The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-07-19
Gm Nltssenger.
Entered at the Postofice at Whining
ton. N. c.. as Second-Class
Matter April Is. 1879.
CHANGED CONDITIONS AND NEW
PRINCIPLES.

Ine antagonism exhibited to Mr..
Bryan in the Ohio democratic state
convention has been much exaggerat--
Gu. IL Is reported now Prominent
democrats in Washington can see no
reason for friction. The hostility to Mr..
Bryan. which was by no means gen.
eral. Is directly traceable to John p.
McLean's pertinacious unfriendlyness.
The newspapers Of the half and half
stripe, as well as republican and indie
pendent papers in the north have been
all along particularly hostile to Bryan
n have magnifed, perverted and
falsifed no little Of his talk and writ
ings. 1t is most noticeable. Bryan is not
a candidate, says he is not seeking
again the nomination. thinks it too
soon now to be naming the best ticket
or any other, n is the same honest,
able, pure. resolute, resourceful man in
1901, that he has been through many
years. The Washington -esponde
o. the Baltimore Sun Of the 18th inst,
wrote. and we are gratified to read the
statement:
Men well informed as to the senti-
hAChNo III pun pOSSS OIL MI Bryan and
his most intimate political friends. find
no occasion for dissatisfaction with the
action of the convention so far as re-
fected in the platform declaration.
1T is known that there has beer no
disposition on the part of men promi-
nent In the party who are willing to
designate themselves as "Bryanites'
to attempt to bring about a condition
which would result in another nomina-
tic for Mr.. Bryan, or to force the sill
yeT issue to the front either in the next
CO. sressional campaign or in the gen.
eral election of 1904"
1t must be admitted by close observ-
ers of the trend of opinion in the west
and in the south, that it is not expect |
ed that silver will cut a conspicuous
figure in 1904. The Ohio platform in
ignoring silver and urging two or three |
important principles indicated possibly |
the action of other western states in
their conventions. and foreshadowed a |
part Of h policy n declaration of
tie real democracy (not the kickers |
and political hermaphrodities) in the
L 1t national campaign. We observe |
Ii t Senat Jones. Of Arkansas, for |
two campaigns the faithful and effici-
n chairman of the democratic ma
tional committee, a month ago outlined
what he believed would be the course
of his party. His views anticipated the
d~eliveranoces of the Ohio democrats
since that time. The Suns correspond
ent aforesaid. says:
There is probably no man in the
United States more closely identified
with what is termed "Bryanism' han
is Senator Jones. In an interview with
him published in the u June 18th. he
omitted all ENerence to the money ques-
ton in discussing public issues. and this
omission was not accidental. He looked
to the question involved in the supreme
court decision on Porto Rico for the
main issue, and said that the conten-
ton of the democracy would be for the
preservation of the doctrine upon which
this government is founded. and that
the party would oppose the theory that
there might be subjects under our re-
publican form of government
Senator Harris, of Kansas, a popu-
list and Bryanite. thinks the Ohio
platform good enough for all Ohioans
to support. He is reported as saying
that the platform twas in accord with
democratic principles az declared in
1900. and as they had stood in the older
days of democracy. He thought it re-
publican policy to make it ppear that
there had been an abandonment of
principle and to excite discomfort
among democrats"