner, drove the
knife under his fifth rib. You did
this, trusting that the treason to a
friend might be received as PROOF or
your own purity.
THE ANSWER "YOUR RECORD"
MAKES.
Your conscience, Mr.. Bryan, must
be Russian conscience. The wolves
were closing in on you, and you
threw them Mr.. Haskell.
You say in your letter, Mr.. Bryan,
my record is q sufficient answer"
Still harping on Tiny record" You
said the same when that wOrkingman
put his "public beggars" question.
What is this marvellous record
against which you so bravely place
your back? Is there a fence Of pol
icy upon 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
ly advocated and opposed? Once the
champion of the crucified, you have
become the right arm of the crucl-
fiers. You denounced a cross of gold.
a crown of thorns. Now you find in
that crown of thOrns the wreath OF
possible victory. Uplift that cross OF
gold as the emblem of every prosper
outs hope.
"A SUNSHINE PATRIOT"
Your record" Mr.. Bryan, is of as
many hues as Joseph's coat. Also,
like Joseph, you have come down
into the Egypt of the East, and are
already beginning to interpret the
dreams of the PharaOhs of Wall
Street. Your record is a record Of
abandonment, of desertiOn. With a
saltishness so satanic that it touches
nearly the sublime, you have run
from every cause you ever spoke for,
every friend you ever had. You
would share in the triumph of an
enemy, sooner than taste defeat with
your own people. A summer soldier.
a sunshine patriot, of the sycophants
and the smell-feasts, you are present
in prosperity only to be absent in adj
versity.
MIR. Bryan, you suffer from pur-
blind egotism that sees only itself.
You look too often in the glass, too
seldom from the window. You are
too fond of your own image. too
much the Narcissus of politics, and
fool yourself into believing that 9TH
ers think as well of you as you
think of yourself. Secure of your
own favor, you feel secure Of the
public favor, and this encourages you
to tura false, pursue the expedient,
desert principles, abandon friends.