Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-30
WANTS TO BE RID OF BRYAN.

Vitriolic as was Col. Henry Water
sons recent denunciation of MI. Bryan
| 1t does not surpass in sarcasm the at.
tack of the Chicago Chronicle upon the
lNebraskan, who was twice a candidate
for the presidency. The Chronicle, the
organ of the Cleveland wing of the
democratic party, has never looked
with favor upon the heresies prom ul.
gated by Mr.. Bryan. It naturally, there
fore, looks with displeasure upon his
attempt to force his free silver doc
trine upon the democratic convention
that is to meet in st. Louis on July 6
next. The Chronicle holds Mr.. BRYAN
responsible for the disruption Of the
democratic party as the result of sad
ding upon it his free silver slogan in
the campaigns of 1896 and 1900. and
sees the continued disruption Of the
party if he is allowed to maintain con
troll Of it affairs.
Its chief plea is for the members of
the party to unite for his overthrow.
While it recognizes that this will
probably be difficult to accomplish. it
believes it to be absolutely necessary
if the democratic party is to gain any
of its prestige of old. The Chronicle
admits that democracy is torn asunder
by internal discussions. It does not
advocate any attempt to harmonic the
warning factions of the party, but sees
in the coming convention the opportl-
nifty to rid it of the man who succeed.
ed only in twice leading it to defeat.
The Chronicle realizes that this is to
be no slight task. However. it says
that Mr.. Bryan must go. On this ques-
ton it says:
The socialistic labor party, the So
cialistic party, the anarchist party, the
populist party, the bonanza silver par
ty, the middle of the road party, and
the Happy Hooligan party are all
counting as usual on holding national
conventions a little before the demo-
cratic convention for the purpose of
forestalling the action of that body.
If these yellow parties can manage
to agree upon Hooligan candidate
and Katzenjammer platform, various
representatives will appear before the
st. Louis convention and urge that
nothing but the formal assent of that
conclave will be necessary to make the
thing unanimous.
By these performances we gain
fair idea OF the estimation in which the
highly Illuminated political parties
hold the democratic organization In
their view it is a party without leaders,
without principles and without morals.
What they propose is to "hold it up,
as highWayman would a drunken
man with watch in his pocket.
The hero of all these political con-
fraternities is one Bryan, of Nebraska,
with whom the democrats have had
some disagreeable experiences of late.
In view of all that has happened since
1895, it would be happy deliverance
if the democrats could "saw off, this
gentleman upon the variegated cranks
and destructives who first brought him
into notice.
In the days when Chicago was
known as a good theatre town, there
was a comic opera king who had
twenty-five or thirty wives, the first
and only original one being an ill-fa-
vored but exceedingly attentive per-
son of the name of Galula.
1t happened one day that a de-
tachment of American soldiers landed
in the kings dominions. and noticing
that the officers were particularly in
lterested in his young and comely
wives, the monarch, with great gener-
osity, seized Galula, and, escorting her
most graciously to the captain of the