The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-01-20
SEEKS A NEW SENSATION.
New York Journal Leaves Bry-
an to Act with Boss Croker.
Having Fought for Silver at Is to I /
Concludes That Any Old Ratio viii Do,
And Fires a Broadside at Bryan in
Cnncannenrp-

FA'iA i'iE~ D'ONS-'N~ -
Consequence.
New York, Jan. 12.-The New
York journal, hitherto his warmest
partisan, evidently is getting ready
to cast aside w. J. Bryan.
In signed editorial by its chief
writer, Arthur McEwen, Mr.. Bryan
in to.day's issue is roasted severely.
The New York Journal was the
only eastern paper of Importance to
support Bryan during his late cam
paign, and this Indication that it is
to abandon him as q candidate for
the Presidency in 1900 is a matter
of no small interest. Richard Croker
and the influence of Greater New
York is apparent.
The Journal will, it is thought,
become the advocate of a new demo-
cracy, whose nucleus is Tammsny.
There may be fight between the
East and the West, the eastern lead
ers aiming to unhorse Bryan and
re-organize the democratic party
under the leadership of now man
and on a platform calculated to win
back the members who were alien
ated by the Chicago platform. The
New York Journals political edi-
torial opens with this paragraph:
CAS- Bryan democrat I have to
confess that 1 grow weary of Mr..
Bryan, and this is important, because
1 find myself in a constantly increas
ing company. With the other
Eastern democrats / am COM
ing to believe that 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 politi-
cal speaker, IS high an opinion must
be held as when he made that mar
velous tour of the Union, arousing
the people everywhere with his
earnest and dashing eloquence. But
he no longer impresses 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
movement he represents. The per-
sistence with which he clings to 16
to l, as if it were not only the salu-
tary tenet in the democrats creed,
or the axis of the revolving cosmos,
betrays either Mr.. Bryan's incapacity
to comprehend Organism or a dog
ged disposition that refuses to &C.
knowledge what is presented to his
eyes and those of every other intelli-
gent man in the country, whether
for OF against the Chicago platform
of the new democracy" The writer
khcu SO0S OH W SiNo 0Ao 'oOoo "a
what the principles of the democratic
party really are and should be.
He mentions the struggle of labor
against capital, and speaks of poverty
as disease for which a reason must
be found. He alludes to the cures
proposed by the Socialists, tie
George single.taxers, the Christians
and the disciples of the philosophy
of laisez faire. Mr.. Bryan, he says,
believes that free coinage of silver at
the ratio of 16 to will do it, and
the intelligent and educated and
property owning classes of the coun-
try rise and clamor against him in
wrath and terror, as if they, too,
believe be has touched the button.
Also millions of men who hope for.
instead Of dread the Inauguration OF
squarer deal. agree with MIR. Bryan
on the principle, for the most part,
that it is better to try any remedy
than none. After admitting that q
sound currency is important, be
says: ''Bimetallism, bv all means II
is the money of the constitution, and
therefore democratic. But why g
ratio of 16 to i or DEATH What de-
cree of heaven has given that ratio a
sacredness beyond all other possible
ratios?' This, he says, is a matter
over which bimetallists can differ
and remain good democrats.