The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-17
SIR. BRYAN WILL NOT SHUT UP.

MIR. BRYAN WILL NOT SHUT UP.
The Coalmoner says this week that
4 Lfr. Bryan has never attempted to die
tate to the Democrats. but that he
knows the record of the party lead
ers and intends 10 say what he thinks
about them whenever he feels like it.
MIR, Bryan's body. politically speak.
ing. is Scared all over by the knives
that have been welded by the repre-
sentatives of plutocracy inside the
4 Democratic party and outside
He has made three campaigns and
in every one of them he had to meet
treaohery within the party, as we'll as
assailants from without. He has had
to conduct his campaigns through COM
Initteemen, some of whom were Il,
N league with the opposition and in Sc
c!et correspondence with the enemies.
lie has had 10 meet false and malicious
Misrepresentation on the part of pa
pers subsidized by the predatory inter
esTs.
HE has seen the party pla torn at
tackled. sometimes openly and some
times by nnucndo By those pretending
to support the ticket. and he has seen
the platform repudated immedia tely
after the campaign by the newspapers,
VINO prof=ssed to support 1t during the
campaign.
he has had TO oppose distinguished
members Of his own party when these
members attempted to insert weasel
words in the platform and make It
ambiguous and uncertain. He has had
to contend with timid politicians who
protested friendship only out OF fear
Of their cons tituents and only so long
as that pretended friendship could help
them NV jtii
But he has found the heart of the
party sound. To them his appeals are
ma de The fact that he has been tnc
rHrty's candidate does not deprive him
of freedom OF speech"
That's the sort of talk we like toI
hear. There hasn't heen enough Of IT,
and we are delighted that Our Candi-
date has determined that neither the
plutoerats inside nor outside the party:
neither the traitors within the party
nor the ASA ilants from without; neith-
er the false committeeman In secret
correspondence With the enemy nor the
subsidized papers neither the timid
politicians who have professed friend
ship for him for their own purposes nor
the jugglers who have tried TO sneak
weasel words into the party platforms
that none of these or all o. them TO-
Eether shall DEPRIVE him Of freedom OF
speech We were not aware that Mr..
Bryan had been deprived OF any of his
litsrty in this direction. but since The
coamoner has made a point ofit We
can see clearly that he has not been
taking as much as the desperate con
IlGf.iN1 ~ ,,,bji,
En- for the comparative silence he has
preserved things might have been en-
tisely different. 5
We hate 10 say 1t. and protest that
4 we DO not say II in any spirit of criti-
cisna' hut rather with feeling of re-
grei that we. in common with "tho
Heart Of the party" have been depriv
60 OF much invaluabl counsel because
Of the limitations which have been
placed npon.h'is pawers OF ntterahce-
that Mr. BRYAN has not enjoyed that
freedom OF speech necessary to .~es
tablish justice, insure domestic iran
a1illitE, provide for the common de-
Tense, promote the general welfare, and
secure the blessings OF liberty to our.
selves and our posterity." His pres
ent ar-a!gnment CT the committeeman
who nave been In the confidence of the
enrnly and OF the traitors within the
democratic establishment. particular,v
Of the papers that have been sub.
sidized by the predatory interests
shows that MI Bryan has resolved
that the party Shall not die because of
his silence.
The picture which The commoner
draws Of his body SCARED all over Win
< the wounds inflicted by the knives of
the plntocrats inside and outside the
Democratic party Is enough 10 Stir the
'noisnation OF the heart of the narty.',
fhey ere honorable scars. however
suffered in three great wars. and suf-
II fered until now in comparative silence
because our devoted leader, magma. .
cent in defea t as unsuccessful in battle
has been deprived of freedom of snenc,,
Talk on. brave soul. talk on, ,alk on
talk ever on and on, until the preda .
tory press shall be silenced and ne
pFetenders and traitors and weaseIs IN
the Democratic household shall he
driven out and Our Candidate shall,
come into his own.