The La Jara chronicle., 1904-10-21

huSks OF Egypt lie would insist on clean
ing ont the whole house.
Ninety per cent. of the delegates TO
the st. Louis convention had voted for
Wiliinm Jennings Bryan for the Presi-
dcucy. Yet they We're willing to see
the gold Democrats restored to good fel-
lowshp in the party. and they carried
their generosity TO such an extent that
they were willing these former voters
should actually hold places of trust in
the party management. IL was well
understood that Judge Parker. like Dave
Ilill, and belmont. and German, and
Shc"hun. and practically all of the lead
in= eastern Democrats. We're gold men
The majority of them. however, liked
Parker; had maintained some kind OF
regularity and had voted for Bryan. al
though they did not believe in him or in
the silver standard. The delegates at
ST. Louis. and most particularly those
from Indiana. were unwilling that the
platform should contain a slap in the
face for William Jennings Bryan. 1t
was for this very purpose that they omit
ted all mention of the gold standard and
Alton II. Parker was nominated with
the unanimous support of the Indiana
delegation, simply and solely because he
had voted for Bryan in 1896 and 1909,
and because it was felt that he could
appeal to the country and to the loyal
Bryan Democrats. not on the financial
issue, but on the basis of a reoryanized
and rejuvenated Democracy.
An Understood Move.
When Parker yielded to the advice
OF Sheehan and his other associates in
Albany and in New York. and sent his
famous telegram To the convention. re-
Ouking it for not passing financial
plank. and ro.tcrating his own lattcr-day
devotion TO the gold standard it sent
chill down the backs Of the loyal old
time Bryan Democrats OF Indiana. Park
er never would have been nominated il
that telegram had been sent in the early
hours of the convention. The Bryan
Democrats naturally looked upon it as an
intentional insult. not only To William
Jennings Bryan. but to themselves. They
knew that Parker had voted for free
silver just as much as they did, and
| they did not see why he should feel called
upon to assume the functions OF Il com
! mittce on resolutions. aud amend the
platform he did through the unfair
medium of telegram which was sprung
| upon the convention just as it was about
| to adjourn aud when its action in nomi-
mating Parker could not have been re-
called without inviting defeat at the
| very opening or thc campaign.
These good Bryan Democrats were
furious over the Parker telegram Every
thing which has happened since in the
| party management has only tended to
make them more angry. Judge Parker
has surrounded himself with no one ex-
cept New York men. lie has abso-
lutey ignored the rest of the csun-ry,
and the rank and file have become con-
Ninced at last that he and the men about
him are playing for the control of New
| York State. and care little or nothing
about the result in the rest Of the coun-
| try. Instead of the gold Democrats
acting as grateful prodgalS. humbly ap-
] preciative Of the generosity of the Bryan
| Democrats. they have assumed to act as
masters and none of the old Bryan lead
crs has been able 10 get anywhere near
the sage of Esopus. These eastern
| Democrats denounce Bryan as fiercely as
ever they did. and the men who bore the
brunt of battle in 1896 and in 1900.
although they voted the same as did
Alton Il. Parker himself. are given no
hand in the management of the cam
pHiEn, are denounced as ignorant and in
sane. and are used by the gold Democra-
tic party to further its own plans with
out regard at all for the best interests
of the Democratic party as whole
CIeveland's Ahront.
Grover Cleveland, who is cordially
hated and despised by Indiana Demo
Gratis generally, has become the chief ad-
wiser OF the Parker crowd. lie has for
gotten and forgiven nothing. He still
talks OF Bryan and the Bryan Demo
Gratis as if they were political and so
cial outcasts. Within few days, in
discussing the gold telegram, and the
action of the convention, Mr.. Cleveland
said:
The party's action speaks, FOR itself 1t
has returned to sanity. and future progress
on the right lines is now assured. Yes, IT
speaks for itself. The welfare OF the Demo.
cratic party Is close to my heart and 1t is
once more upon the right road.
1t is no wonder, therefore, that thous-
nnds and tens of thousands of Bryan
Democrats in Indiana have become dis.
gustcd at being treated like yellow dogs
by the men they forgave and invited
back into the party. Hundreds and
thousands of them are preparing to-day
to give the gold Democratic wing of
the party taste of the very medicine
it administered in 1896. Many thousands
Of the Bryan Democrats are flocking to
Watson, the Populist candidate for the
Presidency. and they are particularly
delighted at his letter Of acceptance,
which hews close to the line letting the
chips fall where they will Candidate
Watson has voiced the views of n great
many of the old line Democrats through
out the State, when he says:
Roosevelt is strnightout Republican,
who declares boldly for Republican prin.
cples, drhantly defending existing condi-
tions, He Is not In ambush: he Is behind
no blind. | can understand n Republican
like that and while I would love to make
my battle nN ring his helmet. until one
Of us went down, In political defent and
death, yet, ! could respect him all the
while MS a foeman worthy of any mans
steel lie Is not seeking the support Of
Bryan Democrats upon false pretenses. lie
Is not playing II confidence game on tile
negro question. He Is not attempting to
in any manner affecting the comfort