Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-07-13
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THE CHRONICLE QUITS,

me CHRONICLE QUITS.
The Chicago Chronicle, owned by
John R. Walsh, has turned a hand
spring. and landed in the republican
INES. This action is big surprise in
view OF the Parker telegram. The
Chronicle has opposed Bryan for eight
years, and in the campaign of 1896
supported Palmer and Buckner. IN
der the head. "Chronicle is republi-
can,' it says editorially:
When one thousand men represent
ing the democrats of the United
States, most Of them chosen with much
difficulty as representatives of what
is called conservative democracy. per-
NIT mere demagogue to bully them
into wrong-doing it must be that the
demagogue is greater than the party.
TWo-thirds of the delegates to the
national democratic convention voted
for Judge Parker on the first ballot
the man whom Mr. Bryan had traduced
for three months, the man whose
friends Mr.. Bryan had vilifed. the
man who Mr.. Bryan had said should
not be nominated and could not be
elected.
When a cowardly committee repre-
senting those delegates brought in a
Platform which was silent on the mon
ey question not a voice was raised in
expostulation or protest While hun
dreds were ready to shout for Parker,
not one appeared in defense of elemen-
tary democracy.
Mr.. Bryan not only graciously per-
m1ts the democratic party to name a
candidate whom he has done his best
to defeat the advance, but he places
him on a platform with a hole in it
big enough to drop the entire party
through.
1t is bad enough to have Mr.. Bryan
dominating radical democratic conven-
lions. When Mr.. Bryan is able to
silence conservative democratic con-
Vention the situation becomes intoler-
able. A mixture of William J. Bryan
ism and David B. Hillism is insupport-
able.
THE Chronicle is not in sympathy
with Mr.. Bryan's ideas. For eight
years it has refused to believe that Mr..
Bryan's ideas were acceptable to the
real democrats of the country. The
result at st. Louis appears to end the
discussion. He and Hill are in control
and he and Hill have named the ticket
and made the platform.
timid eastern democrat, who fond
1y imagined that he could be nomi-
mated as an unknown, has been placed
on the ticket with an octogenarian free
silverite from West Virginia and sup.
piled with platform which amounts
to an Endorsement of the platforms OF
Chicago and Kansas City. The popu.
listic west and the reactionary south
are again in alliance, with a new lead.
er, it is true, but with no change in
principle and purpose. The ticket
bears the stamp of populism. There
is not plank in the platform which
was not modified by populism.
The democratic party is attached to
Organism. 1t is subservient to Bryan
1t has been persuaded aginst it's natur.
al inc1inations to nominate an I'M
known candidate whom Bryan has
antagonized, but it has permitted
Bryan to do the rest. The democratic
party is Bryan and there is no reason
to suppose that it's triumph under the
leadership of man who voted twice
for Bryan and free silver, and boosted
OF it, would be anything else than q
triumph for Bryan.
Disagreeing fundamentally with this
leader and this party in most things
and agreeing with the republican party
In the essentials Of it's creed, the
Chronicle today takes leave of the
democratic party and allies itself witt
the republicans. AS at present con
stituted and led, the democratic party
is menace to the peace and prospect
ty and the integrity Of the United
States and the people. It has discard
ed democratic principles and taken W
with the radicaIism Of populists and
4 socialists, the obstructionism, and thu
cowardice Of wreckers and dema
3 gogues No good can come out Of It
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