Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-03-20
TO GET RID OF BRYANISM.


The , leveland. Hill German Democrats are
making a mighty effort to "reorganlze" the
partv and rid it of Bryan and Organism. The
Brooklyn Eagle, one of the principal organs OF
the reorganizers, gives the program to be adopt
ed by the gang. The Eagle says:
"Those Democrats who oppose Bryan ana
who advocate the reconstruction OF Democracy
with Bryanism expunged are about to carry that
issue into the South and West. One of the
principal battle. grounds will be the state OF
Nebraska, where Mr. Bryan still retains, nomi-
nallv at least, the control of the machinery of
his party.
cit is proposed to crush Mr.. Bryan's inhu-
ence i'll his own state, and TO prevent, at all
costs, his control of the Nebraska delegation to
the next Democratic national convention"
Continuing, and speaking especially of Hill,
the Eagle says:
tMr. Hills is the executive mind in the
scheme of reorganization. For more than
year, that skillful politician has been building
up an anti-Bryan, conservative, sound-money
machine in the Democratic party of the East
to be used as nucleus of the general reorgan-
ization movement planned for the next year.
Mr.. Cleveland gave countenance to the project
in June, 1902, by appearing on the same plat
form with Mr.. Hill at the Tilden club in this
city. Mr.. German met Mr.. Hill at Saratoga in
September, and Mr.. Olney met him IN New
York in January, both acquiescing in his plans.
New England, New York, New Jersey and
Maryland, having together ninety-three votes
in the electoral college, were thus in alliance
against Bryan at the moment he arrived IN New
York with his defiance of the Hill-Cleveand
faction In all of the combinations by which
Democratic victories have been figured in the
past, Maryland has been allotted safe, and New
York, New Jersey and Connecticut, fighting
ground. Next in Importance is indiana That
state has been promised to Hill by ex-Mayor
Taggart, of Indianapolis.
sMr. Hill and his associates are convinced
ably to appeals made through its financial and
business institutions. They concede that Mr..
Bryan is strong with the rank and file of the
Southern voters, but they believe that the most
influential of the Southern leaders are against
him. The candidacy of Chief Judge Alton B.
Parker, of New York, which has been adroitly
pressed in several of the Southern states, has
done much it is claimed, to weaken the senti-
mental hold which Bryan had upon that section
in 1896 and 1900"
Mr. BRYAN takes this article from the Eagle
tor text, and proceeds to exhort his followers
within the Democratic party to organize to
defeat the purpose of the "reorganizers." We
admire Mr.. Bryan's pluck and perseverance,
but we confidently believe the Cleveland-Hill
German combine will dominate the next national
Democratic convention, and that the band wagon
will run over Bryan and his followers. Then
where will they be? And what will be come of
those Popuists who have been insisting that
the Populists go bodily into the Democratic
party9
When that time comes (and it isn't far Off,
the BRYAN wing of the Democratic party and
the Bryan Populists, as well as reforners in
other parties, will have to hunt new ONE
Time will Prove to them where that home
shall be.
THE MINERS WIN.