Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-17
BRYAN TALKS ABOUT OHIO.
He Declares that the Money Question
 Is Not Yet Out of Politics.

lie DeclafeS tnaC the hOHey QuesIIoh Is Not Yet Out of Politics.
 ". J. Bryan gave out yesterday his comments on the action of the re- cent democratic convention in ColHm- 1 bus, Ohio. After stating the objections to making the Columbus platform a substitute for the Kansas City plat form he says:
 'The convention not only failed but refused to indorse or reaffirm the Kan sas City platform, and. from the man. ner in which the gold element has re joiced over this feature of the conven- ton. one would suppose that the main object of the convention was not to write new platform, but to repudiate the one upon which the last national campaign was rOught.
 General Finley was rig( in insist ing upon q vote on his resolution in dorsing the Kansas City platform. but he made q mistake in including in his resolution complimentary reference to Mr Bryan. Mir Bryan is not can didate for any office. and q mention of him might have been construed by some as an endorsement of him for of flee. The vote should have been upon the naked proposition to indorse the platform of last year. and then no one could have excused his abandonment of democratic principles by pleading his dislike for Mir Bryan. The cause ought not to be made to bear the sins of an individual. MT Bryan will en- 1 dure without complaint any punish ment which the democracy of Ohio may see fit to administer to him. but he does not want his name used to the 1 injury of q good platform.
 ''The gold papers assume that the l convention refused to adopt the Kan sas City platform because it contained | a silver plank If so. it would have been more courageous to have declared ' openly for the gold standard. If the | gold standard is good it ought to have been indorsed; if bad. it ought to have been denounced. To ignore this sub- ject entirely was ineXcusable.
 "The money question is not yet out of politics. Every session of congress will have to deal with it. Republicans declare that it is dead. but they keep working at tt.
 If the reactionary influences succeed in Ohio or elsewhere. it simply means another gigantic struggle such as was witnessed ill 1896.
 The democratic party cannot be made plutocratic party even if there were room in this country for two sucI parties. There was time, under tho Cleveland regime, when the party lead CTS used general and ambiguous phrases to deceive the voters, but thai scheme cannot be worked again We cannot expect the voters to have con fidence in the party unless the party has confidence i'll the voters, and if the party has confidence in the voters il will state it's position on all the i'm portant questions before the country and invite judgment"
 MT Bryan assumes that Mclean wrote that part of the platform relat ing to national issues and asks if the money question was ignored to please holders or because Mclean desires t6 be left free to vote with the republi cans on financial questions if elected He advises Ohio democrats to supporr | the candidate for governor, but 10 set that members of the legislature ars elected who will select a ''trustworthy | Sauafr1ss