Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-06-27
AN OLD STORY.


William, j. Bryan. At frequent inter-
walls and by variety of means, in
common with other metropolitan jour,
mails, it has put him out Of the way
forever. 1t has, again and again, as
sured it's readers that Mr.. Bryan was
dead d;-dead as the mythical door
NALL" dead as the typical "smelt;"
dead as the real, simon-pure, 'bonny-
fodder" Julius Caesar" 1t has for
all these years been burying him un-
der avalanches of popular reproach
and derision, and beneath mountains
of public Indignation. And every few
days it returns TO the task Of killing
him again and burying him once
more,-so deep that the plummet of
infinity shall not fathom his deserved
grave.
A few days ago the Times, by way
of variety, found out that in his com
ments on Grover Cleveand's speech
this much killed man had killed him
self.
Mr.. Bryan's remarks on this mat
Ter, the Times thinks, are so lntem-
perate and ill-natured, for him, as
to betray a consciousness on his part
that the people have left him and that
at last he is sure-enough dead one.
1t says: '''No man who has twice or
even once been a, candidate for the
Presidency ever before so violently
assailed a member of his own party
merely for disagreeing with him." IL
by 'his own party is meant the Dem.
ocratic party, the charge is untrue.
Grover Cleveland is not n Democrat
In any sense In 1896 he exerted every
power he had to defeat the Demo.
cratic ticket. At no time since his
OWN last election has he done any
thing to promote the interests of the
party organization, but everything to
damage it. During the only campaign
I'm which he could have been OF service
TO 1t, he was violently opposed to 1t
and its candidates.
In the broader sense of the word
"Democratic," Cleveland has not the
slightest or remotest sympathy with
its principles, or fellowship with its
followers. He Is by instinct and In
practice an utter stranger to Demo-
cratic traditions.
With him and his confreres, with
whom he met Mt the Tllden club meet
Ing, there could he no bond of union
on the part of Mr.. Bryan, or any of
the six and n half millions of men
who set the seal of their devotion to
Democratic principles In 1896, against
the storm of abuse and falsehood
which ragged around them, directed
by Grover Cleveland, David Il. Hill
and their fellow renegades, who are
now seeking to regain the party con-
troll they then lost.
Why should Mr.. Bryan be called a
dead man, or political suicide, he
cause now-as ever, he dares the
wrath of these men who deserted the
ticket of which he was the properly
chosen head? Do the New York pa.
pers think it would keep him alive
or restore him TO life, IL he Is indeed
as dead as they say he il. by saying
soft things about Grover Cleyeland's
self-satished Justification of his de
sertion OF the party? What, even In
self-seeking sense, could he gair
by trucking TO these men nowg They
Were against the ticket in 1895; the,
would be against II at any time If II
stood for any material interest of In,
people.
The beggarly array of Democratic
votes obtained in the states In which
these men had influence. In 1896
shows the folly OF attempting to con
ciliate them 10 the future support o
Democratic principles. Aside from
the greed for office for themselves
there is not hair's.breadth Of dif
ference between them and the Repub
licans, and since this is so, it is III
part OF honesty To prefer that Repub
licanism which ties its real colors
The common people OF this countr,
desire neither to cheat nor 10 b
cheated. And so they viii keep clea
OF following the advice, with whlel
The Wall Street newspapers are nov
30 fluent, 10 go back to the time
OF Grover Cleveland and feed a
busks" once more.
The effort of the Times to max