Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1908-03-04
The Chicago Record. Herald and
William !. Bryan

william j. bryan
EDITOR GAzETTE:-In reply to tn
article that appeared in your lat
Issue, clipped from the Chicag
Record Herald, and sent to 20
from Charlotte, N. c., fer tn
benefit and enlightenment of Lex
ingtonians, your writer desires t
say that it would have been fair t.
the readers, of the GAZETTE to hav
made known the fact that tn
Chicago Record Herald, while pos
ing to the world as an Independent
newspaper is in truth nothing bu
an assistant Republican Organiza
tion; that the Chicago Record
Herald stands for the special in
terests and therefore politically q
mortal enemy of William Jennings
Bryan, and anything that Is said
or written in detraction OF Mr..
Bryan is a sweet mOrsel to the
palate of that paper, And in
this connection it is we'll to note
the fact that every reader must
know that there is no man whose
name appears on the list of the
Democratic party so unanimously
hated by the Republican party a.
that of Mr.. Bryan. From the very
lowest to the highest of the Rep
ublican ranks Bryan has been
chosen to bear away to the wilder
ness the sins of our nation.
And when DIR. John II. Latape
or any other Southern Democrat
lines up with the Republican party
in detraction of Mr. Bryan it would
be we'll to remember with whom
you muster.
That there is u disaffectiOn in
the Democratic party CT the
Southern States no one disputes,
but the source of that disatfectiun
tas not been fairly stated. For
instance, the cotton factories OF
of the United States have been 10
q great extern. moved to the South
ern States, and the high protective
tariff on Gotten. that the Rock
Fridge county people, the readers
{ the Gazette, are now paying, is
one of the greatest source of the
disaffection of Southerd Democrats.
These people do not want re-
vision Of the tariff because of the
enormous profits that these SOUTH
ern cotton factories are now reap
ing as the result of the tariff laws.
If the readers of The GAZETTE
could only hear the testimony thar
s now being read in the halls OF
Congress on Senator Beverages
Child L. Dor bill telling how these
southern cotton factories are
reating the poor children of the
South, literally working the life
'ut of them, and see the photo
,raphs Ct these emaciated young
,tople. boys and girls, whose lives !
ire being sacrificed in the cotton
; ills, &c make money for these
ariff- fed tarOns, then your read.
RS could understand the disalfec-
ions cf Southern Democrats. q
The objection to WIliiar' J.Bry- o
n AS our national stand, rd bearer
$ mere pretext. There is a deep u
r cause than the reasons asslgnt d. Il
Iverv newspaper reader well re o.
lembers how the sugar men Of t'
.ouisiana bolted the Democratic Il
Icket In 1896 because the Ameti- c'
an sugar manufactures did not IL
ant the tariff removed from su- Ia
ar, and the twelve years enjoy III
tent of this unrighteous privilege III
as only sharpened the appetite e IL
lese people. William j. B'yan, III
9th by line upon line and p:ecept IL
pom precept, has stood for tariff
,form. He it was while u member hi
Congress, made that greatest of q
oeeches on the revision of the Or
riff ard thereby enabling the W
emOcratic party to pass the only fu
easure that hes been passed for r
'duction of the tariff since the es
ivil War and known as the VII. pr
IN hill. The writer challenges any wi
ader of The GAZETTE to get the
Record ard lead cr'
at speech of Mr.. Bryan. There is irl
} speech like it on tariff revision FRI
the entire Record. ca
rhese Southern Democrats who wa
ere 20 disaffected from self inter TT
I know full we'll whence their Ma
eat profits come, and they also RE
ow if william j. Bryan ever pa
Is to Washington as President Of cit
e United States that there will
something doing. wi
1t lie a notable fact there are yet ap
lew OF the old time Repub- ire
ans still in both Houses of Cong or
Is, namely, Dalzell of Pennsylva- are
/, Keifer of Ohio, Payne, Platt
Depew of New York, and if the
sse men did not help to make SOC
, laws that punished the South bly,
the dark days of reconstruction,
II they have advocated these
ys: and now that these laws in