Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-10-19
win Jeffersonians by a sham adherence tt
Jeffersonian principles
Many Will Vote for Roosevelt.

Watson has made many friends by his
letter of acceptance, and the Bryan
Democrats generally endorse what he
said about the honesty of Roosevelt and
the fact that he is not masquerading to
secure votes. At first they were in
clined to vote for Watson as a rebuke
to the Parker gold Democrats, but Of
late many of the former free silver men,
particularly in the rural districts, have
taken it into their heads that they might
follow the precedent set for them in
1896 by the gold Democratic wing, and
instead of going to Watson, go straight
out to Roosevelt and thus make the les
son as impressive as possible.
There was great shout of JOY among
the Indiana Democracy when they read
Watson's letter, and in more than one
community they chaered at the clever
manner in which he took off the hide
from the hypocrisy of Alton B. Parker,
when he said:
With Mr.. Parker it is different. He is not
Jeffersonian Democrat, yet he seeks to
secure the support of Jeffersonians. His
attitude is thoroughly disingenuous, pro-
foundly lacking i'll true manhood and lead
ership. He was willing to stand upon the
New York State platform which Mr.. Bryan
denounced as a dishonest platform. His
position was so indefinite, so foxy, so en-
tirely neutral that Mr.. Bryan declared to
cheering thousands that Parker was ''abSo-
lutely unfit for the Democratic nomination"
and that nobody "but an artful dodger''
could stand upon the New York platform
which so much resembled it's father, David
3. Hill.
This clipping from Watson's letter is
being carried in the pockets of thous-
ands of loyal free silver Democrats, and
nesting in the same pocket with it is Il
little leaf1et containing extracts showing
Mr.. Bryan's opinion of the Democratic
candidate for the Presidency. The In
diana Democrats remember the sincerity
with which Bryan said in his speech at
Chicago last April, long before the con-
vention at ST. Louis:
Taking the New York platform as text,
/ can prove to every unbiased mind that
Judge Parker is not a fit man to be nomi-
mated by the Democratic. party, or any
other party that stands for honesty and
fair dealing in politics. We have evidence
sufficient to convict Judge Parker Of abso-
Lutte unfitness for the nomination.
While Mr. Bryan comes into the State
at the particular request of the Parker
managers it will not take him long to
find the sentiment of the people. They
will listen to him as they did of old,
and they will cheer his magic eloquence
to the echo. Nonetheless they will not
vote for Parker, because they know that
Bryan himself has been tricked and
estranged. They know that Mr.. Bryan
will support Parker only because he
deems it his duty to maintain his regu-
larity in the party, and thus still fur
Their to shame the political traitoys who
left their party in 1896, and who are
now seeking to be returned to power
through the votes of Bryan and the
Bryan Democrats, whom they denounced
so freely only a few years ago as luna
tics and incendiary.
Mr.. Rryan's Purpose.
The people here perfectly we'll under
stand what Mr.. Bryan means by going
on the stump for Mr.. Parker. Most
of them look forward to still another
regeneration of the Democratic party,
following upon the crushing defeat of
Parker next month, and they expect that
their splendid standard bearer will be
the leader of this final and successful
reorganization of the Democracy. 1t was
personal triumph to William Jennings
Bryan in the st. Louis convention when
he secured the omission in the platform
OF any allusion to the gold standard, and
his friends feel that he was personally
tricked and shamed by Judge Parker's
gold telegram. They fully agreed with
Bryan himself when he said in the Com
moner of July 18th, in speaking about
Judge Parker's gold telegram:
Then his friends attempted to secure
gold plank which was overwhelmingly de-
feated in the convention. After he had Sc
cured the nomination he injected his views
upon the subject at time when he could
not be taken from the ticket without great
Generalization. The nomination, therefore,
was secured by crooked and indefensible
methods. 1t was a plain and deliberate at
tempt to deceive the party.
None of Mr.. Bryan's speeches in In
diana during his whirlwind tour of the
State can by any possibility efface the
effect which has already been produced
by his own deliberate statements before
and after the convention. These loyal
silver Democrats have learned only too
we'll that the men now in control of the
party despise Bryan as much as ever
they did, and that, if Parker should be
elected, the loyal silver Democrats, who
represent the great mass. of the party,
would have no more to say in the adj
ministration than they did during the
closing years of Grover Cleveland's term
in the White House.
Bryan's tour in Indiana will only ac-
centuate the love of the silver Democrats
for their leader. 1t will only make them
more determined to punish the New York
ccterie which surrounds Parker for it's
persistent attitude of hostility to Bryan
and all his friends. The silver Demo-
Gratis Of Indiana are too smart to be
tricked by INSCRIPTIONS political man
ayers, and they will not vote for any can
didate who represents, as Parker does
to an extraordinary extent, the prevalent
eastern sentiment of bitter hostility to
William Jennings Bryan and everything
he represents.
Look out for a sensational slump in
the Democratic vote Of Indiana. Make
up your mind that the loyal Bryan Demo
Gratis have become tired of being made
football for the INSCRIPTIONS eastern
men who have seized upon the manage
ment of the party to the exclusion of
every western idea and of every western