Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1898 — He Can’t be Headed Off. [ARTICLE]

He Can’t be Headed Off.

The efforts of the administration to keep William Jennings Bryan out of the army will fail. The refusal of the war department to accept the Nebraska regiment of which Mr. Bryan is now a private soldier but would when mustered become its colonel, was neatly checkmated by Gov. Stephens of Missouri, who tendered the democratic leader the colonelcy of one iof his regiments. BryJu did not , accept at once, but t wired that he j could not ask a better command than that compo e 1 of Mis: ourians. Mr. Bryan said privately that he j still has hopes of commanding a Nebraska regiment, but if any deliberate act on the part of the ’ 'Washington officials deprives him ! of that command he will then go 'to Missouri ami lead a regiment I “In any event.” he added, “I propose to serve my country in spite lof any injustice from official sources.”—Oarroll County Citizen. “Resolved that we commend the statesmanlike bearing of our. representative in the National Congress, E. D. Orumpacker.” Resolu-

■ tion adopted by Benton county Republican convention. We would like to inquire what particular act our Republican friend interpret as statesmanlike. Was it . the promises of patronage he made 1 prior to the convention in 189 G, which secured him the nomination ( over the Hon. J. Frank Hanley or j was it the position he took upon i the question of Hawaii’s annexation to the Unit cd States? His resolution oi>posing the policy of territorial acquisition brought forth such a storm of protests from the patriotic members of his own party in the district that at one ! time he could not have secured a renomination. His position would i require us to give back the Phil ip- ' pine Islands to Spain or any ■ other territory which we may acquire during the present war. Yet Benton county Republicans say he is a statesman. i ■ . ■ . ....... ,S=!= The price of silver is going np. ' Spai,n is in the market as a puri chaser using the gold reserve of ! the bank of Spain to purchase sil- ■ ver which it will coin immediatei ly. The silver so coined is used : to redeem her outstanding notes ( which have been issued to the amount of *SIO3,(XX),(XX) all of 'which is payable in coin 'and as gold and silver are both standards, ithe government choses to pay the I notes in silver. Now if the entrance of Spain on the markets as a purchaser increases the price of i silver to the extent is has, would not the free coinage of both metals increasethe value of silver so 1 that the market, value would equal its coinage value?