Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1908 — REPUBLICAN DEFEAT NECESSARY. [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICAN DEFEAT NECESSARY.

“So long as the Republican party remains in power, it is powerless to regenerate itself. It cannot attack wrongdoing in high places without disgracing many of its prominent members, and it, therefore, uses opiates instead of the surgeon’s knife. Its malefactors construe each Republican victory as an indorsement of their conduct and threaten the party with defeat if they are Interfered with. Not until that party passes through a period of fasting in the wilderness will the Republican leaders learn to study public questions from the standpoint of the masses.”—From Mr. Bryan’s speech of acceptance.

When the New York Tribune printed its sneering paragraph "Won’t somebody please give 30 cents to the Bryan campaign fund?” it did not think that the whole country would soon ring with denunciation of its insolence. The remark was, as the Indianapolis News declared, "the sneer of wealth.” The New York Tribune jwas once the property of Horace Greeley. Greeley was crowded out of control

by Whitelaw Reid, the present ambassador at London. Since he has been in London Reid has cut a sickening figure. He has aped royalty in his household affairs and has todied to the wearers of titles. His daughter only recently married the brother of an English “lord.” Reid’s paper, in its insolent gibes at the plain American people, is only keeping in touch with its owner’s actions abroad.