Show earnestness honesty and the laet year it supported aup ported william J bryan earnestly and honestly the earnestness we admit without argument but no amount of argument will get us to admit the honesty unless there is coupled with it a temporary aberration of mind sometimes called tho insanity dodge is conceded earnestness honesty and insanity be and our criticisms on the tribunes inconsistency heretofore made are then retracted but how any honest republican paper could forget that it not only ail but it was true that democracy was a bad political outfit that never failed to make catch promises when it could full fill them or made good a good promise when it had alie power that bryan was a democrat and only advocated silver to catch votes that the cause of silver was much further advanced if free coinage was obtained in keeping with the st louis platform than that of chicago that the republican party was noted for its making good promises and keeping them that bryan was just as earnest for cleveland and ruin in 1892 as he was for silver and ruin in 1896 we say how any intelligent republican man or paper coald forget all that and much more in the same line and advocate and vote for democracy and claim honesty without an additional qualification is a trifle beyond our ken |