The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-09
BRYAN AT CHICAGO
<srPoN THE PARTY AND RE-
SPA ORGANIZATION.
uss RETIRED TO THE RANKS
cp.cY NEVER IN BETTER
pD"O FIGHTING CONDITION.

,,., Have Lost Party stano-
Those Reunite. with 1t Before
Attention VIII BE fai" W
a,r ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
email. Not an External REM
an ,,-,..;,er the Question OF
cog viii Figure Prominently in
r.,.rre Campaigns VIII Dep"
u IN circumstance
- Ian. S.-William j. Bryan was
If honor at the annual banquet
Nv me chicago Bryan League heid 10
tbe sherman House. There were
nAs" ,rndred present. Mayor Harrison
..os+raster. Mayor Rose of Mil
"'' enoke on Party Loyalty and
Alschuler, Democratic candidate
Governor of Illinois in the last cam
~ an The State We Live In
a p,s prvan began speaking after mid
N night. He said;
10 This opportunity to express the
sa+ this club and others which nave
Sorne nv name will substitute Tor my
O9, w.. tbe name of some Democratic saint
n emo descriptive of principles rather
than men, . ,,.h ex-
.s,lent prospects of remaining sucn'
..rbe Democratic party was never III
49,. ecbting condition than it is to-day,
"A rejoice that 1 have many years III
-, n participate in the struggle be-
.on human rights and the usurpations
- creed our party stands for wen de.
sned and positive policies ana Is piepa.e
.age an aggressive warfare against
10 "%e,,oora+ic tendencies of the evils
w. oinst which Jefferson contended a CEN
~ u.s. AGO and against which jackson
& fought thirty years later. ,,.
REORGANIZATION is an Internal remedy
"a a cannot be applied externally. Ihose
MI ho have lost their party Standlng De-
o.rse If their desertion of the party can
49, and unfaithfulness to Democratic
snrtrines as defined by legitimate author-
~, must reunite with the party before
INV attention will be paid to their pre-
tansions of interest. Those within the
rartv lines have a right to voice IN the
making OF the platform and change IN the
orpapIzation of machinery, but any de-
eired change shall be openly proposed and
framed for party governments and derive
tbeir lust powers from the consent of the
governed
1.-THE defeat the party recently suffered
ought not to discourage anyone who be-
leyes in the principles set forth in the
Kansas City platform, for if right when
written and Endorsed by nearly 6,5o0,0O0
voters they are right still.
The Democratic party has been defeat
ed before. but defeat has neither destroyed
is hope nor it's tenets. The defeat of 1886
came at the close of an administration
entirely satisfactory TO those most anx-
ious to reorganize the party, and defeat
IN 1854 which occurred under similar adj
ministration, was more disastrous than
Bny since
1--WE can face the future with the de-
termination to make the party faithful
exponent of the views of those who be-
lieve in equal rights to all and special
privileges to none.
whether the question of money viii
figure prominently in future campaigns
Will deDend upon circumstances.
What is desired is a sufficient quantity
Of money TO keep pace with the demand
for money
"Monopolies will ultimately become so
hurtfu that the Republicans Will no long
or be able to defend them. A colonial poi
ley must finally be repudiated by the
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