The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-07-09
HALF WAY SANITY.

AFTER night OF talk turmoil noise and nonsense the
democratic national convention just o'clock this morning
nominated the ballot Judge Alton Brooks p.rk.r f NJ
Its candidate for the presidency then took
TINS a'ternoon The nomination be fairly regarded as
that the Democracy majority at St Louis
Last the disastrous and deorazng BRYAN
and Bynism and has effort to purge itself Of both
u bryan tenacious insisten and perncousy persistent None
Deter than he that the deliberate purpose those who
desire to restore the Democracy something of it's former san
principle and safety practice deprive him of the nr ;h
e mad used with such mscevous drive him from the
councils in which he had been agency at once of
harmony of sincerity and of honesty
Knowing this narshalled all his resources s o,. r.
OF preence and of cunning fight to maintain him
ef In position of leadership So crativ did he wac. s h
na ne was able to have plank declaring maintenance the
and sound currency stripped from platform leav
ng that document dumb concerning chief issue upon which
nad In two successive campaigns sought suages of the
electorate of this republic
Is there a citizen endowed with ord;,sr,, r,s,,, - -,
cannot that what Bryan fighting against was NO, the d
non dangerous principle but against population of himself,
- declaration for honest money been condemnation
p Bryan who stands for dishonest money have cast him
out OF the Democratic sent him into the
ranks OF the Popsts which offer only asylum for those who
would orng disaster the nation by flooding it with 6ftvcent
dollars 1t would render impossible BRYAN to longer extrct
enormous profits in gold by continuing the propaganda Of free
silver indeed the fight Bryans life and that he won i; m
nshes proof OF the melancholy Democracy of 1904
much the shty irresponsible and untrsvohv ,- m 80
the Democracy of 1896 1900.
The Democracy of has credit but one action IN nm,
way calculated to give the respectablv or
"ornness OF conhdenctha the of Judge Parker for
ne presidency 1t is the only evidence presented that the
democracy has made real progress higher ideals and
oer aspirations as result OF the repeated casents has re-
eeved at tne hands OF the intelligent Judge Parker
is an able rist hghmnded citizen possessing an
public record and an unued private His defeat was
sought oy the cohorts who march Bante banner and
VINO were ready to name for the highest gift the neo,
OF the world greatest republic anyone petentous Wall d
wisconsin to the seseeng Hearst punv Iler Mac" d
New York. "
his success on the first ballot therefore distinctly re-
pudiaton OF the Bante buccaneers destruction of the ~
plank was triumph of Byane buncombe remains 70 he Coo.
however whether Judge Parker has courage than his
whether in his letter of acceptance declare himself as G
better and sanr element of his expects to do in favor
the maintenance OF the gold standard whether like the
that nominated him. he will evasion bv
upon an important ISSUE for since Bryan has practically dictated the
platform. Bryanis which free svers still factor
But whatever attitude Judge Parker may adopt whether Il b
OF outspoken and unequvoc endorsement of sound money
puslanous evasion the stubborn remain that the
non e py the declarations has made and has failed make has
again rendered only usthabe but entirely prone 20