The San Francisco call., 1904-11-14
ONUs PUT UPON CLEVELAND.

ONUS PUT UPON CLEVELAND.
Mr. Roosevelts overwhelming majority was
not so much due to the fact that our people
believe In class legislation and the reign of
special privileges 1t was not by any means
an Endorsement OF corporation tyranny, the
greed of the trusts the methods OF COM
bined capital. Mr.. RooseYelts majority over
Mr.. Parker due mainly to two things.
One the immense personal unpopularity
of Mr.. Cievelands second administration. I'm
fortunately for Mr.. Parker. he became 80
completely identified with the marauders who
plundered the Government during Cleveland 3
second administration that he had to bear all
the odium which they had incurred The peo-
pie have never had chance to show Just what
they thought Of that second administration.
Mr.. Bryans two campaigns did not give
them the opportunity. 1t only when the
old Cleveland combination secured the defeat
of Bryan and Hearst and dictated the norhi-
nation of Mr.. Parker that the got the
opportunity to vent upon a national candidate
the intense hatred which they had been nurs-
ing for years against such men as Olney and
Belmont and Carlisle and Cleveland himself.
,h & ehae coei1 uoe pc Ie hsst 4ha +h
opportunity to safeguard the country against
a repetition OF that saturnalia of class legisla-
tion which marked Clevelands s second admins
tration that they rushed to Roosevelt and gave
him a majority which does not under ordinary
circumstances belong to the Republican party.
In other words. the personality of Mr.. Roose-
welt and the unpopularity Of Mr.. Parker's en-
vironment carried into the Republican col
vast multitudes Of who under
binary circumstances would not be found
there.
complete organization of the people along the
lines of Jeffersonian Democracy. the re-estab-
lishment of reform and a systematic propa-
ganda of Jeffersonian principles in order that
in 1908 there shall be a party OF genuine oppo-
sition to the Republican party and It's present
policies II political history teaches anything,
1t Is that old parties never accomplish any
reform unless they are irresistibly driven to
II by pressure from without 1 hope at least
those who will apply that pressure It is i'm
material to me who does the work which
done.
1 have no faith whatever that reforms will
be accomplished by the Democratic party. 1t
is discredited in the eyes Of the people by
series of crushing defeats, but It has been
vacillating In its course, It has changed it's
principles so often, has run from one extreme
to another recently, had such a magnificent
opportunity In 1892 to work out the reforms
wretched use of that opportunity that 1t can
not inspire the confidence which leads to sue
cess. Since 1N2 the Democratic party has al
most entirely boxed the compass in political
profession Of faith. 1t has been for pretty
much everything until this year when 1t stood
for everything or nothing, according to the
upon its ambiguous platform.
BRYAN NOT THE "WHOLE SHOW"
Mr.. Bryan while great Democrat, is not
the Democratic party. There are other distin-
guished Democrats who are yet to be heard
platform There is John Sharp williams of
Mississippi; there is Joseph w. Bailey of Texas;
lima; there is Senator Morgan of Alabama;
there Is Senator John R Daniel OF Virginia;
IN fact, there are quite number Of distinguished
Democrats who may claim the right to put in
word before the next national Democratic
platform is fixed. They may not be willing to
take, for instance Mr.. Bryan's forty seven
different systems of government railroads; they
may not be in favor Of some other planks in
his platform. Be that it may, Mr.. Bryan
has no more right at the present to say what
the Democratic platform shall be in 1908 than
any other distinguished Democrat For the
MAJ Was thA T~wn A41 ~aAA -
main what the St. Louis convention of 1904
made it. and the machinery OF the party must
hold It. - ' A''' u 'D' H'H ""' ~"
The air still rings with the sloquencs with
which Mr.. Bryan indoIsed the candidate OF
tho ST. Louis convention; spoke of him as the
Moses or democracy; spoke OF Parker's Ideals
as his own ideals and proclaimed the Sin
certty" with which he was advocating both the
platform and the nominee OF 1904 Mr.. Bryan
himself viii remain for four years much
ton as he was % when he made his whiriwind
trip through Indiana II the action at the
The election did not release him. He can only
be released by another national convention
ana the national convention will not meet till
1908. Therefore. when Mr.. Bryan cuts loose
from a platform which he 30 recently asked
the people to indorse in behalf OF Judge Par
the Individual. and which cannot bind any
other Democrat whatsoever. For four years
action Of the St Louis convention, whether
they wish to do 80 not What they did
there Is official and binding. Mr.. Bryan HIM
self gave 1t his sanction.
Again, Mr.. Bryan has substantial rea-
son for believing that he can ever get the
National Democratic party to adopt the Popu-
list programme which he has just formulated
The Democratic party never did do it, and the
presumption is that 1t never will. The plu-
tocratic element has just as much power with
In the party now ii had when the st.
Louis convention met. Indeed, II has more.
II has all the machinery now which the Bryan
men then had 1t has the same control over
the newspapers which ii then had; therefore,
1t is as certain anything can be that they
will again be able to defeat Mr. Bryan in the
national convention when he comes before II
with his Populist platform.
EFFICACY OF THE KNIFE.
Suppose. however that he should be vic
torious over them in the national convention
they not knife him successfully
they did in 1895? Is 1t not absolutely certain