Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-10-20

w HlSOu mas lndue many ITlellS ny his
letter of acceptance, and the Bryan
Democrats generally endorse what he
said about the honesty of Roosevelt and
the fact that he is not ma squerading to
secure votes. At first they were in
clned to vote for Watson as q rebuke
to the Parker gold Democrats, but Of
late many Of the former free silver men,
particularly in the rural districts, have
taken it into their heads that they might
follow the precedent set for them in
1896 by the gold Democratic wing, and
instead OF going to Watson, go straight
>out to Roosevelt and thus make the les
son as impressive as possible.
There was a great shout of JOY among
the Indiana Democracy when they read
Watson'S letter. and in more than one
community they cheered at the clever
manner in which he took off the hide
from the hypocrisy of Alton B. Parker,
when he said:
with Mr.. Parker 1t Is different, He is not
JeHcrsOnian Democrat, vet he seeks to
secure the support OF Jencrsonlnns His
altitude Is thoroughly dislngcnuous pro
foundy lacking in true manhood and lead
ership. He was willing to stand upon the
New York State platform which Mr.. Bryan
denounced as Il dishonest platform. His
position was so Indefinite so foxy, so en-
tirely. neutral that Mr.. Bryan declared to
cheering thousands that Parker swas "abso-
lutely unfit for the Democratic nomination,
and that nobody but an artful dodger'
could stand upon the New York platform
which so much rescmbled its father, David
b. Hill.
This clipping from Watson's letter is
being carried in the pockets of thous-
ands OF loyal free silver Democrats, and
| nesting in the same pocket with it is Il
| little leailet containing extracts showing
| Mr.. Bryan's opinion of the Democratic
candidate for the Presidency. The In
| diana Democrats remember the sincerity
with which Bryan said in his speech at
Chicago last April, long before the con-
vention at st. Louis
Taking the New York platform as text,
j can prove to every unbiased mind that
Judge Parker is not a fit man to be nomi-
mated by the Democratic. party, or any
fair dealing In politics. We have evidence
sufficient to convict Judge Parker Of abso-
lutte unfitness for the nomination.
While Mr.. Bryan comes into the State
at the particular request of the Parker
MANAGERS, it will not take him long to
find the sentiment Of the people. They
| will listen to him as they did of old,
and they will cheer his magic eloquence
to the echo. Nonetheless they will not
vote for Parker, because they know that
Bryan himself has been tricked and
| estranged. They know that Mr.. Bryan
will support Parker only because he
| deems it his duty to maintain his regu-
larity in the party, and thus still fur
| ther to shame the political traitors who
| left their party in 1896, and who are
| now seeking to be returned to power
| through the votes of Bryan and the
Bryan Democrats, whom they denounced
so freely only a few years ago as luna
| tics and incendiary.
Mr.. Bryan's Purpose.
The people here perfectly we'll under
| stand what Mr.. Bryan means by going
on the stump for Mr.. Parker. Most
| of them look forward to still another
regeneration of the Democratic party,
| following upon the crushing defeat of
| Parker next month, and they expect that
their splendid standard bearer will be
the leader of this final and successful
| reorganization of the Democracy. 1t was
n personal triumph to William Jennings
Bryan in the st. Louis convention when
he secured the omission in the platform
OF any allusion to the gold standard. and
his friends feel that he was personally
tricked and slammed by Judge Parker's
gold telegram. They fully agreed with
Bryan himself when he said in the Com
moner of July 18th. in speaking about
Judge Parker's gold telegram:
Then his friends attempted to secure n
| gold plank which was overwhelmingly de-
feated In the convention. After he had Sc
cured the nomination he injected his views
upon the subject at a time when he could
not be taken from the ticket without great
decentralization The nomination, therefore,
was secured by crooked and indefensble
methods. 1t was plain and deliberate at
tempt to deceive the party.
None Of Mr.. Bryan's speeches in In
diana during his whirlwind tour of tn,
State can by any possibility efface the
effect which has already been produced
by his own deliberate statements before
and after the convention. These loya
: silver Democrats have learned only too
well that the men now in control of tn,
party despise Bryan as much as eve
: they did, and that, if Parker should b,
T elected, the loyal silver Democrats. VIII,
represent the great mass of the party
5 would have no more to say in the ad
g ministration than they did during tn
}, closing years of Grover Cleveland's tern
in the White House.
Bryan's tour in Indiana will only &C
l. centuate the love of the silver Democrat
l. for their leader, 1t will only make ther
/ more determined to punish the New Yor
l. coterie which surrounds Parker for it
s persistent attitude of hostility to Brya
and all his friends. The silver Demo
Gratis of Indiana are too smart to b
v tricked by INSCRIPTIONS political mar
J. ayers, and they will not vote for any car
l. didate who represents, as Parker doe
r to an extraordinary extent, the prevaler
II eastern sentiment of bitter hostility I
o. William Jennings Bryan and cverythi
o. he represents.
in Look out for a sensational slump
le the Democratic vote of Indiana. Nal
ID up your mind that the loyal Bryan Dem
Gratis have become tired of being made
II football for the INSCRIPTIONS easter
IS men who have seized upon the manag
1t ment of the party to the exclusion
10 every western idea and of every westei
man. The Democratic vote for Roos
s. welt will be large, the Democratic vo
IN for Watson will be much larger, but II