The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1903-02-28
TO down BRYAN.
LEADING DEMOCRATIC PAPERS
Advise the Crushing of the Man
They Twice
Attempted to Elect President of the
United States.
Then He was Regarded as a Demi- God,
Now He is Dubbed a Tyrant and a
Disorganizer. There will be Fun.

We said some time ego that the
Hon. William Jennings Bryan,
twice the candidate of the Demo
cratic party for President, was a
man of ideas as well as pre- judices,
and that he was good hater,
especially of the men who deserted
the party IN 1896 and 1900, on ac,
count of the popuhstic ideas which
Mr.. Bryan advocated and which
had been embodied IN the platforms
upon which ne stood. On those
occasions Mr.. Bryan was declared
by the Democratic party to be the
ideal Democrat and that the prln-
clples and policies he advocated
were strictly Democratic, and
Cleveland, Hill, Olney and the 9th
er sensible Democrats who Endorsed
the sound IN Dney principles were
deuoun ed as lOIters, TRAITORS and
diSorganlzers. The boy orator.
was declared to be the perfect in
carnation OF Democracy, sound
principles al d popular ideas. The
opposition conteGded that Mr..
Bryan vas Popullsi; tnat his IDEAS
Were p pullsuc and anarchistic and ,
If put into practice, would ruin the
country.
Mr. Rryan had sprung up like a
mushroom; flashed IKE a meteor
across the Democratic frmamen ut
and carried every thing before him.
He was made the ruler, the wor-
shipful master of the party and
the faithful adored and ldolized
hlm. He was looked upon as the
Moses thai would lead them out of
the wilderness, and there was the
blowing of horns, changing of Gym
balls and singing of halleIujahs that
simply tended to make men wild.
The day of reckoning came and
Mr.. Bryan and his benlghted fo!-
lowers went up against the Amer
can people--and then they went
down beneath an avalanche of votes
Billy has come to the front once
more, ard this time be Is seeking
revenge. He means to lay out the
fellows who helped to undo him.
He's frank about it, and talks out
plainly. In speaking of him and
his expressed intentions the New
Orleans Daily States, an ultra Dem.
ocratic paper, in late issue, said:
ave cannot Win either the presl
dency or the success of govern.
mental principles without votes,
and our doors ought always to be
open to Democrats. If the Demo
cratic party in 1896 bad practiced
the exclusion policy which Mr.
Bryan now advocates, he would
today be remembered but as the
leader of the detunct Popullste
organization, nor would he be III 3
position to so vex the Democracy
now. 1t must be plain to Demo
Gratis by this time that If the part
ever hopes to accomplish anything
it must ignore Mr.. Bryan. There
Is no room IN the Democratic seats
of authority for a tyrant, or a die
tator, but such Mr.. Bryan unques
tionably is. The opinions and the
scruples of 10 man-even the whole
party ltself-are worth so much al
a far.hing rush-light the momen
thev may come in conflict witt
those of Mr.. Bryan. He is always
right, and all who may differ from
him are wrong, and not SIMPLY
wrong, but their motives ever
are subject to suspicion. 1t begins
to appear now that rather than se
the Democratic party succeed with
out William Jennings Bryan as 1t
+. standard bearer he will help to de
feat 1t. He has placed hlmsel
! squarely in the path of party bar
mony, and he who desires harmon
will have TO first fight Mr.. Brya
before he can secure it. That
. the position in which be has place
himself, and having taken that att
tude the Democratic party can onl..
consonant with lis own self-respec
brush him aside and 60 forward
!. the consummatlon of the great pn
poses OF Democratic unity ar
Democlatlc victory"
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