Show mentIIER AM ILLIBERAL PATRON OF LEARNING Giving large sums of money to institutions tutions of learning does not always betoken be-token a liberal mind in the donor This truth was made painfully apparent on the occasion of Mr Bryans visit to the University of Virginia when he delivered deliv-ered his address entitled Jefferson Still Lives At the time of Mr Bryans visit there was to be dedicated a very handsome building superbly equipped for scientific scien-tific research the gift of Mr Charles Broadway Rouss But Mr Rouss refused re-fused to be present on the occasion of the dedication of the building he had so generously given His reason for his action he assigns in a letter to Professor Pro-fessor J B Green who had invited him to be his guest at the university These reasons are as follows While it would give me great pleasure pleas-ure to enter into the enjoyment of the I proceedings I would not be able to listen with any satisfaction to an address I ad-dress delivered by Mr Bryan upon Thomas Jefferson He and his coconspirators cocon-spirators succeeded at Chicago in stealing steal-ing the timehonored Democratic party organization and now they want to steal its great founder No he and his conglomerate political fusion will not be permitted by my I presence and silent acquiescence ivum I ble citizen though I be to become the champion of Thomas Jefferson Let us I at least prevent this monstrous usurpation usurpa-tion and robbery Thomas Jefferson is about all that true and loyal Democrats I Demo-crats have left of the great party Let at least hold to him until us on unt we can I right ourselves To permit a heterogeneous I I hetero-geneous combination of anarchists and party wreckers to use Thomas Jefferson Jeffer-son as a shield for their disloyalty to the public weal would be unpatriotic and criminal In the highest degree That has the old time ring of the ir reconcilables who went off to Indianapolis Indianap-olis and Hocked by themselves Mr Rouss talks nothing but air and nonsense non-sense when he says the Democratic organization or-ganization was stolen at Chicago The people themselves elected the state conventions I con-ventions that selected the delegates to the national convention and this he knows He talks like an ass when he talks about the Democrats being a band of anarchists and party wreckers He is far more liberal in nurse than in mind but an abundance of the one I cannot compensate for a lack of the I I other |