The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-06
DON'T PROD BRYAN"
LEWIS NIXON RELIEVES IN PARKER.
MT. McKelway Reveals Facts--The Chief Judge Had Prepared Telegram of Acceptance. for
 Saratoga Convention.
Brooklyn Eagle

! Brooklyn Eagle
 Colonel Bryan's future status in the Democratic Party has been the subject
 or much discussion since the news tnat ex-Senator Hill is leading movement TOT
 the Neoraskan's political eXterminauoh was published in yesterdays Eagle. De
 spite the assumption prevalent all through
 the East that Hill will find 1t very easy matter to crush Bryan, a few ln- fiuential voices were raised in protest against his plan.
 While the sound money Democrats
 might agree, and perhaps have already reached basis of agreement, or plans Tor crushing the silver leader and pro
 ceeding with the reorganization of the party there is objection in certain quar- ters to intrusting that duty to MT. Hill. Many Democratic leaders believe that MT. Hill possesses too many lrrltaht
 qualities for that undertaking. It Is an occasion, they say, which requires, few hard blows, and no borrowing whatso-
 ever. Mr. Hill Is not known in politics as a hard-hitting antagonist Ills devl- ous course is strewn with enemies ne has made by evasion, shifts and tricks, where good hard blows were expected. There is a fear that in driving MT. Bryan out Mir. Hill wtll at the same time drive out so many voters that Chief Judge Parker, or the candidate for President. whoever he may be, cannot win. Lewis Nixon. Treasurer of the Congress sional Committee. who is known as a friend of MT. Bryan. although not as an advocate of many of his theories, takes the last view of the situation in an in-
 terview given at his office. 43 Cedar Street,
 this afternoon. Without mentioning MT. Elills name. MT. Nixon clearly stated hls dtsapphroval of the Hill ;-lan, and urges
 the employment of a good deal of caution
 in dealing with MT. Bryan. Mir Nixon
 is also an ardent Parker man. When his | attention was called to The Eagle article
 he said:
 q have read 1t with great care. My own position in the points raised by it is as follows:
 'I believe in exerting our efforts for political success, not for political sui- eide.
 If there have been any useful lessons taught by the last two campaigns the most important is that harmony in council and unity in action must prevail in our party.
 ''I wish to emphasize the fact that I am not one of those who believe that because
 Colonel Bryan is human enough to show some resentment against those Democrats who did not support him that he should be driven from the party as they return. l know Colonel Bryan and like him. He Is a charming man with many engaging qualities and that he was able to com l mend himself to so many voters on platform which any of the very Demo- crats most capable of getting their views before the public repudiated, indicates a high degree of ability and political sa- gacity.
 He was the standard bearer of the Democratic Party and on platform which drove many men to vote the Re publican ticket he did what he could for his partys victory. Must we split the party because he will not heartily CO., operate with certain men who, according | to his light, encompassed the defeat of | the party in two elections or must We ask them too to make some little measure of l the sacrifice they ask of him and work fer the party and not for themselves? "A party platform should put forth creed that comments itself to so large ] ma tority of the party hat in the event of success the party can work harmoni- ously to redeem it's pledges.
 Now that the great interests are awakening to the fact that the Demo- cratic party is the conservative party which while always on the side of the l poor and the humble is at the same time i a defender of rights and interests proper | ly acquired and properly used of both the | rich and the poor we should grasp our ''The Democratic party cannot hang on 1 to any mans coattails. We want not
 any particular man at the nations helm, | but we want a Democrat there.
 All talk of bolting conventions is pre-
 mature and hurtful. The Democratic party must perhaps be reorganizel, but | in doing so we must reorganize men into | the party and not out of 1t.
 "The idea that If Parker, Cleveland,
 Hill, Olney or Bryan were elected Presi- | dent he could be unduly influenced
 against the partys interest Is nonsense
 and about like a children's bogie man l tale. The President of the United States
 Is never influenced In that way; never | has been and never will be.
 "I am for Judge Parker's nomination, | first, because he would make a good | President, and second, because believe
 he would harmonize the opposing ele-
 ments of our party and because he will retain the great Bryan element as his | earnest supporters. Measures that drive
 men out of our party are for selfish and personal ends and in the long run they | do not prevail"
 Hearst Defends Bryan.
 William R. Hearsts newspaper, The | New York Amercian, under the heading
 For What Purpose Is MT. Bryan to Be | Crushed?" says editorially this morning; | An organ of the so-called reorgant- 1 gers of the Democratic party declares | that a determined effort is to be made to | crush MT. Bryan's influence in his own | State and to prevent at all costs his con- l trol of the Nebraska delegation to the
 next Democratic National Convention. | Everywhere through the West and South | efforts will be put forth to secure dele
 gates hostile to the kind of Democracy | for which MT. Bryan speaks. The chief leader of this movement, We | are informed by the organ, Is ex-Senator | David B. Hill, and associated with him | are 'ex-Secretary of War Daniel S. La | mont, eX-Secretary of the Navy William | c. Whitney. Hugh Mclaughlin of New
 York, ex-Presldent Cleveland, Senator | German of Maryland and ex-Secretary | Olney' The movement Is said to be in
 the interest of Judge Parker as Presi-
 dential candidate. but we beg leave to
 doubt his concurrence in any scheme of | the sort
 If Senator Hill and the other gentle | men credited with harboring these war | like intentions against MT. Bryan desired | to increase his popularity with the Demo | cratic masses they could not set about | accomplishing that result in more ef- | ficacious way.
 Mir. Bryan has a right as an Ameri- | can citizen and a Democrat to give voice
 to his opinions about what is good and | what is bad for tho Democratic party. | No one can accuse him of not being honorably open in his expression of his | views. He has announced that he will | not ask the convention of 1904 for the | Presidential nomination. and as private
 citizen he publishes newspaper and | talks to the intervlewers. There are l millions of Americans who read with in- l terest and respect what he has to say.
 The kind of campaign against MT. | Bryan which the reorganizerS are said | to be planning must inevitably be more | disastrous to them than to him. Were
 they to pour emissaries and money into l Nebraska with the object of crushing
 him, they would arouse from one end oi
 the country to the other among the ranR
 and file of Democrats the sympathy whcf
 manly men always give to one who Is 1 persecuted.
 We trust that Judge Parker will take
 an early oportunity to cause 1t to be au'
 thoritatively made known that ne mas