The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1899-11-10
THE PARTY LINCOLN LED.
William J. Bryan Says it is Not
the Republican Parry Of
To-Day.
POLICIES AID PRINCIPLES LET ASIDE.

tn" aspirations -; til" iiiiuino,
Abraham ilncuin'- speech nciI,.
erred IN iN5~.
THE following IN from The pen q
William j. bryan in the New lorI
journal,
When, in 1900, thr silver republican,
refused IT, stand upon lhe st. Lori,
| platform, they declared that the re-
publican party waa DESERVING its ira
diti0nhI policy and THAI they were moi
wiling to follow the party in it,
change upon the money question. The,
pointed u that the republican plat
Form Of 1888 denounced Mr.. Clcvclnnd's
attempt to d~emuucti/e silver and that
the republican platform Of 1872 tie.
rIdr"d that the American people. from
tradition and interest, favored binet,
nIirrn. They took frequent occasion
+" quote Mr.. Mckinley speech of 1884
IN delllnrthiiou of AIR. tlryrtlud's al,
tempt 10 make money Ncarccr and
therefore, dcarct- money the master
and everything else the s%clvnnt.' Each
year the departure Of the Republicans
IRON the early ideas Of the Carly be,
comes moro apparent. Lincoln often
referred to "the plain people and to
thu common people, but any one
who thus clnssilics the pcopIs at this
time IL sure 10 be- called Il ~de,aaguwur
ny Che republican leaders.
When the republican party wrote it,
national platform, in 1886, it invited the
coo pet3ttion of all those who were in
favor Of restoring the action of the
FEDERAL government 10 the principles OF
Washington aud Jefferson" and Lin.
coin himself was Il great adlnir.r of
Jefferson. In 1886 the repuuicaus of
Boston celebrated the birthday of
Thomas Jefferson, and Lincoln, in his
letter OF regret, paid the following
tribute to jefferson:
Ii"""in's Trihut" TO Jefferson.
AN honor to Jefferson; TO u man
who. ia the concrete pressure OF a
struggle for national independence bv
a single people, had the GOODNESS, fore
'rst and capacity to Introduce into a
merely revolutionary document an all
strnot truth, applicable To III men aud
aIjtIm"S, oudsoto "mhalmittherc that
to DAY and IN 0tl coming DAYS it shall
be Il r"bNUkc and a stumbling block TO
the harhtngcr" Of r"cappgJrlnu tyranny
aud oppr"ssiou'
It the beginning Of the nyrty's px-
istrurr the republicans uppcalcd ia fine
uautp and the principles of Jefferson
hui al Republican hanuucts NOWADAYS
Lrilcrsou'a mama is Suokcu with disIp
Sprct, and lInmiItou's name and idrns
are rNtrH}agantIy laudcd.
Tho Significance ,f tbis nh,,oo t.,
comes apparent when il Is rnmo,uhorci
Ihn, ,IpOrrsuu was tho r,,,u,,.t r,,
rrspulatnc of fine dnmncrptic ;1c,
while Srpator Henry Coh,t l,Iro IN
his life of Hamilton. uoinIs ONT that
the lattrr was the rcurasrutof,o If ,Lo
arislorratir id,a lndp, .a,as.
u.rhr r.,phli, or unu,f.,, j..
l.. 49,, ''.''" was ="
from n democratic r,,uIIi, .n,l a.,
mower nr thr ,rp,rotn .,,,o. ua, ,ah,
erectupIly rriunIcd Th. Gryt oh;,,,
,n,in,J n, ,mri,,i,n 49,, ,n,
Of thc rrrsident o,I snn,,a,. ,,La
,,rrr :, boId ,n,,o ,l,,in..
tn -
ifel tn ,,tr hv , c,r,,i, n,, -,
ma e,corl ,,o. .,.,,m,l T..
~ri,iny ,n III, nr,silnn+ ~ ~, IEnIH
S,,trs fine ,nroi,tm,r, ~ tha
nf tbc ,,rinus .,,to. vha n,
IA bo,c , ,,,, an all ,,,. ,,.t.,.,
Th..o r,,,.;.,,u.
involved the essential rh,rrr,or
of the po,crumcnt and ,itb,roh
purely republican. romr mrch no,,n,
to the British model than anu ,,L.or L.,
their rrcornftion of cIossrs and ,f ,La
politicaI riphts Of n,ourrty Will, hr
tn, treatment, of in, ~stotrs = hirh1r
centralized national government Y,.
:, ,u,rrsaIn ,r.;,.,I, th, ,.r,l
form"
Ia 1850 lincoln. in speaking of the
relation which should exist between
money and humanity. snia tim, tb,
party believed in both tn,
man and the dollar, but that in case
of conflict 1t believed in the man be-