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discussed there has always been heard
the chorus of mixed voices "He Is
such an honest man." Here In Lincoln
we have looked upon his face and we
have seen that It Is good, and we have
saluted him as one who has succeeded
In mixing piety with politics.
Our fellow citizen who dangles three
presidential nominations from his belt
never took a penny that did not be
long to him. We are sure of that. He
never had a part. irsonally. in any
Jobbers or corruption. He has held
up his head among men. and gone his
way serene In the confidence of recti
tude It is a pleasure to be able to say
that in his private life. Mr. Bryan has
always been and Is a man of unblem
ished reputation a man of clean habits
and moral Impulses.
But in the present crisis the ques
tion at issue is not any one man's pri
vate character. Mr. Bryan and Mr.
McKlnley might be men of exemplary
personal conduct and yet to tally, shock
ingly unfit for the discharge of the im
portant duties of chief executive of
this nation. What if Mr. Bryan's pri
vate life has been blameless, if the
trend of his official and publics acts and
utterances has been in the direction of
palpable dishonesty? An honest man
is one who is fair in his dealings with
others; just, frank, sincere-one who
is equitable, rightful, honorable. Let
us consider the brief public career of
this man for whom extravagant claims
of honesty are made.
Mr. Bryan, as appears elsewhere in
this issue of The Courier, was given
his first prominence by Mr. J. Sterling
Morton. As soon as he got on his feet
the first thing he did was to turn from
his benefactor. He secured a further
advancement from the element of the
democratic party represented by Mr.
Harwood. Once elected ito congress,
he deliberately set himself In opposi
tion to the element of democracy that
made him what he was. He was
elected to congress and paid a salary
of $5,000 per year for representing the
people or .the first Nebraska district.
Did he do what he was paid to do?
Twenty thousand dollars for an ele
vator in the government building in
this city that has long since ceased to
run! "Will any one pretend to say that
Mr. Bryan did any one thing for his
constituents in his four years in con
gress, save secure a miserable appro
priation for a usless and now disused
elevator? Mr. Bryan made speeches
in Philadelphia and elsewhere, but
that was not what he was paid for.
Early In his congressional career Mr.
Bryan placed his ear to the ground and
Imagined he heard the roar of a.
coming tide of tariff reform. And he
straightway rushed headlong Into the
advocacy of free trade. The people of
this section of the state well remember
how the young man eloquent strode
the roetrum brandishing butcher
knives' in one hand and waving the
red flag of flannel in the other. As
soon as he observed a. change in
public opinion he dropped free trade
as he had before dropped the men
who made him, and turned to the new
fad that promised to obtain a hold on
emotional humanity. We know his
connection with the cause of free silver.
Mr. Bryan for four years has been a
populist masquerading as a. democrat.
He has straddled two parties in a
manner that does violence to the true
meaning of honesty. Mr. Bryan es
poused the cause of his friend J. D.
Calhoun, who denlred to be postmaster
and who -had for years tooted the
loudest horn la the Bryan procession.
He assured Mr. Calhoun that he, Bry
an, would "die In the ditch with him."
Calhoun died in -the ditch while Mr.
Bryan danced on the upland. He
dropped Calhoun and took up Harley
with the same agility that he dropped
free trade and took up free silver.
Calhoun suffered what most of the
men who have tied -themselves to Mr.
Bryan's wheel have suffered He was
ground and cast down. Everybody
knows why Mr. Calhoun left Lincoln
and Nebraska.
The most gigantic trick ever played
on a political convention was that
which won for Mr. Bryan the nomina
tion for the presidency In Chicago.
And that disgraceful incident in St.
Louis! The familiar words: "His
honor rooted In dishonor stood, and
faith unfaithful kept him falsely true,"
have been more than once applied to
Mr. Bryan. With a contemporary we
say: "Honor and honesty should go
together. When the convention met it
was evident that there was a majority
In favor of Mr. Bryan, but opposed to
Mr. Sewell, his colleague on the Chi
cago ticket. Senator Jones, of Ar
kansas, chairman of the democratic
national committee and chief manager
of Mr. Bryan's campaign, telegraphed
that fact to Mr. Bryan, asking what
should be done in case Mr. Sewall was
not nominated, and adding:, "I favor
your declination." Mr. Bryan at once
replied: "I entirely agree with you.
Withdraw my name if Sewall is not
nominated." Mr. Sewall was not nom
inated, but Mr. Bryan's name was not
withdrawn; nor was his message to
Senator Jones officially announced to
the convention, although It was printed
in the public press. And now Mr.
Bryan hedges and trims, and says he
does not know whether he will accept
the nomination or not. So the case
stands today, and It arouses a few in
teresting questions. Did Mr. Bryan
mean what he said when he tele
graphed. I entirely agree with you
that is. In declining to be nominated
If Mr. Sewall was not Withdraw my
name? If he did, why Is he hesitating
over It now? And why did not Sena
tor Jones withdraw his name, as he
was bidden to do, or at least have that
telegram officially announced to the
convention? By what right did he
suppress an Important message Involv
ing -the honor and integrity of the
chosen leader of his party? A prompt
and unequivocal explanation from
either Mr. Bryan or Senator Jones, or
both, is in order. If it is not forth
coming. It will be difficult to pursuade
honorable men that Mr. Bryan Is not
deliberately "selling out" his colleague
on the Chicago ticket, and that Sena
tor Jones is not conspiring with him to
that end.
In this campaign Mr. Bryan is the
advocate of a policy that looks to the
repudiation of 47 per cent of all debts.
Mr. Bryan's private honesty is hardly
equal to the task of balancing his pub
lic dishonor.
Next Wednesday in Madison Square
Garden. New York, the glittering
arena in which be-ribboned horses and
pedigreed pups lately contended for
the favor of frivolous people, will occur
a spectacle that will eclipse all of the
ploturesqueexhibitions that have taken
place In this mamoth circus. Tse
man who has left his home and crossed
a continent to escape a problem that
demands manly treatment, will appear
as a prize feature of a dazzling show,
and in the presence of fifteen thousand
people shake hands with Arthur Sewall
the man who with Senator Jones he
has conspired to displace. What a
spectacle! The candidates will be
notified of their nomination In much
the same manner that the rustic swain
and clinging maid are Joined in wed
lock at a county fair. One of the most
dignified ceremonies that can take
place in this republic will be turned
into a n'-isy shc7, ftp. cojt of $18,500.
Mr. Bryan advocates Jefferjonlan sim
plicity. He would put money into the
pockets of the poor! This ceremony
could have been held in this city with
out the expenditure of one cent. How
many backs might have been clothed,
how many stomachs might have been
filled with that $18,500! Simplicity,
where art thou? Consistency, oh, con
sistency, where art thou? Gone, gone,
as the promises of man dissipate on the
day of reckonlng-unk into obscurity
in the big. blazing, glaring hippodrome
that degrades the high office of the
serious ruler of 70,000,000 of people.
How often have we listened to the
sweet tones of Mr. Bryan's bimetallic
voice as he has told us how he loved
the boundless west, how he gloried In
the rolling prairies, how his sym
pathies were wrapped up in our tolling
agriculturalists, how he prized the sim
ple mode of western living. And now
forsooth, he shakes his native dust
from his feet, and turns his back on
his home and the people who lifted
him up and iushes to pay homage to a
people he has told us with vehement
and swelling oratory, he dlspised.
Having told us to stick to Nebraska,
he flees to New York. He wins his
triumph In the land of the sweeping
prairie, where the pride of the people
is the harvest of corn and celebrates
his Jubilee in the far off east, whither
the men who raised him up cannot go.
The people's candidate spends $18,500 to
be notified of his nomination!
THE EDITOR.
FRANK ZEHRUNG RETURNS.
Frank C. Zehrung came back from
New York in the east wind that blew
Thursday. Five weeks on the Rialto
have made him more youthful and
bouyant than ever.
"No. I am not ready to make a de
tailed announcement of the bookings of
the Funke opera house for the coming
season," he said yesterday. "The fact
that this is a presidential year will
make the season late in starting, and
there will le fewer companies on the
road than there has been in ten years.
Such people as Mr. and Mrs. Sidney
Drew, Charley Dixon, Donelly and
Gerrard, who used to have companies
of their own. will abandon starring and
join other companies. The companies
that do go out will be unusually strong.
"The Funke opera house will this
season present as fine a line of attrac
tions as will come west." And then
Mr. Zehrung modestly named a few
of the bookings and remarked incident
ally that Lillian Russell will present
the new opera "American Beauty" at
his house October 30.
"September first Mark Murphy will
appear in "O'Dowd's Neighbors,' and
the Spooner Dramatic company, which
should not be confounded with the
Cecil Spooner company, will play a
week's engagement during the national
guard encampment.
"Of course I have arranged for a
return of all of the old favorites such
as Roland Reed and Walker White
sides. Whitesides, by the way, will
put on the Merchant of "Venice.
"The formal opening of the Funke
will occur September 24 and 25, when
Jacob Lilt's famous attraction 'In Old
Kentucky' will be presented.
" 'Shore Acres' will come again for
two nights and a matinee.
" 'Rob Roy.' the opera which had
such a successful season In New York,
will be heard at the Funke sometime
during the winter.
"Clay Clement will come to the
Funke, probably for two nights, in 'The
Old Dominion and 'The Bell.' "
Mr. Zehrung says his list is much
lareer than ever before. A full publi
cation will be made later.
Mr. Zehrung saw Cecil Spooner who
13 an eld Lincoln favorite. She has ob
tained high favor with the greatest
vaudeville magnates in the country.
She has danced with great success in
Kieth's houses In Boston and New
YoTk. and has all of her time for next
season booked in the east. Miss
Spooner may come west in the summer
and if she does, she will appear at the
Funke. Mr. Zehrung also visited the
Holdens at Rochester, Ind., where they
have a beautiful summer home.
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