The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-07-19

Did he not, IN 1908, pocket the mon.
ey of Tamnany Hall?
Did, he not have himself photo
graphed in Lincoln, Nebraska, smil-
ing upon Charles Murphy, and shak-
ing hands with him?
Did he not send ex-senator Petit
grew of South Dakota, to New York,
to supplicate for the support of
Charles Murphy and Tammany Hall?
Was not Bryan on his knees to
Ryan, Belmont, Charles Murphy, Will
liam Sheehan and Judge Parker him
self?
Was it not William Sheehan, the
partner of Judge Parker, who collect
ed the Thomas F. Ryan contributions
to Bryan's dougn-bag, and who him.
self transmitted the money to Bryan ?
Did not Bryan and his committee
violate the law of Nebraska by refus-
ing to make public the manner in
which that money was spent?
Why is it that Bryan did not desert
Woodrow Wilson, when the New York
delegation went to him?
Why is it that Bryan did not de-
sert Woodrow Wilson when T. F.
Ryan took the Virginia delegation to
the New Jersey governor?
Mr.. Bryan saw his own state go to
Champ Clark by big majority.
Mr.. Bryan was instructed by his
own state to use all honorable means
to secure the nomination of Champ
Clark.
Mr.. Bryan accepted the position,
and these instructions.
Immediately afterwards, Mr. Bryan
got into confidential communication
with Woodrow Wilson.
Immediately afterwards, this in
structed Clark delegate began to
make speeches against Clark, in Ohio,
Maryland and Florida.
This instructed delegate allowed
Woodrow Wilson, without denial, to
state in his campaign literature that
Mr.. Bryan was in favor of the nomi-
nation of Woodrow Wilson.
This instructed Clark delegate
went to Baltimore with black treason
in his perfidious soul
He went there to stab the man
whom he was instructed by his state
to support.
He went to. Baltimore to make a
sham fight against Parker and Ryan,
just as he had done before.
His desertion of Clark, because of
New York's going to Clark, vas mere
ly one act in monstrous play of du-
plicity and corruption.
No other man than William J. Bry-
an would have the stupendous impu-
dence to have said in 1912 that Judge
Parker was unfit for a temporary
craftsmanship of a democratic con-
vention, when in 1908 the same Bryan
had begged for the support of the
same Parker, had taken the money of
Parker's Wall street clients, and had
in 1904 told the people sixty-five times
per day, that the same Parker was fit
to be president of the United States.
No other man than William j. Bry-
an would have the colossal nerve to
rooSt on a pile of Wall street money
as he does, and rail at Wall street
money-bags.
1t is quite possible that Mr.. Bryan
will mark up the price of his lecture
on Jesus Christ.
1t is not too late for Woodrow Will
son to declare publicly and earnestly
that he regrets to have been the ben
eficiary of as base betrayal of per-
sonal and political trust, as ever
marked the history of mankind.
Since Judas Iscariot threw away
the thirty pieces of silver, and flung
himself into a suicides death there
has been no fouler betrayal of one
man by another. than is Bryan's be-
trayal of old Champ Clark.
Bryan began his infamous career
by breaking the heart of one grand
old southern statesman, Dick Bland.
1t is to be hoped that in the sacri-
fee of Oscar Underwood and of
Champ Clark, that Bryans inveterate
hatred of all things southern. except
our money, will have appeased itself.
He has never opened his mouth in
Dixie land, that we didn't have to pay
him for it.
He has repaid sixteen years of
southern devotion by denying us eth
er place on the national ticket.
Is Pennsylvania going to elect this
ticket?
No.
Is Nebraska going to elect it?
No.