The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-02
BRYAN ANALYzED
 BY PATTERSON
MAN OF INTERN JUDGMENT, CAP TIVATING, BUT DISLOYALl, A
 SECOND ROOSEVELT.

caption of Bryan, the Destructionist," |" Henry Watterson will say in todays Courier-Journal:
 ''One need not ascribe to the sinister dart played by Mr. Bryan at Balti- more any purposed, or even conscious, disloyalty, but, assuming it the native and honest emanation of his character and intellect, the conclusion cannot be escaped that he is a man Of malevo- lent disposition and of Judgments rad ically infirm.
 '"This, indeed, is borne out by ju- dicial review of his career, and espe- cially of his more recent antecedents. That he should grow richer as his par ty grew poorer may not be laid who'll ly to the account of selfish greed. He is a captivating public speaker and his hand Personal exploitation is the most effectual form of advertising, and advertising is the soul of the lecture business No Democrat has just oc- casion, therefore, to complain that MT Bryan improved to the fullest his op- portunities to secure pecuniary inde- pendence for his family and himself, getting on in years and having meas urably failed at all else. That which every Democrat has the right to chal- lenge is that he has shaped his exploi- tation in every instance where he could find or coin pretext to the dis ruption and defeat of the party which had so hOnored and trusted him.
 we need not go back to the im- mediate case in point for proof. As suming that Tammany be all Mir. Bry- an says 1t Is, and following him in reading Murphy out of the convention. who profits by that act? The Re- the only political machine in New York. MT. Taft has his own machine, and MT. Roosevelt has his machine. By eliminating our machine on the eve of taking the field to fight the Taft-Roosevelt machine, we cut our selves off from the, support of a State necessary to carry the election. and achieve no reform whatever.
 ''After not before the battle, were the time, if any. to discipline Tam many. Meanwhile there are Demo crats in New York besides the Tam many Democrats MT. Bryan went out of his way particularly to men tify himself in this? What has Mir. Belmont done. either of the Belmonts flor there are two Of them, Perry and Augugt--to forfeit his claim upon the recognition of Democrats, or his right to a seat in the National Democratic dyed in the wool. Perry Belmont has
 
 force the publicity of campaign ex- penses upon Congress and the coun- try. Their distinguished father was an honored leader of Democracy be- fore MT. Bryan was born. Neither is a. trust magnate. Neither has any connection with any interest Mir. Bry- am can cite pre3udtcial to Democracy or the public welfare. But Mir. Al- gust Belmont was active in the Par ker nomination and campaign of 1904, which, late and early, MT. Bryan did what he could to blight. That would seem now to be the milk in MT. Bry- ans cocoanut.
 opposing Judge Parker for Temporary Chairman of the convention, sought to profit by his own treason, when he referred to the falling off In the Dem ocratic vote of 1904. Judge Parker might have replied:
 start. You came back from Europe with great flourish of trumpets, Will liam R. Hearst hired Madison Square Garden for you. You made a speech there arousing Democratic factionism and invoking every manner of disaf- through the land sowing dragons teeth across the pathway of Democ- racy. Having done all you could do to make my election impossible you put up a pretense of supporting me while your file-leaders knifed from start to finish
 "Not a word of this indictment could MT. Bryan truthful1y deny.
 Having by false issue brought de- feat upon his party and his lifelong friend, Dahlman, in Nebraska, two years ago, he Is now seeking by an other false issue to bring defeat upon his party and his lifelong friend Champ Clark, at Baltimore There are those who believe and are loudly urging that he has been playing an artfuI but perfidious game to secure the nomina ton for himself by the at and Wilson until worn out by the deadlock the convention turns to Bry- an. Every inference would point to such purpose.
 Tn case he says it is not true, what shall we say of the ungenerous tenn per and the grotesque figure he has presented to his party associates, the rule-or-ruin spirit, the dog-in-the- manager attitude. the exaggerated ego and shameless self-assertion-in short the insensibility to the expectations alike of private friendship and pub- litical fidelity, eliminating in an ig- nominous stage-play?
 "The Courier-Journal is not a searcher of hearts. It would blacken no mans motives. It can, In fancy, realize person wholly upright, but selfish and perverse, much spoiled by adulation, yet of mediocre talents confusing his resentment and his con- viction in an effort to keep himself at the front of the scene and to retain the appearance of leadership. at what ever cost, regardless of consequences.
 Such person is Theodore Roose- welt Such a person seems William Jennings Bryan. Already he has made a frost of what appeared a lar- vest. He may imagine himself a hero; but a hero he is only to the unworthy and the unreflecting. To those who think and are capable of discriminate ing between right and wrong; wisdom