Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1904 — GIVE US SOME PARTICULARS, MR. BRYAN. [ARTICLE]

GIVE US SOME PARTICULARS, MR. BRYAN.

Br yau talked a good deil about what had I appened since we “go to go ing about-.with a big s’ick, knoc ling people on he h -ad ” W- jnder why he did not give us some parti-u'a's cn that subject, and tell us whose he d< it whs were being knocked so often, an now roar d abou’ so loud'y. No doub t be has heard of the Scotch mini te", who was going to preacn n de text of “the D vil going about like a roaring lion,” and wh > announced t-at one of th-* questions to be discussed in his sermon would be "What, the Devil, he was i o ring about ” N jw is goi g about like a ro> ring lion, and we aso would like to know what he is “r »ari<»n and lion” about It is iot the war to fr£e Cuba is i>? He boas s that he was in that war himself Was it because, as a necessa'y r - suit *of that war, we freed the Philippine islands from worse than Cuban misrule, and did not turn them loose so anarchy and ultimate seizure by some other foreign nations? Was it becau e we were on the spot and took a lead nz part in rel asing th - captured ministers and mi si na ies durii g the Boxer war, and an tue Billie lime prev ned the dismemberment if China, aud kept that great people on the way to b come a great, f ee and pr 'grees venation? W sitwh n we nterfere 1 for Venezuela, ani saved that n-ig’ boring repub'ic fiorn being ravaged by the ships aud armies of Germany England a dItaly? Was it again when we took the lead and prncipd p r in limiting the p esent war in • the east to the two na'ions inv Ived aid prevented its spre ding to China, and thence, in ah pr.bability, to practically all the g eat nati >ns of Europe, and possib’y our own. also?

Lastly, does he find hie big stick leader and chief head knocker in President Rooseve t, than whom no great rukr tod<y is mure universal 1> recognized as a friend o e peace and gocd will a non/ the nations of the earth, and whom the recent International P.ace C n gress at St. Louis so recognized, when with one accord, they selected him as the proper m n to ca 1 the nations of 'he eath to e therin anoth r greet ptace con ference? N , this nation is a frie d of peace and Roosevelt -s the greatest liv'ng exemplar of the pea e idea » mong the na’ions; but for you, you are an errant humbug and a demagogue and a defamer of jour own country.