Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1906 — SOME KINDS OF LYING. [ARTICLE]

SOME KINDS OF LYING.

The Republican leaders are so worried over the outlook of their party that they are causing to be printed in the party newspapers all sorts of cock and bull stories about Mr. Bryan. Usually these stories start off with a positive statement that Mr. Bryan has agreed to do this, or is going to do that, or has concluded a dicker with this man, or has formed an alliance with that one, and so on through a long list of improbable and silly things. The purpose is, of course, to make capital for for the J Republican party. A careful reading of most of these fake stories will show that their authors become ashamed of the positive character of their lies before they finish them and taper off by using such modifying phrases as “it is believed” that such and such a thing is so, or “Mr. Bryan is expected” to do a certain thing, or “an inference is drawn to that effect,” and like form of dishonest prevarication. But it is hardly worth while to bother about such things. Every intelligent person knows that Mr. Bryan can be depended upon to do what is right, and nothing else.