Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-08-10

ceauine Democrats Everywhere
unitea In support of the chicaHo
Platform and the Standard Nearer
Of 1896 : MANY ProdaEaIs Are Re
surninw-The East No Longer Gem
trois-ChAnaier's right with CAL
iinKer-Aisexa Retirement.
Especial washington Lettsrl
As model Of patience the man Of
Uz was not in il with those goidbug
Democrats who have been waiting pa
tiently for three years to gel 9 good OPP
porfunity TO screw the lid fast and tight
on to the coffin Of Bryan and Organism
They are certainly the most active and
pastiferous corpses ever known among
men. Bryan's friends in Washington,
where they do nothing but talk politics
from years end to years end. have
ciphered 10 out that he has more
than two-thirds Of the delegates 10 the
next national convention safe in hand
already. For something Ike three years
the goldbugs have been shouting that
Bryan was merely a gimcrack orator,
a persistent spouter Of exploded plnti-
tudes, with a certain knack Of deliver
ing gliftering generalitiez but that he
knew nothing Of real politics-thnt is,
such politics IS the Hon. Richard Gro
ker and the Hon. Arthur Pue German
understand
In his palmy days in the senate the
Hon John James ingalls, the ~vitriolic
orator Of Kansas saw one Of his grave
senatorial brethren pacing solemnly mp
and down with his hands behind his
hack in the senatorial lobby and sarcas-
ticaIly remarked, There goes q man
who thinks he is thinking" Now. for
three years these goldbugs have thought
they were thinking these aforesaid
things about Bryan, and they had kept
up this process of ratiocination until
they had come to believe that what they
50 much wished had come true. Now,
however, 80 many signs have aecumu-
lated that at last they have concluded
that as q practical politician the Hon
William Jennings Bryan from the wild
and woolIy west can give cards and
spades to veteran gamesters Of the east
and beat them ont Of their boots Fol
q long time they have asserted that he
was rambling over the country making
speeches for the love of the thing and
was wasting his sweetness on the desert
air. Finally it has percolated through
their heads slowly. but nevertheless
surely, that there Is method IN his per
ordinations and that the net result o.
his oratorical tour is q bountiful har
vest Of delegates to the next nationaI
convention. They would be perfectly
willing themselves 10 take Bryan asst
candidate provided he would recant any
portion Of his silver faith
Opening u the Campaign
The campaign Of 1900 really wa
formally opened on the 25th Of May a
the great antitrust banquet in st
Louis was selected by the manager
10 deliver the first set speech In stat
ing what the next platform would be
said.inter ala. First we viii not onl,
reafirm. but readopt. the Chicago plat
form Of 1893, word for word. syllabl
/ by syllable, abating neither jot nor tit
tie Of that second declaration Of indie
pendence." And, II I do say 1t myself
that statement was taken and acceptel
as genuine Democracy from the Atlanti
to the Pacific by the hosts Of Democrat
who In 1895 voted for Bryan; bat, in
asmuch as more was said that nigh
about trusts than about anything else
even by Mr.. Bryan himself, the goldbuI
organ grinders. with one accord, de
clared that silver was being side tracked
and they congratulated themselves an
incidentally the country upon this hap
py event. They were hardly througl
with these congratulations, however
when they were thrown into the dump
by the irrepressible and incorrigibl
Bryan himself. In his speech befor
the Ohio Democratic clubs at Columbu
July 7 he made this unequivocal decla
ration:
81 congratulate the club upon hav
ing declared in emphatic terms tina
there shall be no retreat from the posi-
ton taken by the Democratic party il
1896. Every plank in that platform wa
3 Democratic plank, and not one plan
could be taken from the platform with
out injury to the party's chances 0
success Sometimes we hear a sugges
ton that the silver plank should b
dropped O amended; but az a rule
those who threaten to get of the plat
form are really the persons who wer
never on the platform
How the wind IL Blowins.
A man wonId have to be a tremen
dous fool to mistake the meaning o
that paragraph, nor are Bryan's utter
Ances and actions the only straws ind
eating which way the wind Is blowing
The Pennsylvania Democratic conven
ton, under the leadership Of the Hon
Chauncey f. Black. declared for Bryal
and Organism, 50 called-really, 70
genuine Democracy. Again. when tn
Democratic convention Of Kentuck.
met recently, they had q great historii
wool pulling about candidates. Tn
only things upon which they seemed h
be agreed were that Bryan should b
renominated and that the Chicago plat
form should be readopted Even tina
great orator, statesman. publiciat. edi