| Show EWART NEVER DOUBTED When the goldlug pre of the east and west began to millnterpret Bryans Des Moines speech Senator Stewart who wa in New York at the time said that no friend Jf silver would believe that William Jennings Bryan had al lowe or would allow anything to interfere Inter-fere with thc free silver movement Only those to draw salades for doubting the sincerity or distorting the utterances of bimetalsts pretended to ce a change in silver sentiment or In Bryans atttu l He ner said at Des Iones or anywhere else that the fnan cial Issuo would be made secondary Xo honest fried of the white metal believed be-lieved that he had made such an assertion as-sertion In the language of Mr Bryan when told of the misconstruction placed upon his words there is no possible excuse for the constant effort of the gold pres s to misrepresent the views of frt < n nn u h SenatO Seart was interviewed In the New York Trlbino after the truth came out He said I see that Mr Bryan denies that he sidetracked the silver question I knew that he had not done f0 I Is still the paramount queStion ques-tion and can never be thrown aside for anything else The people oC the countt arc determinedto have It and sooner or later there 1 be a trial of the free coinage of silver I was aware that II Bryan had never changed his position His Iowa speech expressly state that so far as the issues of 1896 ere concerned he stood just where he stood in iSIS The vhbl sp06th sHipl meant that here ogni7 d sp c1 that there were new Issues for the coming i campaign I think that 11 Bryan trill I be renomInte by acclamation and r II also sincerely believe that he wi be elected by a great majority The difference between the gloating II of excuse hunters and the unwavering confidence cf uncorrupted supporters of thE double standard Is too marked to I neEd particular attention called to i I |
