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Show investigation as to whether the giver stole the $50 Why not when taking the poor man's dollar set a de-' tective to work to see if the poor man's dollar wa not needed by his family t The whole business on Mr. Bryan's Tart was but . contemptible' dema-goguery. dema-goguery. ; ' . CONTEMPTIBLE DEMAG0GUERY. A New York paper says Mr. Bryan wants his reception re-ception conducted on the principles which good citizens citi-zens would like to see applied to political campaigns. "He would accept no contributions from corpora- tions or questionable sources. No gift of over $50 ' will be taken at all. All over $5 will be entered in a book subject to public inspection." Thomas Jefferson was a natural aristocrat. In his country home at Monticello he for years carefully . dressed for dinner each day, and in every way maintained main-tained the full state of a gentleman of his time. But when elected President, he drew from some forgotten wardrobe all the old clothes that he had cast off for years, and for two years dressed like a half-tramp in the executive mansion. . He was saturated with French Red Republican-ism, Republican-ism, and then he hated George Washington. Washington, Wash-ington, when President, never appeared at a recep-'tion recep-'tion except in full military uniform, with epaulettes,' sash and sword, as Commander-in-Chief of the( army and navy, and to show his contempt for this and to make an object lesson of his devotion to all the people, peo-ple, Jefferson dressed like a half -tramp. Evidently that history has impressed Mr. Bryan. ' Some gentlemen of his party determined to give him an ovation on his return. Any one except Mr. Jiryan would have held the proposition as a high compliment, And would have graciously accepted it. In the acceptance he might have said: "Let it be-simple be-simple and plain, as coming from all my friends, poor &g well as rich." But he could not do that. - That woold not have been conspicuous enough. That would have been no sop thrown to those who hate the rich for no reason . except that they are rich. So he had to stipulate how ! much any one man might subscribe, and if that reached $5 or more, it must be set aside and the char-v char-v ' aater of the giver sent to a chemist and analyzed. If that is not pure demagoguery we do not know the meaning of the word. The right thing for the committee to have done would have been to resign, or to havesuppressed the dispatch, gone on-and prepared pre-pared the reception and then to have frankly said to Mr. Bryan: "We ignored your cable, feeling sure that we. could arrange a. reception for you without violating any of the proprieties which attach to gentlemen gen-tlemen either in public or private station." If a rich man tenders $50 for a reception to a leading citizen, must that be accepted subject to an |