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MAY 13, MO't'J'
The Commoner.
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stronger than it was in 1894, two years
after a Cleveland victory.
Mr. Cleveland left the party demor
alized by his conduct and disgraced by
his record. Can the party afford, even
as a matter of expediency, to travel
again the road that it traveled from
1892 to 1896? Is it not Better aye, is
it not necessary that it should reso
lutely defend democratic principles
and espouse the cauBe or the people,
trusting to the intelligence and pat
riotism of the people Xor accession
from the ranks of those who really
sympathize with the masses, but either
have been led into the republican par
ty by misunderstanding or have been
held in the republican party by alle
giance to the party name?
Now Watch the States Puncture
the Parker Platform.
The Parker boom rs on the wane.
It is certain t6 burst before the na
tional convention.
The state of Pennsylvania jabbed a
big hole in it yesterday.
Massachusetts will soon puncture it.
Illinois will follow suit
Kentucky will take a shot at it.
Missouri won't stand for it.
And on down the list the states are
going to t emphatically repudiate the
effort of ' the Cleveland-Belmont-Hill
reorganizes to dictate to the party.
The loyal democrats of the United
States will not stand for the milk and
water platform adopted by the New
.York democrats.
They will not surrender tooth and
toe nail to the W&rl street crowd.
The New York platform is a cow
ardly evasion of the issues of the
campaign.
It is a subterfuge and a sop to the
trusts and "reorganrzers."
. It utterly repudiates the declarations
of two national campaigns.
New York turns its back on the or
ganization: and seeks to set up a new
democracy which is, next kin to re
publicanism. There is not one word of reaffirma
tion of a single plank of former party
principles.
The entire tenet of democracy is
repudiated and a new eastern doc
trine offered by Hill's crowd, which
they mean to force the party to swal
low. The loyal democrats of the nation
will not accept the dose.
It is as good as blown to the winds.
If the New York platform repre
sents Judge Parker's views, and it
was written by his managers who rode
rough shod over the only real demo
cratic forces in New York, the issue in
the party is made.
The party is not yet ready to aban-
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don all of its principles and accept
the Belmont doctrine.
The New York platform contains
no reference to the question of im
perialism. The trust issue is almost ignored by
the adoption of a weak expression
of "opposition." -
Not a single arraignment of the coal
trust, the beef trust or tne railroad
trust and other predatory combina
tions which have robbed the people.
The labor problem, the question of
injunction law, the canal question,
and other issues which must become
prominent in the campargn are
handled in the most gingerly style, if
at all.
In short, the platform stands for
nothing vital in American politics.
It is a weak compromise with Wall
street and does not represent the
views of the aggressive, dominant
democracy of the United States.
Charles Daniel in Atlanta News.
A Green Goods Platform.
Mr. Bryan has promptly and em
phatically repudiated the Albany plat
form. He rented a hall in Chicago the
other night and performed a clinic on
the new Hill-Parker codex of demo
cratic doctrine. It was hardly to be
expected that the Lincoln leader
would let pass unnoticed the extra
ordinary suppressions and evasions
of the Parker program. Whatever
else may be said of Mr. Bryan, he is
neither a coward nor a trickster.- He
does not stoop in politics. to conceal
ment and equivocation. What he
thinks he says, and says in language
capable of only one interpretation. It
is greatly to his credit as a man that
when entreated in 1900 by the practi
cal politicians of his party to dodge
the silver issue he consistenly de
clined to stand on any platform which
misrepresented his real opinions. He
still believed in the iree coinage of
silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, and
wished the country to know that he
had never wavered or weakened In
that belief. To a leader so consti
tuted, the burrowing tactics of the
Hill-Parker canvass are naturally an
offence and a challenge. They smack
of the petty cunning of the "green
goods" man; and against the empti
ness and folly of tha? sort of cunning
the editor of The Commoner has tak
en the stage to enter his sober and
timely protest.
Mr. Bryan never had an easier task
than the one he set himself last Sat
urday night at Chicago. The Albany
platform is a piece of transparent In
sincerity. It is constructed for pur
poses of deception only. Mr. Bryan
analyzes it plank by plank, and finds
it meaningless, except for a single ob
scure phrase and that phrase is it
self Intended-' to bear a double Inter
pretation. Take tha pnrase out the
declaration that "corporations char
tered by the state must be subject to
the just regulation of the state" and
the Hill-Parker resolutions could, in
his opinion, be subscribed to by the
extremest partisan ?n any known
American party, and exploited with
equal unction by a republican, a dem
ocrat, a populist, a pronibitionist or a
woman suffrage candidate for presi
dent. New York Tribune.
ence of nearly overybody there have
been times when his soporific influ
ence has been sorely folt.
The crowd germ Is particularly ac
tive on Sundays, especially when the
preacher talks in a monotonous drawl
and about the time no turns over tho
forty-sixth page of his carefully pre
pared sermon. It sometimes, but not
so often, attacks peoplo in political
meetings. It has been known to put
in an appearance a club meetings,
when the papers have been over twen
ty minutes in length. And, notwith
standing its name, yi Is likely to af
fect one who is listening to tho per
sonal experience of a friend who goes
back to the glacial period to relate
something that is not likely to happen
v until the day after tomorrow.
Professor Marshall deserves the
thanks of humanity for the pains ho
has taken to clear up this mystery.
We now know where to turn for an
excuse when we nod during a lecture
on morals, or snore 'during the course
of a sermon on the difference between
some kinds of theology and various
other kind's.
If the friend who is never happier
than when he is repeating to us the
old jokes wo have told him finds that
we aro peacefully dreaming at tho
moment when he expects us to be con
vulsed with laughter, all we need to do
in order to redeem ourselves in his
valued estimation Is to tell him of
Dr. Marshall's wonderful discovery.
Then', if he is at all reasonable, he
will be attacked by the germ himself
and pass into sweet unconsciousness.
Perhaps it might bo as well to add,
for the benefit of those who do not
know it, that the University of Penn
sylvania is located in Philadelphia,
and that, for this reason, Professor
Marshall has enjoyed exceptional ad
vantages in the carrying on of his in
vestigation into tho cause of drowsi
ness among crowds. Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The Crowd Germ.
And now it is the crowd germ the
little microbe that watches for his
opportunity to put us to sleep when
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ings. The crowd germ has been discovered
by Dr. Marshall, professor of toxicol
ogy in the University of Pennsylvania.
The existence of the germ was, of
course, suspected, for in the experi-
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in the course of his address:
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