The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-10-22
IRREGULAR REGULAR
Bryan, Claiming Support as q
Regular" Nominee, Champi.
ons a Boilers Cause.
UNWARRANTABLE INCONSISTENCY.
Democrats Who Have Been Supporting
the Popcoratic Boy Orator on the Plea
of Regularity Are spurned by Him with
Scorn-Thopsands of His Tennessee Sup
porters VIII Now Support Palmer and
Buckuer.

porters VIII Now Support Palmer and
Buckner.
The position, of Mr.. Bryan and other
leading populist speakers on the sub
ject of party regularity, says the
Baltimore Sun, is daily becoming more
inconsistent and amusing. Party reg
ularity" are the magic words with
which they seek to influence doubtful
democratic voters, the club with which
they cndeavor TO coerce the defiant and
rebellious. By threats of political
anathema and accommodation they
attempt 10 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 a 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 readmittcd to the democratic tenn
pie. Mr. Bryan has Il right to their
support, he asserts, because he is the
regular" nominee, although he admits
in the same breath that if the Chicago
convention had not declared for free
silver. he would have done just what
the traitor" sound money" demo-
Gratis are doing now-that is, refused to
abide by the decision of the conven-
ton. The hopeless inconsistency OF
the populists on the question of "regu-
larity" was amusingly illustrated by
Mr.. German the other night in his
Laurel speech, when, after denouncing
democrats who will not support the
Chicago nominee, he praised the bolt
ers from the republican party as a 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 Hon. Josiah Patterson; the bolt
ing and irregular candidate is T. ".
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
grettable Error" the Memphis CONNER
cial-Appeal says:
1T IS something totally out of the
usual run for the regular nominee of the
democratic party to make studied
plea for irregularity In behalf of bolt
ing candidate for congress. Among
those who turned out yesterday to do
honor to Mrs Bryan were some thou
sands of democrats who differ with him
on the financial question and who pro-
pose to vote for Col Patterson for con.
gress. They helped to make the Bryan
reception a success, because they had
been assured that he would not meddle
with the congressional fight. The err
ror into which Mr.. Bryan was led Is
more to be regretted because, while II
Will do the boiling faction no good, il
has, at the same time, injured his own
candidacy in this section of Tennessee.
The gentleman in whose interest he
interfered has occupied nearly every
side on every question of the day. He
has alternately smitten and courted
the populists. He has assaulted the free
silyerites and then taken them to his
bosom. He has praised Mr. Cleveland
to the skies and then overthroyvn the
image which he had placed upon
pedestal. He has declared that the sill
yer question was not Il political ques
ton and has thrown stones at them
who agreed with him. He has exalted
Josiah Patterson in one breath and en-
deavored to drag him down in the next
In taking up the cudgels for him Mr.
Bryan has about given the death blow
TO nearly defunct movement, but he
has injured himself in doing SO. In.
stead of bringing peace he has brought
a sword"
Let us hear no more about regular
ity" from Mr.. Bryan and his poDulist
heutenants. Whether they have been
democrats or not in the past, they are
not democrats in this campaign. They
are not following a democratic leader
or supporting a democratic platform.
In fact, nothing could be more .'irregu-
lar, either as to political theory OF
party obligations, than the populist
nominee ana a large proportion of those
who are shSuting traitors" at ortho-
doX democrats1in this campaign. The
differences which distinguish the dem.
ocratic and republican parties from one
another in these days are slight in com
parison with those which divide democ-
raCy from Bryanism.