Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-07-11
Bryan And Herbert.
Philadelphia Press.

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Ex.Secretary Herbert is another South
ern Democrat who hates to stand on the
Kansas City platform and whose neck
chafee under the Bryan collar. Like Sem
ator Mclaurin, of South Carolina, he calls
on the Democrats of his State to leave the
past and turn toward the future, to recog-
nize new responsibilities, the material adj
vance of the day and the demand for leg
islation and a national policy which shall
develop the South and bring it into sym
pathy with the like advance in the North.
Mr.. William Jennings Bryan has for
all this only one answer, the command OF
dictator: "Do not allow man to be
placed upon any committee, precinct,
county, State or NATIONAL" he writes III
the last Commoner, "unless he is be-
lever in the Kansas City platform. lfa
man opposed to the Kansas City platform
is sent as a delegate to any convention he
should be bound by instructions and
should have associated with HIM a sulli-
cient majority who are sound on the plat
form. If man objects to instructions
leave him al home; no Democratic delegate
will object to ali expression from the yot'
ers whom he seeks TO represent"
There is more 'imperialism" in this
outspoken dictation to great party fol-
lowing, 6,5O0,O0 votes in 1896, than IN
all alleged "imperialism" which Mr.. Bryan
is pleased to find in the Supreme Court
and the Republican party put together.
No political leader in our history has adj
ventured on such fragrant dictation. Times
have changed, issues have altered and the
thinking men in the Democratic party,
like Secretary Herbert and Senator Nc
Laurin, are calling for new platform,
principles and policy. Mr.. Bryan silences
them and sends them to the rear.
He can. He is the majority. lie has
the votes. He has them now, as he had
them at Kansas City when he insisted on
his own platform in defiance of the Her.
berts and McLaurins. The party may
have changed, but there are no signs OF
this yet.
The Democratic party has for years con-
sisted of great mass which believed what
Bryan breaches and small group of lead
ers of another sort. 1t has had its Tilden
and Tweed. 1t has its Hill and Croker.
In New York and Chicago and in scores Of
other cities it rallies vast vote which sup
ports the Tweeds and Crokers with enthu'
siasm and in The past accepted the Tildens
and Hills as a necessity. Outside of the
cities, through all the land, this solid mass
and base of the Democratic party stands
by Bryan. 1t always believed in rotten
money from the greenback days down. 1t
hated the negro. 1t was opposed to all
developments by explorations and to the
advance in schools, in education, in manu-
features and the general upift which the
Republican party represents.
The gold Democrats drew oil the leaders
of this massed mob who have given vari'
Gus fine names to its obstruction to all
progress. 1t believes in him. 1t is the
fighting Democratic party, He leads it.
lie commands it. Earnest and high
princpled men, like ex-Secretary Herbert,
may succeed in creating State parties and
State organization at the South, because at
the South the whole white vote has been
held together, but the new State party
organization will find nothing in the Dem
ocratic party, North, with which they can
act. 1t is in the hands of Bryan, and he
holds and controls the existing organlza'
liion Of Southern Democracy.