Show BRYAN AND BRYANISM In one of his speeches on Monday Mr Bryan felt certain that if 1 the elcc tion were to be held now he would be elected but directly charged that the moponolies are supplying Mr Hanna with a great corporation fund that every ono that could be would be bought that worklngmen would be intimidated in-timidated and multiplied the charges like a ward politician How does Mr Bryan expect to carry the city of New York It has been publicly said and not disputed that Mr Croker Is raising rais-ing a little fund of 2000000 to distribute dis-tribute among the voters of that city to secure It to Mr Bryan And then on what ground does Mr Bryan believe that If the election were to be held now ho would be elected Would he he sure of his own State While Mr Cleveland was in office the people of tho United Slates ate 341 bushels of wheat per capita annually Just now they are eating i95 bushels flow can Mr Bryan overcome that argument Under Mr Cleveland there was Just an near free trade as it I could be made There was no talk of Imperialism Monopolies were not much in evidence and the hosts of laboring men were marching the land up and flown and I eating free soup Has Mr Bryan an Idea that the people want to return to I that Notwithstanding the past three years according to Mr Bryans ideas the fact shines out that they are eating a great deal more bread now than they ate then before this reign of oppression I oppres-sion A good many voters are reached through their stomachs What does Mr Bryan offer to such voters to Induce In-duce them to change back to the old rule and vote for themselves and their families to each have 251 less bushels or wheat per capita If only reason were applied this year the great talker would have poor prospects Is it not possible that Mr Bryan Is a llttlo afraid that in these coming four weeks the people will puncture his balloon arguments and see how much of them are wind He talks Imperialism when the only Imperialism that Is In vogue in the United States Is In tho States that are sure to ote for him He talks of trusts when the manager of his campaign is at the head of a great trust and when the man on whom he leans to carry for him the city of New York has grown rich in compelling the laboring men of that city to divide with him their earnings He affects to be very much afraid oil Imperialism and at the same time offers of-fers as a reward to every anarchist and incendiary in the United States that JC J they will only elect him then to the utmost of his power he will protect them He is a lawyer trained and yet he wants to curtail the prerogatives preroga-tives and the power of the Supreme court of the United States and to make the Federal Judges obtain their offices by n scramble with the politicians and wants their terms limited so If they do not suit the ideas of any particular par-ticular political party In power they can be sat aside And what has Mr Bryan to offer for all his promises He was a green backer In 1892 > He supported Gen Weaver with all his might In Congress Con-gress ho voted for the sugar trust and that was In the very last Democratic Demo-cratic administration only five years ago Four years ago he seemed to bean be-an honest earnest silver man This year he has repudiated silver and made It subordinate to money made by 1 machinery ma-chinery What is there In his history to give men confidence in cither his wisdom or his firmness of purpose When the country is roaring with prosperity pros-perity as never before when more men are at work at better wages than ever before when a greater proportion of men are at work than ever before he makes the welkin ring with his lamentation lamen-tation cries tells the people they are going to the dogs that they arc under the heel of oppressors and tho remedy IB simply to vote for him He says could the election beheld now he would be elected Hewould have come Vastly nearer It had the election been heM the day after he was nominated at Sioux Falls Since he was nomlnatel nt Kansas City on the platform which he supervised there we do not think he has had a ghost or a show to ever visit the White House except as an Invited guest 0 f |