The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-10-23
Editorial, September 25, 1900.

MIR. Bryan ia worth only a few
thousand dollars, which he has made
nv his pen and his oratorical talent
An office-seeker does not have SO many
opportunities to make money as an Of
ficeholder like DR.. Hanna, but we fear
Mr.. Bryan would not be success IN
this direction even if he were an Of
ficeholder, because he has so little
Hanna-sense as to refuse several re-
munerative offers during the last four
wears which might have put him in
Hanna's financial class. This is per-
haps the reason that the Ohio mag
nate calls him an ass. Nothing can
seem more asinine to him than man
who. on more conscientious Scruples
refuses to make money. 1t is true that
in one sense Mr.. Bryan has no visible
means of support, inasmuch as his
brains, patriotism and his character
are the things which support and give
him standing with the American pub
lie. These things are not visible, and
in Hanna's eyes are doubtless worth
less as assets, compared with the lat
ters visible means of SuppOrt-fac-
tories, mills and underpaid working
men. But still man is not necessar-
lily a tramp because he does not carry
around half dozen trust and subsidy
schemes in his vest pocket.
"To sneer at a man because he is
Door and liken him to a tramp be-
cause he makes a modest living by the
honest exercise of his intellect instead
of by collaring factories and indus
trial establishment and making other
people work for him will appeal with
great force to American sympathies.
In the six million ballots or so cast
for him four years ago Mr.. Bryan had
very tangible and visible means of sup
port. and the wildness of DR.. Hanna's
recent utterances suggest fear on
his part that these visible means of
support will be largely increased at
the approaching election"
Editorial October 4, 1900.
"The haste with which Mr.. Hanna
and the Republican organs have drop
ped the charge (of allowing Mr.. Crok-
er to name two Of the members of his
cabinet,) is in itself fine compliment
to Mr.. Bryan. 1t is an admission on
the part of his bitterest political enc
mics that his word cannot be profitably
challenged. They practically confess
that when he says positively that his
position is that of free, indepen-
dent. unpledged candidate, whose ad-
ministration, if he is to have one, is
not mortgaged to any boss or syndicate
of bosses, it is useless to try to throw
doubt upon his statement. Whatever
tactical mistakes Mr.. Bryan may have
made and however strongly many
men who mean to vote for him differ
| from his financial theories, the integ-
rity, the honesty, and the perfect sin
cerity of his character are recognized
by candid men of all parties. One
of the most attractive aspects OF Mr..
Bryan's candidacy is the personal
freedom and independence with which,
if the people should elect him, he
would enter the White House. He
has given the country positive assur-
ance that no boss or association OF
bosses holds his promissory notes,
payable on demand after his inaug-
uration And the whole character OF
the man makes this assurance sure. :"
OF the Republican administration the
Sun has this to say:
Already syndicated to the political
league of patriots for plunder who
talk loyalty and mean loot, who really
around the flag for what there is in
it, who pirate of glory and are intent
on gain, and whose whole purpose is
to control and use the Government in
all it's branches for business only
Editorial October 8, 1900.
"If the present opposition to the
use of the process of injunction to
effect the ends of government be op-
position to the rightful authority of a