Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-10-27
AN EMBARRASSING TRUTH.
Jealous Parker Man Thinks Bryan a
Danger to the Party.


In the course of political campaign
the truth will come out at moments and
in quarters most unex pected. Some MEM
bers of the party more honest aud can
did than the rest wall speak out and utter
truths that must be most embarrassing
to the party, and which, like a fash Of
lightning, reveal objects and purposes
that before were shrouded in grateful
darkness. Such effects must have been
produced by the atterances of the honest
and able editor of the South Bend Times,
one of the most influential Democratic
newspapers in northern Indiana, and
these wtterances are worthy of more
than a passing notice because they re-
veal condition Of things within the
ranks of the Democratic party sugges-
tive of its hopeless dissension and deca-
dence
Mr. J. Il. Stoll, the editor of the Times,
comes out openly in advocacy OF the cleo
ton Of Parker and Davis, not on the
ground that they stand for principles or
measures which are not also advocated
by Roosevelt and Fairbanks, but for this
one and chief reason: that the election
of Parker will effectualy and permanent
ly kill Bryan and all that Bryan repre-
sents in the past and will represent in
the future. Among other things, Mr..
Stoll says:
Parker and Davis. triumphant In Novem-
Der, Will put quletus on the radical de-
parture foreshadowed by Mr.. Bryan. - .
An engaging personality and persuasive elo.
quence may, under certain conditions, popu-
larize project fraught with incalculable
danger to our institutions and lead to the
destruction of the republic Itself.
- =. LII, A, T., - -
and future Democracy Is valued by the
friends Of Parker, yet Mr.. Bryan was in
yited to stump Indiana on the theory
that he could induce his former followers
to vote for the very candidate whose
election will put the stamp Of condem-
IRA ton on all that he ever did and advo-
Gated, and upon the good Judgment, in
telligence and patriotism OF all his friends
and supporters, telling them, in effect,
that they have been nothing less than
enemies Of the republic.
When we place the damning judgment
of Parkers friends against the opinions
| heretofore held by Mr. Bryan about Par
| ker we must come to the conclusion that
! the two great leaders OF Democracy have
| formed a remarkably true estimate Of
each others virtues and methods. This
il what Dir. Bryan said in his Chicago
speech Of April %:
can prove 10 every unbiased mind that
fudge Parker IL not III man for the
I1eD1craiic party or any other party to
ncSDiBSie that stapds for honesty and fair
dealing In politics.
Aud here is what Mr.. Bryan said in
the tJoramoner, on July 13, after the
npmn. ,tioB Of Parker:
HAVE NOTHING TO TAKE BACK. |
HAVE NOTHING no WITHDRAW OF
TIE THINGS HAVE SAID.
In view of these unqualified statements
it will be particularly interesting to
wmch how Mr.. Bryan will be able to
Convince his many friends in former bat
ties that he really wishes Mr.. Parker's
success. and especially after the Parker
leaders save shown such an undsguised
disposition to consign Mr.. Bryan to po-
1itieaI oblivion in case Of such success.