Bisbee daily review., 1904-07-16
TO HAVE AGAIN
 PURE DEMOCRACY.


 Let the galled jade wince. our withers are
 unwrung."
 il comes 10 us through the returning g braves from the St Louis convection that certain members of the Kentucks delegation in that body were quite overcome by the wise, manly and statesmanlike message of Judge a.ton Brooks Parker. its nominee for Pres4- dent of the United States.
 What else was the Judge to do? Ills friends had sought Intellectually to SC, cure the insertion of the gold plank in the patform- MT. Bryan had sought ei- fectually 10 keep it out This was to make at least a dog fall. It was 10 have it go forth that the Bryan Hearst crowd, seeking ruin and re- venge, had got in the work over a great majority of Democrats who, weary of the journey twixt tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee, and worn with the dry husks Of Populism and the dead-lan- guages of Damn-foolism, were honest. y seeking to work their way out of ;he wilderness of Disaster and Despair nio the open and onto the highways of current political Thought and Action. IL was. if not to put the Bryan brand upon the fabric, to give it such a Bryan swipe as would enable that cheap agi- tator to hie him thence and claim a vic tory, where he had planned a slaugh- ter. This meant the defeat of the tick q, which was, is now, and will contin- ue to be until the day of election the dearest aspiration of the Bryan heart. if it has heart; for the touch of Bry- anism is leprosy, it's very memory C tsint
 The message of Judge Parker was not only the straightforward. upright and courageous thing 10 do. It was an inspiration. It clears the atmosphere. like lightning flash. It sweeps our decks, and compels the enemy to look to his own. It eliminates the free silver craze; that abominable fetish which has cost us so dear. At one fell swoop it forces the fools to the rear. It separates Democracy from Populism, simplifies the issue between the Democrats and the Republicans, lifts US out of the Slough of Despond- ency. and puts us on firm, high ground. IL disentangles us from the debris of despair and defeat. and enables us to appeal 70 the better sense and judg- ment of the country against Absolut- ism, Corruption, and that Thieving Tariff. It compels Roosevelt: and Roosevelt.sm to take the defensive. It will lose us no one of the states we count upon, and will help us carry those doubtful states which We must carry to win the election. It shows Judge Parker to be politician as well as an honest man; statesman no less sthan hero.
 Even here in Kentucky, where the Bryan virus struck in deepest, it will gain. not lose us votes. The Demo cratic organization in Kentucky is growing. It is mending it's hold. Its delegation at St. Louis did, on the whole, so much better than 1t might have done, that, spite of little ab- surdity. we have hopes. But the pres ent leaders of Democracy in Kentucky have yet much to learn. The brave example and wise words of Judge Parker will help 10 teach them. They will help to teach them that rant built oa error, and cant compounded of igno- rance and folloy-wherewith so much of the stuff and nonsense gong under the name of Democracy has been made up-is not Democracy at all, but Pop ulism; that. in the long run facts. goodfeeling and integrity rule; that Kentucky has not yet lost her high emprise; that the average Kentuck-