Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-07

p''' &c candidate for success. II
u .hot the rarity is bankrupt IN
0'' -, and achievement. and that
@ n.ous itself. in a last emergency
a. a power other than wat 1t IS So5' or
't = has done. And when body
n incorporated under what
ono of organization as no
,1 to its efediy it viii be e'iH-
5e1 that it is ir I prey lad way
,no,lcating lis doct"11,s Or per
,4ing itself. The question al
unnermost, concerning mon
Lsopally and together. is What Is
moosure and character Of capa-
- And there is no gauge Tor
/ ovcent history. When the Demo
+s cav their organization Of moe
kn sixty years swept back by a
odtide of national sentiment, their
l. impulse was to find a man mighty
onob TO rescue and restore them.
oir thories had been so disastrous
|, bsd met with such crushing de
h that they turned from them fer
4 time being and sought refuge in
nersonality of candidate. But
h. Of course. was Intellectual, for
man is so strong with the Amerl-
l neople that he can afford to dis
bse with both platform and history.
hericans are at least sensible peo-
and in their common sense is
Ind their genius for government.
|ey are not intolerant Of hot air
such, but at the same time it is the
hume the noble and the substantial
II infatuate and command them.
us the majority is held and aug
nted
n the light of his own career and
course of his party, the state
mt of Bryan recently at Greenfield,
:, that principles are everything
candidates nothing, sounds very
ch like barefaced untruth. I'm
btedly it was not made as such
it nevertheless has the intonation
falsity and emptiness. There is
hing in it. This statement is true
Y in reversing it. The facts are
IRE us. AS to candidates, the woods
full of 'em; as to principles, there
a measly one discernible. We
no idea the Democratic timber
so tall and plentiful until its
ensions and area were disclosed
he exigencies of the political situa
1t grows high, and it grows
ywhere-East, West and South
nowhere is it more flourishing
in Nebraska. Bryan still fairly
his contemporaries, but he GER
y does not on the conservatism
breadth of his craftsmanship. He
MT advocate a thing that isn't
KY and of the narrowest type.
his advocacy has had the adyan-
OF quite popular personality. It
IN fact, overshadow the issues he
ented. And Bryan certainly was
clous of this. He isn't an Iago in
les, for he isn't tragic, but in !
essentials he is a trickster. A
y and paltry lot of ideas were
ably never made more serviceable
ampalgns than by him. He was
Dy the people, and did all that
man could do for his party. He
two rafting canvasses. And
IS the preponderating fact? He
defeated. Down he went each
IKE McGinty, to the bottom.
power of personality was a beau
Hoax The sensVb}aa ideas of
ar issues We're wanting. On that
ID the majority grew.
'dn came on at an inauspicious
Tor election, though his nomina-
seem to have netted him consid
y II was impossible for him
y one else to make way against
e6islallon and execution of the
ohean party. So pOnderous was
'oese particulars that even the
hal Weight of men within its own
was diminished. It's conven.
were not put to the necessity of |
as TO catch candidates empower
rouse the enthusiasm of the
= Grant, of course, had un-
ieo popularity, but he had sense