IRREGULAR. iiEGUL-AR.
Bryan, Claiming Support as a
“Regular" Nominee Cham-
pions a Bolter’s Cause.
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UNWARRANTABLE INCONSKSTENCY.
Democrats \Vho Have Been Supporting
the Papotzratic Boy Orator on the Ptpa
of Regularity Are Spurned by Him with
Scorn—Thousands of His Tennessee Sup-
porters W'ili Now Support Palmer and
Buckner.
The position of Mr. Bryan and other
leading Populist speakers on the sub-
ject of party regularity, says the
Baltimore sun, is daily becoming more
inconsistent and amusing. “Party reg-
ularity" are the magic words with
which they seek to influence doubtful
Democratic voters, the club with which
they endeavor to coerce the defiant and
rebellious. By threats of political
anathema and excommunication they
attempt to stay the exodus from their
ranks to frighten back into line those
who have declined to recognize the
authority of the false Democratic
prophet and the dangerous evangel
proclaimed at Chicago. Democrats who
refuse to admit the Democracy of the
Populist nominee 6’r to give him their
support are denounced as traitors and
are warned that they Will have to re-
pent in sackcloth and ashes before they
are readmitted to the Democratic tem-
ple. Mr. Bryan has a right to their
support. he asserts, because he is the
“regular” nominee, although he admits
-- in the same breath that if the Chicago
convent’ “-. had not declared ,for free
silverfah- would he"?! done just what
the “traitor” sound money Democrats
are doing now—that is, refused to abide
by the decision of the convention. The
hopeless inconsistency of the Populists
on the quest? . of “regularity” was
amusingly illusmated by Mr. Gorman
the other night in his Laurel speech,
when, after denouncing Democrats
who will not support the Chicago nom-
inee, he praised the bolters from the
Republican party as a noble band of
patriots.
Mr. Bryan himself, howe":r, fur—
nished in his recent speech at .fiemphis.
Tenn, the most striking illustration of
the Populist respect for party—“regu-
larity.” The “regular" Denocratic
nominee for congress in that district
is the Hon. Josiah Patterson; the bolt-
ing and irregular candidate is E. W'.
Carmack. In his address at Memphis
Mr. Bryan advised the voters to sup-
port the irregular candidate, Mr. Car-
mack, against the regular nominee, Mr.
Patterson. Under the caption “A Re—
gretable Error” the Memphis Commer-
cial-Appeal says:
“It is somethingtotally out of the usu-
al run for the regular nominee of the
Democratic party to make a studied
plea for irregularity in behalf of a bolt-
ing candidate for congress. Among
those who turned out yesterday to do
honor to Mr. Bryan were some thou—
sands of Democrats who differ with
him on the financial question and who
propose to vote for Colonel Patterson
for congress. They helped to make the
Bryan reception a success, because
they had been assured that he would
not meddle with the congressional
fight. The error into which Mr. Bryan
was led is more to be regretted be-
cause, while it will do the bolting fac-
tion no gocd, it has, at the same time,
injured his own candidacy in the sec-
tion of Tennessee. The gentleman in
whose interest he interfered has occu-
pied pretty nearly every side on every
question of the day. He has alternate—
ly smitten and courted the Populists.
He has assailed the free silverites and
then taken them to his bosom. He has
praised Mr. Cleveland to the skies and
then overthrown the image which he
had placed upon a pedestal. -He has
declared that the silver question was
not a political question and has thrown
stones at them who agreed with him.
He has exalted Josiah Patterson in one
breadth and endeavored to drag him
down in the next. In taking up the
cudgels for him Mr. Bryan has about
given the death blow to a nearly de-
funct movement, but he has injured
himself in doing so. Instead of bring-
ing peace he has brought a sword."
Let us hear no more about “regular-
ity" from Mr. Bryan and his Populist
lieutenants. Whether they have been
Democrats or not in the past, they are
not Democrats in this campaign. They
are not following a Democratic lead-
or or supporting a Democratic platform.
In fact, nothing could be more “irregu-
lar,” either as to political theory or
party obligations, than the Populist
nominee and a large proportion ofthose
who are shouting “traitors" at ortho—
dox Democrats in this campaign. The
differences which distinguish the Dem-
ocratic and Republican parties from
one another in these days are slight in
comparison with those which divide
Democracy from Bryanism.
Republican Revision of Taxation.
Vie have the Republican organiza-
tion, whose measures and whose lead-
ers have steadily created such a ticket
and such propositions as were pre-
sented at Chicago. While compelled to
recoil from the policy of compulsory
purchase and coinage of silver, as an
unlimited legal tender, yet it is in-
sistently proposed to employ and in-
tensity the profound powers of public
taxation. to prohibit commerce with
other countries, and thereby prevent
revenue from coming into the public
trcasury—tolevy taxes which shall pre-
vent the payment and collection of
other taxes necessary for the support
of the government, whose powers are
exerted directly and personally upon
each individual citizen. and over every
part of the land or water within its na-
tional boundaries—Ambassador Thos.
F. Bayard.
\Ve arraigi- and condemn the Popu-
listic' conventions of Chicago and, St.
Louis for their co-operation with the
Republican party in creating these con-
ditions which are pleaded in justifica-
tion of a heavy increase of the burdens
of the people by a further resort to
protection. “We therefore denounce
protection and especially free coinage
of silver, as schemes for the personal
profit of a few at the expense of the
masses and. chose the two parties
,Which stand for these schemes as hos-
tile to the'people of the republic Whose
food and shelter, c'omfort and prosperi-
ty. are attacked by higher taxes and
depreciated money.—National Demo-
cratic Platform.
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“rAN MACLAREN-" .
Mme Facts Concerning the Popular 5cm: 2:
Author, Dr. Watson. '
"Ian :M'acl'aren” is one of a brilirm
rulaxy of Edinburg University ::;.:=
\‘bo have revived in the later y an;
. he nineteenth century the literary r.-
uown of Scotland in its earlie'ir your-t.
it. L. Stevenson, J. M. Barrio, S. 1‘..
".‘ock att, Ian Maclaren, are liousehg 1.: '
vords wherever the English language
3' spoken. Scotland is proud of bar
L10" writers, and the English-speaking
world of letters is their debtor. 1:121
\laclaren is, in a literary sense, its;
.stest born of the four. The bravu—
licarted, much-loved Stevenson was
laid to rest on his Samoan hills almost
before the star of Ian Maclaren had
risen in the literary world. Barric’s
"-Xuld Licht Idylls” and “A Window
in Thrums” ‘had delighted readers on
both sides of the Atlantic for years
before “Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush”
revealed the existence of another
Scot-clrman with Barric’s gift of por-
traying the poetry of the life of lowly
Scotch. folk. “The Raiders” of S. It.
Crockett ’had won its author wide
DR. WATSON.
fame as a master in the telling of. a
powerful story before it bad dawned
upon Ian Maclaren and his friends that
he was on the eve of achieving with
his first volume one of the greatest
literary successes of modern times.‘
Though the latest to enter the field
of letters, Ian Maciaren is not younger
in point of years than his three brilli<
ant compatriots. He was born in the
same year as R. L. Stevenson—1850;
the two were, indeed, fellow-students
at the university. He had left gol-
lege years before Barrie left the school
bench of “Thrums,” and was a master
in his professional work before Croc-
kett had yet preached his first sermon.
Up to 1893—when he was already in
his forty-third year—he had given no
opportunity 'to the reading public to
estimate his literary gifts. He was by
no means a unknown or undistinguish-
ed man before that date.
DISTORTED FANCIES.
Church ushers move easily, because
they’re aisled.—Smith’s Monthly.
It is a mighty hard thing to love
and respect a woman who knows you
through and through.——Boston Trans-
crilit.
A London Journal recently awarded
a prize to the man who defined wit
to be “the power to say. what every-
body else was about to say if he had
only thought of it.”
Photographer-Now, then, Mr. Cros-
ser, if you please, look pleasant for a
moment—that’s it—a moment longer—
there! You may now resume your
natural expression—Boston Commer-
cial Bulletin.
“Rimer, the humorist, is in rather
hard luck.” How is that?” “His con~
temporaries invariably fail to give him
credit and his tailor positively re-
fuses it to him.”——l\'ew York Press.
The stove manufacturers are now
heatedly denying that they formed a
trust at their recent meeting, though a
coalition in stoves would not seem
greatly out of Owen—Philadelphia.
Ledger.
“I have met this man,” said a law-
yer, with extreme severity, “in a great
many places where I would be
ashamed to be seen myself,” and then
he paused and looked with astonislr
ment at the smiling court and jury.—
Tid Bits. _
Lady—The child is a little French-
man, is he not? Nurse—I don’t know
myself what to call him. His mother
is a French lady, but his father is a
German. Lady—In that case we will
'have to wait till he can talk; then
we shall see.—Lesehalle.
Poor Patient—I sent for you, doctor,
because I know you are a noted phy—
sician, but I feel it my duty to in-
form you that I haven’t over $25 to
my name. Dr. Bigfee—Very Well,
then, we must try to cure you up as
quickly as possible—New. York IVeek-
ly.
“Who is that long-haired young fel-
low who seems to have nothing to
do?” inquired the casual stranger.
“That’s our poet,” said the ’Squire.
and clothes.” “W'here are his works
published?” “Ain’t never been pub-
lished. He’s arranged to have ’em
printed arter he’s dead. That’s w’y
we are trying’ to keep'him alive long’s
we can.”
Little Disk—There goes Johnny
Smart on a safety. He’s the brightest
boy in town. Father—How so? “He
got himself a rich father.” “Humph!
I don’t understand.” “Why, his real
father died,
got acquainted with his mot er, burl
he didn’t like Johnny; so Johnny pre-
tended he was sick and goix: to die:
and then, after the rich man married
his mother, he got well."— Street &
Smith’s Good News.
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