Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-10-20
RESENTMENT IN INDIANA IS VERY STRONG
Some Will Vote for PopuIist Watson, Others Will
Support President Roosevelt and Many
Will Stay Away From the Polls
on November 8.

| husks OF Egypt he would insist on clean
ing out the whole house.
Ninety per cent Of the delegates to
the St. Louis convention had voted for
| William Jennings Bryan for the Presi-
dency. Yet they were willing to see
| the gold Democrats restored to good fell
| lowship in the party, and they carried
their generosity to such an extent that
| they were willing these former voters
should actually hold places of trust in
| the party management. 1t was well
understood that Judge Parker like Dave
| Hill, and Belmont, and German, and
| Sheehan, and practically all of the lead
| ing eastern Democrats, were gold men.
| The majority of them, however, liked
| Parker; had maintained some kind of
regularity and had voted for Bryan, al
| though they did not believe in him or in
the silver standard. The delegates at
| st. Louis and most particularly those
from Indiana, were unwilling that the
platform should contain a slap in the
| face for William Jennings Bryan. 1t
was for this very purpose that they omit
| ted all mention OF the gold standard, and
| Alton Ii. Parker was nominated with
the unanimous support of the Indiana
delegation, simply and solely because he
had voted for Bryan in 1896 and 1900,
and because it was felt that he could
appeal to the country and to the loyal
Bryan Democrats not on the financial
issue, but on the basis Of a reorganiZed
and rejuvenated Democracy.
An Understood Move.
When Parker yielded to the advice
of Sheehan and his other associates in
Albany and in New York, and sent his
famous telegram to the convention, re-
buking it for not passing q financial
plank, and reiterating his own latter-day
devotion to the gold standard, it sent a
chill down the backs of the loyal old
time Bryan Democrats of Indiana. Park
er never would have been nominated il
that telegram had been sent in the early
. hours of the convention. The Bryan
Democrats naturally looked upon it as an
intentional insult, not only to William
Jennings Bryan, but to themselves. They
. knew that Parker had voted for free
silver just as much as they did, and
they did not see why he should feel called
upon to assume the functions of com
mittee on resolutions, and amend the
platform as he did through the unfair
medium of a telegram which was sprung
upon the convention just as it was about
to adjourn and when it's action in nom
mating Parker could not have been re
}, called without inviting defeat at the
u very opening OF the campaign.
These good Bryan Democrats were
furious over the Parker telegram. Every
thing which has happened since in tn,
party management has only tended t.
U make them more angry. Judge Parke
, has surrounded himself with no one ex
/ cept New York men. He has abso
, lutely ignored the rest of the country
! and the rank and file have become con
WINGED at last that he and the men abou
J. him are playing for the control of New
l. York State, and care little or nothin
e about the result in the rest of the coun
d try. Instead of the gold Democrat
1t acting as grateful prodgals, humbly ar
lie preciative of the generosity of the Brya
J. Democrats, they have assumed to act a
is masters, and none of the old Bryan leaG
y ers has been able to get anywhere nea
n the sage of Esopus. These easter
lr Democrats denounce Bryan as fercely q
t. ever they did, and the men who bore tn
RS brunt of battle in 1896 and in 100,
he although they voted the same as di
ID Alton B. Parker himself, are given n
W hand in the management of the can
G. paign, are denounced as ignorant and il
re sane. and are used by the gold Democr,
rs tic party to further its own plans witt
e. out regard at all for the best Interest
Id of the Democratic party as a whole.
~ CieveIand's Affront.
- Grover Cleveland, who is cordial
~ hated and despised by Indiana Dem
!, Gratis generally, has become the chief a.
-, wiser of the Parker crowd. He has 70
~ ~ gotten and forgiven nothing. He st
" talks OF Bryan and the Bryan Dem
!; Gratis as If they were political and s
~ cial outcasts, Within a few days,
"a discussing the gold telegram, and Il
w. ~. action OF the convention, Mr.. ClevelaI
10 said:
We The party's action speaks for itself
A.. has returned TO sanity, and future progre
U.s. on the right lines Is now assured, Yes,
~ speaks for itself. The welfare OF the Dem
IL, cratic party is close TO my heart, and 1t
~ once more upon the right road
" 1t is no wonder, therefore, that thou
M ands and tens of thousands Of Bry;
lot Democrats in Indiana have become d
ne gusted at being treated like yellow do
by the men they forgave and invit
back into the party. Hundreds a.
'96 thousands of them are preparing tod
ma to give the gold Democratic wing
an the party taste of the very medici
MS it administered in 1906 Many thousan
ON of the Bryan Democrats are foCking
sht Watson, the Populist candidate for I
nn- Presidency, and they are particular
old delighted at his letter OF acceptan
the which news close to the line, letting (
the chips fall where they will. CanddG
In Watson has voiced the views of a gre
ola many of the old line Democrats throul
al out the State, when he says:
vas Roosevelt is straightout Republic,
ina who declares boldly for Republican pr
,es- clples, dehantly defending existing con
GRO lions He Is not In ambush; he is behl
- no blind. l can understand a Republic
the like that, and while l would love to ms
try. my battle ak ring on his helmet, until
ere of us went down, In political defeat q
A. death, yet, could respect him all
tue while as a foeman worthy of any ma
him steel He is not seeking the support
par Bryan Democrats upon false pretenses
ha Is not playing confidence game on
NV negro question. lie is not attempting