Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1900 — Trying to Fool the People. [ARTICLE]

Trying to Fool the People.

The Democratic apology for free silver is that it is way down toward the tail of the platform-, as though that were evidence that they did not mean it. If they do not mean it, they are trying to fool the country with a falsehood, knowing it to be such. If they do mean it, in the event of securing a Democratic house and Bryan’s election they will not delay in commencing to tinker with the tariff and trifle with the financial policy of the government. “The gold standard,’’ declared Mr. Bryan in his Minnesota speech in 1896, “would destroy the opportunity to work. Is Mr. Bryan depending upon the votes of the idle this year?