Show A NIAD MADMAN MAN AT LARGE joh JOHN i M THURSTON of the high priest and seer of the go n guldburg id bug in republican party the man who was master of ceremonies at the late st louis convention ven ren tion tiou and d who for some years hl by been trying to represent the union pacific railroad company md ind the people of the state of nebraska at the same nine e has opened up the campaign for r the g t Y 0 p in a speech at madison ladison wisconsin I 1 in in a way eminently elitle fitting n for a creature that compla complacently bently assumes to serve god ed ad mammon at the same time this aggregation n of self conceit consisting misting co of a theatrical pose a pur of spectacles and a bass baas voice set the pace of the campaign in his madison speech by indulging in false and bitter personalities and Duen doo toward the leader of the democratic party a and nd the next president bvm V m J bryan it would seem from the tone and temper of tl t is forerunner of me mc Kinley ism that it is the policy of the gold old standard republicans to appeal tot to the he coarse and brutal instincts of the voters instead of their reason and sound judgment this is the last resort of a conquered desperado it is the desperate fight of a wild fild beast brought to bay or an incarnate fiend when about to plunge into perdition mr bryan arvan is accused of favoring tb absolute solute free trade four years ap go of having been the hired emis ury ary of the large silver mines of ae e west and that he is insincere md d dishonest in his position now senator S stewart that rugged and honest old american of the sierras hu has called down this parvenu irom from nebraska and has challenged him to prove pro ye his assertions sen ator r stewart says of thurston he is a d d liar and he knew new it was fane false when he uttered it after all this style of political addresses as indulged in by thurs ton n does not succeed in carrying conviction or making votes it tried on lincoln on grant and on cleveland in 1884 but in every case reacted on the villi fier and the cause he represented thurston will become the dr burchard of 1896 1996 his raving and mudslinging mud slinging is doubtless the result of the spirit of revenge braul brought 0 ht on by the humiliating sense of utter rout occasioned by the joint discussion between bryan ond d thurston a few years ago at lincoln and omaha the latter having liever recovered from the sj sting ng of defeat received on those two own occa liolla ons hut but the poison still rankles in his soul and breaks out ont of his mouth like the hiss of the slimy viper in his madison speech speed Thur thurston attempts to flaunt the old bloody shirt shift in an original style by in imling that free ailder means meang the cutting down of pensions for union soldiers ol diers by giving them 50 00 cent dollars aunan on their vouchers MS into the field of spread ap readIe eagle 9 i ism fal and tells tell the crowd k haya w 6 sin american he is such an exhibit i I 1 1 tion of pat patriotism patriots in ought to make i the angels weep and the gulls of the lake to hide their heads beads in the recesses of antelope island the idea of a senator of the united states and a figurehead in the I 1 trinity of republican deities standing before his fellow c i citizens eizens and i 1 boasting of his americanism in one i breath and defending the platform of his party which was dictated by the english barons of lombard street and which confesses that british consent must be obtained before we can confer the blessings of bimetallism bi upon our own people 1 such a spectacle is in perfect harmony with the character of the buckeye napoleon whose prototype dazzled the world with his inconsistencies and contradictions eight five years ago if this is the sort of a campaign we are to have this year year then our victory is assured when libel takes the place of logic and anger rises superior to argument then indeed is their cause a forlorn hope whom the gods would destroy they first make mad the midsummer madness of the gold ido idolater lator shows that destruction st burketh near at hand and that the star of hope is rising in the west for the peoples peopled cause |