The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-06-15

efforts were needed TO GTiVe odSh LAG
fierce famine that has attacked and de-
stroyed us2 BY what system do you JUS
tify your administration OF this trnst?
And every Sunday in the ltany the min
listers Of the established Church pray:
.Fron plague. pesulcnce and famine,
Good Lord deliver US
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at THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
In 1856 the Louisville courier-Journal
refused TO support the Chicago ticket and
made a strong fight in behalf of Palmer
and Buckner. Up 10 that time the
Courier journal had been the organ OF
the Democratic party, but having eo!ted
the ticket it could no longer retain that
position. and so the Louisville Dispatch,
by the party regularity people, was
started. with Mr.. Charles /. Stewart as
editor-ir-ciaief The Dispatch has always
been an extreme Chicago platform paper,
and while ii was opposed to Goebei and
fought the Goebel ticket in the last
gubernatoral election, il has ever been
true TO Bryan and Organism 1t repre-
sents the. extreme element, or as the
Dispatch puts IT. the radical wing OF
che party, and the Dispatch says that
MIR BRYAN must now choose between the
radicals and the conservatives; that ne
is now at the parting of the ways, ana
must soon turn TO the right or to the
left 1t says that in 1886 Mr. Bryan
went to Chicago as a leader of the radi-
Gals. and that the radical triumph made
him the leader Of the party. 1t says
that at the Kansas City Convention the
conservatives and the radicals VIII be
pitted against each other, and that Mr..
BRYAN must so with the one or the other:
there is no middle ground for him. Ii
saws that the radicals accept Mr. Bryan
not so much for himself and for what
he represents; that they Were for the
mr. .nciples which they advocated before thy
discovered the man, and that they .'ll
not follow him away from the principles.
They do not fear to be called radicals
If adds. .thcy abhor what the East call
consarvatis: they look with contempt upon
those who would retreat from the general
oositon of 1886; they are determined TO
of the people, and they are as ready TO
sweep aside the spoilsmcn OF one party
as of another
The Louisville Dispatch has entire con-
tidence in Mr.. bryan. Speaking for
the radicals ii says that they beileFe
that Mr.. Bryan will be all that they de-
sire. that he will stand firmly against
nI Twill that
he will be.as stancn for public ownership
of national monopolies. including the tele-
graph lines and railroads, as he has been
for the free coinage OF silver: that he VIII
have the courage to apply public reSuia-
,,ionx and even public ownership as a
remedy for all manner Of industrial mo-
nopolies that cannot be reached by other
means and that when the peoples rights
and interests are in the balance, there
will be no terrors for him in the cry OF
socialists His caution it ADDS. MS
.arer,1Iness to steer clear of the appear
ance of socialistic tendencies, his social
isrie supporters set down as conmendable
prudence while privately expressing the
greatest confidence that he will at the
LIGHT even the straight-out advocate OF
socialism. If Mr.. Bryan is defeated
again the conservatives will have the or
ran;zation, the Democracy VIII De con-
servative party. the progressive cement
will go elsewhere. and Mr.. Bryan Will go
with them or cease to figure in national
,,olitics. In the event of victory or oe-
feat the Nebraskan must go forward or
backward. If he would still be q leader
he will be forced TO cease his Irritation
,ri,b what passes as Eastern conserva-
tism.
We admire the candor of the Louisville
r,isnatcll. 1t does not beat about the
bush It puts the case clearly. ana
there is no mistaking its meaning Mr.
3ryan must decide between the Popuhs1s
and Socialists on the one hand and the
Democrats on the other. He cannot at
The same time affiliate with both ele-
,,,an1s. But Mr. Bryan shows no dis
,os;,ion 10 retrace his steps. He is as
radical now as he was in 1886, and IN an
interview published in the papers OF yes
| to-day he declared that in his opinion
the Chicago platform should be rewritten
! and every plank rea1firmcd. There is
M longer q doubt that Mr.. Bryan will
| he nominated by the Kansas City Conven-
ton. VIII he also write the platform
of that convention? Are we 10 have
BRYAN and Organism again in the cam
| ,,ajrn of 1900? Will Democrats be asked
| - vote for free silver and all the other
| revolutionary planks OF the chicasc
p:atfor1n with government ownership OF
railroads and trusts thrown in? If so
| the death knen OF the Democratic party
| will have been sounded at The kansas
| City Convention.