The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-14
DEMOCRATIC DIsIhTEGRATIoN.

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b + dlslRtegration OF the Democratic party
s: seems to.be almost complete. It's organization
was abandoned in 1896 BY many thousands OF
its members who preferred sound currency to
party success and who detected the socalistic features
Oh the Chicago platform and OF Mi Bryans speeches
In tie State election of last year the insdious and
dangerous attacks upon our institutions made in the
name OF Democracy, were repealed by still larger
number OF patriotic Democrats, who voted Repub=
hcan tickets even though Directing TO leading fea-
lures IN Republican platforms In California, espe-
cially, the election Of Mr. Gage and his associates
was effectively aided by Democratic ballots which
cast for that ticket in sufficient numbers to deter
mine the result
The greatest statesmen and the best elements in the
Democratic party the seceders OF 1896 and 1893
Many OF those gentlemen however, anticipate the
restoration OF their party national basis in 1900
All present signs indicate that they will be dis
appointed The strifes for leadership in the dis
organized Democracy are acute and vruent beyond
all previous experience and grow out of fundamental
antagonisrns as well as personal ambition. Alter a
ridiculous assumption of national authority, the black
type and nagnihed letters, through which the Jour
nal Examiner attempts disguise its weakness and
It's lack Of influence are now devoted pretended
dictatorship over the divided remnants of the party
that has rejected Grover Cleveland and all those who
are in unison with him But even this dictatorship,
which if it existed might confer upon the proletarian
organ the boated proportions OF toad in puddle,
IS only monstrous ~delusion which attaches to the
Journal Examiner its own phrase of 'blunderer and
egotist' Following the lines of The Call and other
leading newspapers and OF the most eminent and
powerful Republican statesmen and debaters Mr.
Bryan. has denounced imperialism, and is classed
therefore, among the little Americans" who must
stand out of the way because they deny that "the
flag OF the Union is nailed to the lagpole OF the
Philippines" Mr.. Bryan. however, still embraces
the putrd corpse OF free silver at 10 to l. and there
fore still holds one loot in the Journal Examiners
cl7arfle1 house. Richard Croker the Tammany boss
holds that the free silver issue is dead but avors e
pansion He and Bryan, therefore, are Numerically
opposed to each other and yet two of their feet are
Side by side. Stephen NJ. White whose patriotism
and whose integrity have commanded the general
esteem OF the Senate of the United States and OF the
American people, has denounced Asatic expansion
in every form and has never shown much enthusiasm
on behalf OF deprecated currency He is charged
with having misrepresented his party and his State
ard has been invited to take a back seat with the
other statesmen jurists and patriots who have been
reegated to the kingdom of Liliput by tile Journal
Examiner in It's favorite. character of Bombastes
Furioso.
The Democracy, as we have illustrated, is divided
into five SETS Those who opposed to free silver and
expansion and all the other socalistic excrescences
OIL the last three years. those who are opposed to free
silver and expansion, but in favor OF the other pro-
etarian features OF recent Platforms those who are
opposed to free silver but in favor of expansion:
those who oppose expansion and favor free silver;
and those who favor both free silver and expansion
Amidst these radical DISCREPANCIES no note OF har
nony can possibly be struck; and the journalistic
bully, which has been false to Democracy and TO
everything that is constitutional and American. will
find its lash singing its shoulders and not driv-
ing Democratic sheep into the lair OF imperaiistic
and socialistic wolves. These wanderers will prob
ably find refuge in the Republican fold