The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-12
BRYAN nEpUDtArzb.
Should Get Out of the Way and Lei
 Harmony Prevail.

Should Get Out of the Way and Let i Harmony Prevail. l MT. BryaRs best. friends now. are tne Republican newspapers of the NoIun, ,,,s l ich which are favortng him with the S,rs saI,v bv Eepublican diplomatic O6icials abroao'-
 Utica Observer
 The RepuBiican party ought to have ave-, 2 years supremacy ip National affairs mas
 been due mostly. ia him.. and ne ,an eom stitntess one of its chief hopes of continpeu
 nold on power.-N Nashville Banner: I There is a feeling of great disappoint- ment and pain that Mir. Bryan. who, Tor l ms personal honesty and ability so many , | to insist .on sticking to the old issues. | Deliver us; from the body of our deao'-
 Knoxville Sentinel. ,l Mir: Bryant is simply trying an impudent trick-he' seeks to lash the frank and
 file. passink away from his leadership over the shoulders of the bolters he would consume the growth of party haT-
 Sy ssasagE ssS s@Pfss aeTa The Nebraskari has twice been honored With the nomination for the Presidency have. conscience enough in1 this crisis to give q living chance to- the party that l has bitten the dust. twice in staggering under tae Bryan load-Wflmington Star | With Mr. Bryan. as its Warwick, the Democracy would be in as hopeless condition as with MT. Bryan as its king. advisability arises, the, two-thirds rule l should be, abolished. Many good Demo- crats. have long advocated its repeaL- Norfolk Landmark. .<' ' 'e"e l It is only a few years ago MT. Bryan appeared in, Columbia and addressed the General Assembly of South Carolina and everypody wore. great silver dollar badges: Those were the days of our madness-tnat l Is of the madness of some of us. We are pretty generally. sane; now,, and we have no time for Mir. Bryan and his notions.- Charleston Past.r 4 &i. The sentiment of the whole party is turning from Mir. Bryan, or, rather, from | its former adherence to Mir. Bryan's 1 theories. The drift away from those daily. and the Nebraskan's frantic efforts to bolster, up his, failing, falling cause are directing toward himself the party con demnation heretofore aimed almost en- tl5ely al. y..s his, peculiar opinions.-1Erie
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 The Democratic party should cut loose from every appeafance of affiliation or
 
 visions, and nominate a; conservative man on a saneaplatform, -or else prepare for a third defeat even worse. than the other l two. And we believe it will put itself squarely' on record as having had an ample sufaciency of Bryan. Bryanism, and defeat, and drop the Nebraskan like a hot cake when the time comes to act.- Birmingham News.
 It Is gratifying to note the steady prog ress of Democratic opposition to Mr. Bryan's' inslstefce that the Democratic party shall go into this years campaign to the deadly issue of the free and un- limited coinage of silver at the ratio of | 16 to i. 1t is no wonder that Democratic sentiment in all sections of the country | cratic party shall deliberately. commit political suicide.-Wilmington (Del)
 Every Evening.
 The Democracy however, has learned enough from experience to know that whiie political martyrdom may be prof. | table, venture for Bryan, it affords but cold and scanty comfort to those who are fools, enough to follow him. The most disastrous, result of. Bryan'sy leadership | would be his election, for, 1t would place every ,intTinsic Interest of the. country in perpetSity against the Party which had
 upon them.-Trenton (N. J.) True Ameri- | can. a .e ,s~.- ; l
 So MT.. Bryan makes it clear. that he is | a crank, an eloquent, an honest tUf you
 wishl and an able man., but always a
 crank He has but one Idea; and that a
 mistaken Nohe. And the question before tne & DemocratSo as..5snsil ma i, eney nov, when
 great an opportuRity for usefulness is Peckoning to thems surrender their com Victlons and put into their platform now head head of tic ticket crank? That Is s, what hat | the question nafrows down to- And 1t ought not to take long to decide.-Man- chester CN. H. Union: l. ...
 Notwithstanding that MT. Bryan twice
 led the party. to defeat, it Is undenlable | that had he consented to accept the ln-
 evitable. kept step with the progress of events and worked for harmony he could l still have wielded an influence in the Dem | ocratic' ranks second to that of no man. He had. of course, become an. impossi-
 bility as a standaFd-bearer a third time. But as subordinate of high place and fin the capacity of pacihcator he would have proved a magnet of immense poten- tiahty in -rallying the party and consol- hIs every obligation in this respect. Cling f ing to dead and buried issues. with blind pertlntcity and stubbornness that is almost tnconcetvable, he has set himself laboring for harmony has become a mar Eilot. Mir. Bryan's case is pitiable one. His latter record is record of wasted opportunity. .--Richmond, (Va.), News Leader. -.'-- If MT. Bryan Is correctly reported in the public prints he is taking himself a
 little too seriously or he does not under stand the prevailing opinion and spirit of the Democratic Party. In insisting upon "a reiteration of the precise phrasing of the monetary monetary plank of the Kansas City
 "a bourbonism which Is understandable and positively fatal to Democratic sue Icess. The free silver issue Is past; events nave settled 1t for the time being; 1t may lor may not be revived by future condi- Itions. but 1t has no, bearing upon pres lent affairs The Democratic Party will nominate whom 1t will nominate, and It's Itplatform will be what the convention in
 Its wisdom decrees MT. Bryan Is not the sparty. Nor is MT. Cleveland nor MT. lAnybodyelse, but the whole body of Dem- locratic thinkers and, voters.-Houston, N(Texasl, Post.
 k Will They Combine.
 ICort Gaines (Ga.) Recorder.