The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-09-29
BRYAN's BUSINESS.
Where Is His Warrant For But
ting Into Ohio Campaign

~ One ooutsider Is to Poke Into .
Purely Local Controversy, AZ john
son Insists II is, Why Not Bring in
All Kinds, or Else Exclude Every
thing National2
William Jennings Bryan had bet
ter be minding his own business, In
stead Of assuming TO instruct the men
Of Ohio, il the pending campaign lis
really and truly nothing but state
affair. and has no national relations.
Is johnson and Johnson's platform
insist is the case. What does Bryan
know about Ohio matters? Why is it
that he is the only man in his entire
party that should be specially called
in here among the Buckeyes to talk
to our people, IL all the issues for
them to think about and vote upon
are purely Ohio interests? II one out
slider is to be brought in what is the
matter with others? Where are
Grover Cleveland and John, G. Carlisle
and David B. Hill and Arthur P. Cor
man? IL this is not a national cam
paign, but outsiders are to be brought
+, in to an exclusively local affair. let US
have them of all kinds and descrip-
tions.
IL the Ohio campaign is purely a
state affair, as the Johnson platform
' insists, why was transplanted New
Yorker called over from Chicago to
prepare that platform? Who made
him a prophet and a teacher be-
4 ka Of
all the Democrats Of Ohio, to teach
the citizens of this state the duties Of
their citizenship with numerous now
elites, strictly according to Johnsonf
Or must we forgive johnson because
he is mixed up in his state relation
ships from having run political cam
paigns in other states 30 much while
he was neglecting to vote or pay taxes
in this state?
Then. too. IL this is not national
campaign, what was the need for
nominating a candidate for a senator of
the United States? Why need Johnson q
: party bother about voting for any
body for that position, If 1t makes 50
very little difference whether it is one
man more or less either way in the
, United States senate, as the johnson
!. platform insists? Why bother about
any johnson man in the United States
senate?
Furthermore, who can explain any
relation between a purely state CAM
t paign, so-called. and the repeated 70
: Affirmation of the national politica
0 platform Of a national party? Wher<
does the so-called Kansas City reat
frmation and enlargement Of the %
called Chicago platform Of 1896 have
the least to do with Ohio affairs in Z
purely Ohio campaign? An homes
and sincere purpose to appeal to thu
: people of Ohio in regard to purely 10
s cal questions and nothing but Ques
+ tions concerning our own common
t wealth would ignore all national par
a ty platforms. would pay no attention
at all to the lines of division betweel
the great parties that deal with tn
,. relations of the states with each othe
and with the wide worldf 1t would b
c in truth what Toledo Jones talk
IS about and pretends to support. Per
l. haps in his heart of hearts Tom John
r SON really is trying to lead the Obi
Il Democracy over into the Sam Jone
camp, and hasn't the nerve to say .
a right out and at the beginning.
In that case, though, what in tn
world would become Of all this tall
Ie about johnson for the next presiden
e tial nomination? No negative fror
3 him In respect to that has been hear
n anywhere by the most careful listen
e ers. He did reiterate that he wante
"a NO office but that Of mayor of Cleve
land and would devote his life to hi
dear people of the Forest City. A
III the same time his hired men wer
s. tramping up and down through tn
s. state to make dead sure that the nom
ination for governor should B
m forced upon him johnson said |
Just the same way as he declined tn
goyernorship while secretly workin
. for it. that he would not think OF tn
L United States senatorship at all; ol
'P no. But not n word from him dis
ID claiming ambitions to be Bryan
If heir for the presidential nomination
Is But then this is mot national can
paign" in Ohio. not even If it shoul
It nominate Tom Johnson for the pres
:. dency.