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Show ECKELS AGAINST BRYAN, Former Comptroller of ?he Currency Prefers Pre-fers to Be a Republican. A dispatch from Chicago says that James H. Eckels, controller of the currency cur-rency during President Cleveland's second administration, is as firm against the election of Bryan as president pres-ident as he .was in 1896, and will do his utmost to encompass the Nebras-kan's Nebras-kan's defeat He says: "No issue set forth, no matter how cunningly devised and arranged, can be made paramount to the issue of Mr. Bryan himself. "No man is fitted for the presidency who proclaims, in the midst of a demonstrated dem-onstrated better condition of affairs, the reverse in be true in order to foment fo-ment a discontent which will gain to himself and party a political advantage. advan-tage. "Mr. Bryan hardly appeals to ti?s thoughtful citizens when upon the one hand he is presented by the Populists and on the other by Tammany. The joining hands wily the, one constitutes an offense against safety in gdvern-rnental gdvern-rnental administration; the alliance with the other an offense against political po-litical decency. "If elected president the public must be prepared to see Bryan as chief executive, ex-ecutive, and those associated with him as cabinet counsellors, construe every law bearing upon the currency and the powers of the treasury department in such a manner as to nullify, as best they can, its provisions in so far as they bear upon the question of the maintenance of the gold standard. "I shall be surprised if any German voter, heretofore the bulwark of the country against every assault upon the integrity of the country's currency system and protesting against any debasement de-basement of the country's coin, will now aid and abet such a proceeding because of a belief in any injustice done by Great Britain to some affiliated affili-ated race ten thousand miles away. "I do not believe any man benefits his country by being a preacher of discontent dis-content "As between Republicanism and Populism, filtered through the channel of Bryanism, I prefer Republicanism." |