Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-07-16
Some Democratic Comment.

over the country, and the press COM
| nents, particularly the comments OF
the Democratic press, make most in
teresting reading. This comment
shows in striking fashion the hopeless
| differences which are dividing the
Democratic party. The preponderance
of the comment is favorable to Mr..
Cleveland and unfavorable to Mr..
Bryan. Many papers which stood by
the Nebraskan in 1896 and again in
1900 now turn in bitterness against
him. Yet he is in the saddle and the
long-eared Democracy seems destined
to stagger around the course to GER
| tain defeat a third time under his
guidance. He comes to New England,
next week, and to our own city, as the
leader of the party, and as such will
speak and be heard. The Literary
Digest has collected a great number
of Democratic editorial comments on
the Cleveland-Eryan controversy and
some of these we quote from below.
The New York Journal declares that
the advice of Mr.. Cleveland must be
followed .'even if it would have come
with better grace from any other man
in the United States,' for it is hard to
regard him in any other light than
the worst foe the party has had since
the Shareholders wrecked it." The New
York Times notes that Mr.. Bryan's in
vective makes it as plain as a
pikcstaff that he now feels and knows
him and head no more" According to
the Brooklyn Eagle. Bryan is find
ing his level" and to the Pittsburg
Post it appears that cleveland is
looking to the future, while Bryan is
turning to the past" while the Hart
ford Times eXclaims: IF a Democrat
cannot utter such sentiments as Mr..
Cleveland expressed on Thursday night
without becoming the object of
yituperation on the part of other men
claiming to be Democrats, then heaven
help an organization afflicted with such
a surplus of malignity and bedevil-
ment' The Indianapolis Sentinel,
which has been the chief supporter of
Mr. Bryan in the Middle West, says
that Mr.. Cleveland's advice is good
sense" ard that while it may awaken
the man who feels such antagonism to
think it over" The opposition of Mr..
Bryan is futile, according to the De-
troit Free Press. HE cannot stop this
movement" it says, ''and the man
that recklessly thrusts himself be-
tween the two approaching blades OF
tie shears is certain to be painfully
injured" The Milwaukee Journal
says that the speech of Mr.. Cleveland
"is a keynote and sets the pace foI
the party" and the Chicago Chronicle
thinks the manifestation of wrath
and uncharitableness that has beer
evoked is deplorable."
"In the list of a hundred or more
Democratic papers quoted there is not
one which appears in support of Mr.
Bryan in the old shouting and fight
ing manner. Not n few of them OPP
pose the idea of ClevelandiSm, but
not one indorses a continued adherence
to Organism. Perhaps the most in
tcresting part of the discussion comes
from the South, where the Democratic
party gets its majorities. The Rich
mond Dispatch is looking for a new
come under a leadership not OBJ
| noxi0usly entanGled with either side OF
the main question which. in the two
Bryan campaigns, disOrganized tho
party" The Richmond Times notes
| that "Rryan has brought nothing but
| disaster" and if the party would sue
| coed lit must cut loose from him en-
| tirely." Bryan is waning to the OBJ
security from which he came OBJ
serves the Charleston Post, ''an(
again Democracy turns to the mar
who led it to victory and administered
| its trust with honor" The Atlanta
Constitution says it is not tied t.
Organism, but it does not like Cleve'
| landiSm as n substitute as Mr.
Cleveland never appeared as a party
| adviser without his broad phylacterl
and his holier- -than-thou speeches"
1t is held by the Macon Telegraph
that the drift of Democratic senti
ment is away from Organism ant
| back to its old moorings.'' and th'
Mobile Register declares that ''th'
| time has come to cut adrift from Mr.
| Bryan" The birmingham Leadel
wants to disregard both Clevelan'
and Bryan and to consider them a
eliminated in discussing the reor
ganization of the Democratic party.
| The New Orleans Picayune thinks i
scarcely possible" that Mr.. Bryan
"can. for n third time, drive n long
n Iafant and th