The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-01-14
MR.. BRYAN-sILyER-THE DUTY OF
DEMOCRATS.

demned in hostile and friendly news
PAPERS. He spoke favorably for the
Beers n said hat the United States
should offer sympathy-that England
was tired of the war, and was glad
that the struggle had cost Great Brit
ain SO dearly. The resolutions adopted
by 1000 sympathizers call President
Roosevelt's attention TO the great suf-
fering of the Boer women and children
IN the RECOMMENDATION camps" Mr..
Bryan said that he Considered it a COM
pliment that the Beers looked to the
United States for aid and sympathy in
their struggle and that he considered it
a disgrace that no official expression of
sympathy had yet oeen made by this
government.
He also made a speech on the 9th
inst, at Wooster. Ohio. on Jackson
Day. He says he will not be a candi-
date for the presidency in 1904. Con-
corning the candidate he said:
There is nobody in the United States
who is at present qualified to name the
democratic candidate. 1t would hardly
be proper for me to assume the right
" ulSSuSS any pdIliCuldT pI RESIDENTIAL
candidate at present. This is because /
am not prepared to discuss the relative
merits of men who might be associated
with the democratic nomination"
These are his usual candor and good
in this. 1t is foolish to name a
candidate three years before the cleo
midsummer 1904, to change the pros
poets Of parties and to wither the buds
of politicians. Wait, learn, see. Mr..
Bryan dwelt upon political steadfast-
ness. a quality much needed in a time
like this when an elected democratic
senator fiops over into the republican
party a day or two after he was re-
ported to have sworn that he would
never desert. In eulogizing a great son
of North Carolina, the ~unbending, reso-
lutte, mastery Andrew Jackson, he said
this and much more equally as pointed
eloquent and true:
when he decided thu anything
ought to be done he did it and no power
could Oyerawe him. He did not have
in his veins a single drop of anything
to win" blood. When Nicholas Biddle
declared that through the national bank
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jackson replied that mat was more
power than any one man ought to have
in this country, and he then began his
war against Biddle and his bank, which
resulted in the overthrow of that great
~financier and the institution which he
so automatically controlled.
Benton. in reviewing Jackson's work,
saiu that, as Cicero overthrow the on
spiracy of Catalina and saved Rome, SO
Jackson overthrow the bank and saved
America. We shall observe this day in
vain If we do not gather from the life
of Jackson inspiration and encourage
ment for work which lies before us. To-
day the democratic party needs to learn
from the hero of New Orleans the les
son of steadfastness; it needs to learn
from him not only that to be right is
more important than TO be successful.
but that to be right is the best wav to
insure success"
In conversation in Cleveland Mr..
Bryan is reported as saying that he be-
lieves the same money plank will be in
the platform of 1904. That is to say
the least is of great doubt. Unless con-
ditions change very much from present
conditions such a plank would be to
invite defeat. The real genuine hi
metal democrats are much in the mi
nority now. a republican could carry
every northern state on the silver issue.
Le9stwise it looks that way at present.
We have no idea that the democrats
will try the same financial plan in 1904.
Great changes may possibly occur by
thot time, and they must occur before
the old party will try a third defeat on
the same money issue. Mr.. Bryan. in
his able weekly, The Commoner. in the
issue of the 3rd of January, had this:
For the benefit of those who have
talked so much about the money ques-
ton being dead, the Commoner calls
to the fac that in accordance
with the plans of the bankers. bills
have already been introduced into CON-
gress providing for the gold redemption
Of silver dollars and for an asset cur
reTcy +. :. :. These financial meas
ures will furnish the democrats of the
house n senate a splendid opportun-
itv to point out the complete sub
serviency of the republican leaders to
the money power"
hi ''subserbiency' is no new thing.
TIE republican party changed its skin.
shed it's principles, n became a gold
only party because II thought the north
that controlled at the ballot demanded
and favored it. The people perfectly
understand the slavery. the subserv-
iencv of the corrupt. vicious party to
"the money power" Loo at its legis-
lation. Look at the vast rusts now
gouging and depressing. Look at the
great ''robber" tariff the most in
famous tax measur ever adopted. The
money question is fixed for the present.
Tt has been stated often by republican
newspapers and congressman Cloth
houses} and by the secretary of the
treasury. that the law was imperfect
and needed to be amended. The Wash
irgton Post ridicules Mr.. Bryan, and
his crotchet, and says that you cannot
possibly think or dream of him sepa-
rate and distinct from and independ-
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