The Minneapolis journal., 1902-07-25
.BRYAN's HARMONY BASIS

Bryan had the floor yesterday at the
Harmony meeting of the New England
Democratic league at Nantasket, and so
modified his tendency to the articulation
of scurrility tAat he alluded to the DEM
ocrats of the Tilden club only as pluto
Gratis" and "aristocrats," without men
tioning names. He likened the: latter to
beasts of prey and pronounced harmony
impossible between the dear little Bryan
lambs and the devouring< wolves, and de-
clared that 1T was a waste of time to
attempt to patch up an apparent harmony
between the two. ~
So far as Bryan poses as the leader
of the democratic party and the official
inheritor Of "Jeffersonian principles and
the chief exegete Of those principles,
there is apparently no hope for such
democrats as D. B. Hill and Grover
Cleveland and Mr.. Whitney They are
barred out. Mr.. Bryan will not admit
them to his political synagogue until
they subscribe to his favorite political IN
strunnent, the Kansas City platform He
has set up an inquisition OF his own,
superscribed with the characteristic IN
quisitorial legend: "Think as I do or
will kill you
Out of Mr.. Bryan's lengthy address at
Nantasket can be drawn few words
which indicate the issues which he would
make prominent, that is,. the issues which,
for the moment, he commends. be-
lieve," says he, "our party must go out
and show the people what is wrong IN
the tariff question. in the money ques-
tion, In the trust question: A few weeks
ago, in a letter to the Tamrnanyites, he
the issue par excellence, to be over
shadowed by nothing else TO the New
England democrats he declares the vital
issues to be the tariff. money and trusts.
That is, he would have free trade, free
silver and abolish large business enter
prises, by enacting the assembling OF
capital in order to extend the effective
ness of business operations, into Grim"
inal process Judge Griggs of Georgia.
chairman Of the democratic national con"
gressional campaign committee, solemnly
states the issues to be tariff, trusts, the
| Philippine question and ship subsidies.
| The anti-tmperialists are gathering this
week on the shores of Lake George to
| make arrangements for the hottest cam
paign In behalf of the "poor Filipincs"
| they have yet undertaken, so far aiding
the democrats in their policy stated by
! Griggs. It may be recalled that the new
| "liberal democracy announce the elm
ination of "free silver from their plat
| form as a dead issue,' because gold
| production is so large, although as free
| silver champions awhile ago, they de-
| clared that gold was the enemy of "the
people," and that the only metal to be
tolerated as money was silver, which
they termed "the money Of the poor
man. who was warned against touch
ing gold. D. B. Hill has just unfurled
his list Of Timely issues to the vision
of the democrats Of Mississippi, and he
names trusts, constitutional liberty, state
rights, public taxation for public pur-
poses only, popular election of United
States senators, genuine reciprocity
with Cuba, and the maintenance of the
present liberty of citizens whatever
that may mean.
The democrats can view the variant
issues and take their choice. There is
nothing upon which serious fight can
be made in the Hill presentment. The
<republican party has preserved and main
tanned the constitution and the union OF
states and has sedulously guarded that
article referred to so often in democratic
speeches-the palladium Of our nber-
ties If they had not done SO, there
certainly would have been nothing left
Of the palladium The only issue put up
by the democracy out of which they can
make any political capital is the posi-
tion in which the republican party has
been apparently placed by the discussion
and non action upon the Cuban reciprocity
measure in congress. The party has not
identified itself with that position and
has said so and is saying SO, and will
undoubtedly, show that, In this business
Equestion, Its business instinct and pro-
1 gressiye tendencies will serve the busi-
ness interests of the country as effec-
lively as it served them, when, In 1862,
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