| Show BRAN HOW AND FOUR YEARS AGO In Its further effort to convict The Tribune of misrepresentation of Mr Bryan the Herald says that Any one that can read the English language knows that the Democratic position this year Is unchanged on the money question All It I needs lo prove I the falsehood stated in that Is to read the two platforms The < present platform I cannot be carried out without the Issuing Is-suing of enough greenbacks l to drive all the gold and silver In this country out of sight And this the skulking I writer in the Herald with the face of a shark and the heart of a shrimp dare not discuss Again the Chicago platform demanded tho unlimited coinage coin-age of silver and made it when coined u legal tender The Kansas City platform plat-form leaves out that very Important feature The Herald says the Chicago I platform was reaffirmed The platform plat-form saysi We reaffirm the principles of the national Democratic platform adopted at Chicago In 189C But then It goes on to expressly specify Its position posi-tion on the money question and that while demanding an Immediate opening open-Ing of tho mints takes away from the money thus coined Its legal tender I property The Herald says Mr Bryan has not Indorsed all the Populist platform I plat-form that This he distinctly did not do and In his speech accepting the Populist nomination emphatically pointed out the difference ctatlng tire Populist position to be that all paper money should be redeemable in coin I Granting all this and what then That i platform calls for such a flood of I greenbacks that It would not matter what the promise on the t back was anymore I any-more than did the promise on the back of the Confederate notes It not only Insists that all Government bonds shall be taken up and paid for In greenbacks or silver certificates but that the railroads of the Nation should I be bought which would require at least ten thousand million dollars and when all should be fixed I the paper money would be worth payable In commodities two bits a bushel It quotes from The Tribune of 1SOC wherein we said that every one knew that Mr McKinley was no more devoted de-voted to law and order tlmn were Mr Bryan and his frlen sDoes that apply I ap-ply to this year Has not Mr Bryan oponly stated that lie desires to make the United States Judges elective 1 Has he not done his utmost to rouse the evil passions of the people Has he not strained to the utmost his determination determi-nation to array class against class I Has he not worked to pioduce race hates Are not his friends In tlie South disfranchising native Americans Ameri-cans Did not his friends In Missouri stand by and see women denuded and whipped in lie streets Have not his friends done their utmost to break up I Republican meetings which were being addressed by Republicans who are among the foremost In the Nation I Has Bryan not openly and scandalously scandal-ously indorsed Goebcllsm in Kentucky When a man goes through a country 13 a c candidate for President and uses all his powers and all the prestige I which his nomination gives him to make trouble between neighbor nnd neighbor between people and people between race and race Is It fair to say that he believes In law and order All these things are the very reverie ot Bryans positions four years I ago I It copies from The Tribune that In I no thought that Mr Bryan han ever I expressed has he given an Impression I I that ho possesses either tho capacity I or sense ot Justice to administer the I affairs of this country wisely We were speaking of Mr Bryans present j I campaign and we defy the Herald or I J any friend of Mr Bryan to point out I throe consecutive sentences Ina11Y I thing he has said since he started outS l out-S In this campaign that will give an I Idea l that he is a man of clear judg I brent that would give an idea that he 1 i Ipflt to bs Chief Executive that would I give l any idcjyn I J the world except that t i he I 1 is an absgjute partisan trying by all the arts 6li t GC the demagogue tlKlc i CCiveUxe people of thfc United States Into voting for him for President He Is not at all the Bryan ho was four years ago Then he seemed to possess a principle and advocated It like a man Ho did not descend to the arts of a demagogue Ills enemies gave him credit for fairness and straightforwardness straight-forwardness He In I as much different frorh what he was four years ago as the difference between his dollar dinner din-ner In Chicago among gentlemen and his 12 dinner In New York among 1 Tammany thieves |
