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at". ) ' A" i Thtommotfe ! ;2t&2; ,Vi. .U:.- a B" kl- i- tjltV ' Lm 'i I " , ' I- El- ' K. I- li I: K f 'in'-:; ' ' ' V Hearing frbin the Pe ople ., . Bolow aro extracts from a few pf the many letters rocoived by The Gommdnor cpmmenting on currents events: ' .-, ..$& TIMtt TO MAKE. DISTINCTION ; 'cohimbus, Ohio, Nov. -23: '120.-' Mydoar Mr Bilam. wjlii,tt w .K-twifin, ni, ,,. TUnvn'toi" it was my .nappy privilege last niguc iwiniie rnS Tl.f rS? rt!5 ?.! 11 w w? J fi ' me with mo fchV November issue of "TheW EJSftSn SrtS iSU? 7 hnM?? A iJ2 IaS ? i?niSv- -" and I want to congratulate you and com road tho front pago. I hast on to write you. I havov -!-, ,,- n.v tun ,l.iA i, ? a n v u,.f road your article under DES13RVB am". tZt&n i 2V& ?$ & m,i StiJ?' wiTKiM nT7aA-Mtti , . particularly wa& I plesaed with your article, IHWW uuuaixijU. , . 'Tlaoing the Blanie." Also I was pleased with iou; nayo stated tno situation c early, .Tie -te arUcle headed "Deserve to WinThen Or- means that the Democratic party must )?o out of existence and a, receiver will havo to bo ap pointed to distribute its effects, I am with you hand and heart for any pur pose and for any work that means the elimina tion of Wail Street influences iri;the control and management oi the affairs of th,e Democratic party, Draft jrie whon my soivlces'arj heeded. John Y. Peete, Toifhosseo. I jam .. enclosing; you money order for flHo'renew my subscription for tho noxt 12 months, nd to express not ojaly my appreciation and enjoyment of every lino in ', your columns, but my ad niratlon 'arid esteem of your brilliant and -gifted and patriotic editor William Jennings Bryan, and the sentiment of the whole country is thaUhe Js'thp incomparable thamplon of the ptfrtple'afr4g1ilts, ;& the,. great est American as well as' tho foremtrila teaman ,r -. . ,. W L 1 in the world. Twelve months airo. I wrote von. suercrAKftnf?. and giving my reasons therefor, for him "to be tho nominee for president by the Democratic convention held last June, and the ho was the only man whom the Deniobrats could 'elect.. His over.v utterance in the columns of this (Novem ber) issue of The Commoner are the rallying Calls to the great hosts pf democracy, men and Women, for the greatnbattle of 1924. And if you will permit me to prophesy, and to name a winning ticket for next time, 1 will name Wil liam J BryariT for president, and Gov'omor Mal colm J&. Patterson, for vlce-prosidentjh scion of the tortli, ivnd 7 scln of the South), both ppwerljjy-dobate, graceful,; ' and gifted , in. speech, tajunound on every prjniiple of consti tutional government, their leadership will prove invincible. On the opposite side of this page, I am sending you about dozen ham'os as probable "subscribers, to your paper the ..greatest" ex ponernt' of democracy A. A. Meredith, West Virginia. Noticing an. . appeal to men who would be willing' to help re-' habilitate the Democratic party in their' respec tive counties and states, In. The Commoner of Novenrtier issue, I will venture my assistance '- , 4 - -' VV VW V mind of the real Democrat of the country as .well as the real Republican. 'This is' the time for us to make a distinction .between mere place hunters or rather office hunters and real Democrats. Some years ago I had occasion to make u distinction between a statesman and a politjcian,.anoM put it in these . words and .1 believe you might sometime see fit to. use it. Ih your "Commoner" column: "A states man is 'a .man who lies awake nights thinking -' and 'planning 'how he; may do something for everybody, while a politician is a man who lies awakq nights thinking and planning how he may. do everybody for something.. IsnH It "a happy expression of the difference between some of the, menvhp undertook to represent the Democratic 'party in the la$t campaign and the .men wjio je- v fused to prostitute themselves to being all things fto all meiir . . Your address entitled "BFother or Brute' is one of the greatest and one of the most effective you have oyer made.- I remember the effect and the impression you created when you talked to the Northwestern Hw students and I am happy . in flhdihg the substance of this address in this November issue of "The Commoner I wish you could deliver it to a thousand different audiences in the next two or three years, It-will give you one of the finest opportunities and -.it will make it easy to determine who shall be pur leader from this time on. The talk about the . leadership ot certain other individuals died "a bornin." Nothing is .juite so flat as talk about .. apybody's leadership except your own among the real Democrats in this part of tho state of Ohio. .It would be just as, reasonable to talk about the future leadership of .Alton B. Parker as to, talk about the leadership o any other individual as agalnstryourself. ; - .. . :t-. - Ypurs forever and a da; V '. y .r AN OHIO DEMOCRAT,- ' , , .is (k 'J.iJgr. .iT'' "" iieither by"4 expedience jqt oppdrtuniim;' Sincere and ih'f luehtial 'Oeniopnifrt Who Wfere lnstrhment id in making Wilson preaident were ndf phly denied any partiefpatipu in the admlni'stratlpn which they brought into being, but were haras sed' and persecuted -with a despicable male-vol-enco that finds no parallel in our political history. His absolute disregard pf the mandates of his party uhdoutedly drove many Dempcratsjput pf their party and repelled thpu$ands pf maturing vpters His Insistence, onthe repeal p Tthe Panama Canal tolls hlllrin dtifnnance pf ihealti more platform, and hls autocratic suspension ot parts of! the Jones shipping act, and bis pqrsecu-r tibn ,of fiomocratic congressmen whb .disagreed with him Pn the. former, were hut a repetition of bio defiance as goyernpr pf New Jersey, when ;he imperiously brushed aside as of no cousiqlulSca the emphatic mandate of the voters of Hudson county oh the .matter of jury-.reform, kept' the, State legislature of New-Jersey in a seething tur moil for two years and, after he had been in vested with the tremendous powers of-the presi dency; dragooned- a puerile governor and a sub seryienjt legislature into- enacting thV pesent .abortive ..statute, which has proven to' be -almost faciha instrument of corruption. ', Jn X 8 96, 1 9 0 0 and ; 9 0 8 we f ought a good fight and went down to honorable defeat, preserving urfdefiled and unaltered the exalted principles of democracy, and after each defeat furbished up pur weapons in eagei anticipation , of the next battle, inspired with ardent hope ;-6f: -victory by the righteousnness. of our cause. But . What prespect is before us now? A gallant army with mercenaries in the trenches and'raitors ' Pi inepmpetents at general headquarters as small: chance of. reorganization after a general rout. To the patrolts who have survivedwe must, look for- the inspiration and -energy:' to reassemble our scattered forces ad7Pnc? again raise the standard pf True 0empcracyv under which, may gather the npw : scattered fprces fpf ?a great and historic party. " '.. -wrs . V GhasVA. Bwell, Michigan. I write to "ttttfk yS toy theVbrave andr n6ble tttiySumve-' taWavrior our, great 1nfr ofvliberty bp called-" The Scriptures say they love arlcne rather: ' ' tliarii light becaulie the'ir?-deeds are evil, Y-waV at. the Fort Street PreabyterXan church, and 1 enjoyed your address sP vell that my heart leaps Within mfe, and when I think of thG,jEuritan4rid' thd 'way they founded our great eastern" heihis- pheredn principles of hbttriess untaS'Lorri; oh, Mr. Bryan I am with you any time yoifwant a'helper, .,,.- -L 'alnGethe'' election;' Thp people' were not so much concerned, about the league. I believe the great ; though humble as It may be. t have always been W1'11 J the peppiedo not want ;any league' a groat mirer of W. J, Bryan havinc cast " with W foreign .cpuntry, but thatnpt m first vote for him in .180? 1 havvnf W oOhe wholosalet Slaughter 'of the.Dmo,. ; for him three times and have, always voted the Democratic ticket though at-sorite elections"! had to hold my nos,to do it, - X am willing to dd my part to make the DemOr cratic party .a real party of the people, for the people but X am not willing to sacrifice my country to satisfy the ambition of spmo selfish man whp thinks more of sqme other country, than of his own: a, man whose heart is in Eng Inud or Wall Street -while his hands; are in the pockets of the American people; X am willing to go with .r. Bryan on his sug gestions, "Some Needed Reforms,"1 printed on, page two of Npvember Issue. I think those re forms mentioned are sorely needed, especially" the amendment- referring to the referendum on all wars except when' in actual invasion. I thinly it couljl be amended somewhat and made strong er oy inserting tno Bentimant. t.hnf nn nddanf crats, to mace it snort, It was the universal r unopularity of the -war itself. A. The -Democrats got just what was-coming to them a complete thrashing and-vthe soldier boys and their parents, did it an'd the war lords need not try to explain it otherwise for it is not the truth. - ' ; , I am with;Bryan and all his reform move-: ments. May God bless him and gve him strength .to pu&h them, te the frent.. Byron . Hopper, Nebraska. The: reorgan isation of the Democratic party wtfich has been haningjloomily over eySry gppdDemocratihce -the. electiph'is a problem. What'-Nehrakayants to do is. get behind W.J", and put him wtiere'e! canreither back a presidential ppssibilfty or ruh himself, which in my: opinion 1b. the. -best thing to -dp. rwill- gladly help td prganise this tp.wn, cpunty and state to tfi'at .advantage. It Vou havi t any plans -for th& cdmlnlr. reprganixatiph;;; Jbur . Suggestien would be gla'dly reefyedv. I wish ta put myself , at your disposal for the-comilr work". v 0. A. Ienderdine, Iowa.God Bless you, Mr J3ryan, for having courage to.be tru torconvhv tions eyen though ve don't always agree' with y'ou-. Never before have (ypu been more needed, in the councils of our party for I believe we can Win it we steer by the Jeffersonian Chart Und not -follow atteF personalities of false" gods. I nxtrolf -rollt lroanoot tnfnvnr4- -.... .i fll o ujr 4uauina tue sentiment mat no president v hvu, .ww-v 'uivoi, uui iJmusior pro of the United SfntAtt -nr Rnnt hn niiwitrBi' r gressiyo Democrats in the future. . - -j.. io ouiiufcji'8 ui. tne unueu otates out PC the Jas.:Pi Mairmckrodt, Utah.-rThe plan heqon ceives is, obyious, feasible, desirable and m un der th.e law. Jt. is as, it X should expect, Wilson, Harding, Marshall, with apprPval pf cpngress, Will carry 4t out at pnee. If wprld peace - is a good thing (and who can doubt it? ) saying three-or-Xow., months' delay -would -remove . a - lot of blocks analogs in the wuy. . ,'j; '': : 'is.. " : "ivmu, uiw uurgnna. in a renewing United States without the consent pf the people uy i mrect referendum. I am in heartfelt sympathy with Vlr, Bryan; Fd iaa man ameng men and had he been elect ed instead pf Mr. Wilson, I am sure that the United. States would not hhve been in such ceh dition as it Is today. t In nearly everyi paper we read th,e cause pf the Democratic defeat and -the landslide" for the Kepuoucans. , I have failed to see the real cause N. P. W New Jersey. I have just read Mr,. Bryan's statement on the' result of the elec tion and heartily concur in every conclusion. Ahove and beyond all causes pf Demecratic de feat were the lack pf party splidarity and the president's refusaj tp.recegnlzera'ny co-ordinate 'power or respphsfhility on the part'of the Senate in our foreign relations . li 'his arrogant autocracy he flouted every Mvuivviwi y. nuuut,v viuuyivuuutj. iiuu'in niS arOl- Of tllfl l1ftflfi;lSrftntln'nl',. 'Tf-Wno if nianHnn'X.l .rn'w-'ifttt '-ft. nrrriivHaina 1.-W(,-i1iA. .. j.x. during tho campaign nor has it been meh.tiqried'; ' b.Qdy. i the emctatic party' ffha're sVayj&d my subscriiiion, plee let me 'add a WdrWb! 5 r ii. T v x, - ttIVW ut eraw'-uae we reel fpr, the relentless war you have made on all forms of mockery under the guise of denrocra'cv. Jf5y ??-l Democrats here were inclined tp critioifcerr, Bryan fpr xiPt giving thparty ticket a warmer support. I defended Mr. Bryan's course on the .ground that it. was the probrporation,' pro-whiskey faction ofwthe;party that was select ed from pereinct primaries up tp hational delje gates to the convention. That faction wouldl naturally opppse anythihg Mr Bryau ' favored even If they were friehdly to the policy.' (iThe record otthe: vote on tho profiteering-and-gpy ernmentbulletin planks wpuld .substaritlate-ithe". contention , we whp x& in t ayor: ql Tpr'pgfces must fnob let political apathy defeat tealidembc--racy again.. Mam thdrpu'ghly wither;. B'r.yan in: npt watiuflgt nysham; battles: Wheiii "' - l &.&& " , . ' ';'.; .': :ctffllSNi8xi''' ' . .v"-'."" i,"-v-J rvTf!. V '- .-. , 4- jmw. - W! : ft JLii. UfV -' ' 'jti,ir,iibi .1 J8,ii.f" t a.a