The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-01-20
As to BRYAN and Democracy.

by the New York Journals an
that it can no longer
urge Mr. Bryan as the democratic /
for the Presidency IL 1900. !
The further declaration accompany
ing this announcement that the free
coinage of silver Al ratio of IS 10
IS not acceptable 10 the democracy
of New York is neither new nor
startling.
Our New York contemporary talks
of Bryan and Organism as if Mr..
BRYAN created the Chicago conven-
ton instead of being created by it,
Before Mr.. Bryan's personality was
factor IN that remarkable conven-
ton, and before his name figured IN
the newspaper dispatches, the plat
form had been completed by the
committee on resolutions. Bryan
remarkable speech was made in sup
port of platform in the creation of
which he was no more conspicuous
than any one of twenty other COM
mitteemen. What the New York
Journal calls Organism is nothing
more than the policy of the demo.
cratic party,as deliberately expressed
by the only body of men authorized
to make final party declaration.
The Journal is correct in it's asser-
ton that Organism will continue,
with or without Bryan, for what the
East call Bryanism, the West and
South understand as democracy.
Take the party declarations and
analyze them. and Mr.. Bryan's baud;-
work does not appear. Before Bryan
became factor even in the politics
of his own State the democratic
position on the tariff had been made
clear Before Bryan was known to
politics Richard Parks Bland was
the conspicuous political advocate in
this country of the free coinage of
silver at a ratio of Is SO, and if credit
is due to any one man for that dec.
laratiop, it is to Bland of Missouri.
The third declaration, made i'm
portant because of the bitter fight
waged upon it during the campaign,
was contained in the plank which
declared against government by
injunction. This declaration OF i'm.
portance second only to the one
declaring for independent free silver
coinage, because it made certain a
cooperation of the populist and
democratic parties, was written by
Altgeld of Illinois, and placed in the
platform through his tireless efforts.
Why. then, call it Organism! Had
Mr.. Bryan remained at Lincoln the
democratic platform wou,i have
been adopted just as it was prepared
by the committee on resolutions
The Tammany machine, which
now controls the New York Journal,
has never made a democratic plat
form or nominated democratic
candidate for the Presidency. The
most it has ever been able to &C
complish has been the selec-
ton OF the second man on the
ticket, and even that was denied in
1896 The democratic party i'll 1900
will not go to New York for it's
platform or it's candidate. 1t will
not seek the advice of Richard
Croker, nor be especially concerned
in the attitude of the New York
Journal. It recognizes that the sup
port of the Tammany machine. which
ignored the platform in 1896, in it's
last campaign, will be of greater
financial advantage to the New York
Journal than the support of the
combined free silver parties, and it
will permit than to go their way
and revel in whatever spoils they can
wiring from Greater New York. The
democratic platform for 1900 was
made in 1896, and States essential
for democratic success are more en-
thusiastic in it's support now than
they were at the time of is adoption
X. G. Times.