Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-19
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HARMONY THAT DESTROYS.
There seems 10 be positive Intention
on the mart If the Eastern and Southern
Democrats to Arive Mr. Bryan from the
leadership ri bis party and sdetrack the
paramount issues set forth in the Chicago
and Kansas City platforms. This course
is being pursued for the purpose of bring
ing about what they call Democratic har
mony. II is but a repetition of the
fatuous 30 icy which has swayed the De.
moeracy Tor many years past Acting
upon sr,cl an idea, in 1896 the Democracy
cruci6ea grover Cleveland, wiped out his
political reed, chose William Jennings
BRYAN pr their political Saviour and
adoptet a Populist Anarchistic creed
furnishsd by Altgeld, Bryan and other
poHticl extremists. At the Kansas City
Conye ltion in 1900 the same kind of pol
lev US pursued, David Bennett Hill, on
that cccasion, being the victim. These ex-
trens reforms in the way of leadership
and issues were made then to bring about
bs,nony in the ranks of the Democracy
Flc.!e. trtacherous, purile Democracy
deserted aud denounced their former hero
or demi-god, Grover Cleveland, and
abused him with as little conjunction as
tpe tickle Ephesians did St.. Paul, when
tley wished to worship, one day as the
sod Merculius and tried to stone him to
death the next day as an impostor.
Such harmony is enforced, and always
brings disaster. We may confidently look
for such a result for the Democracy in
1904. There is an irrepressible conflict
now going on between the so-called re-
formers, under the leadership of Hill, Cor.
man and others, and the Bryanites under
the leadership of that wonderful leader,
William Jennings Bryan OF course,
when the National Convention assemblies.
one of these factions will go down in de-
feat, and the lack of harmony which exist
ed in 1896 and 1900 will be increased and
intensified. The Norfolk Virginian Pilot,
an intense supporter of Mr.. Bryan and
his isms in both of his Presidential cam.
paigns, in a recent editorial on Democratic
harmony, said:
tissues are not immortal because con.
ditions are not fixed and unchangeable.
The domain of politics is not the domain
of morals where right is always right and
wrong is always wrong. Times change,
issues change, and unless a political party
is blathering idiot bent on pre.empting
an expansive reservation in the potter s
field, it must adapt itself TO changing is
sues and conditions.
THAT is all that the Democracy need
DO now to secure harmony. Upon the
live issues of the present, Democrats are
agreed. As to the dead issues of the past,
nothing but blind, unreasonable folly can
provoke the party to continued bicker-
iDgs.
"Being unwilling to concede that the
jackass is the fitting emblem of the Demo
cratic party, we are not prepared to con-
cede that tie party will be guilty of the
stupendous folly of throwing away the
chance of victory that it now has,"
1t is the constant and repeated DISPOSE
ton of the Democratic party to change its
views on live issues that has made it find
ts home so frequently in the potter's
field and make "the jackass the fitting
emblem of the party" William Jennings
Bryan, with all his political fakerism, was
the strongest man the Democracy could
have presented in the campaigns of 1896
and 1900. The. novelty of the patent nos
trums contained in the Chicago platform
were peculiarly attractive to the masses
who followed the Nebraskan with wild
enthusiasm in his Presidential campaigns.
Let the Democracy turn Bryan and his
hot Issues down in 1904 and substitute
Hill and his cold issues to make a cam
paign upon, and we will see another dis
astrous termination of enforced Demo
cratic harmony.