Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-06-25

TRYING TO MAKE TROUBLE.
Mr.. William J. Bryan has made it
clear that he does not desire to see
the national democracy harmonized,
because harmony means the COM
plete elimination of his leadership
and the Reputation of the issues
which has cost the party two disas-
trous defeats. Therefore lie takes
occasion to bitterly attack ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland and denounce him as
plutocYat who is again seeking to !
control the organization of the dem
ecratlc party that it might be used
in the interest of the financiers and |
against the plain people of the coun-
try. He charges that Mr.. Cleveland |
secured the presidential nomination
in 1892 by a secret bargain with the |
money syndicaies who raised an
enormous campaign fund to elect
him and in return for their service he |
turned the national treasury over to
them; that his secretary of the treas
ury, Mr.. Carlisle, sub sequently be-
came the private attorney of j.
Pierpont Morgan who forced the
TREASURY to sell him bonds at 100 and
then resold them at 1T per cen; that
Mr. Cleveland tried to prevent the
adoption Of the income tax provision
and while opposing the trusts in his
messages did nothing whatever to
suppress them.
1t is evident that in the proceed
ings of the recent democratic state
conventions Mr.. Bryan has read the
passing of his leadership; that the
party is moving away from him and
the dead issues to which he clings so
tenGciously; that it is determined to
return to the old principles upon
which it has made all of its success
full battles. Therefore Mr.. BRYAN is
bitter in his resentment to those who
refuse to adopt his political theories
and are seeking to rehabilitate and
:. harmonic the party and restore
popular confidence in it. He does
not want harmony, but he can not
prevent 1T, because the rank and file
are tired of following ''the peerless
leader" to enviable defeat. This fact
has been demonstrated by the drift
Of democratic sentiment on national
issues and by the platforms OF demo-
cratic state conventions that have
been held this year. The states OF
Indiana, Illinois, Maine and Tennes.
see have put the Kansas City plat
form behind them by Ignoring it,
while meeting the live issues that
have presented themselves. The
conventions of these states declare.
war against the protective tariff as
the parent of trusts and against the
republican policy or Imperialism that
seeks TO make dependent colonies OF
the Philippines to be exploited by
syndicates for their agricultural and
mineral wealth. The democrats Of
Tennessee have planted themselves
squarely on the issues made by the
tariff and tile trusts, while the demo
cratic convention of Maine has gwen
the tariff issue a concrete and prac-
teal form by ASKING the republican
congressman of that state why per-
nit the steel trust to charge the
shipbnilders sl65 per hundred for
the same materials which they sell
to English builders for 90 cents a
hundred, thereby crippling one Of
lour states leading industries.
These conventions indicate very
clearly the tendency Of the demo-
cratic party throughout the country
on questions of national politics.
J Their action shows that the democ-
: racy realizes. if Mr.. Bryan does not,
that free silver is a dead issue.-N.
In C&otac