Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1908 — CAUGHT IN THE TRUTH [ARTICLE]

CAUGHT IN THE TRUTH

While Mr. Bryan has been crying "Shall the People Rule?" and endeavoring, by implication, to persuade his hearers that the people do not rule, in his heart he knows that what he dignifies as the “paramount issue” is a mere campaign cry. He used to be a lawyer. That was long ago, in his callow days, yet never was he “long” on law. Now he is, and long he has been, a vendor of campaign notions in the political marketplace. And he has prospered at his trade. During the years of Republican rule, under the people’s mandate and for all their benefit, he has amassed a fortune. He will swell it bigger after his third defeat But that 4 is not what we started" to say. Our desire was to show that Mr. Bryan not only knows that the people rule in this land, but has admitted it In his Labor day speech in Chicago he said, and said truthfully, that here "the government is within the control of the people and no department of the service Is out of the reach of the voter or beyond the influence of public opinion.” He was bothered that day by a bunch of boils on his neck, but we don’t believe they truly can be credited with this ebullition of, truth from his mind.