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Democratic Opinion Freely Expressed
George,H. Nelson, Deering, S. D.
Having read the article in The Com
moner on Page 6, of 'December 23 d,
under the title of "Reorganization,"
from the Twice-a-Week Press, Mt.
Ayr, la., I should like it very much
if The Comomner would permit me
space enough to make a few remarks
in regard to some of the wishes and
requests that the Twice-a-Week Press
makes to Mr. William J. Bryan. I
am in full accord with the Twice-a-Week
Press as long as it confines it
self to strictly democratic principles,
and the great confidence it may have
in Mr. Bryan, but when it comes, to
state that the democrats of this
country wish Mr. Bryan to go ahead
and say: "Men, here Is the man to
make president in 1912," I fear it
oversteps its mission. I have been a
reader of The Commoner ever since
the first issue and I have yet to see
the first indication that Mr. Bryan
would take such a step. The Twice-a-Week
Press goes still further and
says: "Mr. Bryan should take the
lead. He should name the candidate
in1912." Also, "Mr. Bryan can do
as Roosevelt did in 1908," and fur
ther, "Which shall it be, Mr. Bryan?
Folk? ClaTk? Wilson? For whom
shall we be?" I hope the Twice-a-Week
Press has not forgotten the
scathing remarks that waspoured on
Mr. Roosevelt for naming the man
In 1908, not alone from the demo
crats, but also not a few from his own
party. It matters not how confident
the Twice-a-Week Press is that Mr.
Bryan would name a better man than
Taft, the point is just the same and
much worse, as Mr, Bryan has re-
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j?eatedly been held up by the subs!
dized press to be a dictator to his
party and any attempt to make him
appear in that light should not be
tolerated by any honest democrat and
admirer of Mr. Bryan. I am
now an old man, past sixty-six
years old and every Bince tho Boy
Orator of the Platte took up the cause
of the common people I have closely
watched his great arguments for
equal rights to all and special privi
lege to -none; have heard him de
nounced as a' demagogue by the men
of these special privileges; even
offered an enormous price to take
charge of one of their great subsi
dized papers, but Mr. Bryan has never
been for sale, but has steadfastly pro
claimed his principles to the world,
and no one has been able to divert
his course. Is it any wonder then,
that millions of men should form the
greatest friendship and respect for
such a man? Let us, therefore, be
very careful and lay no snares
for our much-admired hero. Any
one that has followed. Mr. Bryan
through his three defeats for the
presidency will know that he has
never stooped so low as to dictate to
his party who should and should not
be a candidate for any office. On the
contrary, ho has repeatedly pro
claimed that one-man power is a
curse to any country, and I 'hold it
as an insult to ask Mr. Bryan to step
into the shoes of the -men and prin
ciples that he has so -fervently de
nounced. If Mr. Bryan.had only taken
a stand with men of special privilege
there is no doubt but what he could
have been elected president long ago,
but principles for right was far more
precious to him than any politi
cal glory bestowed by corruption.
Time and again has Mr. Bryan
been called a political crank and
demagogue and his platform theories
fallacies, but mark you, how steadily
these so-called fallacies have crept
into the republican platforms and
when so Inserted called sane and
sound. This should be conclusive
evidence that it is really nothing but
partisanism on the people's part and
intimidation from the moneyed cor
porations that has kept Mr. Bryan
out of the white house, but although
they have had the power to keep him
out of the president's chair, they
have never had the power to buy
him nor to tie his tongue, and I
very much believe that he has been
in a better position to arouse the
great mass of people that has hereto
fore rested so secure in the belief
that only through the republican
party lay the road to relief and
prosperity. Mr. Bryan has not been
the man to cover his light with a
bushel, but has continually held it
out in the open, so that everybody
that would see, could have full view
of tho political panorama, and it
surely has had its effect, it there
fore stands us in hand, each and
every one ot us, that wo see to it
that nothing is put in the way of
Mr. Bryan that will in any way tend
to lower the people's great respect
and confidence in him, and we can
do it in no better way than to help
him select the best men for any
office, large or small, instead oi ask
ing him to adopt the Koosevelt
Cannon tactics which have been such
a disgrace to this country. I would
with duo respect, ask all such papers
as the Twice-a-Week Press that they
use all their Influence to convince
the people the way to "The Peoples
Rule" lays with the people them
selves In choosing their best men to
represent them This can 'only bo
done by doing the same as the
moneyed classes have been doing
this many a year. "Post our
selves" on tho men that aro earnest
ly working for our interests. "Men
that are not afraid to tell to the
world what their principles are,"
this done, "then attend to our cau
cuses or primaries, instead of either
staying at home, or, if we do go,
depend on Borne self-adjusted, slick
tongued politician. We havo plenty
of good men to fill every office In
the land if we would only look for
them, but we have been asleep to
our own Interests so long and tho
politician has taken us unaware and
has steadily installed himself cus
todian of our sovereign rights. - Tho
year 1910 has been a great year for
tho democrats and a greater rebuke
to the corporation dupes In congress.
Let us hopo that tho democrats take
warning and put themselves on
record to recognize the will of the
people and redeem every platorm
promise on which they have been
elected. "This done," the demo
cratic parly will not only deserve
but accomplish a greater victory in
1912, and if it should then again
manifest Itself that Mr. Bryan should
for the fourth time be called on as
the standard bearer for the common
people of these great United States,
let every man lay all isms asido and
rally to the support of tho truest
and greatest friend and defender of
"equal rights to all and special
privileges to none."
senator from Texas, hau publicly
said that tho "Dallas Nows was
edited by boys." This may bo so,
as far as this writer knows, but ho
wants said boys' habitation definitely
located. They aro not west Texas
boys they know better. Along this
lino of thought occurs to us, what
Lawson of "Frenzied Pinanco" fame
said at Kansas City, Mo., July 7,
1905: "Mr Bryan thought ho could
turn a fifty-cent pieco Into a dollar.
Ho meant well but he failed." Mr.
Bryan never had any such thought.
Mr. Bryan and" all intelligent men
know that money in civilized coun
tries is a product of law. Tho su
premo court of tho United States In
a test case unanimously decided that
congress could order all paper coined
or printed to bo a full legal tender
money for all debts, public or private.
It is not necessary to say this court
Ib tho highest authority known to our
"Dnfivt- No Fon until allowod. Frca Bootes
JTUlVlllS TULLKK A JTIXEK, TTibliU, . C.
W. N. Smith, Elwood, Ind. Hav
ing just read Governor Marshall's
message to tho Indiana legislature,
and thinking it a masterpiece until
he came to the local option law, and
now putting himself on record faVOr-
and ward units. To say the least of I
thought of Tho Commoner In whom
I have the greatest confidence and
wondered If, after considering all the
facts you would haye mado the same
plea. I don't believe you would.
Now if it is a fact that our public
school funds have diminished by
reason of the local option, and now
we are going back and favor licensing
an admitted evil for the purpose of
raising revenue, why not throw our
doors wide open and admit every foul
institution that will share profits
with us, and thereby fill our public
vaults to overflowing with the price
of manhood and womanhood and the
debauching of innocent childhood. Is
is it right? I have been a life-long
democrat. But I desire to co-operate
with a' party that is unwilling to
enjoy the good things of this life
at the expense of the unfortunate.
Yours In the hope of decent government.
EPILEPSY
FITS OR
FALLING SICKNESS
November 18, 1909.
DR. FRED B. GRANT,
Kansas City, Mo.
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that ho has never had the slightest
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now, and I shall hold you In grateful
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SAMUEL J. MYERS,
R. 2, Box 32, Grafton, 111.
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J.' P. Harness, Colorado, Texas
The following extracts are taken from
an editorial on December 28, 1910:
"Mr. Bryan's recital of the fact that
in 189C Dr. Wilson voted for Pal
mer and Buckner probably does not
indicate that Mr. Bryan is disposed
to protest against the nomination of
Dr. Wilson." Again, "being a student
of political economic science, Dr.
Wilson fully understood that the
attempt t6 maintain a double stand
ard of monetary value could only
end in disaster. Convinced of that,
he could have voted for Mr. Bryan
only at the sacrifice of his patriotism,
so that the fact that Dr. Wilson voted
for Palmer and JBuckner, instead of
being discreditable to him, is, in
fact, highly creditable, and, in the
event it should nominate him, the
democracy could offer no better
proof of Dr. Wilson's moral and in
tellectual honesty, than the citation
of the fact, that in 189 G he voted for
Palmer and Buckner, rather than for
Bryan and Sewell." There seems to
he a great deal of hypocritical non
sense in the above quotations. The
writer can't see who such stuff will
please. A certain United States
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