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Show J Raleigh, as the theater of his demonstration. demon-stration. Certainly the Republican national committee ought to have been willing to contribute liberally to secure this impressive evidence of what Mr. Bryan Bry-an means by the words he has been using so freely. We have heard of anti-imperialism, the danger of the trusts, the consent of the governed, the evils of bribery and intimidation, the love of pure politics, pol-itics, the chance that should be left open to the American boy, and the objection ob-jection to the "boss" in politics and in business, as they have been portrayed por-trayed with unfailing words by Mr. Bryan. And now he leads his followers across the continent to show them his ideal of what the American statesman ought to be like, the finished product of those forces of political reform of which he poses as the most conspicuous advocate. advo-cate. In the sight of the nation the veil Is drawn and we behold: Dick Croker, The boss of Tammany Hall, The head blackmailer of the tenderloin. tender-loin. The strong right arm of anti-silver Bryanism of 1900. Colorado Springs Gazette. AN EFFECTIVE CONTRAST. If Mr. Bryan wished to bring into most striking contrast the difference between Democratic profession and practice, he might have done one of two tilings. He might have gone to Raleigh, North Carolina, and before an assemblage assem-blage of Southern Democrats, he might have advocated the "consent of the governed" and expiated on that plank in the fusion Populist platform which "condemns the wholesale system of disfranchisement by coercion and intimidation in-timidation adopted in some states as unrepublican and undemocratic." Or he might have gone to New York -city, and before the assembled hosts f Tammany Hall, under the patronage patron-age of Boss Croker, in the glare of a splendor made possible only by extortion ex-tortion from the vilest and most degraded de-graded classes of a great city, have preached the gospel of anti-trustism, -anti-bossism and anti-imperialism, and urged his hearers as a defense against the danger that the Republican party might overthrow the liberties of this -country to turn themselves over to the i greater Tammany of the United States, j If he wished to do the thing tr.ost i Impressively and effectively lie would iave selected New York, and not |