The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-08-17
Organization
Department,


principles-very many. times sadly
mixed-and not enough in drilling the
boys" in organization and the advan-
tages that would come to them by fol-
lowing certain methods. Oftener there
is more in the way thingeis to be done
than in the doing. Fraternally.
j. J. STREETER.
VERMILLION, s. D., July 20, 1899.
Editor Organization Column:
II the Democrats keep on in the way
they are doing at present. l think that
the Peoples party Of South Dakota will
reject fusion.
G. B. OBERHULs.
BRYAN AS A TOADY.
You have seen a sweet, well-dressed
little boy. whose parents are poor, try
ing to "stanu in" with some swell sons
of rich parents How proud he feels to
be noticed by them. careful not to Of
fend them. Such has little Col. Bryan
become. Starting out with the frac-
tional part of half-truth, his natural
eloquence and personal magnetism drew
an immense crowd Of the followers OF
the god Of political expediency. 1t was
no party. 1t was merely an ill-mingled
mass of discontinued voters following a
multitude of roads, towards an infinite
number OF goals. and whose contradic-
tory ideas are now about to tobogaan
them down hill, forever apart from
each other. Great numbers do not al
ways count Little Col. Bryan reached
the top. ana is now tobOgganing down.
wards with these same followers Of the
god Of political expediency. 1t reminds
us Of how the Lord sunk the Philistines
In the Red sea, after the Mid-rOaders
had safely passed through the divided
ranks of hirelings.
IF you have tears prepared shed them
them now" That magnificent blunder-
er, the Democratic party, cries aloud for
a pilot to steer herself safely between
the Scylla of the trusts, of whom she
demands $2,OOO,0OO glue for her cam
paign. and the Charybdis of the real
wealth producers. The Democratic mob
of the god of political expediency wor-
SHIPPED Bryan SO long they thought they
could ride on his back safely between
Scylla and Charybdis into power. But
the towards, fast as they can, will clam
Der off the toboggan slide. The slip at
Chicago was but the beginning of the
end. There Bryan's duty was plain.
He had promised to speak at his own
meeting on the Chicago platform, at
meeting the success of which was pre-
viously fully assured, when no other
Democratic meeting was advertised.
The bulldozing political ring of Tam
many and Chicago threatened him to
stay away. Then Bryan, whom the
Lind men tell you is a strong man for
the presidency. hesitated the day long
in closed wash room. When he did
speak. he apologized for the local fac
tons in his party. In other words, Bry-
an showed himself the poor little boy
bowling to the combine of corporations
of which VIM. C. Whitney is the head
working through Tammany Hall, OF
New York, and the Chicago ring
Whom the gods would destroy they
first make mad" So then, Bryan on
the downward slide, rushed from the
Chicago slip to the support of Goebel, OF
Kentucky. Whereupon the POpulists
there, in convention assembled, stated:
1--WE regret to see that Hon. VIM. J.
Bryan, for whom the Populists of Ken
lucky voted in 1896 for president of the
United States, has by his public in
dorsement OF the ticket nominated at
Louisville and the platform there adopt
ed, assumed the responsibility of in
dorsing the criminal attempts Of the
corrupt elements Of Kentucky politics
to subvert the ballot"
Bryan should have dared to take the
bull by the horns, defy the Harrison
elements, jumped onto the corporations
called for naturalization, the initiative
and referendum, and chung to Is to L
like a trapeze bar performer clingine
with his teeth to a descending wheel
But this god Of political expediency
and even Altgeld, are finding the silver
cry stale, and so they are gradually
laying more stress on trusts and "im-
perialism," by which Bryan is Fastening
his descent down among the other little
gods of political exped1ency.
So we dismiss Bryan, who went to
Chicago expecting the Democratic ma
tional committee to abrogate the unit
and twO-thirds rules, to knock out the
gold forces, the Germans, Crokers and
Van Wycks, to indorse himself, to rec
Ognize the boiling Chicago platform or.
CARNATIONS of New York and Illinois
but who found that committee die
scarcely anything except to dismiss
Develin, his Altgeld man. and enable ex.
Gov. Stone, of Missouri to temporarily
act in the absence Of Chairman Jones
We dismiss Bryan and consign him tt
the tender mercies of the Southern golC
generals. who affectionately recall how
Bryan voted against their candidate
Crisp, for the speakership of the house
of representatives, because Crisp was
in the Confederate army" OF course
the opposition to Bryan (unless he has
as it would seem by his bearing at thu
Chicago meeting. given the wink, car