The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-02

the trusts and money power of Wall Street." It really seems that sensible newspapers would at some period get ashamed, or disgusted at the "damnable iteration of such rot but we don't know. Possibly they mistake that for argument. but we want to give them pointer: Any platform adopted next year which does not contain all the Populistic fallacies of the last two deliverances will be. ''dic- tated by Wall Street. in the estimation of Mir. Bryan and some of his followers. To them there is no Democracy except and Chicago, and any Democrat who does not fully agree with all that Is contained 1 in those platforms Is dominated by the money power. It Is a ridiculous and al- together false assumption. of course. but there are certain self-constituted arbiters and opponents of>Democracy who are un- able to rise above 1t. Dictated by the trusts and money power of Wall Street" is mouth-filling sentence which can do duty indefinitely and Is an excellent sub stitute for argument.
 | And the intimation that Mir. Bryan will call on all in the National Convention | "who are loyal to the Kansas City plat form to follow him out is decidedly rich. It reads as If it is believed that in such case there will be an awful hole left in the body of the convention. We re- member that when Owen Glendower boasted that he could "call up spirits from the vasty deep" Harry Hotspur did not dispute the proposition. but-"will l they come when you do call for them?" was his pertinent question.
 We may put the same query. If things 1 turn out as The News evidently antici- pates, and MT. Bryan issues his call to the faithful, how many will follow hin? Many are called. but few are chosen, said the Savior, and in this case there may be many called and few respond Viewing conditions as they now exist, and making use of what provision we can command, we predict that hardly a safe Democratic State will next year indorse the Kansas City Platform, or appoint del- egates pledged to demand its re-enact- ment. In other words. the delegates from the States which are surely Democratic will not be there because they are loyal to the Kansas City Platform" but be- cause they are loyal to Democracy and are not bound, head and foot, to the nois- one carcass of dead and decaying is- | sue.
 If the National Democratic Convention of 1904 Is composed of such material as we have every reason to believe 1t will be, call on it's members to bolt for such silly reason as that advanced by The News will have about as much effect as Glendower's call for the spirits. There will probably be delegates there from some of the hopelessly lost or very doubt full States who will follow Bryan's call, whether there is any reason for 1t or not, but they will form a small and unfm- portant fragment of the convention, or we are much mistaken. It is not difficult to believe that MT. Bryan will make the effort. True. he is fast getting into the moneyed class himself Politics has been profitable occupation for him. His woidy speech and glittering generalities have enabled him to get a good start to- wards the millionaire ranks, but that doesn't mater. As long as he has polit- ical ambition or desires, he will hurl dor hicks at "the trusts and money power of Wall Street" because he appears to think | that one sentence will make him solid with the people. Yet the people are not all fools.
 In the event the things predicted by The News comes to pass, we do not agree with that paper as to the results which would follow. Such a party as would adhere to Bryan for the reasons given would not, in our estimation, control the electoral vote of single State which is now regarded as normally Democratic. It might give to the Republican ticket some doubtful States which the Demo- crats might otherwise control, but that Is all 1t could do. If 1t had any effect, it would be to help the Republican ticket. We do not believe that The News Is correct even as to its own State in it's prediction of the result of a bolt on Bry- ans part True. we do not profess to be intimately familiar with the sentiment of Tennessee, but the implication conveyed by The News that all Democrats who
 
 follow him in bolt is so absurd and so utterly without foundation that We cannot see how sensible and oNseryant newspaper can make it with a straight countenance. It was said of the old Ro- man augurs that two of them couldn't look in the faces of each other without smiling. so great was their contempt for the credulity of their countrymen, and We think the same result must follow the meeting of two men who class all former supporters of Bryan as men who are ready to follow him out of the Party. If he bolts for such cause as that suggested by The News. all good Democrats will say to him and his deluded followers: "Wayward sisters, depart in peace."
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 The Columbus Enquirer-Sun voices this cruel suspicion:
 The Peoples Party Executive Commit tee is in favor of holding the PonuIist