The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-11-13
DEMOCRATIC WARNINGS.

DEMOCRATIC WARNINGS.
The expressions of several papers whose
managers would like to be in accord with
the Democratic party if they could, since
the elections of last Tuesday, are signif-
cant. The Brooklyn On. W Eagle of Thurs
day contains a column article which begins
follows:
II the Democratic party wants TO lose the
presidential election, IL can nominate Mr;
Bryan on principles which he cannot afford
to renounce and which the people have
shown they will not sustain. If the Demo
cratic party would acquire a chance to elect
the next President il must adopt principles
to which Mr.. Bryan can be neither sincerely
choice is, therefore. between defeat on
sent ment and possible victory by change
of principles and a change of candidate.
1t is not the silver issue which makes Mr..
Bryan unavailable in the opinion of the
Eagle, but he has so far committed himself
TO nonexpansion, which can play no more
part in the next presidential election than
Calvinism, that he can neither change his
mind on it nor consistently shut his mouth
on 1t. nor possibly commend himself to
Americanism on 1t. Then the Eagle declares:
Organism the country will not have Bry-
anism and Bryan are inseparable. The one
without the other is unthinkabe. The col
lective. Organism. is, as said, what the
ciples and another man are a necessity to
national victory or 10 the possibility OF ma
tional victory for the Democracy. This. TO
success, is Indispensable.
The New York Times, another paper
which would delight TO champion the De-
mocracy of Tilden and Cleveland, contained
an editorial on Thursday which began as
follows:
The country is going forward. Bryan has
sounded with his speeches he has not caught
the ear or won the confidence of the Ameri
can people. They have turned away from
him. They reject his views, they will have
nothing to do with his platform.
The column editorial which began with
these unequivocal declarations closed with
the following:
Bryan has blundered off to the rear TO
make his campaign upon the lonely battle
fields OF the past among the ghosts of dead
issues. The people are moving rapidly for
ward. away from him. The active and able
men of his party no longer take any interest
in him. The onward current every day
sweeps more and more of them out of rela-
ticns to Democracy as 1t is at present man.
aged and controlled. Are his managers
blind? Are they altogether reckless of the
fate OF the party?
The day following this same PAPER, call
ing attention to the map Of the New York
World, which the States that went Re-
publican at the last election are shaded
and those which were carried by the Dem
ocrats appear in white, the Times found
the following States in the Republican col
or: California, Connecticut, Delaware. Illi-
nois, Indiana, Iowa. Kansas. Kentucky,
Maine. Massachusetts. Michigan, Minnesota,
New Hampshire. New Jersey, New York,
North Dakota, Ohio. Oregon. Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont.
West Virginia, Wisconsin. Washington. Wy
oming-twenty-six States with 2S5 electoral
votes. embracing" says the Times, 'by
far the greater portion of the pop
ulation, wealth, industries and man
ufactures of the Union The Bry
| Colorado, Florida. Georgia, Idaho. Lousi-
| ana, Maryland, Mississippi. Missouri,
| Montana. Nebraska. Nevada, North Carroll
| ma. South Carolina. Tennessee, Texas,
| Utah, Virginia-nineteen States with 162
| electoral votes. THE country" exclaims
| the Times, lis against Bryan because his
| doctrines are fatal to its prosperity and
progress" Yet" it goes on, 1.-THE political
paranoiacs who have huddled about him
] since 1896 are resolved to run him again
because he carried Nebraska"
The only change that should be made in
the electoral vote as given by the Times
for next year is to transfer Kentucky TO
| the Bryan list. since it is probable, with the
Gcebel machinery in that State, that the
| Bryan electors would be counted in regard
| less of the vote of the people. On the 9TH
| er hand, Maryland would swing back to
] any Republican candidate standing for
whatever Mr.. Bryan may oppose. The
| Bryan leaders have been deceiving them
selves because multitudes of people go to
| hear Mr.. Bryan and cheer him, but when
| they go to the polls they declare against
| Bryan and Organism, and never was that
| declaration more unequvocal than on last
| Tuesday