The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-04-21
DEM0CRACY'S IRREPRES.
SIBLE CONFLICT.

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4 were not quite so pointed and
emphatic as were expected by the
public. One of them, however, was
pointed enough to show that an i'm
passible gulf separates the two Sec
tons of the democratic party. This
was the speech made by Robert
Roosevelt, we'll ku own New York
democratic leader. ,"There never
was time when the democratic par
ty need a great leader more than it
does now," said Roosevelt. This
leader, he goes on to remark, must
express the ideas of the fathers"
Then he cited as principles of JET
ferson, "the honest payment of our
debts and the sacred preservation
of the public faith" and that emo
national creditor should be forced
to accept deprecated currency"
There is no direct mention of
Bryan here, yet everybody can see
than Bryan and Organism are as
sailed. The "great leader" which
Roosevelt says the democratic party
needs he very clearly shows, with
out mentioning the Nebraskan's
name, is not Bryan. The demand
for ''the honest payment of our
debts and the sacred preservation
of the public faith" which he voiced
is an assault on Bryan and the party
which Bryan led to ruin. In declar-
ing that ono national debtor should
be forced to accept a deprecated
currency" Roosevelt condemned
and denounced the Chicago plat
form of 1896.
All these "ideas of the fathers"
which were held up as Democratic
doctrine are antagonized by Bryan
and his party on every. point. If
this is democracy, and the New
York end of the party, for which
Roosevelt spoke, declares that it is,
Bryan must repudiate democracy.
Bryan and his adherents must de-
nounce all such doctrines as hereti-
cal and mischievous. The sc, $780,,
900" can have no fellowship with
any element which holds the views
which Roosevelt expresses. A sec
ton which can put forward such
anti-Bryanite opinions must certain
ly be the "enemy's country" for ev-
erybody who carries the Bryan bar
ner.
Perry Belmont'S speech IS far less
pungent than were his letters. to
Bryan. 1t is filled with platitudes
which nobody has ever denied and
which are not an issue in this can
vass. Augustus Van Wyck was very
cautious. His aspirations for the
candidacy for President in 1900 evil
IDENTIFY put him under constraint.
But as an aspirant who must reject
Organism and all its works he will
be assailed by everybody who has
any regard for the Chicago platform
of 1896. The whole atmosphere of
the Croker gathering was hostile to
the element which seized possession
of the machinery of the democratic
party three years ago and appropri-
ated the democratic name. If last
nights gathering was collection of
democrats, Bryan and his followers,
Bryan himself will be apt to pro-
claim, must be something else than
democrats.
a mn who openly declares, and
gathering which indorses that dec
laration that ''no national creditor
should be forced to accept depre-
ciated currency" must certainly, &C
cording to Bryan's formula, be an
'enemy of the human race" This
is the democracy's irrepressible con-
flict. Even if the democracy was
united on everything else, and it is
certainly not united, its split on this
transcendent issue would doom It to
disaster.-St. Louis Globe Demo
crat.
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