The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-11-14

had incurred. The people have 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 se- cured the defeat of Bryan and Hearst and dictated the nomination of Parker that the masses got the opportunity to vent upon a national candidate the in tense hatred which they had been nurs- ing for years against such men as Ol- ney and Belmont and Carlisle and Cleveland himself. They knew that I could not be elected and they were so eager to make the best of the opportu- nifty to safeguard the country against repetition of that saturnalia of class legislation which marked Cleveland's second administration that they rushed to Roosevelt and gave him a majority which does not, under ordinary circum- stances, belong to the republican party. In other words, the personality of MT. Roosevelt and the unpopularity of Par ker's environment carried into the re- publican columns vast multitudes of men who Under ordinary circumstances would not be found there.
 My own plans for the future embrace a complete organization of the people along the lines of Jeffersonian democ- racy, the re-establishment of reform papers, and a systematic propaeanda of Jeffersonian principles, in order that in 1908 there shall be party of genuine kfx s1 It's present policies. If political history teaches anything. 1t is that old parties never accomplish any reforms unless they are irresistibly driven to 1t by pressure from without. hape at least to be of some use to my country in aid- ing those. who win apply that pressure. It Is immateriaI to me who does the work which the reformers want done, so that the work itself is done.
 I have no faith whatever that re- forms will be accomplished by the dem ocratic party. It is discredited in the eyes of the people by series of crush Ing defeats.
 MT Bryan has no more right at the present time to say what the democrat ic platform shall be in 1908 than any other distinguished democrat For the next four years the democratic creed must remain what the St. Louis con- vention of 1904 made 1t, and the ma chinery of the party must remain in the hands of the men who now hold 1t.
 In short, the democratic party pre- sents this hopeless situation. The Bry- antics cannot drive out the plutocratic element, the plutocratic element cannot drive out MT. Bryan. They exhaust their strength with internal struggles, leaving the party where its enemies can always defeat 1t at the polls. There is this further weakness in the programme of MT. Bryan. The pluto cratic element has shown. that 1t can safely defy him and combat him, all though he is the nominee, whereas he submits to them when they put up a plutocratic nominee. From 8 party so hopelessly divided, it is the rankest folly, In my judgment, to expect any reforms. From year to year it is a dreary go round and round of one fac- tion fighting another faction, each of which alternately whips the other, and neither of which ever whips the enemy.
 5Oilly &UC GiOO EldlL# #EO aCO-ORSE~ ate on parallel lines and honorable terms with any Jeffersonian democrat like Mir. Bryan or MT. Hearst or George Fred Williams to accomplish a purpose which Is common to us all but I believe the best way to assure the final success of the reform movement is for us all to build up a party of Jef- fersonian democracy on solid founda- tions, where unity of sentiment goes hand in hand with unity of purpose, and where, therefore, some hope of ac- complaining that which we wish to ac- complish can be reasonably entertain- ed.
 By the time the next presidential elec- tion rolls around there is every reason to believe that there will be a sufficient sentiment in favor of the reform prin- ciples which are embodied in, the na- tional platform of the peoples party to win success at the polls. It all de- bends on the work which Is done in the years between now and then. I expect to do my share of 1t, that is all | can say at present. will, how ever, repeat that have not purchased or rented home in New York, or any, where elese, and do not expect to do so. My home is ill Thomson, Georgia, in a region which my ancestors settled 150 years ago, and it is there where my home will be to the end.
 Am I discouraged? By no means I began with nothing, worked three months and got half a million votes. The men who followed me are men of conviction, earnest, enthusiastic, unit led Parker started out with seven mill