Waterbury Democrat., 1902-08-06
A NEW JERSEY RRYANITE.
Takes Hartford Times to Task Times
 Editor Makes Reply.

H ANCW 5JGTScy oIydA auCIuUCIdL -uaS written letter to the Hartford Times sn regard to it's attitude toward the democratic candidate of '96 and 1900. He says:
 I read the Times with much inter- est, and regard it as conservative and l it's editor patriotic. I beg leave, how ever, to point out what I consider some
 mistakes in it's position regarding har- mony in the Democratic party. In the first place, you did not sup l port the regular nominee of the party l in 1896 and 1900, While you may have differed from 4dr Bryan on the financial l question, yet he was the nominee of the party, and it is possible that time may prove his opinions not as faulty as may be supposed. If you maintain l the right and privilege of refusing to l support him, how can you object to his ] friends refusing to accept Mir Cleve- land as a pattern for the Democrats to follow at the present time? It is a grave mistake that MT Cleve- land has been brought to the front again. Organism was simply a pro- l test against Clevelandism, and as long as Democratic journals extol MT Cleveland and sheer at MT Bryan, just so long will harmony be lacking. It was the unwise "construction' of the platform by MT Cleveland that killed the party. The financial plank in his platform was inserted as a bona fide gift to the silver wing the parity of the metals '-and he utterly ignored the silver wing His sending of troops into Illinois without request of the Governor, his sale of $1O0,0 0,000 900 bonds at 12 cents less than the market price to the Morgan syndicate. and his re peated sales of bonds, were not credit able.
 MT Bryan received 100000 more votes than he, and it is 9beleiyed by many that but for the ssmethods' in some states he was really elected. That bare Mckinley majority in Ken lucky, at the eleventh hour, was cer- tainly suspicious.
 There can be no ssharmony'' with Mir Cleveland in and MT Bryan out. When MT Greeley was nominated for President, the rank and file refused to vote for him. Any man who is nomi- mated by the Democratic party who did not openly and cordially support MT Bryan, will not receive the votes of the Bryanites. There will be no objection to ssgold Democrat if he is honest in his views. and did not op- pose, MT Bryan, as he could not gain anything for voting for MT Mckinley, but while the leaders may firing "har- mony" among themselves, to secure the offices, the Bryan men will not for get that there was a Palmer and Buck ner ticket, and that they have the right to remain aside and continue their organization.
 The best thing that can be done is to obliterate Clevelandism, and Cleve- land cuckoos, and it will then be time to consider MT Bryan, for just as long as Democratic journals hold Mir Cleve- land up as a saint, justsso long will MT Bryans friends insist that he re- main at the front and hold them to- gether. ss
 MT Bryan can never be eliminated until the man who is eliminated by. the convention of the party is kept in the background, and tlie more abuse heaped upon MT Bryan the less thar mony, in the party.
 As the gold Democrats voted for MT Mckinley, so will any gold Democrat nominated receive a dose of the same medicine. .s .5f
 
 Here is the reply of the editor of the Times to the letter:
 An admirer of MT Bryan in New Jersey writes to the Times to tell us what are the conditions on which those who did not support the Nebras man for president in 1896 and 1900 can harmonize with the Bryanites; and we publish his letter in this issue.
 \ Two of the things that we must do, we are told, is to stop "extolling' Mt Cleveland and stop sneering at MT Bryan. All criticism of MT Bryan, any. aIlusion to him which fails to recog-s nize In him 8 wise ana acceptable leader, is regarded by his followers as a sssneer.''
 s'The more abuse heaped upon MT Bryan. the less harmony in the party" says our New Jersey friend. We agree with him that it is poor policy to abuse" Mir Bryan. If anybody is do- ingfit we hope he will mend his ways at once. It might help to secure this would stop abusing MT Cleveland and MT Hill of New York Many of his recent illusions to, these gentlemen ap- pear to be properly classified under the head of abuse
 There is q delightful frankness about this correspondent who prefers the name of Bryanite to that of Demo, crat. He. says that the gold demo- crats voted for Mir Mckinley, and that if any gold sman is nominated for pres ident by the democratic party, the Bryan men are going to vote for the republican candidate. "as dose of the same medicine, This we under stand to be the course which MT Bry- an approves, but we are glad to nave the authority of one who professes to speak for him on this point. His state ment accords with our interpretation of the purposes of the gentleman from Nebras1ga. as we have had occasion to speak of them recently.
 In his Nantasket speech MT Bryan had much to say about the necessity of submission by the minority of a party to the will of the majority in the matter of determining what are essen tial to democratic principles, and in laying down a policy for the party. But here we have from Bryan man the threat that if the majority of the l democrats of the country shall adont 8 platform which is substantially a gold platform the Bryan minority will bolt. No candidate can be nominated without receiving two-fhirds of the | votes in the next national democratic convention, but even should the suc- cessful man get three-fourths of the votes in the convention. he will ssre- l