Conservative ,
nnnoiators of "militarism" as wilful
and intentional deception to conceal the
real , the immediate purpose of the man
who is pledged and determined to de
stroy the gold dtandard.
Mr. Ottendorfer , one of the foremost
editors of the country and one of the
most influential German-Americans ,
has critically analyzed Bryan's record
as regards "militarism" and completely
riddles his claim to the support of in
telligent opponents of militarism. He
makes some keenly cutting and well
deserved criticisms of Colonel Bryan's
military career.
Referring to Mr. Ottendorfer , the
New York Post says :
"Mr. Oswald Ottendorfer , in an inter
view which we transfer to our columns
from the Tribune ,
Mark of the . , . _
Trickster. Pnts hls finBer ou
a sore spot in Mr.
Bryan's record , considering the latter's
opposition to militarism. Mr. Bryan
enlisted for the war with Spain at a
time when his services were not needed.
In order to get into the service with his
regiment , it was necessary to crowd out
another regiment from his own state
which had been organized and was de
sirous of entering. Not only so , but
Mr. Bryan had promised to use his in
fluence in favor of the first regiment.
Instead of doing so , he raised , or assist
ed to raise , a second one , of which in
due time he became the colonel , and
then his regiment was , by his influence ,
put into the service in place of the first ,
and against its protest. Can it be
doubted that Mr. Bryan's aim in this
movement was political rather than
military ? Although he never saw
actual war in consequence of his en
listment , he promoted militarism to the
extent of his ability , and under the
circumstances , disqualified himself from
appearing on the stump as an opponent
of militarism at any time thereafter.
Mr. Ottendorfer has rendered a public
service in calling attention to this evi
dent mark of the trickster in Mr.
Bryan's career. "
There ) seems to be a grave necessity
for another swap in "paramounts. "
-A HIKED MAN. "
confidence in his
qualifications for the presidency and
ability to acquit himself properly in
that position is due , as suggested by the
Rochester Democrat , to his mistaken
notion about the duties of the office
He has frequently said that the presi
dent is only a "hired man" and he
deems himself capable and competent
for this sort of a job. Some kind friend
should inform Mr. Bryan of the re
sponsibilities attaching to the position of
chief executive of this great Republic
and induce him to apply elsewhere if he
is looking for a "hired man's job. '
Farmers in need of a "hired man'
might avail themselves of this oppor-
tnnity to secure competent help. THE
CONSERVATIVE cheerfully recommends
Mr. Bryan for such employment.
TWIN SPELL-
UINDEUS.Nebraska City will
be surprised to
know of Mr. Smyth's opinion of their
susceptibility and with what ease they
yielded to his entrancing eloquence.
To a reporter of the Chicago Post , in
speaking of his suit to close the staroh
works , Attorney General Smyth gave
out the following gem of full-grown
egotism :
"It was not a popular move but Mr.
Bryan and I went there and satisfied
the people that the suit was all right. "
How generous of Mr. Smyth to ad
mit that the suit was not popular !
THE CONSERVATIVE is unable to state
whether this admission was made by
Smyth in order to conform to the truth
or to better display his genius as an
orator and his hypnotic power over the
multitude. It is not the work of an
ordinary spellbinder to make an indig
nant people believe that they would be
happier and more prosperous if their
factories were closed and labor deprived
of the satisfactions obtained from the
payment of good wages. And this is
what Smyth says he and Bryan made
the people of Nebraska City believe.
In September ,
,
j *
1896 , a prophet was
touring the United States and delivering
forecasts of the economic conditions
which were to environ the American
people in case they failed to establish
the free coinage of silver in unlimited
quantities at the ratio of 16 to 1 , and to
elect as their president , one Bryan. The
impassioned and earnest sophisms and
flamboyant vagaries uttered in melli
fluent verbiage , by the warm prophet
afore-referred to , caught the ignorant ,
the discontented and the vicious vote as
cheese roasted catches rats. But in no
one inspiration and exhortation was Mr.
Bryan more brilliant and dazzlingly con
spicuous than when he remarked with
uplifted hand and fiercely corrugated
brow :
"Talk about monopolies ! Talk about
trusts ! My friends , they propose to
establish the most gigantic of all trusts
a money trust and let the few men
who hold the gold dole it out at such a
price as they will to all the other seventy
millions American people. I denounce
the policy as more cruel and heartless
than the political domination of a foreign
power. "
And now , only four years after that
tremendous deliverance , Colonel Bryan
makes a speech on
Tilnt TniHt. t . .
staroh trusts , in
stead of specie trusts , and fails to even
mention ' 'the most gigantic of all trusts
a money trust ! "
And "the few men who hold the gold
dole it out. " And , in the language of
Eikstein "the
Those Few. . . . . .
plain people" are
asking who are the few and where
are the few men who hold all the
gold and "dole those out ? " Every
bank in 1900 offers its customers
gold instead of paper currency. And
Colonel Bryan has nothing to say in
extenuation of the gigantic untruth
fulness of his money-trust prophecies in
189G. Nevertheless he comes into Ne
braska City in 1900 and makes starch-
trust prophecies and asks to be believed.
The latter predictions are no more
sensible or credible than the former.
Patent finance instead of prophecy is
Bryan's forte. The money trust to elect
a ticket against money , in industrial
plants ; and favorable to money ' 'instead
of honor" in office should shell out for
Bryanarohy. Bryan is a trust candi
date. He is the nominee of three cor
porations populists , demented demo
crats and silver-plated republicans in
one combine. |
ffl
These letters
,
it. c. "
thus used , do not
mean Before Christ. They nierel y mean
Bryan and Oroker. Bluster and bribery
form the political trust which proposes
to monopolize all offices in New York ,
both federal and state. Every vote for
Bryan is a vote for Tammany Hall , for
bribery , for reeking rottenness in office
and for the exaltation of vice and un
speakable crimes in the city of New
York.
October 8th,1900 ,
COMPLIMENTS
TO CITIZENS. ' at Salem , Illinois ,
Bryan said :
1 'If the election were held today there
is no doubt that we would have a major
ity in the electoral college and on the
popular vote. Bat the republican man
agers are now collecting from the mon
opolies a large campaign fund. They
will buy every vote that can be bought.
They will coerce every voter that can
be coerced. "
Thus the peerless one compliments
American voters , especially the kind he
depends upon.
Representing in his candidature the
corruptions of Oroker and the stealings
of Tammany Hall from the taxpayers
of the city of New York on the Atlantic
slope ; and the corrnpti ons of Clark , who
bought the seuatorship in Montana , on
the Pacific , Colonel Bryan weeps over
the malign influences now at work to
elect MoKinley !
How can a conscience which accepts
donations from Oroker and Clark and a
candidate who represents these two ,
their money and their methods , shudder
at Hanua ?
FUSION ALPHABET
A. stands for Arrest , Altgeld , and
'Anarchy too ;
B stands for Bryan , Bluster and
"Blue ; "
C stands for Oroker , his Corruption
and Crew.
# * # #
T stands for Tammany , Tillman and
"Tin ; "
Principles : "We want to get in. "