Show NOT A TIME FOR POLITICS Poll s to the rear cry the gold bug organs of the administration while they agitate a 300000000 bond issue Politics to the rear exclaim Republican Re-publican leaders wljile one of them adds sotto voce Were going to make this a Republican war And every true follower rff the corrupt cor-rupt politician who stands at the head of the national Republican organization shouts Politics to the rear while hundreds of thousands of dollars are being given to Hanna and Elkins on government contracts for inferior coal This Is not a time for party politics say the organs of greed and monopoly which have followed political opponents to the recruiting office to insult and injure in-jure them It is not a time for party politics but every administration heeler In the east found occasion in the time to villify I and misrepresent the leader of the silver forces when he tendered ten-dered his services as a soldier This is not a time for party politics But the political enemies of William J Bryan have shown their malice to I I wards the man their hatred of the national na-tional element he represents thelrt opposition op-position to the cause he advocates The infamous falsehoods circulated by the goldbug supporters of the administration admin-istration concerning Mr Bryan the persistent efforts to humiliate him the open hostility of the war department until it seemed that he would be commissioned com-missioned from Missouri if his Nebraska Ne-braska regiment were rejected the repeated re-peated rebuffs administered by Secretary Secre-tary Alger who emerged from the civil war with a questionable record for courage the venom concealed in the suggestion of one paper to send him to I the Philippines and keep him there for the next few years the proposition of another to put him In the thick of the fight and give him as much war as he I needed the malicious ridicule to which he has been subjected because he offered of-fered his life and strength to his coun try the malevolent opposition he has met at every turn from the Ijondbar tering leaders of the administration and the sycophantic hangerson suggest the thought that after all I might be suicide for Bryan to enlist or for men to enlist with him Politicians who exhibit such rancorous rancor-ous animosity towards a volunteer would certainly hesitate at nothing which might relieve them of his per sonality In time of war politicians play chess In the excitement of a conflict con-flict they make moves which are little notlqed Some play for rIches others for future political success The man ivhp stan Rhi ism ones light may have to stand aside The most dangerous danger-ous posltionsaro his to Hold the most dejadly marches his to make Men wh < enlist with such a man or under him Incur the same risks invite similar exposure The same bitter revengeful re-vengeful cowardly partisan disposition that animates the goldbug press and leaders of the nation when they ridi I cule n volunteer for political reasons which induces them to pursue a man Intothe I ranks of the army In time of I ivar to vent their spleen upon him might prompt them to follow him still farther fn order to make their work more complete This is no time for party politics but this dOes not seem to apply to IcKln leyltes |