The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-18
Organism Must Fight.

The Republican party will go into the
campaign next month with a ticket Of its
OWE. squarely representative Of its prin-
clples. That is, it will go in to fight openly
against Organism from beginning to finish.
How will it be with Bryanism2 Will it
dare to come out into the open to join issue
with Its old enemy, or, because it was beaten
last year, will it now sneak away to avoid
. renewal of the fight?
Organism cannot avoid assault upon it all
along it's lines, however loath it may be to
meet the onset. Either aggressively or de-
fensively it will have to fight for it's life.
The cowardly spirit displayed by the Dem
ocratic State Committee last Wednesday,
under Tammany inspiration. indicates that
1t will have little stomach for the bat
tie. The preliminary of Tam
many have all been undertaken with n
view to escaping from that dire necessity. 1t
is laying down lines for a retreat rather than
for a forward movement, and the Bryanite
army, compelled to face to the rear, while
its enemies gather defantly in the front,
betrays indications Of revolt and disorgan-
~ization. 1t knows that it must either turn
about and advance against the enemy and
take the risk of a square battle or fly in
disorder before the advancing enemy.
The Tammany strategy is too obvious to
be effective. 1t is too short a time for the
spirit aroused by the fierce conflict of last
November to have been quenched or even
cooled in the breasts of either victors or
vanquished. The issue over which it was
fought Is as vital now ms IL was then.
It's force and passion have been lesscned in
no wise. Throughout the Union the Demo.
cratic party is even more aggressively on
the side of the Chicago platform than it
was a year ago. From Maine to Texas and
from Florida to California there Is no break
IN the solidity of it's lines. Instead of the
defeat of last November ilnpairlng it's con.
fidence, it has rather stimulated it to de-
fiance. Instead of desertions from it's ranks
awakening it's alarm for the future, they
have rather l;n6lcd it's resolution. When
the Mugwumps revolted against BLAINE
they thought they had compelled the sur.
Gender of the Republican party TO them,
but the party became the more united and
rcsolutc. The Democratic dcsertcrs of last
year have aroused u moro '~vengcful
Feeling among the remaining faithful
because they assume to he strict Dem
ocrats, alone entitled TO tho NAME, and
have used all nrtful political strategy and
the power of money and social influence tc
capture from the Bryanite holders the con
troll of the Democratic party. "Only take
down your Bryanite flag mt hide it away
temporarily as u measure of political ex
pedicncy," they say, " and We will train il
your company, but otherwise we are un
willing to be caught in an association sc
d~isreputablc." 1t is u good deal as it is witt
the Low crowd and the Republican party
they are powcrlcss without the Republi
GSrs, but they want to avoid all appear
ance of contamination by open associa
tion with them.
Mush AS we dctest Organism, and dan
Roruas as it is in all it's phases, we cannot
refuse respect 10 tie BryHa!tcs who dare t
come out in the open field To tight for thc!
cause. They deserve the respect due t,
courage. They are not sHcaSs. They ar,
not insidiously ard hypocrltlcally render
Ing AID AID comfort TO an enterprise Will
which they a-e ashamed to be associate,
by public opinion ard which they profes
TO abhCr. They have the honesty to avov
the false political faith that is in them an,
TO fight fer i, urder its defiant banner.
Ard fight they must here in New YorI
Ss2t month. Tammaay mas: show its tru