The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-15
THE MINORITY VIEW OF IT.

The fact can not be disputed that william
j. Bryan is rapidly weakening himself with
the masses OF the people by stubbornly ad-
herring to free silver at l6 to when other anu
more important issues are crowding to the
front It is quite probable that II ne persists
strength and popularity which he enJoyeu
with the rank aud file OF the democracy WIN
soon be dissipated and his defeat In the Ma
tonal convention next year easily accom-
plished.
IL on the other hand Mr.. Bryan should
allow the silver question TO go by the board
and plant himself firmly In antagonism TO
trusts imperialism and militarism. 1t viii be
impossible for any cabal Of politicians to pre-
vent his denomination. because he Is undoubt-
edy the idol of the great body OF the dcmoc-
racy Just as Cleveland was in lSg2.-New Or-
leans Statcs.
The States elsewhere remarks that "it
should be clear to Mr. Bryan that 1t Is
impossible to unite the democratic party
or hope for victory in the presidential
election next year on the silver issue. be-
cause 1t is causing dssension and division
when harmony and union are essential to
success"
Why is 1t causing "dissension and d.
vislon?' Simply because minority Of
the party demand that the majority shall
surrender TO them. 1t is the non concur
ring juror again who is ready to swear
tina. the other eleven are set of the most
obtuse end obstinate men unhung!
Do these self-inportant s1-called demo-
Gratis in the South and in the North. who
wouldn't count fftieth part of the en-
thusiastic vote cast for Mr.. Bryan and
free silver in 1896. honestly imagine that
the vast majority of the party should abb
soiutely stultify themselves by abandon
ing their party principles and trucking
to a comparatively small contingent of
den ccratic boilers? And yet this is what
the harm ony and union" mean that this
boiling class are SO vociferously demand
ing.
II silver were left out of the democratic
platform how many States would the
democracy carry in the West? How many
would the popuists or the republicans not
carry In the South? That old idea that
the South would vote for any democrat
on any platform has long since been ex-
ploded. The South will be solid" here
after only when the nominees and prin-
cipLes of the democratic party suit the
convictions OF the majority of her people
For every vote won back in the East or
South or West by the democracy's aban-
donment of bimetallism as a live issue.
two would be lost in the South and West!
The men who are scheming to defeat
Mr.. Bryan, or strong reaffirmation of the
platform of 1896, certainly are proceeding
from purely selfish and reckless motives.
They don't seem TO imagine that the ma
! joritv might be lost in concliating the
minority-that dissenson and division on
larger scale than ever would be the in
evitable consequence
When this self-assertive and self-im-
portant minority can make the majority
believe that the latter are all wrong and
that wisdom Will die with the minority,
and that il is the old established rule In
democraces for the tail to wag the dog"
possibly Mr. Bryan and his six or seven
million followers will surrender and per-
nit little Eastern cabal of self-seeking
politicians to take full charge of the
democratic party!
And, by the way, the most unreasonable
persistent and bitter foes to the regular
democracy. and the most clamorous for
the majority to give way to the minority,
are few Southern papers that were once
democratic, but that now find themselves
without party. In their desperation they
Imagine everybody else should bow to them
and graciously permit them TO fix UP a
party to suit their peculiar views and sell
fish purposes. They would have the
democracy sacrifice. some of It's controll-
ing principles to court their favor and as
sistanee once again. This is the very
acme of impudence and of the ridiculous.
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