The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-09
HOW THE DEMOCRATS ARE
HARMONJZING.

For an off year the Democratic party is
activity. though not exactly of the kind
that wins elections. 1t is rather the kind
of activity shown by volcanoes when they
begin TO erupt. The recent efforts of the
party to get together have developed the
existence of a conflict that has all the signs
of irrepressibility. The only harmony in
sight at present is Of the kind that oc-
Cured when the lion and the lamb lay
down together, the latter inside the former.
The war began with the Tilden banquet in
New York, when Grover Cleveland and ex-
Senator Hill, after many months of DELHI
GRAFTON on how to harmonic the party,
unfolded their plan. Briefly it consisted in
the elimination of William ]. Bryan from
party leadership, of Organism from the
party platforms and of Bryanites from
party control. The political heresies known
as Organism were alluded to by MI. Cleve-
land as proven errors to be abandoned"
as "a body of death" and as "a burden of
issues which have been killed by the Amer
lean people" Brother Taggart was present
and approved these utterances with d smile
which was to cost him dear a little later
on. When the wave Of harmony started at
the Tilden banquet reached the West the
brethren began to respond. but the re-
sponses were not of the glad-hand order.
Brother Bryan fired a broadside at Messrs.
Cleveland and Hill, the bad smelling smoke
of which still permeates the air. He char
acterized the Cleveland administrator as
"a stagnant pool from whose waters foul
vapors arose. poisonous to those who lin
gered near" No doubt many self-respect-
ing Democrats have felt like retreating
from the foul vapors" emitted by Brother
Bryan's outbreak. Then came Brother
Watterson, his gun loaded TO the muzzle
with harmony of a slightly different brand,
and insisted that the party must draw the
line on Grover Cleveland" who's chief
characteristics were declared to be his
obtuse selfshness. his ignorant obstinacy,
his vulgar self-assertion, his indefatigable
o~bstinacy.' Since then we have had the
Sentinel reading the riot act to Brother
Bryan and advising him for the good of the
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scure seat; Brother Bryan's compliments
TO the Sentinel, with his opinion that IF it
can be coaxed or driven away from the
money question il can. by the same infu-
ence. be weaned from other questions" TIC
this came the retort courteous from the
Sentinel that lit has always been a BIZ
metallist, but never a - fool" from which
one is led to infer that. in the opinion Of
the Sentinel. Brother Bryan is that par
ticular kind of a fool. Meanwhile a Popu-
list editor. speaking for that contingent of
the motley crowd that made up Brother
Bryan's following two years ago. notifies
the traitors of the Democratic party that
they have undertaken a hopeless task in
trying to shoot harmony into the party
with Cleveland guns. 1--WE just imagine
we see the Populists of this country SAYS
the unharmonized editor. march up behind
the fat Grover and the skinny Hill and vote
as they are told TO vote" And so the mer-
ry war goes on. Behold how good and
how pleasant ii is for brethren 70 dwell to-
Oether in unffN"