Bryan As A Bolter

The following correspondence in the Detroit Free Press, ïrwy he of interest to sonie of our readers : To the Editor of The Free Press : D. Cranier, of Ami Arbor, sends you a lee tu re iu whicb he reproves you for leclining to support the ticket of repudatiou and anarchy. In his zeal for 'regularity" he out-Herods the popuistic Bryau himself. It looks very mach as if the Pops had stolen the livery of Deuiocracy 'to serve the dishonest aud un-Democratic cause of 16 tol. The Hou. William J. Bryan at Jackson, Miss,, June 11, 1895, said : "So help me God, I will die in my tracks before supporting the action of a Democratie national convention whicta did not declare for free silver at the ratio of 16 to 1." At Birmingham, Ala., in the same year, he said in a speech, "Xothing in heaven above, on the earth below, could make me support a gold standard candidate on a gold standard platform." At Mount Vernon, 111., Marchl7, 1896, in án address on "Bimetallistn," Mr. W J. Bryan aunounced tiiat "he was not a Deniocrat." Further, he said, he iutended to be present at the Chicago convention and that his support of its nominees depended npon its adopting a free coinage platform, with the repetition "no power in heaven or heil could induce him to vote for that nominee on other than a free silver platform." He bragged that he was not a democrat in March. He is not a democrat now. He himself a threatened bolter time and time agaiu, will find that the honest people of this great country will cast "regularity" to the winds, democrat and republican alike unite to save the United States from the evils of repudiation and anarchy, free traders and protectionists sinking their theories to crusli the cominon enemy.