New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-08
ENSWELL[NG MR. BRIAN.

The Populist party does not appear to be ful'
filling Senator Marion Buffers ideal of the pilr-
pose Of its being. In his opening address as
chairman of the Populist Convention at -. Louis
Senator Butler said: III the PopuliSt party
were TO 90 out of existence tomorrow. the next
Democratic National Convention would report
"a platform on which Bryan would not stand
Since then Senator Butler has concluded that.
whatever be the virtues of Populism, one or
them is not the moulding Of Democracy to It's
own notions 1t may wreck Democracy and
force upon it candidate. but it cannot guaran-
tee that that candidate will not desert his old
friends for the support of the pluocrats and the
shpbuders That Is what II seems to him Mir.
Bryan has done He is about ready 10 throw
Bryan overheard and leave the old-linc Demo
Gratis. who swallowed Bryan while hating his
principles. to get on the best they can. He has
no use for a candidate who swallows Populist
principles while hating Populists
Mr. Butler had an entirely correct view Of the
Chicago Convention He is Middleof-the-
Road Populst, but he knows a thing or two.
He knew that Bryan's nomination was a Popu-
list achievement, and he said One stroke Of
good sense gives expectation of another So
there Is reason to believe that Mr.. Butler may
for a second time know what he is talking about
when he allows his paper to say: "lf this young
"statcsman's head is becoming swelled on ac-
count OF honors that have been accorded him,
"he should be promptly reminded that the same
forces which caused that swelling can do that
(which will unswell IT, and that very little
"provocaton is needed for doing It. He is by no
means the only man in America whom genuine
performers are willing to vote for
This throat NJ opDlviuO rho I'm swelling DrOcpsS
to Mr. Bryan is provoked by Senator Jones's
unsuspectng confidence in newspaper men,
whom he talked to in pairs, expecting thH they
would forget all about what he said. If Jones
talks for Bryan, then Bryan lis proving to be
man unfit for the Presidential chair and But
Ter does not mean he shall occupy It, Anyhow.
Bryan has trusted his fortunes in the hands Of
Jones, and treated with contempt the profered
support of the Populists which "A few weeks ago
he was chasing up with the vgor of a Nebraska
cyclone Maybe he thinks he can play Western
Populsts for fools, slap them in the face. and
secure their votes for himself and his millionaire
running mate, but there is not a Democra, in
"the universe smart enough to catch an Ord-
mary North Carolina Populist in such trap as
this" North Carolina Popullsts cannot be led
about by the nose and kicked at the convenience
The Democrats who went to st. Louis to urge
the Endorsement of Bryan must begin 10 feel rs
il they had run up against the box Of Pandora
and opened the lid on lot of troublesome things
The more they chase the wider are scattered
the plaques they would like to cage again. There
are Tom Watson, and Butler and all the Popu-
lists who have heard that they were expected 10
fly Of to the negroes Then there are the Bour-
ho for nod, no H.
ates Popullss. They wish they had left the iii Of
that Convention down. and let the strange things
within buzz away at their own sweet will. But
now that they are loose. they are causing Mr..
Bryan much trouble Apparently Senator But
lpr's unSNellnC il about "a hnnin