Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-04-19
VIEW OF A GOLD DEMOCRAT.
Doubt as to the Success of Bryan
In the Democratic Com
yentiOn.

The New ork Times, an lndepend-
ent democratic paper that would like
to support candidate for president
who is democrat in accord with such
men as Cleveland and Olney, and holds
to the party traditions before the adj
vent of Bryan began an editorial one
day lately with the declaration that
Bryan is not growing stronger, but
weaker, as the day of the convention
draws nearer" The Times goes on to
say:
'The popular detection from Bryan is Wis
ible, widespread, and due to perfectly we'll
understood causes. In this year of very
great prosperity, when debts are being paid
off or have been paid off, when labor is en-
ployed at good wages, and when cotton is
almost ten cents pound, no considerable
class of the American people any longer
feels that it has need of Mr.. Bryan'S Serv
ices or of Mr. Bryan's principles. The
times have changed and he has not really
changed with them, but he has made awk-
ward efforts to change, which have served
merely as public exhibition of the weak
est side of his shifty character.
The meddling of the populists has hurt
Bryan among democrats who still cherish
some regard for the traditions and name
OF their party Democrats know that it
was not an accident that the platforms of
the democrats and the populists in Ne
braska are identical in substance and prin-
ciples. They know that Mr.. Bryan saw
and approved the democratic platform be-
fore it was submitted to the convention.
AS the populist platform was close copy
of that of the other convention, held a the
same time, the conclusion is irresistible
that Bryan accomplished practically the
fusion of the democrats and the populsts
in his own state, and his speech was equal
l1y t1h1 fn hot HAT 80 ~ n
ionship was barely tolerated four years
ago. 1t is much more distasteful now"
The Times calls attention to the in
creasing frequency of reports from the
south, the middle states and the north
west that Mr.. Bryan may be beaten in
the democratic convention if those in
the east opposed to him can unite upon
man hostile to free silver, and cites
the defeat of Gen. Grant in the repub-
lican convention in 1850 by the or
ganiZation of the Blaine, Sherman and
other factions, which united on Gar
field. The cases are not similar. The
republicans were agreed upon plat
form, and all the men who were voted
for in the convention were in harmony
regarding the party policy. In what
is ca led the democratic party to-day
the Clevelands and the Olneys are as
far removed in their political opinions
from the Bryans and Altgelds as they
are from the out-and-out populists.
Evidently the Times discovered that
the case to which it alluded would not
apply to the democracy at the present
time, as it alluded to reports that gold
democrats would vote with the popu-
lists for Mr.. Bryan, and added tha.
they would not do it. "The gold dena-
ocrats," it says, care sensible men. and
it is hard for a sensible man to be a
fool" To this statement it adds the
| following predictions:
"Long before the campaign is over w j.
| Bryan will make himself impossible to all
| save a negligible few of the most fanatical
| tlemen who now talk of their stern pur-
pose OF rebukng Mckinley by voting for
Bryan will confess that after all it is bet
| ter that AEuinaldo should lie in the bed he
has made than that man without capacity
and without principles should be pitched
! into the white house by votes cast in the
| heat of passion They will either provide
| themselves with a candidate of their own
or they will go to the polls and vote for
| Maj. Mckinley, and be glad of the chance" !"
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