New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-14
". J. BRYAN CAN'T LEAD
SETTLEMENT OF WATSON.
Nebraskan Bound for -Four Years,
He DecLareS-Patys Plans.

for N,OS but offers 10 cooperate with the Ne
braskan and Hearst; asserts that for the next
four years the machinery of the party must re-
main in the hands of those who now hold it, and
declares that BRYAN is bound for the same
period; pronounces the Generalization of the
Parker voters and entertains no hope of the
party's accomplishment of reforms; reiterates
his plea FOR Jeffersonian Democracy as the
party's sole salvation; charges that the Solid
South has become the unresisting tool of Wall
Street and bemoans the general hopeless stua-
ton of the party.
President Roosevelt's election. he attributes
mainly to his personality and the unpopularity
of Cleveland's second administration
Mr.. Watson's statement follows
1t should be borne in mind that at the time the
Springfield convention rendered me the PresidenuaI
nomination the Peoples party had had no ieal eh
years. In the Presidential election of 1909 it gave
TO its nominee only 5000 votes 10 that e1ten
which in 1894 counted nearly two millions OF VOTES
and about fifteen hundred active newspapers a6
fore had to build from the ground up In ISyf;;
We had almost nothing to start with IN me wa9 e
organization. campaign funds and ne%s r 9
work; These things being first consiaereo, SG baS
only when the official returns are known ,dp 90 90
ms ttle no oIlcaai itass What il was from
information conveyed to me by friends IN various
are not very reliable Basing an estimate upon
them however my opinion is that receyed bSopb
so many States North and South. East and West:
moral support the Peoples party is NATIONAL ana
not sectional l have found everywhere th9t a me
sonan Democracy. believe to-day that II an
those who believe in that theory Of oCtnn we
could sweep the country.
MR.. ROOsEVELTs POPULARITY
Mr.. Roosevelt's overwhelming majority, was not
class legislation and the reign Of special privilege
1t was not by any means an indorsement OF cor tb
methods Of combined capital Mr. Roosgyel{S fo
things; one was the immense personal popularity
of Mr. Roosevelt himself; and the other was me I'M
mense unpopularity Of Mr. Clevelands f eeCGnG a1
ministration Unfortunately for Mr.; Parker, ne
became so completely identified with the Ma %
lands second administration that he had to bear
The people have never had chance to show Just
What they thought Of that second admnis 5 on
opportunity; it was only when the old Cleve'an9
Hearst and dictated the nomination OF Mr.. Parker
that the got the % Ie tb
had been nursing for years against such men as
himself They knew that / could not be elected
and they were SO eager to make the best OF o. me
repetition Of that saturnalia of class Hesitation
that they rushed to Roosevelt and gave him ma
jority which does not. under ordinary circumstances
the Personality Of Mr. Roosevet and the unpopu
lsrity of PaIkers environment carried into the
there ordinary ''' N' ''''''S'' "0DO ''0' &c -'
HIS PLANS FOR THE FUTURE.
My own plans for the future embrace complete
3IgamizauGH OF the people along tne mes OF 'ea
fersonan principles. in order that in 1908 there,
publican party its present policies If political
history teaches anything 1t is that old parties
sistbly driven to it by pressure from without
in aiding those who will apply that pressure It is
mmaterial TO me who does the work which the
done.
l have no faith whatever that reforms will be
credited in the eyes of the people by series of
its course it has changed its principles so often
had such magnificent opportunity in 1892 to work
out the reforms to which 1t stood pledged. and
it cannot inspire the confidence which leads
N, Mr., Bryan while great Democrat, is not the
may not indorse, his PopuIist platform. There is
John Sharp Williams of Mississppi: there is SEN
Ben Tillman. of South Carolina there is Senator
Daniels. of Virginia; in fact. there quite mum
Der OF distinguished Democrats who may claim the
platform Gs IS R 2edoF0 the next national
They may not be willing to take. for instance,
erhment railroads; they may not be in favor o:
may. Mr.: Bryan has more right at the present
10 SAY aH wha{ me obar Pa9Tm shall be in
the next four years the Democratic creed must
it, and the machinery Of the party must remain in
t thg hands hand 81 The men who nov hold The air
i mo the candidate Of the st. Louis conven-
spoke Of Parkers ideals as his own Ideals, and
proclaimed the sincerity with which he was
1901 Mr. Bryan himself viii remain for four Years Gs
enoG he Was When he GI a efe bis k9S SG
trip through Indiana If the action at the COM
eecon ddn release hint o He can ann ony be The
foIe when Mr.. Bryan cuts loose from platform
in behalf of Judge Parker he takes position
which is that Of Bryan the individual and which
cannot bind any other Democrats whatsoever.
BRYAN MUST SUBMIT
Again, suppose that the plutocratic element should
qm tben oySF N Bryfn pvd in S as they did II
just as cid submit in l9O4-after having dcciared
publicly and positively that he would never sup
10 have done ha G0 as s n9 9T IN IgS The time
not retur0 fi b Hs ia IhaI opportunity VIII
submitting TO what wrong because although
In short the Democratic party presents this hope
less situation The Bryanites cannot drive out the
not drive out Mr. Bryan they exhaust their itelIr
where its enemies can always defeat it at the pos
There is this further weakness in the programme
that it can safely defy him and combat 9af him Sh0%n
though he is the nominee, whereas he submits to
From party so hopelessly divided II ia the ra1I[
est folly. in my judgment, expect any reforms
Ines and hono ,, e terms with Jefersonian
e eTed Williams to SGfomRah purpose which is
TO assure the final success Of the reform movement
is for US 10 build up party OF Jeffersonian de-
ment goes hand IN hand with unity of purpose. and
VIE VIE uerei2re some hope Of accomplishing that
entertained N'- &c ie@SoiHpiE
IN the South there are peculiar reasons why the
present policy of the Democratic leaders should he
defeated and a better line of policy adopted For
machine politicians have made that great section