French revolution stood for. He is not
a political leader ; ho is a revolutionist ;
aud the crowd that he leads has no re
spect for the law , no respect for our
national institutions , no respect for
social order. Instead of improving in
four years , I think that the democracy
has decidedly retrogressed ; the leader
ship of the Kansas Oity convention was
on a much lower plane , if that werb
possible , than that of 1896.
The same Inoar.
MILITARISM.
nate phonograph is
now talking anti-imperialism ; the mag
nitude of the money question has been
minimized. Non-thinking and always-
talking statesmen declare it only a
secondary issue now , and have little to
say about the sacred and God-given
ratio of 16 to 1. Did they lie when they
said it must be settled first and foremost
among all political questions in order to
save this republic , or do they lie now
when they say the danger of imperial
ism is greater'than the danger of plu
tocracy ?
dem ° C fc
TREASON.
who believes in
honest money to support the republicans
who adhere to the gold standard is trea
son. Dictator Bryan denounces all
democrats who support the gold stand
ard as traitors.
But it is pure patriotism for any dem
ocrat to affiliate with silver-free-coinage
republicans and it
Patriotism. . . . , .
is partisan fidelity
to endorse protectionist Towne and his
sixteen-to-oneism. It is treachery to
democracy not to endorse the vagaries
of populism and the absurdities of
agglomerated fusion and fustian. The
bossocracy is supreme.
' GOLD BUG ADMONITIONS.
EDITOR OF THE CONSERVATIVE :
Months ago I warned you that the
Anti-Imperialist League could not be
otherwise than an aid , to the extent ol
its power , to the election of Bryan. I
then held , and still hold , that such a
result would sow seeds of socialistic
revolution , now ripening into bitter
fruit in labor unions and in the seething
discontent in tha Black Belt of the
South , the end of which you and I may
not reasonably expect to live to see.
Mr. Bryan will be beaten , partly
because there will be no uprising against
the war policy of MoKiuley for the
reasons which yon state , but be will be
beaten because the prosperous business
interests of the country , which men of
labor share in unusual measure , in the
great industrial and commercial centers
will surely vote to "let well enough
alone. "
Partisan gold men will go back in
numbers , but influenced by the new
spirit of commercial greed ( and mill-
TULA. ' i- t i 1 i SKI v KSKSU . < : M < ! MSB8Mttfebj !
; ary ) tens of thousands more who voted
for Bryan before will go to MoKinley
now. I give much importance to the
war sentiment , the military passion , the
lag , and all light-carbureted patriotism ,
; o do much in the same direction , to
which Bryan's part in the ratification of
the Paris treaty will contribute when
; he battle is fairly on. If no mistake is
made in the impending war with China
it will help MoKinley. Lincoln's old
refrain , "We must not swap horses
while crossing a stream , " will stir the
whole country. This suggestion assumes
there will be a war with China , if a
state of war does not already exist , and
the chances favor our being dragged into
it by the same old grab-all spirit of
greed which is the dominant force with
our race in all nations. God alone may
know what may be the end of such a
war , if it shall come. Mr. Bryan's big
mouth will have to be carefully muzzled
if he does not put his own foot in it on
this Chinese question , which I consider
very complicated and very dangerous.
Mr. Hewitt says Bryan's following is
because we are "mostly fools. " Perhaps
I am prejudiced beyond reason and can
not do justice to Mr. Bryan. COM.
1896 the chief
NOW , AND THEN.
orator for Bryan-
archy declared the money question to
overshadow all other questions. It waste
to be discussed until it was "settled , and
settled right" from a 16 to 1 standpoint.
The gold standard was to perpetuate the
bondage of the plain people and to fill
the future with blood crushed out of
labor by the diabolical machinations of
plutocracy. The advocates of the gold
standard were denounced as conspira
tors against human happiness , invaders ,
and destroyers of the homes of the plain
people of the United States. That was
the paramount issue then , with Bryau-
archy , and it remains paramount with
American thinkers today.
AT LAST.
Observers have been watching events
in China in a good deal of suspense ,
wondering whether the Powers had pro
ceeded on acoafi te knowledge of the
Chinese in treating them as a mere pie
to be sliced , or whether they had igno-
rautly roused a sleeping lion , which
might turn and rend all the civilizec
nations through sheer force of numbers
and momentum. But now comes very
comforting news in a private letter from
one of the missionaries , to the effect
that those pleasant gentlemen , the box
ers , carry their hatred of everything
foreign to the point of repudiating the
use of foreign weapons of war. It there
fore appears that the Powers were quite
right , and the confidence is fully justi
fied with which they expected the Chi
naman , soon or late , to deliver himsell
bound into their hands. The boxers
proper will then confine themselves to
the use of swords , spears , matchlocks ,
cast brass cannon , contortions aud hide
ous yells , and will be hostile to the reg
ularly armed and organized Chinese
military forces ; these forces will be
dealt with by the Powers , through ne
gotiation , it may be hoped , with their
superior officers ; the boxers and all
other outlaws , will be attacked by every
body and slain by tens of thousands ;
and peace will bo restored , and the an
cient Chinaman will resume his myste
rious existence , the end and aim of
which no white man can comprehend.
THE POPULIST PARTY IN KENTUCKY'
One of the chief sources of the demo
cratic strength in 1896 will probably be
lacking in the coming campaign on ac
count of the probable revolt of the popu
lists.
lists.Mr.
Mr. Towne has been chosen by the
latter party as its nominee for Vice
President to run with Mr. Bryan. The
convention which nominated Mr. Towne
formulated a declaration of principles ,
which the Cincinnati Enquirer declared
to be the raving of lunatics.
A defection of the populists would be
a very serious blow to the democratic
chances. In 1895 the populist nominee
in Kentucky received 26,000 votes , and
thus insured the election of Gov. Brad
ley. In 1896 , by the skillful manipula
tions of Major P. P. Johnson , the entire
populist vote was thrown for the Demo
cratic Presidential ticket.
It is certain that the self-respecting
members of the populist party , in Ken
tucky at least , will not vote the demo
cratic ticket this fall. Their grievances
elsewhere are nothing to what they are
in Kentucky. They have been disfran
chised by the democratic party and have
been denied all the privileges of a party.
They are refused not only officers of
election , but even inspectors at the
court. They were insulted last fall in
every way by the democratic machine ,
and their votes were shamelessly stolen.
If they desire the party to exist in Ken
tucky , they must unite in shattering the
democratic machine. Louisville Post.
The crusade against corporate capital
in Nebraska was instituted by Bryan ,
Allen and their deluded followers. No
state needs corporate capital more than
Nebraska. No state has been so much
developed and benefited by corporate
capital as has Nebraska. It is the duty
of every decent citizen who wishes
further development and exaltation of
the wonderful resources of this common
wealth to encourage the incoming of
capital , personal and corporate , when
ever opportunity offers.
A Serious Difficulty. Mrs. Isaacs
1 'Vot vos all you boys quarreling apond ? "
Ikey "Veil , vo vanted to play ve vos
forming a trnsdt , but nopody vanted to
be der gustomers. " Puck.
