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NO SILVER IN IT ,
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the nomination for
the presidency from republicans who
left their party for the sake of 10 to 1
and supported Bryan. He accepts any
thing in the way of a nomination which
may be tendered. Bat he will not now
even mention in a letter to silver re
publicans thanking them for their sup
port the free and unlimited coinage of
silver at the sacred ratio of sixteen to
one. How brave is Bryan ! How like
the chevalier of sixteen to one in 1806 !
HONEST WEALTH.
WEALTH.undoubtedly re
gards wealth made out of politics as the
only genuinely honest wealth made in
the United States. Therefore , when
he addressed the Tammany hall hood
lums with Dick Oroker at their head
and said : "I am not antagonizing hon
estly acquired wealth , " he meant to
compliment that gang as the only gen
uinely honest laborers in the United
States. Like Oolonel Bryan himself ,
their money has been made by their
months , and words , rather than deeds ,
have been coined into currency.
Gold standard
ADMONITION. .
democrats should
occasionally re-read the utterances of
the peerless prophet made when he was
posing as an interpreter of the future ir
1890 :
"If there is any one who believes the
gold standard is a good thing , or that it
must be maintained , I warn him not to
cast his vote for me , because I promise
him it will not be maintained in this
country longer than I am able to get rid
of it. ' ' William Jennings Bryan , Knoxville -
ville , Term. , September 10 , 1890.
"The party stands where it did in
1890 on the money question. " William
Jennings Bryan , Zanesville , Ohio , Sep
tember 4 , 1900.
THE CONSERVATIVE thinks it will' 'sit
down" on the "same" where it did in
1890 also.
AFFECTIONCuring the great
AN AFFECTION-
ATE PAIR. Parade m New
York Oity , when
Tammany gave its boisterous and re
splendent reception to Oolonel Bryan
the picture of Oroker and the Oolone
sitting hand in hand , bide by side , dur
ing the long , triumphant march through
the streets of the great metropolis , was
pathetic and touching to the utmost
degree. Oolonel Bryan did not forget
in his speech to compliment Oroker and
his Christian custom OH to raising reven
ues from the vices of New York , when
he said : "Great is Tammany anc
Oroker is its prophet. " This merited
tribute from one reformer to another
reformer ought to be embalmed in the
memories of all goody-goody people
who love Mr. Bryan because of his utter
horror and intense repugnance to every
.thing like vice or criminality.
After his sojourn
FOR MOTHERS. .
in New York Oity ,
after being wined and dined by his
friend Mr. Oroker , and enjoying the
usury of a $12.00 per plate banquet , Mr.
Bryan went up into the country and
made a talk to mothers. As he looked
nto the "careworn faces" of mothers ,
whose sons Mr. Oroker said were being
shut out by the trusts of all opportuni-
ies for business success and advancement
his heart ached that so few of them
were permitted the luxury of a visit to
some "pleasant watering place' " or the
privilege of Oroker's bounteous hospital-
ty. With his own oratorical paunch
well filled with Tammany delicacies and
with tears streaming down his enameled
cheeks , he said :
"Mothers , what would you have your
sons do ? Would you have your boys go
bo the farms ? Are you going to have
your boy go among the laboring men ?
Are you willing to let your son go into
the anthracite coal region ? Are you
satisfied to have your boy there ? Do
you want him to go into a store ? "
Think of it mothers 1 What will the
poor boy do ? The peerless one says ,
"you would not have your boy go on the
farm. " The farm , the birthplace of a
majority of our presidents , the training
school of our most successful business
and professional men , will never do for
your boy. Mothers , your boy must not
"go among the laboring men. " For it is
"undignified" to labor. Mothers , do
not "let your boy go into the coal
regions. " It is labor to mine coal and
your boy must not learn to labor.
Mothers , you must not let your Absalom
1 'go into a store. ' ' For storekeeping is no
longer respectable. Thus soith the pa
tron of Oroker and the gourmand of $
per plate banquets. Mothers , if you
would have your boy become a great
and good man you must let him run for
office or enlist in the honorable and
dignified service of Oroker.
The "plain peo-
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-PLAIN LIVING.
pie" of the coun
try , and "the care-worn women" will be
shocked and chagrined at the extrava
gance of the beneficiaries of the Oroker-
Bryan combine. The following special
dispatch to the Chicago Record tells how
young Oroker lives at Cornell univer
sity :
"Richard Oroker , jr. , who has entered
Oornell university law school , has taken
possession of Forest Home , a fine ol <
country estate a mile north of the uni
versity grounds , and there he will make
his home for the three years he says he
will spend here to complete his course
He has already become a leader in the
fashionable set , and he has invitations
from many of the fraternities to join
them. His groom and his many anima
pets arrived yesterday from Riohland
Springs.
"FourEnglish bulldogs , his favorite
road horse Flora , and a fine Angora ca
were in the contingent. The dogs are
ill of the best English bulls. One , a
heavy lantern-jawed brindle called Clip ,
est $4,000. He is acknowledged to be
he second of his kind in value in the
world. The total value of the other
hree is $0,000.
"These dogs have a complete kitchen
of their own , and they get'the best of
irloin steaks. Mr. Oroker will send for
us tandem of horses. Boxes of supplies
for the dogs and four large trunks of
clothing have also arrived. The groom
saidthat"the'trunks _ " contained forty
suits of "clothes , which cost from $50 to
$100 a suit. "
The money the young man is spending
was > cquired by 0roker,7sr.ras plunder
from the keepers of dives and disrepu
table resorts of the bowery , andjs'illus-
trative of Mr. Bryan's idea of "honestly
acquired wealth. "
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AN UNHOLY AL- ?
" > 8WT"k
MANGE. "f ?
Oity attempted to
purge itself of the corruption of Tam
many administration. As a result of
a movement inaugurated by Rev. Charles -
les Parkhurst , an investigating commit
tee was appointed by the legislature of
the state ofNew ) , York ; to inquire into
the charges of corruption made against
Tammany officials. Ohief Oroker was
summoned 'to appear before the com
mittee. He doggedly declined to be in
vestigated and in response to'the inter
rogations of the committee gave the
now famousjretort , "To'II with lie-
form. "
Now Mr. Bryan , who poses as the
leader of the "reformforces"the "apos
tle of purity\bows in obeisance to the
Oroker. image and humbly and rever
ently exclaims , "Great is Tammany ,
and Oroker is its prophet. "
Thus is the alliance of Oroker and
Bryan announced to the world. A presi-
dentialjcandidate mokes public acknow
ledgment of his indebtedness to the
king ofbosses"the _ prince of plunderers.
COUNTEB1TEITS. . . / .Pf , ° I
gether a little of
the ] precious metals andja deal'of the
baser sort , bogus dollars arejnanufao-
tured. i All counterfeit coins'are the re
sult of fusion between goodj'and bad
metals , and'all bogus statesmen are the
result of fusion between good andftad
political organizations.
Oolonel Bryan has just accepted his
third nomination for the'presidency. It
comes from free-silver republicans , who
believe in a high protective tariff.
The last acceptance before this , of a
presidential nomination , was from the
populists , who believe in fiat money-
paper issued by the government and are
opposed to all metallic currency.
Take the three nominations together ,
fused into one , they stand for every-
thing'that is vicious , untenable and dis
reputable in this form of government.