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adopt the Popullst programme which
he has just formulated. The Demo-
cratic party never did do 1t, and the
presumption is that it never will. The
plutocratic element has just as much
power within the party now as 1t had
when the st. Louis convention met.
Indeed, 1t has more. 1t has all the
machinery now which the Bryan men
had them 1t has the same control over
the newspapers which 1t then had
therefore, 1t is as certain as anything
can be that they will be able to again
defeat Mr.. Bryan in the national con-
vention when he comes before II with
his platform. Suppose however, that
he should be victorious over them in
the national convention. Can they not
knife him just as successfully as they
did In 1895? Is IL not absolutely eer-
tain that they are just as much Joined
to their idols now as they were then2
Will not they be as desperate and un-
scrupulous In knitting their own ticket
as they were in 1886? Every argument
based upon human nature says that
they win. Then, even IL Mr.. Bryan
should win the nomination of his Pop
ulist platform in 1908, the plutocratle
element In his own party will bar his
progress and encompass his defeat as
they did before.
Again, suppose that the plutocratic
elements should triumph over Mr..
Bryan in 1908 as they did in 1904 what
then? Mr., Bryan will have to submit
just as he did submit in 1904, after
having declared publicly and positively
that he would never support gold
standard nominee of the Democratic
party. Mr.. Bryan could not bolt in 1908.
The time to have done that was In
1904. That opportunity will not return.
He himself has set the example of
submitting to what was wrong, be-
cause. although it was wrong. II was
regular.
II Is PIutOcracy Against Bryan.
'In short the Democratic party has
this hopeless situation. The Bryanites
cannot drive out the plutocratic sle-
ment, the plutocratic element cannot
drive out Mr.. Bryan. They exhaust
their strength with internal struggles,
leaving the party where its enemies
can always defeat 1t at the polls.
There is no further weakness In the
position Of Mr.. Bryan. The plutecratie
element has shown that 1t can safely
defy him and combat him, although he
is the nominee. whereas he submits to
them when they put up a piutocratic
nominee From a party so hopelessy
divided, 1t is the rankest folly, in my
Judgment, to expect Any reforms
tOin year W yGaI IL ~ IL uTGdFy EO
round and round of one faction fighting
another faction. each of which alter
nately whips the other and neither of
which whips the enemy.
Il should be only too glad to co-opera-
to in parallel lines and honorable
terms with any Jeffersonian Demo-
crat like Mr.. Bryan or Mr.. Hearst, or
George Fred Williams to accomplish
purDose which is common to us all,
hat holt thaf H. n~k -
sure the final success of the reform
movement is for us to build up a party
of Jeffersonian Democracy and solid
foundations where unity of sentiment
goes hand in hand with unity Of
purpose, and where. therefore, some
hope of accomplishing that which we
wish to accomplish can be reasonably
entertained.
Conditions in the south.
I'm the South there are peculiar rea-
sons why the present policy of the
Democratic leaders should be defeated
and a better line adopted. For the
twenty-five or thirty years the Demo-
cratic machine politicians have made
that great section mere tool in the
hands of Wall street and a handful
of Eastern Democrats who have no
purpose In common with us and who
use the electoral vote Of the solid
South for their own selfish purposes.
In this manner our Southern country,
which is an empire itself, has been
made province for a few great finan-
cial magnates who exploit for their
private gain without the slightest ref
eFenee to the welfare Of the Southern
people.
The situation is pitiable. The de-
graduation of II finds expression In the
phrase, The solid South would vote
for yellow dog on the Democratic
ticket AS a Southern man, l am
ashamed of such a state of affairs
and resent It profoundly. If / can
do anything toward accomplishing the
political Independence of my own peo-
pie from this sfavish servitude to a
handful of Wall street politicians, /
consider 1t a duty to do so. If the
Peoples party had no other mission
than 70 relax the grasp which the great
railroad corporations have upon the
throat Of the Southern States, "a grasp
which Is maintained by the alliance
between the Democratic bosses and
the Wall street financial kings, then
II would have sufficient mission to war
rant Its continued existence.
Georgia URdeF Their Thumb,
My own state of Georgia is as COM
pletely under the thumb of Morgan
ana belmont, one of whom controls the
Southern Railroad combine, the other
Of whom controls the Louisville ana
Nashville combine, as the state of
Pennsylvania Is under the control of
the pennsylvania Railroad or the state
OF wisconsin under the control Of
which LaF'ollette has won national
fame In combating.
The situation is simply appalling and
would not be believed by anybody who
was not conversant with the facts
! expect to return home and open a
campaign on the lines Of Jeffersonlan
Democracy 70 take our state govern
ment out OF the control OF Morgan and
Belmont and 70 put II In the control
or the Georgia people, where Il be-
longs.
I'm nearly every Southern state here
Is similar contest 10 be waged against
corporation tyranny. BY the time the
next presidential election comes around
there Is every reason 10 believe thar
there Will be a sufficient sentiment In
favor Of the reform principles embodi-
ed IA the national platform Of the