Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-23
POLITICAL s1uBBoRNNEss.

POLITICAL srUBB0RNNESs.
Many are inclined to ask, why should
the Iowa democrats display such a lack
CT discretion and common sense in view
CT the economic and political conditions
existing today? for certainly the rank
and file of the democracy will concede
that their action at Des Moines was I'M
wise AS political body the Iowa DEM
ocrats illustrate phase of life that is
as hurtful as it is foolish, and this OBJ
servation will apply With equal force to
any other party when it reaches like
condition The antagonisms that have
grown out of the division on the money
question are of long standing and are
still of aggravating force. This is the
bottom of the trouble among the Iowa
democrats. Neither sire is willing to-
share what are claimed to be the errors
of the other side, and tho the slverites
are forced to acknowledge, if reasonable
men, that their cause was never at as
low an ebb and never as unpopular as
at the present their stubbornness is
their most conspicuous trait. They
feared that they would be relegated to
the rear and that the finger of scorn
would be pointed at them as disrupters
of the party, and that as cast-offs they
foresaw that their last end would be
q.
ferred to exercise their power and to
control expressions and nominations
with as few concessions as it was posi-
BILE to make. They are the creators of
their own undoing, and will go lower
than ever in the scale of partyism.
In proof that passion and prejudice
ruled the majority, and not good judg-
ment, it Is only necessary to quote Mar
tin Neilan, a veteran democrat who
was vigorously active in bringing the
Woodbury. county delegation into line
for the free silver minority report.
He declares in the Tribune that their
action Simply meant that the boys
down there determined to prove that
they We're not crazy last fall. They
is out of 1t. But they had to do what
they did in self defense He says fur
Their that Temporary Chairman Sharon
spoke an hour and half and never
mentioned Bryan, altho he eulogized
Cleveland. He added: THAT was
more than Grover Cleveland could ever
do. There is no difference between
Cleveland democracy and Mckinley re-
publicanism. The speech of Sharon
was read to the committee before it
was delivered, and still no mention
was made of Bryan. Charlie Walsh
suggested that Bryan be referred to- but
his suggestion was not needed. The
speakers We're all from the Mississippi
river. The organization was perfected
with the idea of entirely ignoring
Bryan, and his name was not mention
ed turnout the day. 1t is not Iowa
idea of chivalry to omit the name of
man to whom we owe so much as
Bryan. so when we saw that the
other wing was determined to entirely
shut out Bryan and make no mention
of him, the silver men We're provoked.
Mr.. Quick of our delegation favored
mere mention of the Kansas City
platform, without necessarily affirming
it. But when it came to entirely ig-
noring the last national platform, he
voted for the minority report. per-
sonally would have supported mild
mention of the Kansas City doctrine,
if by so doing fight could have been
avoided
He also said: THE delegates from
Scott county and few others on the
east side came down to Des Moines to
run the convention and went home hui
initiated. That's ALL
The silverites simply objected to be-
ing ignored and, as they thought,
trampled into the ground; and this ex-
plains their bitterly partisan action. 1t
is merely another illustration of Iowa
democracy's capacity to do the wrong
thing