The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-06-24
BRYAN ON Harmony

The comments upon the Tilden Club
gathering and upon the chief guest of the
club, Mr.. Cleveland by Colonel Bryan,
yesterday, at Lincoln, suggest that both
he and Colonel Henri Watterson are de-
termined, If they can possibly accomplish
1t, to prevent the cooling dove Of peace
and harmony from settling down above
the councils Of the democratic party.
The two colonies have no use for Cleve-
land and they compete with each other
in their efforts to extract opprobious
terms from the dictionaries to apply to
the once democratic idol. Colonel Bryan
declares that the party will not return to
Cleveland until the principles of Jeffer-
son are forgotten and the works of Jack
son cease to INSPIRE and that "the fight
is on between democracy that means
democracy and a Clevelandism which
means plutocracy.' .5.,s e.
Thus Bryan declares his purpose SO
far as possible, to widen the ominous
breach in his party. He reads out of the
democratic party all those respectable
eastern and western and southern demo-
Gratis who desire to drop him and what he
stands for and get on a live and pro-
gressive pla tform, the planks of which
would be somewhat ingrained with the
real Jeffersonian and Jacksonian princi-
PIES It is certain that the New York
democrats, at their next state convention,
will emphatically repudiate Organism and
the Kansas City platform, just as several
western democratic state conventions
have already done. MI, Cleveland, like
Bryan, although not to the extent or with
the bitterness Of Bryan, INDUCED in
criminative language, as when he said
be wished to see "a democracy Uninterrupted
by clamor, unmoved by the guests Of
popular passions and interrupted by Of
fers Of strange alliance This has en-
ragged Bryan and his mongrel democrats,
as they take it as hit at themselves.
That is evident.
The reorganization of the democratic
party during the battle of examinations
and determinations is impossible. Soil
darity of action is impossible so long as
the party does not seem to know what
true democracy" is, although the term Is
necessarily upon their lips. Bryan fathers
poor Jefferson with every kind of exploded
fallacy and irrational fad and illogical
theory. He damns the portion Of his
party who are beginning to see the neces-
sity Of devoting their energies to great
issues of present and future Importance
and blows his penny trumpet to call them
back to his own dismal and besotted
preterism. Bryan's voice is for war to
the knife on the reorganizers, and he
makes it apparent that, SO far as he car
effect anything, there shall be no SOLID
alignment of the democracy in the ap-
preaching congressional campaign, or In
the great campaign of 1904.
A man who has been twice defeated II
the presidential race has considerable
cheek and nerve to get up and denounce
man Of the same party who has beer
elected twice to the presidency. as thu
promulgator Of, ''odious policies and al
enemy of "Jeffersonian and Jacksonia1
principles" Under such circumstance
alignment of the democracy and molecular
cohesion are simply impossible. Much Il
said by the democratic press about tn,
mistakes OF the republican party, but the!
and the democratic leaders have not beef