Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-04-16
THURSDAY. APRIL 16, 1903.
CRlMINATIoN AND REORGANIZATION.

EXAMINATION AND DENOMINATION.
When there is discord in a political
fsnilythe same conditions generally pre-
vail that are found in domestic circles
where family quarrels are alive. Crimina-
tions and recriminations are freely in
dulged in and bitterness and strife become
intense at each stage of the family jar. In
such a condition do we find the National
Democratic party today; and the breach in
its ranks becomes wider and wider as time
progresses. We find it not only divided
in support of men, but at bitter variance
OH principles and policies.
The faction that has been arrayed
against Mr.. Bryan since he was first nomi
mated as the candidate of his party for
President has become more violent in its
hostility each year, and holder in its de.
nunciations of his peculiar principles and
conduct. This has provoked from him
and.his followers feeling and expression
no less severe, and we see the war rapidly
assuming that character where no quarter
will be asked and where none will he
given. The reformers or reorganizers who
train under Mr., Cleveland are demanding
not only the retirement Of Mr.. Bryan from
leadership but complete abandonment
ofthe principles of the Chicago platform,
especially the currency plank.
The most violent objection the anti
Bryanites have been recently urging to
further support of the doctrine of the free
coinage of silver lie, that it has twice been
prominently before the people, and that
each time it was an unsuccessful issue fol
the Democratic party They argue that
having been twice rejected by the Amer.
can people, it is the height of political
folly for the Democratic party to stand for
1t again in Presidential campaign. The
reason assigned against the further use OF
freesilver as an issue, as matter of policy,
is, no doubt, a sound one, but as a matter
Of principle it is insncere and inconsistent
Therefore we are not surprised that MIR.
Bryan has called its promoters to task,
and commented with much severity and
force oil the DarroWness of his enemies in
his own party for advocating the abandon
ment Of the currency issue because the
party has been twice defeated upon it. Iii
IL speech made recently at Des Moines he
Justly ridiculed the position taken by the
party reorganizers (the Clevelandites) in
4 holding that free silver was dead and
4 should be deserted because it has been
ss.ireEejecreri4sy the people; and, yet in
ssiing that there should be another fight
made by the Democracy on a tariff for
revenue platform, when that policy has
been repudiated more than a score Of
times by the American people.
If MIR. Bryan had seen fit to do So, he
could have made the attitude of his enc
lpies still more ridiculous by calling atten'
zonsto the fact that, the free and unlimited
coinage of silver had not been practically
tested in this country, but that tariff for
revenue or free trade had. He could
have stated that an experimental knowl
edge of the results of the free silver idea
of the Bryanites might not have been as
injurious to the business interests of the
country as its enemies claimed would fol-
low Its adoption. And he could have
pointed to the fact that the very tariff
|policy his Democratic enemies insist shall
&be made again the paramount issue by the
rty has, each time it has been tried,
+ Brought business disaster to the United
R.ates.