The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-10

possibly miss the mark. He is not IT 1T i amDushi he Is behind no blind; n'
 stands out in the open, and he says .e
 ms enemies. "here 1 anna RepuDllcsl
 Wno stands pat on all S, existing nnns eonS on,; l Now, can understand Republican lke
 that; and, while I would love to make
 my battle ax ring on his helmet uhtii
 feat and death, yet could respect him
 au the while. as foeman worthy ot | any mans steel Mir. Roosevelt VIII get | nepuDlican votes, and no others. lie IS not seeking the support Of Bryan Dem
 ocrats upon false pretense. He is net playing confidence game on the ne
 gro question He is not attempting to l Win Jeffersonians by sham adherence l there Is no danger that Jeffersonlan Democrats will vote for Roosevelt upon the assumption that he is a Jefferson | ian Democrat. There is no danger that Hoosevelt will get a single vote 10
 which I. as Jeffersonian in principle With Mir. Parker, 1t is different. He
 IS not Jeffersonian Democrat yet ne seeks to secure the support or Jef tersonians. If he would speak out
 plainly and tell the people that he is In principle the same thing, practically,
 that Roosevelt is, the Bryan Democrats | lions. I would then be enabled to or ganfze such party of revolt against the Republican rule as would sweep the country. His attitude Is thorough ly disingenuous, profoundly lacking in | true manhood and leadership. He Was willing to stand upon the New York State platform which Mir. Bryan de- l nounced as dishonest platform. He
 position was so indefinite. so foxy, 70 entirely neutral that MT. Bryan de- clared to cheering thousands. that Par ker was absolutely unfit for the Dem
 "but an artful dodger" could stand up- on that New York platform; which so much resembled its father, David B. Hill. believe 1t was also in the same speech that MT. Bryan declared that a l man should be willing to die for his proposition.
 Mir. Bryan, who is always careful in the statement of matured opinions, has assured the country that the influ- ences back of the Parker candidacy are so intimately associated with trusts
 and great corporations that the Dem | ocratic party could not appeal to the masses with such a candidate" satd Mfr. Bryan, they would begin with a foot-race and end with a rout." Like
 he declared that "the plutocratic ele.. ment for the time-being is in control of l the Democratic party"
 It was equally clear to Mir. Bryan. as 1t was to so many others, that "the
 nomination of Parker was secured by crooked and lndefensible methods" and that the nomination of such a man who had. as MT. Bryan declared, won the honor with loaded dice" virtually null iifed the antitrust plank in the Dem- These were fearfully important facts, and they produced the impress was something stealthy, deceitful, cow ardly and utterly dishonest in the Par ker campaign for the nomination. MT. Bryan stated facts, profoundly i'm . ko ho facts up to the time that Parker ac- tually got the nomination which he had sought on a "cowardly and straddling
 platform" the honor for which he had played with loaded dice"
 Whether ov not the healing virtues | the nomination cured all the hypocrisy and fraud by which 1t had been obtain l ed, is a question each citizen should put | to his own intelligence before he votes These things which MT. Bryan said were facts, before the nomination, were not obliterated from the catalogue of facts by the nomination.; they are facts yet
 By a dictatorial tone, amounting tc !. menace. Judge Parker was driven by | The New York World Into the sending of the telegram which told the Demo | and many hours after Parker had SC.
 cured the nomination. that the gold standard was "irrevocably fixed" Neith- CT then nor in any utterance afterwards | did he say that the gold standard wa. | right, until he had been shelled ST vigorously by myself and others fol having deserted the free silverites with
 out saving they were wrong. and hay | ing gone over to the gold standard | without saying 1t was. right. Ever Judge Parker finally realized that the ground was caving under his feet, and
 was literally driven to f1rmer footing At last he has taken his place side by side with Roosevelt on the most deeply | important issue before the people. Let 1t be borne in mind that Wall | Street wanted the last Congress to is- sue more bonds: let 1t be remembered l that the Cleveland Democrats want the greenbacks called in and burned; dc not forget that the "endless chain" pre- | cedent set by Cleveland stands as a precedent to be followed: recall how | easy 1t Is for the money power to hide
 their plans until the victim Is in their trap-and you will begin to realize what
 terrible dangers still turk in this money l question.
 In MT. Bryan's book called "The First | Battle" he compared the possible ef- | fleets of the British gold to the ruin
 wrought by an Invading army. sweeping
 the land with fire and sword. MT. Bryan was right. The vast increase in | the worlds stock of metallic money | and the enormous use of credit money
 which universal confidence keeps aioat, 1 postponed the evil day. hut is bound to | come. Let the supply of gold fail let | confidence take wings. let the insolvent |