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Show H PROOF OF CORRUPTION. HHHj m Tho Denver News approves of liryau's enstigntion of the agents m of concentrated wealth at Baltimore. The News says: pHH Just what, at this time, must be the feelings and mental attitudes of J. H i PIcrpont Morgan, August Belmont, and Thomas Fortune Ryan? Not since H Um (hc fury of the nation concentrated on Rockefeller and "tainted money" H hare men boon so lashed by the scourges of public opinion. Roosovelt and B ' tho Progressive Republicans havo attacked tho trio as tho sourco of pollti- B " cal evil and corruption, and now Mr. Bryan has forced tho -Democratic BV convention to make formal repudiation of thorn In much tho sumo lnoxor- ! able ninnnor that a community oxnoia lopcrs. Of cot) mo thev feel It! Let all the gold In the world be massed Into a j Chinese wall, and still would those behind St b6 unablo to escape the con- tcentrated contempt and loathing of a people. Thcro is no possible way by which tho mightiest may guard thcmuolves against a people's hatred, nor Is human life long enough to develop suffllcont thickness of skin to prevent the sting of wholesale repudiation. f Thcro Is no doubt that Mr. Morgan, Mr, Belmont and Mr. Ryan can Justify the means by which they have amAsscU huge fortunes, but their voices aro lost In the clamor of execration. They aro the Benedict Arnolds of business, and not ull tholr protostations, charities and rcspect-bllltlcH rcspect-bllltlcH may save them from iho fate of traitors. Thcro Is romothlng almost cruel In this torrlblo hue and cry of an I nrouscd people, and yot such pursuits aro Inevitable. Not a page of history bat tells of similar Instances, for tho rovolt of. tho Many against tho op. prosslonB aud extortions of tho l'ow Is ns certain as death Itsolf. Morgan, Belmont and Ryan have gone their arrogant ways without regard to others, k Shd now It 1b not to be expectrd that thecc others will be tender of them. Bryan may not be playing good politics, but ho is doing a great service far the American people. ITe is making evident that tlic poo-bs poo-bs pie have been hoodwinked, deceived and tricked by the old parties. H ' He has opened the eyes of all to the debauchery which attends these H 'big conventions. His open charges will not purge the Democratic H convention, but they will do much to discredit not only the Demo- H cratic party, Ihit the Republican party as now constituted. |