The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-05-31
WATSON WALTZEs FLOOR WITH
w. J. BRYAN

Ordinarily this paper would not
print Editor Watson's assault on Mr..
Bryan, and only does so because the
latter gentleman is constantly charg-
ing that Harmon, underwood and
other illustrious democrats are the
tools of Wall street, and that their
garments smell of tainted Doodle pro-
cured from that quarter.
After reading what Mr.. Watson
says Mr.. Bryan now knows How 1t is
Himself. Ed. Banner.
Mr. Watson says:
No honest man can get rich in poi
itics.
Mr.. Bryan has been in politics all
his life, and he is rich.
He was in congress four yeasr,
when the salary was $4,000 per an
mum, and when he was not supplied
by the government with sprivate
secretary.
Therefore he could not have saved
much out of his salary.
Since then he has never held an Of
fee.
He has not practiced law.
He could not have made a million
dollars featuring. He has been on the
platform only about ten years, and he
could not have earned more than $780,
900 year in that way.
How, then, did he make his million :?
The accounts of Marcus Days es-
tate show that the Silver King had
given $2S5,OO0 to Bryan's campaign
fund in 1896.
Chairman ]. K Jones admitted that
DAILY had contributed S15O,OO0 to the
fund-and expressed his appreciation
of it, at banquet.
What went with the balance of
the $2S5,OO0?
Will Mr.. Bryan make an affidavit
that he did not receive it and keep
it?
Senator W. A. Clark, another silver
king, contributed $4,000 to Bryans
dough-bag. Did Bryan keep any of
it?
The whole country believed that
the peerless one was an unselfish pa
triot, working without pay, and with
out stint, to save humanity from the
crown of thorns and the cross of gold.
Yet he was, all the time, in the pay
of the silver kings.
(And he got the crown and cross
idea from page q of Archie Fisk's
book, Statesmen Three.")
In 1904 Mr.. Bryan received through
his brother-in-law, T. S. Allen, $4,000
from Thos. F. Ryan, Wall Streeter,
traction thief, organizer of the tobac-
co trust, wrecker of the Seaboard
Railway, rubber trust king, etc.
This tanned money was for Bryan's
own use in a state campaign in Ne
braska
What went with it, Mr.. Bryan?
And why were you, o, Peerless
One! receiving tainted money from
one of the most infamous marauders
that ever robbed the helpless?
After Bryan was caught with the
goods he said that he would return
the money, if he could verify the
statement that it came from Ryan.
Whereupon the Washington Post
sardonically remarked that it wanted
"a front seat and a pair of able-bod-
led magnifying glasses when the time
comes for w. J. Bryan to return the
$4,000 which Thos. F. Ryan contrib
uted to the Nebraska campaign fund
in 1904"
That time has never come.
Now, let us ask Mr.. Bryan to an
swer this question:
Why did you send your brother to
New York in 1904 to solicit money of
Wall Street Tobacco Trust Ryan?
1t is fair question and the people
are entitled to a reply
Ryan gave $4,000 to Woodrow Will
son in his race for governor. And
Wilson has not attacked the New Jer-
sey trusts, as he vowed he would do
In this campaign Wilson and Bry-
an are yoke-mates.
Is Ryan financing them both?
Harmon has taken a manly, definite
stand for taric reduction, as the only
way to dissolve the trusts.
And Bryan is savagely, slanderous-
ly assailing Harmon.
Underwood has been laboring like
wheel-horse to lower the tariff, en-
large the free list-to dissolve the
trusts.
And Bryan is savagely, slanderous-
ly assailing Underwood, in his war
upon the trusts.
And Bryan is treacherously, per-