The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-10-06
THE TIMES FOR BRYAN.
GREAT PHILADELPHIA NEwspA-
PER TURNS DEMOCRATIC.

1t Supported Mckinley in
1896, but the Result has
Shown 1t to be Wrong
"Evils of Republican Poll
cy Have Returned Seven
fold" 1t Asserts.
Philadelphia, Sept. 80 The
Philadelphia Times, better known
as McClure's Times, will tomor-
row announce in an editorial a
change of policy and come out
distinctly and unqualiiedly for
Bryan and Stevenson.
"The Times was from its first
issue an Independent newspaper,
free from any control but that Of
its obligations to The public; and
its political independence very
early led il to oppose the corrupt,
despotic and dangerous policies
of the party then as now in power
in city, State and nation and to
support the principles and can
didates of the Democratic party.
From he.yery first year of its
publication, it has been the lead.
ing advotate of every Democratic
candidate for Governor of Penn
pylvania, and from Tifden to Gle
veland it earnestly sustained
every Democratic candidate. for
president.
,"This advocacy was due to no
self-interest, for Democracy has
had few favors to dispense 10
Pennsylvania, but to consistent
conviction of what was to the pub
lie advantage conviction that
experience has sustained. Not
alone the degrading effect of ma
chine politics in Pennsylvania,
but the whole tendency of Repub-
lican rule in the nation, with its
constant Capitalization of author
ity, subservience. to the money
power and the building up of fa-
vored interests class legislation
had nowhere a more earnest op-
ponent than the Times, and the
democrats of PENNSYLVANIA learn
ed to look for it as their represen-
tative newspaper.
"The Times has been unfail-
iDgly hostile to boss measures
with which William Mckinley
particularly was identified, such
as tho monopoly-breeding, deficit
producing tariff that bore bis
name. Yet four years ago, in the
sudden crisis that divided the
councils of the Democratic party
and for the time being seemed to
have checked it's great career, it
seemed better to the Times, as to
many other leading Democratic
papers, to sustain Mr.. McKin-
ley's election as president rather
than that of Mr.. Bryan.
"The decision was made in
faith. The result has shown 1t to
be wrong. 1t is repented and re-
canted.
"All of the evils and the perils
of the so-called Republican policy
have returned seven-fold, de
veloped and extended till the
government seem threatened, A
raise economic system has result
ed in vast combinations Of capital
which throttle individual industry
aud hold control all over the
functions of government; and the
spokesman of the administration,
u representative of one these great
trusts, is calling upon his fellow
capitalists for contributions to
buy another four years license
to rob---another four years life
for their inflated and false pros
perity. The government thus
controlled has found its fittest ex-
preston in schemes Of military
conquest, and the blood and
treasure of the nation are poured
out to snbdue a distant people
and rob them of those rights of
liberty and independence that
America has always claimed for
all mankind.
"Imperialism, militarism, are
the natural outgrowth of com
mercialism in politics, of the pow
er of the few over the many, the
elevation of money above man
hood, with all the system Of spe-
cial privileges and corrupt control
that the Republican party since
the civil war has increasingly fos-
tered.
THE upholders of this system
are themselves aware of its hol-
lowness, and are calling for aid
from the money power to bolster
it up for time longer. The con-
dition is one that the couatry
must meet, and meet now. and
the way to meet is by reassen-
tion of the Democratic president.
"This, the Times means to adj
vocate with all the force it has.
Our belief in the essential doc
trines of the Democratic party
and in their necessity to the coun-
try is stronger than ever. No one
questions, or can question, the
ability, the earnestness, the inte-
gritty of the Democratic candida
tes. For the rescue of all that
has made America glorious in the
past and that can make her strong
| in the future, it is duty to sup
port their election. The Demo-
Gratis of Pennsylvania have right
to expect this of the Times and
they shall not be disappointed.
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