Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-07-18
From the Dubuque Telegraph.
Democratic.

vention repudiated the national plat
form and spurned the national leader
there is no obligation upon any demo
crat to vote it's ticket. What every
Buckeye democrat who would keep the
party true TO the doctrines of Jefferson
should do is to vote against the ticket
II he would havea democratic national
victory, when won, means not merely
victory for office hunters but a victory
for the multiplied millions of Ameri-
cans who are disinterested robbed, OPP
pressed nd harrassed by privilege
comforting legislation, he can contri;
butte to the achievement of what he
desires in no more effective way than
by using voice and ballot to over
whelm with defeat the sham demo-
cratic ticket headed by Colonel Kill
bourne. In 1900 Mckinley carried
Ohio by a plurality of 69036. For
the salvation of democratic principles
it is important that Mr. Nash, the re-
publican candidate for governor, shall
carry it by majority that will dwarf
this plurality. To deal the reorganiza-
ton movement death blow, and
prevent the experimentation of the
democratic party, Nash's majority
should be 100000. The situation in
Ohio is such that loyalty to democracy
makes it imperative to contribute to
republican success. In that common
wealth the choice is not between dem.
ocrats on one side and republicans on
the other; it is between republicans
who are avowedly, frankly and man
fully such, and republicans who with
the dishonest purpose Of concealing
their true character are masquerading
as democrats. When democrats must
choose between republicans who open
ly proclaim what they are and republi-
cans who hypocritically pretend to be
what they are not, they can have no
hesitancy in determining what to do.
With the despieable reorganization
movement slain in Ohio by an unpre-
cedented republican majority 1t will
die everywhere, and the scheme of the
money power to control the democratic
national convention and nomination in
1904 will fail. And with the scheme
thwarted a democratic victory, when
it comes, whether three years hence or
later, will mean real victory for pop
ular rule and equality of rights.
Nothing could be more absurd than
the assumption that the work of the
Columbus convention foreshadows the
nomination of Tom Johnson as the
next party candidate. Tom Johnson is
true democrat and an honest man.
and because he is genuine democrat
and man who has mind of his own
|; and cannot be cajoled, bribed or in
Inundated, the reorganizers object to
him quite as much as to William J.
Bryan. If Mr.. Bryan was without con
victions and courage, and one whom
privilege could use. he would now be
president of the United States and the
Columbus convention would have
cheered his name to the echo. He was
defeated and is in disfavor with meree.
naries who pose as democrats because
he is unfalteringly loyal to his concep-
tons of right and duty, because he
| says what he means and means what
he says, and because there is not mon.
ey enough on earth to corrupt him or
make him afraid. Ordinarily men are
antagonized for their faults. Mr.
9 Bryan is conspicuously singular in the
> respect that he is antagoniEed, hated
: and abused for his virtues.