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WHAT HAS COME OVER THEM?
The World-Herald is glad to find
at least one great newspaper calling
itself democratic, with the honesty
and fairness to give Mr. Bryan full
credit for having declared war on
those democrats in congress who vio
lated the democratic national plat
form to stand with the republican
party and the steel trust and Stand
ard Oil in the special session of con
gress. That newspaper is tho St.
Louis Post-Dispatch. Its attitude Is
the more noticeable because of its
loneliness.
There are, scattered through the
country, a good many newspapers
which, while they have not been con
sistently democratic, have at least
been consistently democratic on the
tariff question. With commendable
vigor they held up the hands of
Grover Cleveland when he stood
squarely for democratic principles as
applied to the tariff, and they ap
plauded him unstintedly when he de
nounced the cowardice and dishonor
of recreant party servants who, then
as now, betrayed their party to serve
privilege and plutocracy. Bryan is
doing today what Cleveland did then.
JWith characteristic fearlessness he
has invaded the homes of faithless
democratic senators and mercilessly
criticised them from the public plat
form. He has defied protectionism
in the democratic party and fights it
exactly as he fights republican pro-r
tectionism. He Is defending the
party platform and the very citadel
of the democratic faith
Where are the democratic newspa
pers -that fought under the banner of
Cleveland? They have raised sterto
rous cries for these many years 'for
a "campaign on thfc tariff.' That
campaign 'is at 'their dobrs: 'It' i&
;nbw a campaign, to determine' wheth
er there shall be, in fact; two pro
tectlonist parties in the: United Stated
But 'these- eager newspaper chamtf
pioils of democratict'tariff ideas are
grown, of a sudden, strangely quiet,
where they are not, indeed, openly
sneering and scornful.
Are they against everything Bryan
Is for and for everything Bryan: is
against? Is this the extent of their
devotion of principle? Or are they
only the enemies of a privileged plu
tocracy at points and at times when
it is not assailed and in no danger,
rushing always to its defense where
ever an assault is made, clamoring
the while for an assault at some
other place?
If these newspapers, newspapers
like the New York Times, the World,
the Evening Post, were honest and
in earnest during the years they
wailed and gnashed their teeth in
the name of "a tariff for revenue"
and for "free raw materials" why
are they now so strangely silent?
Do they prefer to get under the
banner of protection, at last,' though
a Bailey holds it aloft, rather than
continue the fight against it now that
Bryan is leading the fight? '
They have bemoaned the alleged
fact that Bryan was leading the dem
ocratic party "away from democratic
principles." inow tnat ne is sum
moning its membership to rally
about the very sanctuary of the an
cient faith; now that he is 'fighting
for a great democratic principle as
they themselves have defined and
championed it, they become suddenly
interested in the north pole, aviation,
and the Hudson river. What has
come over the spirit of their dreams?
Omaha World-Herald,
for democratic congressmen, who will
support democratic principles and
stand unflinchingly for democratic
policies In .legislation is right. His
criticism of the democratic senators
who stood with Aldrlch against their
party pledges Is just.
Unfortunately, Mr. Bryan is handi
capped by his own support of un
democratic vagaries and of measures
which do not stand the test of prin
ciple. But he is sound In his stand
against plutocracy and privilege.
That 'fight is grounded on fundamen
tal principle. If democrats do not
separate themselves from republi
cans on tliis Issue, the line of demar
kation is wiped out and there is no
real difference between the parties. If
the democratic leaders and represent
atives who betray their own party
on this fundamental principle are not
eliminated or rebuked, the party's
usefulness is at an end. Public con
fidence in it is destroyed and its op
portunity for service ceases.
Mr. Bryan cap. not use his great
powers as a tribute to better advan
tage than by; rallying democrats for
tho fight against privilege. This is
the best work that can be done for
the party and the people. It requires
both courage and capacity and Mr.
Bryan lacks neither. St. Louis Post
Dispatch. IF M&. BRYAN HAD NOT RUN
Mr. Bryan may not be a candidate
for the presidenp next term, but it
would be. a' gopd thing; !for the coun
trjr if ho wore. Those' who fancy
that Mr. Bryan, had no effject in shap
ing t the destinies q the country since
1890 'are ifatiiii.'iiiiobservant students'
pt ' history. Jfe ffict is ..that .'qvery
uub v.l, ,uer eijUruis, wmuij, iiu.y.t? H!su
Xmriy(
was
utiiyu utfj , juuq repuuiuau.,
was ftuorjq .me, agnauon wnicu
started byW. Bryant ' L' ..
MR, BRYAN'S OPPORTUNITY
The most uncompromising critic
of William J. Bryan must credit him
with good work in calling Into ac
count the democratic senators who
violated the democratic platform to
support privilege, in order to obtain
tariff favors for their states, or to
stand'in. with the republican machine
in congress. Mr. Bryan's demand
'Ah , .almost pecisejy t (Sirailr' state
q'fla'tos' preya'iieil trriglahd; dur-.
iric Hhe 'latter. narY d fcffil!1heteentfc
, ce(;ur$ jSvhen ' 'tr. Gladstone was in
lueascenaani;.. vtfaasipne was m ra
Vor of 'certaiA. reforms " which he
forceji upon the Jibeai party against
its will. An& framing won over the
liberals to his .side .' lie. was, strong
enough 6. compel the conservative
party 'to tak' up his ideas and put
theni through. .
Time and qigaln Gladstone was de
feated at the. polls, very much the
same as Mr. Bryan lias been defeat
ed. . Time and again the conserva
tives who. defeated him were com
pelled to adopt, his policies and put
them, through.
. If Mr. .Bryan nad not . run what
Would have been the character of tho
republican "platforms since that of
1896 which w,as, as everybody knows,
a platform dictated by rich men?
If Mr Bryan had. not fuii, would
Mr. Roosevelt, have created his whole
machinery of talk that has made him
famous,, wiifh it- "predatory million
aires" "criminal rich" and the like?
If Mr. Bryan1 hjad not run, where
had been the prosecutions by the na
tional government of the gigantic
combinations of capital? Would the
packing hquse barons . have been
dragged Into court and put in the
criminal's dock like common thieves?
Would the Standard Oil company
have been fined that $29,000,000?
Would the republican party suddenly
have discovered that there are some
thing like 20f00G,000 workingmen in
this country who have the right to
be classified as human beings?
If Mr. Bryan had not run, would
the tariff question be in the state it
now is a state which threatened to
disrupt the republican party, bound
together, as that1 party is, by the
strongest ties in the world the ties
of wealth?'
If Mr. Bryan, had not Tun, would
not the money power havo completed
its conquest of the country long ago,
instead of, as now, being compelled
to do it by all sorts of subterfuges,
which are even now ceasing to be
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