Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-07-15

The BOLT OF THE CHRONICLE.
The Chicago Chronicle, which has
been guide and mentor for the St.
Cloud Times for the past five years,
has bolted the democratic ticket. aud
gives its reason as follows:
''When one thousand men represent:
ing the democrats Of the UnitedStatee,
most of them chosen with much diff
Guilty as Representatives Of what is
called conservative democracy. permit
q mere demagogue to bully them into
wrong doing it must be that the
demsgogue Is greater than the party.
When q cowardly committee repre-
senting these delegates brought in a
platform which was silent on the
money question not voice was raised
in expostulation or protest. While
hundreds were ready to shout for Par
ker, not one appeared in defense OF
elementary democracy.
Mr.. Bryan not only graoiously per-
mits the democratic party to name q
candidate whom he has done his best
to defeat in advance but he places
him on a platform with hole In II
big enough to drop the entire party
through.
1t is bad enough to have M. Bryan
dominating radical democratic con
ventions. When Mr.. Bryan is able tt
silence a conservative democratic
convention the situation becomes in
tolerable A mixture of William j.
Organism and David B. Hillism il
insupportable.
The Chronicle is not in sympathy
with Mr.. Bryan's ideas. For elgh
years it has refused to believe thai
Mr.. Bryan's ideas were acceptable tt
the real democrats. Of the country
The result at st. Louis appears to enc
the discussion. He and Hill are II
control. He and Hill have named tn
ticket and made the platform.
A timid eastern democrat VIII
fondly imagined that he could b.
nominated as an unknown, has beer
placed on the ticket with an octogen
arian free silverite from West Vir
gina and supplied with a platform
which amounts to an Endorsement o.
the platforms of Chicago and Kansa
City. The populistic west and tn
reactionary south are again in ALI
ance, with new leader, 1t Is true
but with no change in principle an
purpose. The ticket bears the stam
of popu]ism. There is not plank il
the platform which was not modifie
by populism.
The democratic party Is attaohe
to Organism. It Is subservient to Bry
an. It has been persuaded against 1t
natural inclinations to nominate a.
unknown candidate, whom Bryan ha
antagonized, but it has permitte
Bryan to do the rest. The demoorati
party is Bryan, and there is no reaso
to suppose that it's triumph under til
leadership of a man who voted. twic
for Bryan and free silver, and boaste
of it. would be anything else than
triumph for Bryan.
Disagreeing fundamentally wit
this leader and his party In mo-
things, and agreeing with the reput
lican party in the essentials of II
creed, the Chronicle today take
leave of the democratic party an
allies itself with the republicans.
As at present constituted and lei
the democratic party is a menace
the peace, the prosperity, and the i,
tegrity Of the United States and i
people. It has discarded democrat
principles and taken up with tt
radicalism of populists and socislis
and the obstructionism and the GOV
ardice of wreckers and demagogue
No good can come out of it. With
blank for candidate and blank f
q platform, it will become more al
more contemplate instrumentali'
for the exploitation Of William
Bryan and the school of demagogu
following In hie train.
: The Tr anscript Is afraid Rooseve
1 won't have campaign funds. That
a good joke.