“ But if he does destroy your prosperity, wreck your great industries, and shatter your matchless National credit, you will have the precious consolation of knowing that the Republican Party put into his hands the weapon with which he struck you down.”
Will Mr. Schurz by that assurance persuade any doubting voter to cast his ballot for Bryan? Does fixing the blame for disaster repair the ruin it has wrought, bring back the lost millions, and heal wounded honor?
We have not a blind confidence in the Republican Party. ”

“ Schurz's letter to Secretary Gage will give pain to every honest reader of it who wishes to respect its author. What strange perversity is it that possesses that once clear mind? What has warped and twisted its reasoning power and confused its moral sense to the point of failure to perceive that the proved existence of intentional defects in the Republican gold standard law is not exactly a reason why we should vote for Bryan, who would at once take advantage of them. ”

“ Secretary Gage may regard with entire complacency an opponent who attempts by such arguments as these to controvert his statements. But the public will see occasion for concern in the deplorable attitude taken by some of those who in the past have industriously essayed to shape its judgments and guide its action. ”