Show BRYANS DUPLICITY athe independent thinkers of the west are filled with disappointment over bryans complete failure to refer to the sliver issue in his notification speech the butte intermountain a paper that supported him in 1896 says in accepting the presidential nomination today william J bryan uses eight throes as many words as william mckenley did on a similar occasion several weeks ago his verbosity however seems to be in inverse proportion to the clearness of his utterances there Is not a practical suggestion in the entire tedious rigmarole it Is fault finding tempered envious criticism based upon allegations without semblance of fact the stiver men of the west were in hopes he would give them some ringing shibboleth on silver even though he might not be able to present an argument owin to the changed condition of things but he does not even mention the word silver or the ratio or the crime of 73 and yet they talk about the courage and consistency ol 01 this man he has executed a complete somersault on the issue of tree coinage |