The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-13
ITS UGLY MUG
Tammany Raises It's Phiz and
Snaps at Bryan.
Eastern Democrats Never Could
Stomach Him.
Now the New York Journal
BrOilS the Boy Orator.
1T SAYS HIS Is TO 1
Racket Won't Be Accepted by
the Democracy.
Croker Really at the Bottom to
the Attack.

New York, Jan. 13.-The New York
Journal, hitherto his warmest partisan.
evidently is getting ready to cast aside
W. ]. Bryan.
In a signed editorial by it's chief writ
er, Arthur McEwen, Mr.. Bryan in to-
days issue is roasted severely.
The New York Journal was the only
eastern paper of Importance to support
Bryan during his late campaign, and
this indication that it is to abandon
him as a candidate for the presidency
in 1890 is a matter of no small interest.
Richard Croker and the influence of
Greater New York are apparent.
The Journal, will, it is thought, be-
come the advocate of a new Democracy,
whose nucleus is Tammany. There
may be a fight between the east and
the west, the eastern leaders aiming to
unhorse Bryan and reorganize the
Democratic party under the leadership
of a new man and on a platform calcu-
lated to win back the members who
were a1ienated by the Chicago platform.
The New York Journals political edi-
toriaI opens with this paragraph:
"A a Bryan Democrat have to
confess that 1 grow weary of Mr.. Bry-
an, and this is important, because 1
find myself in a constantly increasing
company With these other eastern
he is not large enough to be the leader
of the cause which is known by his
name. OF his energy and his brilliancy
as a political speaker, as high an Opin-
ion must be held as when he made that
marvellous tour of the Union, a1OuSing
the people everywhere with his earnest
and dashing eloquence. But he no
longer HnpreSSeS as great man, nor
as one Of the highest sincerity"
Then it continues: He is showing
narrowness,. or irrational obstinacy,
either Of which should be detrimental
to his ambition and must be hurtful to
the immediate prospects of the move
ment he represents The persistence
with which he clings to 16 to 1, as if it
were not only the salutary tenet in the
Democrats creed or the axis of the
revolving cosmos, betrayS either Mr..
Bryan'S incapacity to comprehend Bry-
aniSm or dOgged disposition that re-
to his eyes and those of every other in
teIligent man in the country, whether
for or against the Chicago platform of
the new Democracy. The writer then
goes on to give his ideas of what the
principles of the Democratic party real
ly are and should be.
He mentions the struggle of labor
against capital, and speaks of poverty
as a disease for which a reason must
be found. He alIudes to the cures pro-
posed by the Socialists, the George sin
gle-taxerS, the Christians and the COM
placent disciples of the philosophy of
laisez faire. Mr.. Bryan, he says, be-
HeVeS that free coinage of silver at the
ratio of 16 to 1 will do it, and the intel
Iigent and educated and property-own-
ing classes of the country rise and
clamOr against him in wrath and ter
ror, as if they, too, believe he has
touched the button. Also millions of
men who hope for, instead of dread, the
inauguration of a squarer deal, agree
with Mr.. Bryan, on the principle for the
most part, that it is better to try any
remedy than none. After admitting
that a sound currency is important he
says: 'Bimetallism, by all means. 1t
is the money of the constitution, and
therefore Democratic. But why a ratio
of 16 to 1 or death? What decree of
heaven has given that ratio a sacred
ness beyond all other possible ratiOs?''
This, he says, is a matter over which
Democrats.
Common sense" he goes on, ''de-
mands that political party instead of
narrowing its gates of entrance, should
widen them by every possible inch.
There should never be any surrender of
principle, but always readiness to sub
ordinate non-essentials. Agreement on
the main thing is all that should be
required, and the main thing in the
new Democracy that took up the sword
at Chicago is not Is to l.
The closing paragraph of this three
column roast reads: Mr.. Bryan may
if he chooses, stick like an oyster to
the rock of 16 to 1, but the stream of
the new Democracy will not be sta
tionary for his sake, nor for any mans
Organism will continue to grow, what
ever Mr.. Bryan may do