The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-19

Democrats Who Have Been Supporting
the Popocratic BOY Orator on the Plea
of Regularity Arc spurnsd BY Him with
scorn-Thousands Of His Tennessee Sup
porters WIN Now support Palmer and
Buokner.
The position of Mr.. Bryan and other
leading Populist speakers n the sub
Ject of party regularity. says the
Baltimore Sun, is daily becoming more
inconsistent and amusing. Party reg
ularity" are tn magic words with
which they seek to influence doubtful
Democratic voters. the club with which
they endeavor to coerce the defiant and
rebellious. BY threats of political
anathema and accommodation they
attempt to stay the exodus from their
ranks to brighten back into line those
who have declined to recognize the
authority of the false Democratic
prophet and the dangerous evangel
proclaimed at Chicago Democrats who
refuse to admit the Democracy OF the
Populist nominee or to give him their
support are denounced as traitors and
are warned that they will have TO re-
pent in sackcloth and ashes before they
are readmitted to the Democratic tenn
PIE. MI. bTydn mas a IlbHl W llcH
support. he asserts. because he Is the
regular" nominee. although he admits
| In the same breath that IL the Chicago
convention had not declared for free
silver, he would have done just what
| the traitor" sound money Democrats
are doing now--that is. refused to abide
| by the decision of the convention. The
hopeless inconsistency of the Populists
on the question of regularity" was
amusingiy illustrated by Mr.. German
the other night in his Laurel speech.
| when. after denouncing Democrats
| who will not support the Chicago nom
inee he praised the boilers from the
| Republican party as noble band Of
| patriots.
Mr.. Bryan himself. however, fur
| nished In his recent speech at Memphis,
| Tenn, the most striking illustration OF
the Populist respect for party "regu-
| larity." The regular" Democratic
nominee for congress in that district
| is the Hon. Josiah Patterson; the bolt
| ing and irregular candidate Is E. w.
| Carmack In his address at Memphis
| Mr.. Bryan advised the voters to sup
| port the irregular candidate, Mr.. Car
| mack against the regular nominee, Mr..
| Patterson. Under the caption "A Re-
| gretable Error" the Memphis CONNER
cial-Appeal says:
1T Is something totally out OF the usu-
| al run for the regular nominee OF the
| Democratic party TO make a studied
| plea for irregularity in behalf OF bolt
ing candidate for congress. Among
| those who turned out yesterday to do
| honor TO Mr.. Bryan were some thou
sands of Democrats who differ with
| him on the financial question and who
| propose to vote for Colonel Patterson
for congress. They helped to make the
| Bryan reception a success, because
i they had been assured that he would
not meddle with the congressional
fight. The error into which Mr.. Bryan
was led is more TO be regretted be-
cause, while II will do the boiling fac
ton no coed. II has. at the same time,
injured his own candidacy In the sec
| ton of Tennessee. The gentleman In
| whose interest he interfered has occu-
| pied pretty nearly every side on every
question of the day. He has alternate
ly smitten and courted the Populists.
He has assailed the free silverites and
| then taken them to his bosom. He has
| praised Mr. Cleveland to the skies and
| then overth brown the image which he
| had placed upon q PEDESTAL He has
| declared that the silver question was
not political question and has thrown
| stones at them who agreed with him.
He has exalted Josiah Patterson In one
breath and endeavored to drag him
down in the next. In taking up the
cudgels for him Mr.. Bryan has about
given the death blow to a nearly de-
funct movement, but he has injured
/ -. IL At nat n -
ing peace he has brought a sword"
Let us hear no more about regular
ity" from Mr.. Bryan and his Populist
lieutenants. Whether they have been
Democrats or not In the past. they are
not Democrats In this campaign. They
are not following a Democratic lead
er or supporting a Democratic platform
In fact, nothing could be more "irregu-
lar" either as to political theory OF
party obligations, than the Popuffst
nominee and large proportion OF those
who are shouting traitors, at ortho-
dox Democrats in this campaign. The
differences which distinguish the Dem
ocratic and Republican parties from
one anotherl In these days are slight In
comparison with those which divide
Democracy from Bryanism;
r. We have the Republican organixa-
ton, whose measures and whose lead.
ers have steadily created such q ticket
and such propositions as were pre-.
scented at Chicago. While compelled u
recoil from the policy, Of compulsory
I purchase and coinage of silver. AZ IN
unlimited legal tender. yet II In I'm
sistently proposed to employ and In.
tensify the profound powers Of public
i taxation. Ito prohibit commerce. with
other countries. and thereby prevent
revenue from coming into the pubic
treasury-tSlevy taxes which shall pre-.
vent tho payment and collection Of
other taxes necessary for the support
of the government whose powers arr
exerted directly and personally upor
each individual citizen. and over ever
part of the land or water within tia ma
itionai- Observation-Disclosures Thos
r. Bayard.
q, i. - ropuiist Allies OF Protection.
We arraign and condemn the Popu.
latte conventions OF Chicago and 81
| Louis for their, cooperation with thu
Republican party In creating these con
ditfons which are pleaded In tustifca