Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-08-07
NATIONAL POLITICS.
THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR STAND.

THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR STAND.
New York.-William j. Bryan is now
also the candidate of the Knights of La
Dor for president. The Journal of the
Knights of Labor, the official organ OF
the order, in loaded editorial headed
"The Occasion and the Man." calls on all
members of the order to support the Ne
braska statesman at the polls in Novem-
Der. The editorial is from the pen of
Henry B. Martin, of Minneapolis and
Washington. Mr.. Martin is member of
the general executive board. He is also
the editor of the Knights of Labor Jour-
nal. The official editor of the organiza-
tion says:
"We have had seven national conven-
tions this year of grace 30 far, and are
threatened with another. The Prohibi-
tionists have split their forces and pre-
sent the claims of two different individ-
uals to their extremely limited clientage.
The Republicans, minus Teller, Towne,
Dubois, Cannon, Hartman and other
prominent western silver leaders, are now
engaged in trying to induct Mr.. Hanna
into the White house; the socialists have
couple of gentlemen named Matchett
and Mcguire entered for the race; the
De mocrats, throwing machinery, bosses,
manipulation and party discipline to the
winds, RELOCATING all the shining lights of
the party in the past into oblivion OBJ
scure, and gently assisted by the supreme
grasp of the situation which their stand
ard bearer displayed, have put forward a
young giant of the west with an eastern
partner for suffrage. The silver men
simply indorsed the action of the Dem
ocracy, and the Peoples party, the last
in the field, after four days of struggle
and discussion, finally named upon their
own platform, the same William Jennings
Bryan, already selected by the Democrats
and silver men.
"Bryan is the man of the hour, brought
forth by the necessities of the occasion.
BrYan's whole course as politician has
been clean, consistent, forceful and
manly; there are no dubious utterances
of his to explain away. His position
upon the chief issues has been long def
nitely established and in their defense he
had already won his spurs before his
name was dreamed of in connection with
the presidency. All the powers of wealth,
and the influence it brings are already at
work to compass his defeat. Every legal
robber in the United States, regardless OF
his former politics, every man whose in
terest lies in the continued subjugation
Of the wage Garner and farmer, every
sheet which has prospered and grown
upon the subsidies to be obtained for
treachery-all this tremendous force is al.
ready moving to prevent the coming
triumph Of the plain people. The Whit
ney- Cleveland Democracy, joining hands
with the Hanna-Depew Republicans, all
recognize tne danger 10 the conCihuahce
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