Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-11-28
BRYANISM NOT DEAD.
Senator Harris Says Candidate
May BE but Not the
Principles.

Principles.
Senator W. A. Harris, who has re-
turned to Washington for the winter,
has gwen out the following, concern
ing the defeated presidential candi-
date:
William j. Bryan, as the leading
individual exponent of democracy,
may be dead and buried, but Bryan
ISM so-called-that is, the principle
which protects and defends the
natural citizen or individual against
the encroachments of the artificial
citizen or the corporation-is living
vital issue that will never perish.
1.-The majority of the democratic
party believes in the principles that
were enunciated by Colonel Bryan
during the campaign just past"
Mr., Harris continued: cit was a
battle of principle, and not in
dividuals. The tenets of democracy
for which we fought were adopted in
the convention Of 1896 and again i'll
1900. There can be no doubt, there
fore, that the democracy stands I'M
alterably for these things, and four
years hence the issues will be practi-
cally the same. Of course, issues
change somewhat from time to lime,
but 80 far as the general principles
which are embodied in those two
platforms-that is; the protection of
the rights of the natural citizen
against the corporation-are con-
cerned the fight will go forward
along virtually the same lines until
just and equitable solution is ar
rived at.
"The solution of the great problem
may lie in the direction of absorption
OF great many corporate functions
by the government Public owner
ship of railroads, telegraphs, canals
and the like may be step in the
direction of the suppression of the
ever increasing encroachments of the
corporations and the people will
sooner or later prescribe that remedy.
That solution will only be the princi-
pie of Organism enforced in diff
ferent form.
1.-The republican party has clearly
demonstrated that it stands for the
corporation as against the individual
citizen, 80 that the line is clearly
drawn and the issues are easily dis
cernible. Bryan may be renominated
four years hence and again he may
not be, but at all events whoever the
man may be he will stand for the
same principles which Bryan has
enunciated during the past two cam
paigns
ut is impossible to predict with
any degree of accuracy at this time
just what chances the democracy has
for a victory four years hence. If
the republican party during the
forthcoming Mckinley administra-
ton can produce prosperous times,
does not permit the corporations to
run away with it and keeps such in
famous grabs as the Hanna subsidy
bill out of the reach of the treasury,
the people may have no cause to
complain.
"The ad ministration colonial
policy is liable to become an incubus
l do not see how the republican party
can prevent such an outcome. II
will no doubt create great opportuni-
ties for fraud and corruption and will
entail enormous expenditures oil
which the people will soon tire.
The condition of affairs in the
Philippines at the present time re-
minds me OF saying of Charles
Lamb. He said that no doubt a
great many people would become
murdersrs if each murder only in
polved the death of Chinaman.
That seems to be the attitude OF the