The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-07-21
MIR. BRYAN'S CRITICISM.

Democratic ticket, but says plainly
that Oh economic questions mon
ey, currency, labor, the trusts, etc.
the ticket is under the control of
"Wall street. "
A small but financially powerful
section Of the Democratic party
nominated Parker and Davis.
Difference was paid to this element
solely i'll the hope of carrying New
York, without which no Demo
cratic success is possible. But for
this fact the platform and candi-
dates would have been made as rad
zeal on economic questions as
Mr. Bryan and the great majority
of the party could desire.
There is, indeed, all antitrust
plank i'll the Democratic platform,
but the nomination of Judge Par
ker, Mr.. Bryan says, nullihes it.
The nomination of Davis, one of
the greatest of the trust million
aires of the country, adds emphasis
to the notification. Mr.. BRYAN
suggests that Parker may possibly
IN his letter of acceptance commit
himself to antitrust legislation,
but intimates that it is not to be
expected. In this Judgment he is
probably correct. Parker will, not
get the support of the trusts and
their money for the campaign and
he was nominated for that pur-
pose, if he makes an appeal to the
country against them. They will
not help him to carry New York,
the vital point Of the Democratic
campaign.
On ''labor questions Mr. Bryan
holds up the Democratic platform
to scorn. 1t is "a straddling,
meaningless plank, y substituted
by Judge Parker's supporters for
planks in favor of arbitration, an
eight-hour day, and against gov
eminent by injunCtion-by which
last expression is meant orders from
courts commanding strikers and
others to abstain from acts of VIC
lence. The plank as it stands in|
the platform is indeed a curiosity
of effort to deal with subject in a
meaningless way. 1t has one merit !
it is very short. Here is this mar
vel of noncommittal:
eve favor the enactment and
administration of laws giving labor
and capital impartially their Just
right. Capital and labor ought not
to be enemies. Each is necessary
to the other. Each has its rights,
but the rights of labor are certainly
no less vested, no less sacred,
and no less 'unalienable, than the
rights of capital.
Now, indeed, doesn't that offer
| a charming sentiment of labor
questions? But, says Mr.. Bryan
evidently not in hopeful mood
I'VE must have Judge Parker's let
ter before we shall know whether
the laboring man has anything TO
hope from his election. Then,
if Judge Parker is silent or ambig-
uous on these subjects, it will mean
that the men behind him will not
permit him to take the labor side
on the question.
What Mr.. Bryan says is worth
attention from the fact that he I'M
doubleday still IS the leading reprfS-
entative of much he larger sect pn
of the Democratic party, and what
he says reveals and accentuates it's
real feeling. 1t realizes, as Bryan
puts it, that the party now is Gun
der control of Wall street element,
to which it has submitted, reluc Ct
antly, i'll the hope of carrying N ew
York. Yet even in New York
there are. many thousands of voters
who are Bryan Democrats, rather
than Parker and Wall street Demo
Gratis and as the latter "bolted'
in 1896 and again liz 1900, the
former may not stand in now.