Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-07-03

FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1903.
In repudiating the Chicago and
Kansas City platforms Of the party,
the Democrats of Iowa have acted the
part Of a bucking broncho with Will
liam Jennings Bryan for the rider, to
perfection, and the said rider is still
tanning empty space in his efforts to
reach political terra frma. The par
ty revolution thus inaugurated means
far more thar appears on the surface.
It means first, that the party leaders
who have grown lank in waiting for
party pies are determined to break in
to Office at the sacrifice Of everything
in the history Of the party that resem-
bles consistency. Free trade, tariff
reform, free silver, anti imperialism,
anti trust, and many other things
have been the slogan of the party
within the recollection of men not
yet on the shady side of life. Now
we have the ridiculous spectacle of a
party repudiating it's own principles
and grasping at anything to win. An
old maid once went into the forest to
pray for a husband. In the course of
her prayer, an owl sitting Tn a near
by tree uttered it's peculiar cry of
~swho, who, who-who." The old
maid thinking the remark was
directed to her in answer to her pray.
~er, said, "Anybody, Lord, so it's a
man." The Democrat party is about
the same. It's slogan is "Anything
for a platform, just so we win"
For six years that party has told the
people that the need of this country
was the free and unlimited coinage of
ssilver at the ratio of sixteen to one.
Now the same party tells the Ameri-
a people that the principles it advo-
seated in the last two National cam
Daigns were wrong, were false, and
that it now repudiates them. A I'd
rthe American people are expected to
accept this same party again! What
nonsense! What confidence can be
rplaced in a party which spent six
years In discovering that it was
wrong on a question of national i'm
%portance7 Suppose it had succeeded
in d%eceiving the people in the past
and had secured enough power to
have enabled it to enact it's principles
Unto laws? Would it now ask to be
again entrusted with power in order
to repeal the laws it had made9
That is exactly the position the party
is in today in theory, if not in prac-
tice. There are plenty of honest men
the Democratic party, and there
must have been some powerful in
fauence that caused this change of
heart. For some weeks it has been
evident to the political student that
nothing except the intervention of
Omnipotence can prevent the nomi.
snation by thu Republican party of
THAT fearless, intrepid end brilliant
young mar who now occupies the
chief magistracy. That he is the
mar of the people, the idol of the
masses, and the terror of those who
have attempted to use tthe govern
lnent for selfish and sordid purposes is
as true as the beatitudes. Three
fourths Of the members Of the Repub-
plican party are ready to throw a
twenty dollar panama forty feet in
the air for Teddy Roosevelt. The
monopolistlc people see the writing
on the wall and are abe to play the
Daniel part of the program to per-
fection. These people care nothing
for party name or party principle.
With them it is anything to win and
by the administration of some con
densed Democrat desire for office into
the empty stomach of the Iowa party
leaders, they hope to ecule the nomi-
nation by the Democrats of the ex.
Sheriff of Buffalo. and twice acciden-
tai president of the United States,
OIOt0I N1OtOAonuS ~ ! ulI1uR SOluS
other man of the same monopnlistic
persuasion. The hope of these poll
tical promoters is to unite the Dem
ocratic party, on such a candidate,
and by the liberal use of Wall street
coin, secure the election of this candi-
date at the polls. The people will
remember however, that twice before
has the Democratic party gohe into
National power, and gone out in both
instances in the face of the greatest
financial panics in the history of thu
country. If the vascilating record 0.
the party in its platforms were no
enc1gh to defeat it the record it ha
made as the party in power nth,
last score of years, should. The low,
Democratic party has a bad case 0
political jain jams, and should hav,
the bichloride Of god cure admins
tered without delay.
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