Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1900-04-18
A FOrlOrn Hope.


A FOrlOrn Hope.
Those who have so fondly imag-
ined that Olney or Whitney or
Dewey could be elected president
if nominated by the Kansas City
convention may as we'll revise their
judgment. Such a contamination
is impossible. A safe man nomi-
mated at Kansas City would win
many republican votes that Bryan
can not get; but he would lose far
more votes of democrats who want
Bryan or a man like him. This is
the plain and startling fact con-
corning the democratic party in the
United States. 1t is given over TO
socialism, to populism. 1t would
as soon vote for Mckinley or Reed
as for Cleveland or Olney, or any
other man that stands for honest
finance and the rights Of property.
Demagogues like Bryan have
played upon the socialistic instincts
of the masses, seduously and sue
cessfully, and they have been as
sisted by republican subservience
to corporate interests and by dem
ocratic betrayal of tariff reform.
The brainy but INSCRIPTIONS men
of both parties, who have played
fast and loose with money, tariff
and riot questions, have lent colo
to the accusations of demagogues
against the money power, Wall
street, the bloated bondholder, the
trusts, and the whole gorgeous
paraphernalia OF Organism. Be.
tween these two classes of political
maletactors, the Frankenstein of
Organism has reen raised up.
What can be done with it, heaven
only knows.
The democratic city COW, ntion
held in Portland w dnesday, af-
tords a hint of the feeling of the
party throughout the country. 1t
was Kansas City convention in
perfect embryo. The gold demo
Gratis were there, and the reunion
was apparently complete But if
they had been able to nominate
one of their number for mayor, the
true Bryanites would have bolted.
They were ready to walk out.
They knew they were the party
and did not propose to be overrid-
den, and politically speaking, they
were right.
If you could get men enough In
the Kansas City convention to sub
stitute man like Olney or Whit.
ney for Bryan they would defeat
the Bryanites there, but they could
not hold them afterward. The
Bryanite Democracy of the Unite d
States, this year at least, will not
vote for any man who, if not Bryan
himself, does not typify Organism.
The thing Populism is abroad in
the land. 1t is largely in the DEM
ocratic party today, because there
it is welcomed. Turn it out oil
that retreat and it will lose no time
in seeking the camp of avowed
Populism.
In 1900, as in 1896, the hope oil
the country against Populism lies
In appeal TO democrats, Organism
is more Numerically opposed tc
historic democracy than it is to his.
toric republicanism. Organism h as
more in common with historic re.
publlcanism than it has with his
toric democracy. The appeal OF
organism is not to the principle o.
honest money, low tariff and the
least possible Federal interference
but for debased money, and espe.
c'ally for government interference
with business, labor and finance
amounting to extreme paternalism
Before the campaign of 1900 is owe,
the socialistic basis of Bryanism
will stand out so clear that no dis
corning voter need be deceived into
thinking that in supporting it he
is furthering the cause of good gov.
eminent.
Organism is populism. The
masses of the democratic party are
socialists in sentiment. They sta,
there because there is the most at
tractive home of populism. Max,
the party once more truly demo
cratic, and they will get out. |
they can't have their populism il
1t they will take themselves anc
their populism out of it. Dewe,
or Olney can get the votes of The
gold democrats, but not the vote:
OF the Bryan democrats. The tai
will not be permitted to wag tn,
dog -Oraoouio,