The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-08-08
THE VETERAN Editor
Col. A. 8. Colyar, Sizes up the
Nashville Papers.

To the Columbia Herald In your
issue of yesterday. you refer in a COM
plimentary way TO my anecdote about
jackson and Thomas Kennedy Cor
don, and to the speck of humor in my
signing my name to the certificate of
the Williamson County News, which
the editor did not sign. that we were
without a democratic paper in Nash
Vile. While that anecdote was in
sense humorous, the situation is anom-
olous, not to say serious.
The American claims to be demo-
cratic paper. 1t is a good newspaper !;
but what of its attacks on Bryan, who
has twice been the candidate of the
party-running on a platform made
by the party in two regularly organized
conventions, and the first time getting
more votes than any democrat ever
got in the United States before, and in
the second election losing in the popu-
lar vote by only 100. 600 out OF 10, OOO,-
600 castf
The ingenuity. and / may say the
ability, in both editorials and clip
pings. in its effort to bring Bryan into
contempt, and to ridicule the platforms
two of them made by the demo-
cratic party in the old fashioned
way, leaves the American on the
question of being democratic paper,
where the innkeeper was who was
proud of keeping tavern, but could NOT
give the ira weller any supper, any
bed to sleep on nor anything to feed
his horse, but in answer to a pointed
question as to what he was doing, said
II am keeping tavern.
The American surely knows that 1T
BRYAN is dlshonored by the press,
under the influence of the deserters
in 1896 and 1900. the party will be
worse off than the inn keeper was.
When Bryan took the flag of the party
and carried it over the big deserters,
he created a debt of gratitude that
will be repudiated when deserters
from the army become court martial
to try the soldiers that stood to their
guns and faced the enemy. A reor-
ganization under Mr.. Cleveland, be-
sides being offensive because he, by a
decoy duck scheme elected republl-
can, would be useless, as the democrats
have standing invitation to take
seats in the Republican camp where
the principles that carried Mr.. Cleve-
land out can be found in their original
party.
The Banner has two points; first /:
That Bryan is a h1ppant fellow, and
second That the platform on which
the party put Bryan is heresy, and
the 6, 440, 600 men that voted for Bryan
are heretics; that is too big job tor
one evening paper.
The known good sense and literary
acouirements of the editor of the Ban
ner saves him from being laughed at.
1t is not ignorance that he puts o.
44O, 600 democratic voters down as
heret;cs for standing by the platform
and partys nominee because few
gentlemen went over to the RepuD-
llcan side. If Baskette were serious,
the fellow that had eleven contrary
jurymen would not be patching to
him.
The Evening News started ont as
democratic paper, but seems to have
been cowed before it got well into the
| fight. When the Evening News was
established there, were among demo-
Gratis pleasant greeting, as we'll as
sense of relief, for the entire party
in Tennessee was of one mind. Cap
italists bankers for instance, claimed
divide, but they in fact became re-
publicans at the start, and were not
democrats but this has not percept-
ably lessened the ranks. So there was
general satisfaction when the Daily
News was established. And In mega
tive sense it is democrat paper.
But democratic paper that does not
defend the 6, 440, 900 democrats that
voted for Bryan. and don't defend
Bryan and the conventions that noml-
mated him, and his supporters. Is not
looked upon as a democratic paper.
The question of silver was the TEA
ture of the two platforms. This had
not only been democratic doctrine for
! more than one hundred years, and
was, and is yet, in our constitution,
but has been the money of the world
since the Egyptians bought Joseph
from his brothers. And to make the
party simply gang of heretics, be-
cause they did not fall down before
John Sherman s fraud, is entirely too
big job for Captain Baskette.
A. s. COLYAR.
Nashville, July 26.