Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-07-01
CALLS BRYAN MERCENARY.
New York Sun Makes Bitter Attack
On Him.

Mr.. Bryan's special performances on
Friday and Saturday in the convention
must have caused many people to
wonder ii he man is really crazy. No
thing short of mental condition srf-
ficicntly acute to unsettle reason would
seem at first view to account for his
resolution of Friday naming certain
regularly elected delegates and calling
for their expulsion and for his dec
laration yesterday that he would not
cast his own vote for any candidate
for whom the New York delegation
might vote. This attitude toward the
party, the convention and the delegat-
IS of whom Mr.. Bryan does not ap-
prove is what might be expected of
a monomaniac whose mania is like
Colonel Roosevelt's the delusion Of
personal grandeur.
The adriotness however, with which
Bryan first evaded the logical conse-
quencc of his position with regard to
New Works vote suggests another eN-
PLANTATION Of his behavior on Satur-
day afternoon. Lunatics are some
times very shrewd, but not exactly
in he manner Of Mr.. Bryan's reply to
Governor McCorkie's question. If Mr..
Bryan's refusal to vote for Speaker
Clark because New York voted. for
Speaker Clark, or to vote for any
other man for whom New York might
vote, proceeded from an overintensity
Of moral conviction partaklng of the
character of actual insanity, he would
not have hesitated to go at once q
step further and declare then that I'M
der no circumstances would he sup
port any candidate nominated by the
aid of New York's votes. That po-
sition would have opened to Mr.. Bry-
an the doors of any insane asylum III
the United States. He did not take
it. He lodged He balanced phrases
as no real lunatic would have done I'M
der the circumstances.
The truth is that Mr.. Bryan has
been sitting in the Baltimore conven-
ton as the representative of an eli
tirely selfish and mercenary interest.
He himself is the ignoble hing which
he has repeatedly accused other del
egates of being. The Interest fol
which Mr.. Bryan is working is the
Bryan interest," His Democracy is
dollar democracy For years he has
lived and accumulated wealth by the
capitalization of his political influ-
ence and supposed moral disintrested-
ness. A more persistent money get
ter and self advertiser does not eX-
list between the two oceans. He goes
into this convention, as he went to
Chicago. under contract with the en-
terprising Mr. Virgil V. McNitt-
whoever McNitt may be which must
be highly profitable to the Nebraska
putocrat. The subscription list and
advertising patronage of he Common
CT and the golden returns of the Cha
tauqua circuit are ever uppermost in
his mind. 1t will be noted that his
periodical performances easily ristak-
Ell for brainstOrms by superficial OBJ
server. have been so timed and so cal
culated as to recapture general atten-
ton whenever he convention was ir
danger of overlooking his presence III
its desire to get ahead with the party,$
business. Then comes d sensational
ouburst from Mr.. Bryan and all eyes
are again turned upon him. This
means dollars.
The exhibition OF personal greed is
as notable as that recently witnessed
at Chicago. The real truth about the
Bryan trust and the Bryan interest
has not been more forcibly uttered
than by the Disguised Giddings, OF
Oklahoma, who in parting company
with the once revered leader climbed
on the platform to fling in Mr.. BIyan's
face the immortal sentiment. you
shall not cruelty the Democracy up
on cross Of scltishness.'