The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-12
CHRONICLE QUITS
The DEMOCRACY
Chicago Paper, Anti-Bryan, but
Also Anti Republican, Goes
Over to G.. O. P.
New York Sun Special Service.

Chicago, July lathe Chicago
Chronicle, owned by John r. Walsh,
| has turned a handspring and landed in
! the republican lines. This action Is
| big surprise, in view of the Parker
telegram. The Chronicle has opposed
campaigns of 1896 supported Palmer
and Buckner Under the head, 1.-THE
Chronicle Is Republican," it said edi-
torially this morning:
| When one thousand men representing
the democrats Of the United States, most
| Of them chosen with much difficulty as
| representatives Of what Is called con-
sentative democracy, permit 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 ma
| tional 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 vilihed, the man whom Mr.. Bryan
had said should not be nominated and
could not be elected.
When a cowardly committee represent
ing those delegates brought in platform
which was silent on the money question
not voice was raised in expostulation
or protest. While hundreds were ready
|
defense Of elementary democracy.
Mr.. Bryan not only graoiously permits
the democratic party to name a candidate
whom he has done his best to defeat in
advance, but he places him on a platform
with hole in it big enough to drop the
entire party thru. s......
Organism and HIIlsm. ..u..:'
1t is bad enough to have Mr.. Bryan
I'M inc ito
tons. When Mr.. Bryan is able to silence
a conservative democratic convention the
situa ton becomes intolerable. A mixture
OF William ]. Organism and David B
Hillism is insupportable.
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 APP
pears 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 fondly
imagined that he could be nominated a.
an unknown, has been placed on the
ticket with an octogenarian free silverite
from West Virginia and supplied with q
platform which amounts to an indorse
mert OF the platforms Of Chicago ant
Kansas City. The populistic west and the
reactionary south are again in alliance
with a new leader, it Is true but with NJ
change in principle and purpose. TIL,
ticket bears the stamp of populism There
is not plank in the platform which wa!
not modified by populism.
The democratic party Is attached t.
Br, anism. 1t is subservlent to Bryan. I
= has been persuaded against it's natura
lnclirations to nominate an unknown can
fp l2r,o hoe
it has permitted Bryan to do the rest TIL
democratic party is Bryan and there /
no reason tosuppose that Its triumph un
der the leadership Of man who vote,
twice for Bryan and free silver, an,
Boosted Of It, would be anything else thai
a triumph for Bryan. .-.
Democratic Party a Menace.
Disagreeing fundamentally with thi
leader and this party in most things all,
agreeing with the republican party in tn
essentials of its creed, the Chronicle to
day takes leave Of the democratic part
and allies itself with the republican. A
at present constituted and led the demo
cratic party is menace to the peace an
prosperity, and the integrity Of the Unite
States and the people. It has discarde
: democratic principles and taken up wit
the radicalism of populists and socialist.
the obstructionism, and the cowardice
wreckers and demagogues. No good ca
! come out of 1t. .
With blank for candidate and
i blank for a. platform it will become NOR
i and more contemplate instrumentalit
for the exploitation Of William J. Brya
and the school Of demagogues followin
\ in his train.
, The Chronicle believes that the reput
, lica1 party, while not free of fault by an
means. offers the American people at tn
D, tlme the only prospect of efficient, INTEL
gent and honest government that is any
where to be seen, and so believing, 1t wi
- do what 1t can to advance its nrincinlt