The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-11-17
FROM THE OLD TIMER.
FOrSetfulness of Colonel Bryan ABOUT
the Electoral College.
Kansas City Star.

Kansas City Star.
Il would like to ask some of my fellow
Democrats said the Old Timer, II they
ever heard of the constitutional BODY known
as the Electoral College? The professional
mourner Bryan does not appear TO know
of its existence. He does not seem TO know
that he requires a majority OF electoral
votes to attain the office of President or the
United States.
He does not seem to know or understand
that he must carry New York or two other
large States east of the Mississippi to get
majority in the Electoral College.
What's the of talking about Mary
land and Kentucky, which are always
counted in the solid South. when New York
must be won, or, if New York is not won,
Ohio and Indiana or Indiana, New Jersey
and Connecticut must be carried? What is
the use of talking about Nebraska when
the pivotal States are east of the Missis-
sippi?
Not only has Bryan forgotten the cleo
toral vote, but he has abandoned the lesson
of history that political parties must advo-
cate definite principles. Parties without
principles are Bricks without straw, that go
to pieces like the mob in the street disin-
tegrItes after the excitement is over.
To deny the right and the justice OF the
united States using its power 10 restore Or
der and establish peace in the philippines
for the reason that a young man OF the
name OF Agulnaldo is trying TO be dictator
Is not principle
1T is simply appealing for sy mpathy for
the man who is resisting the policeman.
Certainly no one, not even Bryan, is crazy
enough to think the Democracy will assim-
late and rivet to itself a proposition that
the United States shall never expand be-
yond it's present limits.
Whats the matter with taking up some
real principle, gentlemen, that means some
thing to be done; something to be carried
out, to be administered, 10 be created
There Is single tax, for instance. If the
democracy democracy took up practical single tax
George advocated, but a modified single
tax, the result would be to set the whole
land to discussing this principle.
Silver, gentlemen, was fireworks, which
only goes OFF once, but single tax will be as
sound in 1902 as in 1900 and as sound in 1901
as in 1902. A principle good for a long race
Is at least worth consideration.
old The chief mourner Bryban added the
with all his might, and silver is deader than
ever. In 1886, sprung as q new thing and
fulfilling all the requirements of the polit.
lcal pyrotechnicS, silver was an issue that
made men talk their heads off. But that
can only be done once
The silver fireworks went off in 1896 and
Colonel Bryan's great work among the
charred remains can stir up nothing but a
smell of powder. The people are interested
in expansion, which is principle forced or
Mr.. Mckinley by Colonel Bryan, while
anti-eXpanSion is not a Aprinciple and DOS
get that States east of the Mississippi must
be won and TO plunge into a campaign with
out flag and drum to arouse the multi
tude ana without principle to win the
support of thoughtful and earnest men is
a spectacle of political folly peculiar to the
Democratic party since it's skull was frac-
tured by the thump the people gave it fol
firing on the. flag in the Mcclellan cam
paign of 1854