The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-10
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such I good thins, why not let ali of l If protection be such excellent med- the msnufacturers to take it. 1t. tooa -
 In other words, why not have a sys- I tenn and stick to 1t? If protection 4s right. 1t should operate on all alike. If free trade Is right. then the man. ufacturers should not be the only ones to get it.
 Judge Parker pleads for greater fa- vors to the manufacturers. Great God! Are they never going to get enough? IhRepublican policies are to be over thrown, 1t must be done by men who boldly declare against them. and who go up against them with determine the enemy is to fight it. The Demo- cratic Party has known what it was to be led by captains who put the bat tle cry into plain language so that all could understand where the difference was on vital issuess Such a leader was Jenerson. Such leader was Andrew Jackson. Such a leader was stephen A Douglas. Such a leader was Will has ilam no ,. .sS Bryan. ,s. In this campaign 1t shame and disgust, the rank and file Of the great Democratic Party sees that their captain will not fight. In sp,,s sp,te or party loyalty and a; wish to ker remains what Bryan says he was last April, Tan artfuf dodger." "abso- lutely unit for the Presidential riom- nation; That MT. Bryan himself sup nor create satisfaction.
 The great party of six and a half million ovters sent their leaders tofSt. Louis Louis without any instructions to sur created profound discomfort which will not down. Mir. Bryan himself can not make that bitter pill palatable to the Bryanites. The seli-out was too f<~~> IA Hyx body suspected an earthquake like that. The ground opened: and down Into the yawning chasm fell all the principles of the Democratic Party. These lead head to heel in good Jeffersonian De- mocracy. When Dave Hill, Pat McCar- ren and August Belmont finished their work, the Democratic bosses were so nearly nude that, had 1t been a per- sonal matter rather than political, they could have been indicted for "a mo- toftous act of public indecency." Able statesmen have undressed themselves ly angry. with me because I am re- newing the struggle which they aban- doned. They resent the fact that some one else should try to do that which they are not willing to try to do.
 "The Peoples Party is helping the Republicans" cry the Democratic lead CTS. If these leaders had not aban- doned their own platform and given over tO W all SlTeets we COulQ not nave hurt anybody. As long as the Dem ocratic Party pretended to be Populist in principle, the Populist Party could not do business. Too many of our men were dupes of the fraud. The moment the Democratic leaders drop ped our platform, we seized upon 1t again, and we began to rehabilitate our own party. Sell out? Why, we have surrendered no convictions; we have not parted with a single plank in our platform What have we sold [? TO whom did we sell? If we had shed our political garments as the Demo- cratic bosses did at St. Louis, and Wall Street had dictated every line of our creed, and had put at the head of our ticket man who can not state wherein he differs in principle from MT. Roosevelt, we would have hung our heads every time we passed a mirror, to keep from looking into the eyes of renegades to Jeffersonian Democracy servile tools of Northern corpora tions. They went to St. Louis with