The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14
BRYAN YIELDS
THE BLUDGEON.
SCORES PARKER AS CANDIDATE
OF PLuTocRAcY.
GOD OF WAR OR GoDoF MONEY.
Says the Election of Parker Would Be
Surrender to the Money Power
Which Would Be Worse
Than MiIitarism.

st. Louis, July 81 The climax OF
the sensational nights session OF the
national democratic convention came
at four o'clock this morning when,af-
ter eight hours of noisy clamor, Will
liam jennings Bryan in the p'.dst OF
absolute silence began his speech In
which he seconded the nomination or
Cockrell, of Missouri. This was the
event for which the convention had
been waiting. He was fighting TO
prevent the nomination of Parker, but
was leading a forlorn hope. In a frey
speech he seconded the nomination
of every candidate except Parker.
there were cheers and shouts as he
mounted the platform. Bryan in part
said: Eight years ago the democrat
ic convention placed in my hands the
standard of the party and gave me a
commission as its candidate. Four
years later the commission was re-
newed. / come tonight to this demo
cratic convention to return my COM
mission and say you may dispute
whether I fought good fight You
may dispute whether 1 finished my
course. But you can not deny that /
have kept my faith. (Cheers.) AS a
candidate l did all could to bring
success to the party. AS private
citizen today I am more interested in
democratic success than ever was
when I was a candidate"
BeIabors the Republicans.
fo1 ~
the speech of Gov. Black, of New
York, in nominating Roosevelt, which
declared that war Still mas it's uses
and that the danger war necessitates
is keeping great figures at the front.
The speaker continued: This is an
eulogy of war. This is a declaration
that the time hoped for, prayed for,
of perpetual peace, will never come.
This is eulogizing the doctrine of
brute force and giving denial to the
hope of the race. And this president,
candidate for reelection, is presented
as the embodiment of that ideal The
granite and the iron to represent the
new ideas of militarism. If the pres
ident believes with his sponsor at
Chicago that wars must settle the
destinies of nations, that peace is
but dream, he is a dangerouA oman
for our country and the world. be-
lieve he ought to be defeated, I be-
lieve HE can be defeated, and If the
democrat party does what it ought to
do, I believe he will be defeated.
Choice Between War and Money.
But, my friends, if I failed with
six and half million votes to defeat
the republican party, can those who
were defeated succeed in defeating
the republican party? If under the
leadership of those who were loyal in
1896 (applause) we failed, shall we
succeed under the leadership of those
who were not loyal in 1896 CAD
plause) If we are going to have
some other god besides this war god
that is presented to us by Gov. Black,
what kind of a god is it to be? Must
| we choose a god of war and god or
gold? Is there no choice between
them? If there is anything that COM
pares in hatefulness with militarism
it is plutocracy, and I insist that the
| democratic party ought not be COM
PEELED to- choose between militarism
on one side and plutocracy on the
other"
Did Not Try to Dictate.
Bryan denounced as false the story
that he had tried to be dictator and
went on to say that he still believed
in the Chicago platform. Pledging
himself to support the platform, in
any event, he declared that Nebraska
would support Hearst or Wall. He
then proceeded to eulogize Former
Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania.
Finally he formally seconded the nom
ination of Senator Cockrell, of Mis-
souri,, and was roundly cheered.
Daylight was seen through the WIN
dows before he had finished. The
Hearst men were disappointed and
furious. The Parker people smiled
once more, because they knew they
were still in control of convention