The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-04-30
.RB||YA|N ROASTED.
In the House of Representa-.
lives by Congressman Ro-
denberg, Of Illinois.

WASHINGTON, d. c.. Apr. 81
The Democrats and William j. Bryan
in particular, were criticized in the
House of Representatives today by
Mr.. Rodenperg, OF Illinois. He be-
gan by referring to "the terror that
struck his SOUL when as new
member, he "trembled with fear as
some Democratic member, in deep
sepulchral tones, that smacked of
the gloomy depths of the cherries
tomb, arose in his seat and, assum-
ing the attitude of Ajax defying the
lightning, hurled anathema upon an
athena at our devoted heads and
predicted the overthrow, swift, sure
and immediate of the Republican ma
iorityi, in this House. In the still
small hours of the cumbersome
night my tortured soul cried out
aloud: oh Lord. what must | do to
be saved. q 1t lis all different now.
Democracy's dismal and doleful note
Of; Warning which from time i'm
memorial has been sounded In this
chamber at regular intervals of two
years, no longer terrifies-it simply
amuses. What once was high trag-
edy is now only comic opera"
Launching into an analysis of
What Is a Dmocrat?" Mr.. Roden-
berg said that the average Demo-
cratic statesman always hid been a
disciple of the doctrine of despair.
His is the philosophy of pessimism.
His face is ever turned towards the
setting and not the rising sun. He
is never SO much at peace with him
self as when he is quarreling with
someone else. Instinctively, he
prefers funeral dirge to wedding
march, ard believer that the song of
the dying swan would make a most
glorious national anthem. He is
happy only when his fellowmen are
sad. Night after night he sends up
a feryent petition to the Great
White Throne, asking the good Lord
above to visit his children with some
great disaster, such as fire, or fever,
flood or famine, drouth or death,
earthquake shock or ocean storm,
for in a visitation of that kind his
morbid and melancholy mind thinks
1T sees some promising political pos
sibilities."
last several presidential campaigns
Mr.. Rodenburg further referring to
Mr.. Bryan and his paper, The Com
moner, as we'll. said that he didn't
know just what the paramount issue
this year would be, but he was pre-
pared "for almost any old thing" II
wouldn't be surprised" he said, "to
find in the Democratic platform this
year a declaration to the effect that
the only clean, legitimate. untatnted
money In the United States is that
which Is derived from the lecture
platform and from the publication of
The Commoner. a newspaper which,
with becoming sense of modesty,
seldom mentions the name of itsedi-
tor oftener than one huider times in
any issue" Mr.. Rodenburg held up
two copies of the Commoner. i'm one
of which he said Bryan's name was
mentioned 1876 times and in the other
10S times.
Mr.. Rodenberg closed by contrast
ing Bryan and Roosevelt, asserting
there was nothing in common be-
tween them. zone is the antithesis
of the other. Roosevelt is prac-
teal statesman, the other an i'm
practical dreamer; one is patriotic,
the other is simply platitudinous;
one is constructive, the other de-
structive; one believes in intelligent
action, the other in unintelligent agi-
tation."
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