The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-21
BRYANITES LAY LOW
MR. BRYAN's FRIENDS IN EAST WILL WAIT TILL CAMPAIGN
 IS ON.
Open Fight Now Out in Iowa-The Effort to Meet Cleveland Senti- ment on Atlantic Seaboard
 Regarded as Hopeless.

 |
 Brooklyn Eagle.
 New York Bryanites yill 'lie low' this
 fall. They have come to this conclusion,
 mainly for the reason that Colonel Bryan | himself prefers that there shall be no
 demonstration which may reveal both the | numerical and managerial weakness of
 his cause in the East State Committee
 man John W. Cox, pr. John B. Girdner. leaguers will have very little to say un-
 til the Presidential campaign opens in
 earnest next year.
 This decision is. according to Mir. Bry-
 ans friends, direct result of the Cleve- land boom. | When Colonel Bryan was in Brooklyn
 three months ago he told a friend that
 the 'reactionary element"-meaning the
 Eastern Democrats who desired to reor-
 ganize the Democracw-would be particu-
 larly active in New York this year, and
 that it would not be wise for the Kansas City platform Democrats to attempt to | light that element with it's own weapons. These men will succeed" said Colonel Bryan to this friend, though the banks, | trust companies and lenders of money. and the newspapers which these inter- ests control. in stirring up a fictitious sentiment for reorganization. We have no banks. or trust companies, or lenders of money. and very few newspapers, l through which we may oppose their schemes. The best thing we can do Is to go quietly about organizing our Kansas City platform clubs, which we may use | to very good advantage in 1904 as vehicles | for the expression of real Democratic opinion. When the time comes it will be seen that the Democratic masses have not changed"
 It is still Colonel Bryan's belief, so his Eastern friends declare. that the reor- ganization cry will die out, and that the Kansas City platform men will be in overwhelming cntrol of the next national convention The same friends admit, | however, that the Cleveland activity is a surprise to the Nebraskan. He is too wise politician. they say, to get tangled up with 1t at this time in the East. All the Bryanites are perfectly we'll aware that in contest with MT. Cleveland for the con trol of the Atlantic seaboard States Col | onel Bryan would not stand the slightest show to capture a single delegate. Colonel Bryans efforts in the direction of demonstrating his political strength will. 1t Is said, all be confined to the West
 Nebraska Is already assured to him, | according to his friends, who say that he can control the machine against all com | CTS. He is now engineering the campaign | for the recapture of Iowa, which got away from him after the disaster of 1900. | The Iowa State Convention will be held June 24. The scheme in that State is said | to be to reafirm in general terms the | Chicago and Kansas City platforms. A dyed-in-the-wool Bryanite is to be nomi- mated for Governor-probably Judge Van Wegenen of Sioux City.
 It is not believed that the sound money Democrats of Iowa will yield the State to Bryan without a struggle They arc han dicapped, however by the unwillingness of ex-Gov. Horace Boies who is getting | old to lead an active fight. Taking for his text the plea of National al Committeeman Norman E. Mack of Buffalo for harmony" between MT. Cleveland and MT. Bryan. Richard l.. Metcalfe, editor of MT. Bryan's old news paper. The Omaha World-Herald, has ad- dressed these questions through MT. Mack to the reorganizers: What would you have Democrats do in the construction of their platform in order to avoid mourning the hostility of MT Cleveland and his followers?
 How many of the principles and the policies in which we believe must we sur render in order to avoid mourning this hostility?
 Do you believe that a platform that made no reference to the money question | would avoid mourning the hostility or MT. Cleveland and his followers? Do you think that a Democratic plat form that failed to make explicit refer ence to the money question could com mand the respect of either of bimetallists or of single gold standard advocates?
 Shall the Democrats abandon their po- sition on the Philippine question, wherein they promised to make the Filipinos either citizens or subjects and favored declaration of the nations purpose to give to these people first, a stable form of government; second, independence, and third. protection from outside interfer- ence?
 What change would you make in the Democratic platform with respect to trusts?
 What alteration would you make in | the plank relating to national bank cur rency?
 Would you declare in favor of the i'm come tax?
 The question, then. is how many of their principles must Democrats surren der, permanently or temporarily, in order to avert mourning the hostility of men who during two Presidential campaigns deserted the party with which they claimed allegiance and gave open and | boastful aid to the enemy? Do you think it would be possible for the Democratic Party to maintain its dignity in this day, when men are think ing and reading as they never thought and read before, unless the party set its seal of disapproval in unmistakable terms | not necessarily upon the second adminiS- | tration itself, but upon the policies and the methods, the intimacies between the representatives of the government and the representatives of the money power | and other evils that characterized the l fslo aaiv