Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-06-11
NOW WILL IT SUBSIDE?

For months the New York World has
been engaged in a strenuous editorial
crusade against The nomination OF w.
J.. Bryan at Denver. 1t has tried to en-
list a lot of recruits TO it's home once
force, and has worked itself up to a
profuse Precipitation in its undertak-
ing. It hes given olumino advice
to the South, some of it stale and un-
profitable, some out-and-out sophis-
try, some buncombe and some just
ordinary slush.
Recently this newspaper, which has
long since become an expert in the
scare head business, printed an article
which was apparently for the purpose
OF leaving the impression that the dem-
ecratic party pursued more or less
corrupt tactics in the campaign of
1904 and which was in effect that
Thomas F. Ryan, of Wall street no.
toriety, sent SIS, 900 to Nebraska to be
used in the campaign in that state by
the democratic committee, and it was
intimated by the World that Mr.. Bryan
knew something about the contribu-
ton.
When his attention was called to the
article Mr.. Bryan publicly announced
that If MI. Ryan or his legal adviser
would admit shat such a contribution
was made he (Mr. Bryan) would see
that the money is returned. Mr.. w.
f. Sheehan, who was chairman of the
executive committee of the democratic
national committee at the time, and
who would have known Of such a con-
tribution had it been made, declares
publicly that whatever money was
sent to the state of Nebraska was tax on
from the general fund, which money
was made up Of voluntary centribu-
lions from many PERSONS" adding
that there was not the slightest sugges-
ton at the time from anybody that
Mr.. Bryan had any knowledge on the
subject or that knowledge OF the ans
action was to be brought homo to him.
This ought to put a quietus on the
World in its use of fiction for the pur
pose of preventing Mr., Bryaa's nomi-
nation or weakening his prospects for
election. The You're another" argu-
znent with a vie of leaving the i'm
preston that the corrupt of
the republican party in its efforts to
control national elections are likewise
adopted to more or less extent by the
democratic party won't work in the
form of fimsy charges by the World
or other anti Bryan newspapers. The
no1~%ru hoc pn% fCrnnftor tho &OR0 000
that E.. H. Hartman, the Wall street
railroad steck-jobber, raised in a few
days around the New York Stock Elk
change, ostensibly with the approval
of the republican administration, to
carry New York state against the
democrats. Neither has the public
forgotten the huge cpmpaign barrel
more Familiarity known as the "yellow
dog fund, contributed by several of
the big life insurance companies and
subsequently assuming the phase of a
national scandal, not to speak of the
hundreds Of thousands contributed by
"the interests at the urgent request
of Mr.. George B. Cortelyou, who was
then the presiding genius of the re-
publican slush department., and who
was subsequently honored for his
stragetic maneuvers with a seat at the
cabinet table.
The World should adopt a more
trustworthy as well as a more manly
course than the "You're another
method of fghing Mr.. Bryan and the
democratic party, of which he is the
logical leader. such tactics are puerile,
and equivalent to an acknowledgement
that the paper adopting them is hard
pressed for ammunition. They won't
work.