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Somebody has
started a report
that Ex-President Cleveland had writ
ten a letter to a member of his last
cabinet stating that the defeat of fusion
in Nebraska in 1899 would defeat Colonel
Bryan in 1900. THE CONSERVATIVE
knows that no such letter was ever
written and that no ex-member of
President Cleveland's official family has
ever said that he received such a letter.
The World-Herald of the issue of
Friday , October 20th , reiterates false
hood as to that letter , after its denial in
The State Journal , by authority , of
Tuesday , October 17th.
Perhaps Mr. Cleveland's admiration
for Mr. Bryan began to decline when
the latter proposed to the former the
appointment of a relative , a nephew of
Mr. Cleveland , to an important office in
Nebraska.
The Auti-Im
THE THIKU . . . ,
permhst League in i
Chicago on the j
17th and 18th of this mouth assembled
an enthusiastic and patriotic con
vention.
Speeches were made by Carl Sohurz ,
Bourke Cockrau and others to very
large , remarkably intelligent and re
sponsive audiences in Central Music
Hall.
The business meetings of committees
were attended with unusual prompt
ness. The organization of the Anti-
Imperialists of the United States will
be , in sixty days , as perfect and vigor
ous as that of any other political party.
A list of the officers may be found in
this issue of THE CONSERVATIVE. The
third party is born. It is a vigorous and
efficient combination of citizens who
believe that the flag of the United
States was made to represent self-
governing peoples everywhere and no
where to float over subjects. The con
stitution recognizes only citizens as
members of this republic. There can
bo no subjects to any but an imperial
government.
The names of Ex-Governor Boutwoll ,
former secretary of the treasury , and of
George F. Edmunds who recently re
signed the position of United States
senator from Vermont , coupled with
those of Carl Schurz and Bourke Cock-
ran , indicate the grade and quality of
mind , character and patriotism which
lead the new party which already holds
the balance of power in the United
States.
More than thirty states were repre
sented at this first convocation of the
anti-imperialists. More than one hun
dred and fifty delegates were in attend
ance. The movement , the assemblages
of thousands who gathered to hear
Schurz and Cookran , were the spon
taneous outgrowth of that love of
liberty and justice which permeates the
best citizenship of this republic.
Before the nominations for the presi
dency in 1900 the anti-imperialists who
are only just now organized will be
admittedly able to determine the elec
tion. They may , like the gold demo
crats in 1890 , be forced , however , to
decide between two evils and to advance
that evil which seems the least.
Thendvoootos of
FKKK SH.VJBB. ,
free silver at six-
teeu-to-ouo avow that such coinage of
that metal would enhance its value ,
Colonel Bryan has declared repeatedly
that if the United States would only
open its mints to the free and unlimited
coinage of that metal at the Heaven-
decreed ratio of 16 to 1 every ounce
of silver in the world would at once
jump to one dollar and twenty-nine
cents. And this acrobatic leap of silver
would drag wheat and all other food
products up to a higher level of prices.
High prices , say these philosophers , are
a good thing for plain people. They
agree perfectly with the silver bullion
syndicates who have formed the silver
combine and already put up the price
several cents an ounce. They being the
agents and candidates of the silver
bullion and mine owners , can only act
in their interests.
WnOU
FltKK Til A UK. ,
ly advocating free
trade because it would reduce the prices
of many articles upon which a pro
tective tariff had placed an artificial
price , Colonel Bryan conclusively proved
that fcho lower the prices of the neces
saries of life ranged , the bettor it would
bo for the plain people.
How can the same man now advocate
free silver for the declared purpose-of
making all the things mankind has to
buy in the United States higher ?
What consistency is there in a states
manship which emphatically endorses
low prices in 1890 as the solo panacea
for economic ills and in 1896-1899
solemnly proclaims for high prices as
the solo cure for poverty ?
PIOUSNESS. I" a popular play
of not long ago
Raymond described a Senator Dilworthy ,
who appeared in the character of a
wholly disinterested politician , as a most
excellent , unselfish and surpassingly
patriotic man "chock full of piousness. "
But if one may credit the platitudes of
McKinley while he declares his ardent
affection for the flag , the country , the
constitution and the people of the
United States , Senator Dilworthy was
not his equal in fervid love of country.
And Colonel Bryan also admits that he
too is without a freckle on his devotion
to the plain people and that he is satur
ated with conscience and altruism , from ,
heel to head. Taking their own avow
als as truth , McKiuley and Bryan must
realize that they are too good for this
wicked world and that they are in im
minent peril of being translated at any
moment to run for office among the
angels or bo crowned in everlasting
office in that delightful world which is
always depicted as on a gold basis and
where harps and crowns are made ex
clusively of that metal.
George A. Abbott , one of the found
ers of the people's party in Nebraska , in
answer to a request from the chairman
of the fusion committee for advice as to
the conduct of the campaign , wrote :
"By no means allow any of your speak
ers to talk state issues. The record of
our men in power forbids any such
thing. Tell your men to talk about the
Philippine war , and keep the minds of
the voters on the other side of the
earth. That is all that is left for the
hold-up gang and the free-pass grabbers
to do. "
