The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-14
POpuliSt Candidate Dis CuSSeS Politics.
PLEASED WITH HIS VOTE
Proposes Propaganda For "Jeffersonian Democracy
Says Mir. Bryan's Views Are Those of m Individual Merely, and Have No Binding Force In 
 His Party.

New York, Nov. l3.-Ihomas r1 wal son today gave out the following state- ment:
 Tt should be borne in mind that at the time the Springfield convention ten dered me the Presidential nomination, the Peoples Party had no real exist ence as a factor in national politics TOT eight years. In the Presidential elec- tion of 1900 it gave to its nominee only 5000 votes. To that extent had the fusion of 1S96 swallowe dup d move ment which in 1894 counted nearly z'- coo. 900 of votes and about l,5eo actlVe newspapers and therefore we had to build from the ground up in 1904.
 We had almost nothing to start win in the way of party organization cam paign funds and newspaper support we had only three months in whlch to work. These things being nrst con siderede some fair idea of what was accomplished can be had only wnen the oficial returns are known Up 10 this time no official statement has been made of the vote and l can only guess what it was from information convey ed to me by friends in various parts or the country These. sources of course are not very reliable. Easing an es- timate upon them, however. my opln- ion is that I received somehing like half a million votes scattered through so many States, north and south. east and west to indicate that the sentiment was given its moral support to the peo- ple's party is national and not sec tional.
 T have found everywhere that the current was strong and deep In faVoF of Jeffersonian democracy. l believe today that If all those who believe ip that theory of government could De united in. harmonious political action we could sweep the country. MT Roosevelt,s overwhelming mjority was not so much due to the fact that our people believe in class legislation and the reign of special privileg<. It was not by any means an endorsement or corporation tyranny the greed or trusts or the methods of combined capital.
 "Mr. Roosevelt's majority over MT. Parker was due mainly to two things, one was the immense personal popularl- ty of MT. Roosevelt himself, and the other was the immense unpopularity or MT. Cleveland's second administration. Unfortunately for MT. Parker. he be- came completely identified with the marauders who pIundered the govern uent during Mir Cieveland'S second ad- ministration that he had to bear all the odium which they had incurred
 The people never had a chance to show just what they thought of that second administration. MT. Bryan's two campaigns did not give them the opportunity; 1t was only when the old Cleveland combination secured the de- feat of Bryan and Hearst and the noml- nation of MT. Parker that the masses found golden opportunity to vent upon a national candidate the intense hatred which they had been nursing for years against such men as Olney and Bel mont and Carlisle and Cleveland him. self.
 Rebuke to Cleveland.
 They knew that I would not be elected and they were so eager to make the best of the opportunity to safe guard the country against a repetition of that saturnaHa of class legislation which marked Cleveland's second ad- ministration that they rushed to Roose- welt and gave him a majority which does not under ordinary circumstances belong to the Republicans.
 My own plans for the future em- brace a complete organization of the people along the lines of Jeffersonian Democracy. the Te-establishment oF re- form papers. and a systematic propa- ganda of Jeffersonian principles, in or der that in 1908 there shall be a party of genuine opposition to the Republi- 
 political history teaches anything, 1t is that old parties never accomplish any reform unless they are irresistably driven to 1t by pressure from without.
 Since 1892 the Democratic Party has almost entirely boxed the compass in political profession of faith. It has been for pretty much everything until this year when 1t stood for everything or nothing according to the interpre- taton which the voter chose to put upon it's ambiguous platform.
 MT. Bryan. while great Democrat, is not the Democratic Party. There are other distinguished Democrats who are yet to be heard from and they may not endorse his Populist platform There is John Sharp Williams of Mis- sissippi. there is Joseph w. Bailey of Texas, there is Senator Til1man of South Carolina, there Is Sen ator Morgan of Alabama. there is Senator Daniel of Virginia. in fact there are quite number of dis tinguished Democrats who may claim the right to put in word before the next National Democratic platform Is fixed
 '"They may not he willing to take for instance. MT. Bryan's forty-seven different systems of government con troI of railroads: they may not be In favor of many blanks in his platform Be that as it may be. Mir Bryan has no more right at the present to say what the Democratic platform shall be in 1908 than any other distinguished Democrat.
 Creed for Next Four Years.
 For the next four years the Demo- cratic creed must remain what the St Louis Convention of 1904 made it, and if any changes must remain in the hands of the men who now hold it.
 MT. Bryan has no substantial req son for believing that he can ever get the National Democratic party to adopt the populist program, which he has just formulated, The Democratic party never did do it and the pre- sumption is that 1t never will
 'I should only be too glad to CO., operate in parallel lines and honorable terms with any Jeffersonian Democrat like Mir. Bryan or MT Hearst or George Fred Williams to accomplish a purpose which are common 10 us all but be- neve that the best way to assure the