Daily Kennebec journal., 1900-08-18
Duty Of O!d.SchooI De mocrsts.

| a leading Democrat of the old school
in New York, is Thomas F. Ryan, who
is closely associated with ex-Secretary
w. c. Whitney in his great business
enterprises and in political principal
| Up to 1896 Mr.. Bryan never voted for
any but Il Democratic candidate for
office, but in that year unable to sub
scribe to the Chicago platform and
Organism he Voted for Mckinley. In
an interview with the New York Sun.
this week. Mr.. Ryan said that he
should vote for the reelection of Pres
ident Mckinley and that he thought
that ii was the duty of all the DEM
ocrats of the old school to vote against
the Kansas City platform and its can
didates, in order that Organism might
be crushed and tho Democratic party
redeemed
THE men who are at present in con-
troll of what is left of the Democratic
organization allowed Bryan to dictate
everything at Kansas City, and he de-
livered the organization over to the
Populist party" said Mr.. Ryan "Ac-
cording to my way of thinking that
does not make the Bryan organization
the Democratic party In many of the
oldline Democratic States the feeling
of disgust at the disgrace which was
overtaken the Democracy is appear
ing plainly. Ii was shown by the posi-
tion taken at Kansas City by men like
Senator Daniel of Virginia and many
others who counselled conservatism H.
drafting the platform. L think that
the Gold Democrats Will vote for Me
Kinley as the surest way of destroying
the evil that threatens the country's
prosperity and reputation and intlu-
ence. | shall vote for Mckinley.
l never cast any other than
Democratic vote until the last Presi-
Dental election. | then felt it my duty
to the country to vote for the Republi-
can candidates, and l feel it doubly
duty to do so now. Bryan will be dc
feated. and this defeat will make an
end of him politically. Then the fol-
lowers of the true Democratic faith
throughout the country will get to-
eether and rc-organiZe the party, AMI
it will resume its honored position just
as it did after the Greenback craze un-
der the leadership Of TiIden.'
Mr. Ryan was asked what ne thought
of the Democratic plank on imperial
ism. This is what he said:
1T is the most unpatriotic utterance
that has come from any assemblage of
men claiming to be loyal citizens il.
the history of this country. 1t will
nerve the hands of the country's enc
mics wherever they are to be found.
Resistance to the United States author
ity in the Philippines is being assisted
every day by the so-called anti-impe-
rialists. They are lending moral sup
port to the guerilla warfare and rebel
lion in the islands. The attempt to
make an issue of rebellion and to poll
the Democratic party in favor Of pull
ing down our flag at Manila and
marching home our army in disgrace,
insults the history of the Democratic
party. and is an affront to every true
American.
But that is not the issue" Mr.. Ry-
an continued, 'and Bryan will not be
able to make an issue of it. The dis
honest fifty-cent dollar is the issue.
Free riot is the issue. The attack on
the supreme court is the issue; and
they are all just as paramount today
as they We're in 1896. They will con-
tinue TO be paramount as long as Mr.
Bryan runs the Democratic organiZl-
ton.
Naturally the Pacific coast states
and the southern states Will derive
the greatest direct benefit from the de-
velopment of commerce between the
United States and the far East. Cuba,
and Porto Rico. Before next Novem-
hcr the people Of those states will I'M
derStand what anti-imperialism means
To them, ana l reckon you will Sc"
some surprising changes in their votes
on election day. New York is as c"C-
tain for Mckinley as Pennsylvania or
Vermont. ana Bryans Is to l plank
has settled the question Of the Ger
man vote. 1t will be solid for Mckinley
and honest money in all the states"