The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-11-10
Democratic Leaders
Again Lining Up
With Bryan.
QUICKLY DROP PARKER
Conservative Faction
Is Denounced in
Interviews.
Special Dispatch to The Call.


NEW YORK, Nov. 9.-Representative
w. Bourke Cochran said tonight:
The Democratic party has not been
left in constructive position. 1t has
been licked to death The affairs Of the
country have been placed in the hands
of the Republicans, and we must wait
and see what they are going to do. If
their policy opens the way to criticism,
we must make our plans accordingly
and the people will turn to us to in
quire what we propose. Until that
time comes any man who talks does SO
from motives of personal ambition and
his opinion is worthless
William Lindsay, formerly United
States Senator from Kentucky, said;
1t is not necessary to go far for an
explanation of the result where the
vote for Parker was less than that
given to Bryan, and for Roosevelt more
than TO Mckinley. We know that
many who voted for Mckinley voted
yesterday for Parker. and it seems evil
dent that where Parker had one Nc
Kinley vote Roosevelt had two Bryan
votes l expected Roosevelt's election,
but l did not foresee what has hap
pened- Now, l suppose, Bryan. and
Hearst will take hold of the party
and attempt to reorganze it. Hearst
cratic party must have a Democratic
platform and Democratic nominees.
We have not heard from Bryan yet,
but ii is fair to assume that when he
is ready to speak he will say he did
all in his power to assist the Parker
ticket.
What he said at the outset was
enough to forestall any efforts that he
might make afterwaFd - and in his
speeches he did not take back anything
that he had said earlier. 1t is doubt
full, anyhow, whether he could have
turned over his entire vote. He. as
leader, had to retain his party regu-
larity. Do you imagine that the con-
stituentS of the two hundred delegates
sent to the st. Louis convention to
work for Hearst voted for Parker? l
do not think they did"
Joseph G. Johnson Of Kansas. a Bry-
an leader at Democratic headquarters.
said:
II felt certain of Parker's defeat be-
fore election. The Democratic party
has departed from its own ideas of
Jeffersonian Democracy and before 1t
wins 1t has got to get back to first
principles. 1 feel confident that Will
liam Jennings Bryan will be the can
didate in 1908, on a platform more radi-
cal than that of 1895 or 1907
John Dewitt Warner said:
THE result is just what might have
been expected from the tactics pur-
sued by the Democrats. The campaign
committee selected was not only unde-
serving the confidence of the party, but
an insult to its intelligence and good
faith. That committee proceeded on the
assumption that success was to be
gained by obtaining trust support or,
at least, dividing it with the Repub-
LEANS They started the campaign by
q fr11 nd ri
and attempting to curry favor with the
very interests most opposed to Democ-
racy. These tactics failed. the Repub-
lican organization receiving the full
trust support.
I'm the last few weeks Of the cam
paign an attempt was made to attack
the trusts and press the tariff issue
but 1t was too late. In the first place,
the confidence of the Democratic
voters had been too thoroughly lost to
be regained. In the next place, the
position Of Judge Parker made 1t i'm
possible to consistently attack trust
methods and left practically only a
denunciation Of the fact that they had
chosen to subsidize the Republican vot-
ers. This seemed to the people to be
merely resentment that the trusts had
contributed to the Republican instead
of the Democratic campaign fund. The
result was that the cause of Democ-
racy fell between two stools. What is
the duty Of the party? Stop time serv-
ing; find out what Democratic prin-
ciples are and take the aggressive"
Frederick w. Henrichs said:
"In my opinion the party must take
a more radical stand on some Of the
great questions advocated by Bryan,
such as Government ownership of the
railroads and municipal ownership Of
public utilities"