Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-24

work OF 'rescuing the party TO make
1t possible for them now to make such
shift of the responsibility for the re-
suits of their rescue work. They I'M
derstand that the example of boiling
which they set the party in two cam
paigns is ready to be followed by other
factions, which find themselves disap-
pointed, either as to platforms or can
didates. The Bryan democrats will
not adopt the boiling tactics wholly.
They, or by far the greater part of
them who refuse to vote the ticket,
will not go to the extent of voting for
republicans by way of protest. But
what is already known is that count |
less thousands of them will stay away
from the polls and let the reorganizers
run the campaign they have organized
on lines to suit themselves. That isl
the outlook. 1t means such certain|
and crushing defeat for the party that
Senator German is anxious to be un-
derstood as being no longer prominent
ly identified with reorganizer move
ment.
The Gable Campaign.
The campaign to be organized and
set in the field by Mr.. Gable for thel
districts of the west and northwest isl
not starting off with that degree OIL
eclat which, in the beginning, it was
intended that it should. Mr.. Gable isl
slow in taking hold. A great many
people who have wanted to "see" him
have been unable to do so. A horribleI
suspicion is beginning to dawn upon
the minds of the boys" in the Chicago
districts that the money which they
had been led to believe would be soon
forthcoming if they stood with Cable
and Hopkins. for the elimination of
Organism" in Illinois, is not to be in
evidence. This suspicion is not who'll
ly warranted, however. There will be
some money spent in the Chicago dis
tricts, but it will not be nearly sol
much as was originally contemplated,
and it will not be released until near
election day. Mr. Gable looks for.
ward to the failure of his efforts in his
field of action with anything but pleas
ant anticipation. He went into the
work originally for the purpose of
making reputation and glory for him
self. He was deluded with the idea.
as most of the reorganizers were not
long ago, that they constituted the on
ly element in the party which will re-
fuse to support the party ticket and
platform when not wholly satisfied
with them. The revelation that the
bolts of 1895 and 1900 have almost de-
stroyed the party solidarity, enthusi-
asm and discipline, which once pre-
eminnetly characterized the democrat
ic party, has been an astounding one
to him. He has been brought to real
i1n fho 20 of ny
with it as best he may, but without
that hope of successful results which
first moved him to accept his present
post. 1t is conceivable that he would
be glad to have Chairman Griggs helt
responsible for what happens.
West of the River.
"Bryanism' in the abstract and con-
crete, continues to give the reorgan-
izers great deal of trouble. The
carefully laid plans to omit any re-
affirmation of the Kansas City doc
trine from the Texas state platform
and get the platform through before
the ''regularits" men could think
about it, went all awry. 1t is not at
all likely that the Bryan men of Tex
as would have failed to see the very
point they were waiting and watching
for, or to have "raised the issue" in a
very positive and aggressive way
The reorganizers are greatly at fault
if they imagine their opponents to be
without far-reaching methods of rapid
communication. That .delnsion may
have been pardonable, some years ago
but it is so no longer. The ''reorgan.
3izers" in Texas lost their nerve when
they found THAI their intentions were
we'll understood. A reaffirmation OF
the Kansas City creed went into the
Texas platform without trouble, and
even Senator Bailey, who was the man
most looked to by the reorganizers for
the promotion of the policy of silence,
was. unequal to the dangerous work
of voicing protest. The man NOM
mated by the Texas democrats for
governor, however, ex-Congressman
Lanham, is known to be with the reor-
ganizers virus. Since the convention
the reorganizers say that Lanhams
nomination would have been endan-
gered if the omission had been insist
| &c upon, and that the nomination is a
much greater victory for them than
the omission would have been. They
comfort themselves with the reflection
that the Texas resolutions do not in
dorse Bryan. But if they had the Tex.
as friends of Bryan would have be-
trayed him, for he has taken pains to
make it known among his supporters
everywhere that indorsing the Kansas
City platform should not be associat-
ed with the endorsement of him. The
sooner the fact is understood. that Mr.
Bryan is not seeking or desiring an.
other democratic presidential nomina
ton, the sooner the real force and sig
nificance of the movement he is now
leading will be comprehended. The
Kansas City platform, it is conceded in
advice, will be reaffirmed at the Mis-.
souri, democratic state convention at
st. Joe next week In this way all of
the states west of the Mississippi riv.
er, with the exception of the three on
the Pacific slope, will be in line
against elimination" They include
four of the heaviest democratic states
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