The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1920-01-24
MORE BRYAN sLATHER.

of William Jennings Bryan His own
actions have failed many times tc
justify and uphold such a faith in him
because he has many times laid him
self open to impeachment ON that
score, but most of us believe in his
integrity of conviction because he has
always preached and urged strong
moral standards for all Of us. Any
man who will preach the Ten Com
mandments day in and day out will in
time canonize himself, says the Macon
Telegraph
But the COmmoner lays himself
open to the charge of uttcring pure
blather to keep in the limelight when
he assails the New Jersey governor
who was elected on wet platform,
and announces he will dccapita;e
liomcr S. Cummings for saying nice
things about said governor at a dinner
of New Jersey democrats where Cum
mings and the governor were the two
main democrats being honored. When
lie assails Edwards for his stand to
do all in his power to place the re-
sourcc9 Of New Jersey behind the OPP
pos ton to the establishment of the
final legality of the Constitutional
amendment for prohibition, Bryan
gees back on his own dearest princl-
pie that the wishes Of the majority
should always he followed by those in
public office. lie told them when h
was candidate he would if elected do
all he could to fight the amendment,
and not to vote for him unless in favor
of such pclicv Al The polls large
majority If tn, New Jersey voter
told him to go ahead. 1t was the sole
8aue in the campaign,
As to the Cummings references to
Governor Edwards at the New Jersey
democratic dinner. th4 COmmOncr had
best clean tho 6taiu from bis oNI
hands before he Gmudgcs the party
official whose Guiy it is to keep All
democrats as far AZ po9sib'r regular
in their allegiance to The party as i
whole. That is Cummings job. and
he is supposed to do il without regard
10 intrafactioDal differences of pol Il
cal logic. sLatccraft or governmental
policy.
When Bryan standing az moral
force and under no obligations to party
regularity save to get himself in the
White House. if he could shook hands
with Charles T.. Murphy publicly and
had his picture taken with the notori-
Gus Tammany chief, who stands for
everything Bryan doesn't, and had it
published in the New York World dur
ing one OF his own campaigns, he
went farther atield from upright mot
: culcuoness of principle for party soil
larity than Cummings did in his per
functorily complimentary remarks to
the New Jersey governor with whom
he was a fellow honor guest at dinner
If there ever was the fibre of Gle
mental bigncSs IN Bryan it has been
lost these many years. His own self
i.hness at all times stifcd it,, the
bitterness of disappointment in mas
lifelong ambition 8welled the smother
If his selfishness to where it killed the
best there was in him.
Today lie is IN the peculiar position
# being fundamentally weak because
# his own dcrogutions and aXpedl-
3nt'y strong because Of a great ia
tional situation remarkably adapted
inst at this time to his exploitation.
In the meantime there is not the
slightest reason why democrats WHO
are of the party because it still re-
tains the elementals of that polit cal
philosophy and fundamentals OF
statecraft which have made it Amer
ica's one deathless political division
should ever again permit the Nebras-
kan to bend the party to his will.
Better far to close the door on him