Arizona daily citizen., 1901-04-06
THE HOUSE
DIVIDED.

DIVIDED.
Mr.. William Jennings Bryan,
sometime candidate for the presidency,
now editor of The Commoner, news
paper established by him for the ex-
press purpose of telling the common
people what they think, is ont cunning
after form Or President Grover Cleveland.
Mr.. Bryan's love for the common pee
speciality, but it is not OF the catholic
order of love which extends to all sorts
OF conditions of men. If harmony is to
be tablished in the democratic party
it is decreed by the peerless leader"
that the "atmost divinely appointed
leader" must sit quietly in the corner
and not interrupt the proceedings. At
the same time the imam of destiny"
gives it as his opinion that the "boy
orator from the Platte" talks to much
Here is Bryan's opinion of Cleveland ::
"When the battle was on between 8
republic and an empire, between dem
o;racy and plutocracy, between III
metalism and monometalIsm-he (Cleve
land) refused to say word or lift hand
in behaH of rank and file, for whom he
now expresses such an affectionate soli-
citude. AS soon as the election was
over he came forth from his seclusion
and made the air vocal with his sug-
gestions.
Assuming to be inspired by purer
democracy, and boasting of superior
virtue, he began to offer unsolicited ad-
vice to the party to which he once be-
longed. He is like the soldier who was
described as invisible in war and in
vincible in peace To desertion of the
party organization and betrayal of the
principles of the party he adds ostenta-
.tious pretense of interest in the plain
people while he coDceals Is ideas in
ponderous and platitudinous phrases. If
he will clearly and candidly :define the
democratic principles about which he is
30 prone to look at the people can decide
for themselves whether he is the same
Cleveland who turned the treasury over
to foreign financial syndicate and en-
trusted j. Pierpont Morgan with the
combination os the government vaults
and then supported the republican tick
ct because his administration was not
indorsed."
Turning from these contendiDg forces
It is found that David B. Hill and Rich
ard Olney are prepared to offer them.
selves upon the altar of the party and
make whatever sacrifices are necessary
In return for the nomination to the pres
idency. Both are old line democrats
both are opposed to the financial heresies
OF Bryan; each thinks he is the Moses
who is 70 lead the party out of Egypt.
But neither has large personal follow
ing or represents in any degree recog-
nized principle of governmental policy
While the leaders of national promi-
nence are thus playing at cross purposes
the two factions of the once great party |
are throwing verbal rocks at each other.
The regulars are accusing the reorgan-
izers OF treason while the latter are de-
that the revolutionary
policy of the former was the cause of the
duwnfall of the party. The truth is
that never since the war has the demo-
cratic party been in harmony with the
modern spirit of American progress,
and the first attempt to put it's antigua
Ted ideas to practical test resulted in
commercial and industrial chaos, follow
ed by the wild stampede OF 1896. 1t
will take some time to put that house
In order.