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VOL. III. NEBRASKA CITY NEB. THURSDAY JULY 26 1900. NO. 3.
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BRYAN AND
EGAN. United States who
can remember the
Phoenix Park murders and the immed
iate exodus of Irish suspects to other
lands can remember Patrick Egan. His
name and fame were about equally
linked with the assassinations in Phoenix
Park and his wildly zealous devotion to
the protective tariff which is imperialism
in commerce. From the day he landed
at Lincoln , Nebraska , Patrick Egan was
an agitator , a radical republican and a
developed appetite for public prominence
with official emoluments attached. He
assaulted free trade and the Cobdeu
club' with venom and vituperation. He
denounced all and singular the English
advocates of free trade as conspirators
and pirates. He spared not Gladstone ,
one of the founders of the Cobdeu club ,
nor Charles Russell , nor any other real
supporter of home rule for Ireland.
But every friend Ireland then had in the
English parliament was a Oobden club
man. Patrick Egan , therefore , was a
practitioner of gratitude long before he
was , with very bad international amen
ity , sent by President Harrison to repre
sent the United States at Ohili. Of all
republican improprieties the appoint
ment of a fugitive from the United
Kingdom of Great Britain an ambassa
dor of the United States was the gross
est. It was as though England had
made Judah P. Benjamin governor-gen
eral of Canada immediately upon his
arrival in England as a fugitive from
the United States. But Mr. Egan was
BO stalwart in advocating protection and
the despotism of unoompetitive manu
facture that republicanism exalted him.
And now this itinerant revolutionist ,
who was for anarchy ill Ireland , is yell
ing for Bryanarchy in the United
States.
The tender protestations of affection
ate regard now passing between the
, . , , . , Bryan and Egan
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Two of aKiiul. , . . , .
dromios m state
craft must touch the tear fountain of
emotional populism in its wonderfully
hysterical organism , as miraculously as
Moses smote the rook for water. The
two are as much alike as two minutes ,
two peas , two phonographs and in eco
nomics , statesmanship , and a knowledge
of how to skip from one paramount issue
to another paramount issue they are
Siamese twins Eng Egan and Chang
Bryan.
NEW YORK , July 19. The following
letter , given out for publication by Pat-
rick Egan , former-
, . . .
Sample BilletDoux. , _ , . , ' , , . .
ly United States
minister to Chili , was received by him ,
he states , in answer to a telegram of
congratulation sent by him to Mr.
Bryan on the latter's nomination for the
pretidency :
"LINCOLN , NEB. , July 14. Patrick
Egan , New York My Dear Mr. Egan :
Your telegram of congratulation was
one of the first received , and none was
more highly appreciated. You were the
first prominent republican pointed out to
me when I arrived in Lincoln October 1 ,
1887 , and you may remember that I re
sponded to the toast 'Our Friends the
Enemy' the evening when you and
other republicans were celebrating the
republican victory in 1888. I attended
the banquet given you when you were
departing for Ohili. So much for rem
iniscences.
"Am glad that you like our platform.
I think it is superb. It ought to appeal
to the conscience and patriotism of the
people. You are in a position to do im
portant service for the party in the crisis
which is upon us , and I am delighted to
know that your zeal is equal to your
ability. Yours truly ,
W. J. BUYAN. "
For ambassador to England or secre
tary of state put down Patrick Egan of
Phronix Park and Lincoln , Nebraska.
Absence of gov-
ANARCHY.
eminent is an
archy. Those who rebel against any and
every form of government are anarchists ;
a country where anarchy prevails is a
goverumentless country. And the differ
ence between anarchy and Bryauarohy
is only three letters. And in substance
they are more nearly identical than they
are in verbal form. Either dominant
will ruin the country in which it pre
vails.
The Omaha
"GET TOGETHER. '
World-Herald ,
formerly edited by' 'our peerless leader , ' '
and the acknowledged champion of con
glomerate partyisrn , is out in large scare
headlines and cash-
, auto-wind-raising , -
raising , and hair-raising editorials on
"Get Together. "
The trouble is , and has been , among
the conglomeration of office-seekers
that each one wishes to "get" so much
that they cannot all "get" together. To
"get to-gather the emoluments of poli
tical jobs is the appetite of the Tam
many tiger , hybridized upon the am
bition , vanity , vioionsness , and venality
of Bryanarchy.
"It is the money and not the honor"
sought in official life.
BRYANARCHIC .
WISDOM. candidate of the
conglomerates for
the presidency sent out this :
"The democratic platform declares the
question of imperialism to be the para
mount issue. If any opponent of im
perialism refuses to support the demo
cratic ticket , because of the silver plank ,
it must be because he considers the
money question more important than
the Philippine question. "
The same platform declares that the
Chicago platform is re-uttered and
reaffirmed. And the Chicago platform
made the money question "paramount. "
Thus Bryan , Towne & Co. have twin
"paramonnts" this year.
But who urged the ratification of the
Paris treaty and boasted of securing the
same ?
Bryan 1
And did the "consent" of the Filipinos
to be sold and transferred from Spain to
the United States , lands , homes , bodies
and souls reach Col. Bryan by cable be
fore he espoused the cause of imperial
ism ?
With what consistency can Col. Bryan
denounce the imperialism which he
created ? How can any man , who voted
to ratify the treaty with Spain or urged
others to so vote , consistently except to
the logical results of that treaty ? No
other man in America is so perfectly
estopped , by his own actd , from criticis
ing the Philippine conditions.