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Show the interest on which the people jave to meet very year. If Mr. Bryan should be nominated next yesr, he coald without any greet skill, make review of that campaign in "96 and .pat it in uch a light that the people wonld at last understand under-stand how mighty a wrong- waa perpetrated when be waa snowed nnder by money and by a depraved money trust. . MR. BRYAN AND "96.M That waa a good dinner given Mr. Bryan night before lent, and two or three more of the same kind will insure him another nomination for president. Mr. Bryan has said a good many foolish things; no man can say as much as he haa and make every word wise ; but the country realises more and more all the time that it waa a mistake to cheat hint out of the election in '9b', for that was th- most tyran- nical election ever had in the United States. Corrupt Cor-rupt men were bought, honest working men were bulldosed into voting against their will; never was .there such lying done in newspapers aa waa done against Mr. Bryan that year. We in the west hold a vivid remembrance of some of the lying. For instance, in-stance, the New York World aent a correspondent west, bstensibly with the intention of exposing and breaking up the great silver trust that was trying to corrupt the country by the use of money. That correspondent waa out here two months and telegraphed that there waa no trust, that the whole amount had been but a few thousand dollars less than 1200.000, all told. The next morning the World published a purported dispatch from its own correspondent in which he waa made to say that the contributions to the trust were slack the previous day; thst they had only amounted to about 200,000. Thst was copied and repeated by all the new pa pern; Mark Hanna waa given unlimited un-limited meana to hire orators, to print and dis- tribute) false literature, to run special trains, to ti ll laborers in the factories that if Mr. McKinley was elected their wsgea would be assured to them, i." Mr. Bryan waa elected the factories would eloqe down indefinitely; men were threatened if they voted a certain ticket they, would be out of a job next morning; their, places would be safe ii" they, voted the other ticket. Never waa there mi h debauchery of politics in the world. That was fifteen years ago and now today aa one of the i fleets of that lying, of that tyranny, our export tra.le with half the world is killed. No man bene-I bene-I exi-cpt men who lived by collecting interest 1 ' It is still ss large as it vaa then, and |