The sun., 1900-08-02
. THE DIVIDED DEMOCRACY
State Platforms of Bryan'S
Party to Ignore the National
Document as Convenient.
PARTY so RENT is DANGEROUS
Each One of the Halves of the Demo-
cratic Party is Politically Afraid
and Morally Ashamed of
What Other HalfSays
is Paramount.

From the New York sun OF Yesterday morning
There has for some time past been
plain to most people the unprecedented
spectacle Of great national party, the
Democracy, divided againsi itself upon
the interm6 tation OF the party platform.
This will be made plain to all hv the
etatnmr"t NJ the Hon. James r. Nc.
Guire, Chairman Of the Executive Com
mlJtee ul the New York Democratic
State Committee, telling officially in the
name Of Senator Jones, the Chairman of
TIE Damocrrtic National Committee,
about the meeting held by the Demo-
cratic leaders in New York on Monday
night. According to Mr.. Mcclure it
was meeting to 'devise plan to OBJ
viate the difficulties in the Kansas City
platf )rm." So we quite him more
fully
"There are always great many things
in national platform that cannot be
emphasized in State campaign. Now
we have decided on plan by which the
Speakers Ill Jlls State will devote atten-
tion exclusively to the issue cf imperial,
ism, and just let the rect of the platform
go | tell Won the issue of imperialism
is the real thing. 1t is much more vital
than the fanciIul ills OF free silver. The
composition of the Senate prevents any
interference with our financial system
fer scme years. But Imperialism is at
our very doors. Imperialism is shooting
down our sons this very day. Free sill
W nor. he heard of in this campaign" "
Mr.. Mcclure remembers the Demo
cIa.lc praLlolin OF loY6 declaring free sll
yer to be destructive of "our nationa
honor" He remembers hesquarter OF /
hioh N..x,. Nnry me
" NcKinlry and Hobart and homes
money.
Du. al the South the Atlanta Consti
tuition smashes the Kansas City planl
IN anti.impeiialism with blow that al
though someN hat glancing is no less ef
iective for smashing than if lit had beer
dealt by a Republican. We qnote from
the Constitution an utterance that put
our contemporary on the level OF am
imperialist in the land:
'iThe independence Of the Filipnos i
to follow the effort to establish stablt
form of government in the islands, anC
even when independence comes, this Re
public is to retain the right of protecting
the inhabitants from outside interftr
ence. Nav, that this right involve
other rights, and verv important ones
need hardly he said It. involves tin
right to prevent the Filipinos, if neces
sary, from inviting or challenging out
side interference; in short, it involve
Just such protectorate as the United
States Government exercises over th
rest of its territorities."
Une ol Jue rlusL conspicuous Demo
crais in the South is Chief Ju tice Snod
grass OF the Te nessee Supreme Court
"How" b" asks, when trying to TAX
from the Den ocracy, which lie supports
the stigma of anti-exI ansion, ''can any
one undertake 10 say whtn the 'stabl
government the pla form phrase, "cai
be established? Long before it s estab
listed," says Judge Snodgrass, ''the peo
lie II the islands will come like the Ha
waiians, clamoring for annexation"
This is Judge Snodgi ass vision of tn
future. The fsct is that each one Of III
lw, ha yes Ette democratic party
politically at,aid and morally ASHAMED
OF v hat tn 9th b IF declaors to be tn,
p!raInount need vi ihe day.
A party so rent with conflict within
itself is dargtrou. party 70 be e1 truste
With the govel elmrnt nf the United States
It. il fit to do anyte ng