THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
AUGUST 4, 1904.
PAGE S.-
Kansas Populists
Topeka, Kan., Aug 2. (Editorial
Correspondence.) It is a JlittlQ too
early to forecast the result here to-
" morrow. Both, democrat ant: popu
lists hold their conventions then. A
good many bourbons are on the
ground, whooping it up for Judge Dav
id M. Dale of Wichita, for governor.
They are all for fusion the real thing
yrX'" pops to go "bodaciously" into the
democratic party, swallow Parker and
Davis, approve the St. Louis platform
and telegram; in short be "regular. ,f
. ,The.Kausa3 election law presents an
obstacle to such "fusion" as we have
had in .Nebraska No candidate's
name can appear more than once on
the ballot. No one may accept more
t: than one nomination for the same of
fice.i And so on. At the last lec-
. - tion. (1S02) an attempt at fusion was
made but ' the ticket went on -, as
. "democratic," leaving the populists
out. 1 , believe the nara-shell tnid-
; roaders .did have a ticket , up which
may be the only means of holding the
people's party place on the official baN
. lot. " ' - ' ." ::
Candidate Dale has opened head
quarters at the Throop and his fol
lowers are working. He had the sup-
: port of Judge Babb of the Kansas
.: . Commoner, until recently, and I sup
pose has yet. '
. "' . " Dale has written a platform upon
' which he expects to run. It starts out
by saying that . "We, - the democratic
party of Kansas, in convention assem
bled; endorse, the principles of the plat
form adopted by the last national
democraticv convention at S'c. Louis,
Mo., and the nominees of said con-"i-vention."1
- , - i; '.'-"; "
The remainder treats of state is
." sues. Regarding it, Judge Dale told
f a Capital reporter , who asked if he
.would sacrifice any of the planks in
A Kentucky View, -3
Editor Independent: . A . sufficient
time has' elapsed since the S't. Louis
convention for the people to look into
the proceedings and make up their
minds quietly, deliberately and dispas
sionately as to the motives and in
sults. - The action of the convention as
well as , the results were a sore dis
appointment to a great many people,
but especially to the followers of Mr.
Bryan. . '..v - '
; We canjobt help admiring Mr. 'Bry
an .'for the fight he-made for a demo
cratic platform. But- his failure was
Signal and overwhelming. That he
would for a moment lend his support
to a platform that is undemocratic,
and to nominees that are republicans
"in faith and practice,, is beyond be
lief. That he, of all men who have
stood for the rights of the people, and
have times without number expressed
his faith and confidence in them,
should now turn against their interests
and advocate a platform in which he
does not believe, and support men
for office who mhe nas (renounced in
season and out of season as unworthy
the support - of true democrats; men
that he has branded for years as trai
tors and cowards who bad bold their
patriotism; party and souls for gold, is
beyond the comprehension of common
minds to grasp or conceive.
Had Mx. Bryan bolted the Si. Louis
convention and formulated a code of
democratic principles similar to those
in the last lasuo of The Commoner,
and invited all men who agreed with
him, regardless of past party affilia
tions, to Julu him in the tight against
a plutocracy, be would have been en
tirely consistent. Ho could in the next
four years have built up a patty
a.;aln.n which flesh, hell and tho devil
could not have prevailed. It would
have swept this country as a cyclone
and landed Mr. Bryan In .Li: exocut.ve
chair an the republican cyclone did
Mr. IJuculn in 1800. He had In thin
convention the same opportunity that
Lincoln, (larntt and PhtllippH had In
lb"6 when th republican party wan
organUed l tbo Interest of all the
pcoplo. He t.ad the opportunity that
only cornea to a man ome during hU
llfo time. Had hr mad me of It, no
(Hjwer n earth tould hav lpt him
In th back ground.
But h hat iuM'.f hU opportunity;
or, at lcut, failed to take advantage
of It and U dentinal to go Into an
OUcurv political Brave, unwept, un-
the Wichita platform if tho . populists
demand it:
"Well, I am always willing to be
reasonable, but I think that platiorm
is a good one. I am willing to con
cede any reasonable demand that may
be made by the sincere f usionists
among the populists, but I can not see
where they can object to that plat
form." ,
"Would you refuse to become a can
didate unless the endorsement of the
St. Louis platform and.' Judge Parker
were left in this platform?" he was
asked.
"Yes, I would," was the reply. "State
and national issues can not conflict in
this camnaisn. and the state ticket
must be on the ballot under the same
set of electors. If we do not endorse
the democratic electors we could hard
ly put our ticket in the democratic
column. The ' sincere . populists will
be willing to get together with the
democrats on some platform on which
we can elect our state ticket. I have
no fear of the few, populists who may
come to the state convention for the
express purpose of bolting." :
Judge Dale stands by his speech at
Wichita in which' he said he would
not accept a nomination if . it ap
peared to him that a large number
of populists favored another candidate
for governor. "
There will undoubtedly be a straight
populist ticket, if one may jucge of the
way matters are shaping .up. The
democrats are militant 'and rampant.
They have "swallowed the pops" and
are not inclined to show any mercy to
the poor devil who objects to being
hauled in the Parker bandwagon, even
though inside the capacious demo
cratic , maw. Any man .who can't take
Parker and the whole show, "has re
publican money in :.:s pocKets." ; It
is lese majeste for a populist to think
of. supporting Tom Watson. -. " :
May be I'll feel better when the
"boys" get here fromthe, middle. west.
I hope so. D. - . . , ; r'..
honored and unsung. No man . ought
to know better that Mr. Bryan, that,
if Judge Parker . is . elcted, that he,
Bryan, will be . relegated to the rear
and his voice will no longer be heard
in the councils of the democratic par
ty. If he . could not purify, the party
when he had a large following in it,
how can he expect to purify r it when
he will no longer be heard ; in its
councils? If the democratic party, un
der its pressnt management and lead
ership, is what Mr. Bryan says it is,
what hope has the" farmer, the me
chanic, the miner, the artlzan, in fact
all wage earners and i wealth produc
ers? If it is a fight; of' plutocracy
against democracy, as Mr. Bryan says
it is, how can he reconcile his ac
tions in supporting a party that stands
for plutocracy? Does he not know
that if his own conclusions are true,
that the time is ripe for a party to be
raised up ttoat will stand for a gov
ernment of the people, by t the peo
ple and for the people?
The people must have a party that
will represent their interest. Their
rights, their liberties a'ncT their
existence as a free people de
mand it. ;Thc time is now ripe lor
such a party and the only thing lack
ing is a great leader to give life and
tone to the movement. The eyes of
the whole country were centered on
Mr. Bryan to take up the gauntlet
thrown down at St. Loui3 and lead the
people in this tight against a plutoc
racy. No man ever occupied a more
enviable position than he to become a
grt'nt leader In a still greater cau.se.
But alas! human nature h weak and
short-sighted. The cauc;e for which
Mr. Bryan has so nobly stood and gal
lantly fought Is not dead, but Bleep
ing. While be has rubaed his chance
to become a great leader and have his
name chh-uded upon the monuments of
fame as a great political reformer.
following the high and glorious Ideal
of purity, Justice and houetrty In gov
ernment n.i in individuals, u leader
will yet be born who will bi equal to
the occasion and hi name will be em
bkvoned on the page of history over
and above any name that haa floured
In chancing thU bUnned republic of
Jiifi-rson into a plutocracy.
I had lm;.fd that that man would
t William Jennings Bryan, But 1
find I must look for another.
KKNTl'CKY.
("KentvuK)" evidently over luuks
the fact that all progress resull3 from
the efforts of two distinct "types of
men the agitator and the statesman.
Both are absolutely essential to prog
ress, yet it is the fate of the agitator
to be like Moses, permitted to view
the promised land but never to enter.
On the other hand, the statesman does
enter, but is always "misunderstood,
very much like the cnaracter men
tioned in J. Fennimor Cooper's "Spy."
in American history, Andrew Jackson
alone seems to come nearest combin
ing both qualities.
Mr. Bryan has abiding faith in the
democratic 'party. - He sees the "solid
south" ready to vote the democratic
ticket regardless of what the platform
may contain, so Ions as It opposes
negro domination; and, ' bending his
efforts to make the platform right,
sees a nucleus of electoral votes which,
as he evidently believes, will be given
just as readily for a reform platform
as for one plutocratic, so long as
the ticket bears that taiismanic label
'democrat." We may differ from Mr.
Bryan' as to the - correctness of his
view; but, holding it, we must grant
that his every act is consistent with
his idea of how reform may ultimately
be accomplished. '
The Independent differs from f Mr.
Bryan upon the question of how to
accomplish the overthrow of the pluto
cratic element which now dominates
both old parties and the government.
According to its horoscope . of the
political heavens, the democratic par
ty, as now constituted, is destined to
go much as the old whig party did;
and upon its ruins will be .built, the
modern, progressive cemocratic party
which will one day sweep plutociacy
trom power. Just what the name of -
that 'party -will be 13. not" material
but there is reason to Deiieve that it
.will not be "democrat." It may : not
be "people's party," either,' out the
people's party will undoubtedly stand
in much the same relation to the new
and progressive democracy, as did the
old free soil party to ihe jrepiibllcan
In 1848 the free soilers, by nominat
ing Van Buren, effected a virtual "fu
sion" with the boltingpnd of the then
democratic party, j In 18 the people's
party did the same thing, with this ex-
ception,t that it "fused " or , attempted
to fuse with the regular organization
and not the bolters.,. In 1852 the free
soilers cut loose from the .demcpratlc
party, and .polled, only 156 J49 ,.;yotes
for Hale as against 291,2(53 which they
had polled for "Matty Van" in 1848.
iOs possible (although theoutlook is
otherwise) that in 1904 the people's
party may not poll as many -votes as
it did for Weaver in 1892 but if it
does not, analogy would indicate a
new allignment ih 1908, with the popu
lists standing in the same relation to
the new' party as did the "abolition
ists' to the republican party in J.856.
As a matter of fact, however, politi
cal movements are more swift in these
days of rapid communication; and al
though analogy would indicate a vie1
tory for progressive Qemocracy in
1812, there is no reason why it may
not come by 1908. And, contrary to
"Kentucky's" view, The Independent
believes that Mr. Bryan is not destined
"to go into an obscure political grave,
unwept, unhonored and . unsung," .but
that he will be a tower of. strength
in the new movement! It" .believes he
has allowed his abiding faith in the
Immortality of the democratic party
to place him in a. false light before
the people; but if Mr. Bryan is dis
honest in his present course well,
there is small use to place confidence
in any man. Associate Editor.)
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