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The Commoner.
VOLUME. 10, NUMBER 33
PASSING OF BUYAN
(Continued from Pago 11)
tlio dovotcd head o the "boy orator,"
and ho was told that ho was "dead
again" yes, this timo "too dead to
bury."
They killed him off every timo he
voiced the hopes and aspirations of
tho people they wero and aro still
plundering. They can not corrupt
or cajolo him so thoy kill him off
every now moon. His political corpse
has, for fourteen years, been putri
fying on tho ramparts of every great
question affecting tho "system" that
Bryan nlono, of all mon, had the
courage to champion.
What is thoro that tho insurgents
aro clamoring for now that Bryan
has not championed for almost a gen
eration? Tho insurgents aro all
right, their motives are patriotic,
they seek the greatest good to tho
greatest number, but thoy aro just
fourteen years behind W. J. Bryan
in everything thoy seek.
Thoy aro "patriots" today for ad
vocating tho things that mado Bryan
an "anarchist" fourteen years ago.
Victor Murdock's speech in Wich
ita reads exactly like some of Bryan's
masterful orations in 1896. So of all
other insurgont speeches in congress
and elsewhere. Ho was the pioneer
insurgont against the "system." They
aro his followers and imitators.
Now that branch of tho "system"
known as tlio "brewers and whisky
trust," has won a temporary victory
over Bryan by controlling tho late
Nebraska' state convention. Bryan
wanted county option. Tho "booze
trust" wanted town option, and when
the "booze trust" won, the subsi
dized tooters of tho "system" raised
the hue and cry that Bryan was dead
again.
Wait until tho votes are counted in
November and then you can judge
who is really "dead" in Nebraska,
W. J. Bryan or the recreant demo
crats who sold themselves to the
-rS3. "booze trust."
Just as sure as tho sun rises on
that November day, will Bryan be
sustained and the "booze" democrats
repudiated by the people of Ne
braska. The multifarious deaths,jmd resur-
county local option against tho in
fluence of tho liquor interests of Ne
braska, in league with tho demo
cratic organization. His defeat on a
liquor question would not necessar
ily indicato loss of prestige on broad
er Issues. Nevertheless, tho Bryan
of today is not tho "peerless leader"
of old. All his eloquence and mag
netism failed to win the convention
for this llttlo plank as the same elo
quence and magnetism stampeded
tho presidential convention of 1896
and mado him a national figure.
Llttlo by little Bryan's power has
waned, alike in his own state and in
tho rest of the country. The trend
was clearly shown in Ohio at the
time of tho last democratic conven
tion, when Judson Harmon dolled
tho big leader with impunity.
Bryan's power has gone, but
Bryan need not therefore bo belit
tled. He has been a big man and
has done a big man's work. As a
reformer, a preacher of public mor
ality, a pleader for equality of op
portunity, an enemy of all wrong
doing in politics and business, ho
should share with Theodore' Roose
velt the gratitude of the nation.
Cleveland, O., Plain Dealer.
WILL BE REMEMBERED
To tho Editor of tho St. Louis
Post-Dispatch: There is rejoicing in
tho camps of the unrighteous. A
good and great man has been defeat
ed. Drunk with an ephemeral taste
of power, the Nebraska democracy
has repudiated the one man who ever
made that power possible. The old
talo of the goose that laid the golden
egg is about to be enacted, for in
destroying Bryan his enemies destroy
the" party which Bryan has built up,
for without Bryan there would be
no democracy. And now. every
enemy of progress, every reactionary
demagogue rests securo in tho be
lief that the only sincere reformer
is buried forever beneath a mountain
of sophistry. Antiquity believed
creed of men and are incorporated
in tho fundamental principles of tho
American govornmont. Valiantly he
has'striven for, that which ho deemed
right and though now defeated his
defeat when laboring in a righteous
cause Is more glorious than victory
in tho cause of error.
HAROLD LORD VARNEY.
democratic party in his state for
twenty years and been the haven for
tho national party for fourteen
years, is' not thus easily to be gotten
rid of. Bryan's good principles are
bigger, broader than the democrats
of Nebraska, and they will prevail
when those who have sought to
crush him have been forgotten.
Richmond Virginian.
giants fought with gods, but when
wearied with his mammoth burden
flia mnnofor furnorl frnm afrln tn alla
rations of the political anatomy oi : belching forth flre from hIa dem0niac
W. J. Bryan is one of the marvels o,f I . lirloi1 rhn moon,, rim,
EXEUNT BRYAN? ,
Loss of tho leadership of democ
racy in Nebraska, defeat at the
hands of tho whiskey interests and
repudiation by those who followed
him in matters of state only to for
sake him when a moral Issue had to
be mot, does not mean the elimina
tion of William Jennings Bryan as
a factor, influence and power in not
only the politics of his state but that
of the nation.
We hold no brief for Mr. Bryan.
Nothing happened at Grand Island
that was unexpected or was not pre
dicted in these columns, but when he
goes down to defeat fighting for a
moral principle such as was at stake
in this convention, we must say his
sacrifice was honorable and praise
worthy. It were better to go down
to a thousand far mere humiliating
defeats than was the wresting of
power from Mr. Bryan while espous
ing a good cause, than to suoceed to
the ultimate in advocacy of a bad
one. s
The liquor issue must be met in
Nebraska as well as elsewhere. The
problem which confronts the people
Is not must we deal with the ques
tion, but how shall we best deal with
it. When Mr. Bryan offered the
plank, "We favor county option as
the best method of dealing with the
liquor question," he offered a' moral
truth, for which he was rewarded by
outcasting, denunciation and humilia
tion. "If I have advocated that which is
not good for the state let me feel
your wrath. If you find I have done
fimr Hia nonrof nf th vninnnio. Aohnn anymmg mat is not ror the good of
lay in the fact that a monster waB the democratic party, I do not ask
buried beneath its weight when
ONE TOO MANY LODGERS'
In the days when Colonel Charles
Edwards, former secretary of tho
democratic congressional campaign
committee, was traveling for a com
mercial concern, he reached a' little
southern town on one occasion when
the only hotel there was crowded.
Edwards insisted he had to have a
room for the night, and the clerk
finally told him that there was one
room he could share with another
man.
"But," he concluded, "you'll have
to sleep in the same bed with him."
Edwards agreed to this, and, as it
was late at night, went to the room
he thought had been assigned to him.
He hastily prepared for bed and
quietly lay down beside his bed fel
low. Later in the night he awoke
and saw a man sitting at tho foot
of the bed reading by the light of a
candle.
"Great heavens!" exclaimed Ed
wards sitting up: "Are they going
to put a third fellow into this bed?"
Without a word, but with a' terri
fied expression on his face, the man
who had been reading dived through
the window, carrying with him most
of the window sash. Edwards looked
around, and saw that the man he had
been sleeping with was. a' corpse. He
had gotten into the wrong room.
"It took nine negro farm hands,"
says Edwards, in ending the story,
to round up that literary fellow for
breakfast in the morning." Phila
delphia Record.
American politlcs.-
Commoner.
-Kansas, Wichita,
THE MIGHTY FALLEN
The long expected catastrophe has
come. Mr. Bryan has lost control
of the Nebraska democracy. Tues
day saw his downfall from the posi
tion he has held for nearly twenty
years. A minority plank that he
was determined to insert in the state
platform was turned down amid the
enthusiastic cheers of his enemies.
Mr. Bryan's fight was not made on
a national issue. He championed
nostrils. Buried tho reactionaries
may aver that Bryan is, but when
"duty calls to danger" the mountain
of oblivion will be overturned and
Bryan will emerge, greater for his
forced retirement. Roses do not al
ways bloom along the path of duty.
To come out in the face of the grav
est danger for the principles of right
is tho test of a hero.
Bryan is the apostle of a new
creed. When humanity wa"s suffer
ing he was the first who dared to
lift his voice in its defense. The
principles which once he alone dared
to avow are today accepted by every
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the germ is a fact. It the germ could be magnified
to a size equal to its terrors it would appear more
terrible than any fire-breathing dragon. Germs
can't be avoided. They aro in the air we breathe,
the water we drink.
The germ can only prosper when tho condition
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sell and develop. When thero is a deficiency of
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your mercy, saia ne to the as
sembled democrats by whom we
knew he had been marked for
slaughter. With full consciousness
that his undoing was imminent, that
each and every word he uttered in
advocacy of his county option plan
dug his political grave In the state
but the deeper, he had the courage
of his convictions and the strength
of his conscience and continued to
urge his fellow democrats to avoid
the pitfalls of the past and to meet
the issue squarely. For an hour and
a half, with the same eloquence with
which he had electrified those self
same men time and timo again, he
entreated tnem to adopt the plank
which he felt must sooner or later
be written into the Nebraska plat
form, but they turned a deaf ear up
on his implorings. And with what
result.
"The republican party and the
populist party of this state have
adopted county option; if you do not
adopt it, it becomes an issue," said
Mr. Bryan in concluding his re
marks. And thus it is today that county
option is an issue in Nebraska and
will continue to be the issue until
the liquor problem is solved.
And for his pains to steer his
patty from probable reefs, for his
loyalty to a belief whose truth needs
but time to prove, he is trampled
down, disowned and scoffed at as a
theorist and dreamer. No stronger
corrobative proof of his charge that
the whisky interest had sold him out
could be needed than the majority
against his plank. Bryan was a man
Nebraskans loved, respected and fol
lowed. He has paid a pretty price
for his conviction and his devotion
to his state and party in Nebraska.
What was the price of his selling
out?
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