The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1903-06-10
Will BE HARMONY AMONG DEMOCRATS
$500. t Those Who | eft the Party the Last Two Cam
Is Merely PLAY for Position. Will Support Cam
,;,..a Who Is Accept able to the Regular Element
Especial Correspondence

Especial Correspondent
WASHINGTON, June 8.-Will there
be harmony in the ranks OF the demo
cratic party next year? Willthe par'1
he able to get together and once more
nresent an united front to the common
enemv9 Those are the questions up
nermost in the minds OF all patrloO''
democrats in the country. This Is tne
nolitical nerve center of the country
To this city come all sorts and klno'
of democrats as to Mecca, and when
they get here it is as natural for them
to talk politics as it is for water TO run
down hill. / have used the personal
uronoun very little in this correspon-
dence. My .opinion as an Individual
democrat amounts to very little, out
for the purposes of this correspondence
have talked to almost every democrat
who has visited this city since the ad-
tournament of congress aud have uone
so because I wanted to present TO tne
readers of this correspondence bhe
conditions of the party in the congress
and out of it, and | want to give my
readers the result of my research IN
that direction.
Iwant to say right now that tAere
is going to be harmony in the party
NEXT wear and that all factions are 60
inc into the battle in serried ranks,
with visor down and lance at resi-, all
6ohting as never before and for com
mon cause.
All this scrapping and elimination
and recrimination between the social
ed Bryan and Cleveland factions OF
the party at this time is mere oy-play'
a. least so far as the Cleveland fraction
is concerned. The element OF the
oarty which left the regular organiza-
ZION in 1896 wants to get back and in
tends to get back. This talk OF at
Aempting 10 renomlnate Grover Cleve-
land ia all balderdash and tommYrot'
That element is simply fostering that
Kind of talk in order to "tryout" the
regular organization democrats ana
endeayor to show them the strength
and power they possess in the east'
what their detection has cost the party
in the past and how much they can De
worth to it in the future. They are
not trying to ride the party or dictate
TO it or reorganize it.
They only want recognition. IhaVe
warrant for these statements. They
came from the highest possible author
ity. They came from one of the lead
ers of the faction that refused to sup
mort the ticket in 1896. 1 have the
same authority for the statement that
the so.called Cleveland faction OF the
party is going to give the ticket the
warmest and heartiest support next
wear. and that that support will be
given a candidate who is entirely sat-
isfactory to the Bryan or regular ele-
ment of the party. All they ask is
reasonable platform and they will sup
mort the nominee with earnestness and
enthusiasm.
They will do this for the one, single
and empowering reason that they
want TO defeat Roosevelt for election.
They know that this cannot be done
with any man who is not acceptable 70
the regular democrats who Loyalty sup
uorted the ticket in 1896 and 1900, and
thew want to win. In order TO do this
they are willing to follow instead OF
attempting to lead, but they DO not
want to be kicked in the face as they
enter the democratic door, and it were
folly for the regular democracy to con-
tinue to bait them. They are afraid
of Roosevelt, they do not want Roose-
welt at any cost and they do not inUend
20 have Roosevelt. They will not ask
for anything that the ssocalled Bryan
wing of the party, or, if you please, the
regular democracy, cannot grant glad
ly. / think they would prefer an east
ern man who is acceptable to- Mr.
Bryan and the regular democracy, and
I think this will be conceded them.
II so then they will support the ticket
as loyally as any good democrat did in
the years of 1896 or 1900, and will help
elect him triumphantly, for Roosevelt