The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-11-01
DEFEAT IS BETTER
Than TO Have to Apologize For Wall
Street President.
DISASTER WILL SURELY FOLLOW

The Betrayal Of the Democratic Party
Into the Power Of Organized and
Predatory Weaitn-This Is What
Mr.. Bryan Said a Few Weeks Ago,
and He Still Declares That He Has
Nothing to Take Back.
Six months ago Mr.. Bryan. com
menting on the dangers of the Alton
B. Parker candidacy, said in The
Commoner": when the Republicans
elect a Wall street man, the Demo-
Gratis can denounce him and gain re-
cruits by so doing. When the Demo-
Gratis are unfortunate enough to have
a Wall street president, they have to
either denounce him or apologize for
him, and no matter which they do,
they have to bear the odium Of his
administration"
On March 9Th Mr.. Bryan issued a
letter to subscribers of The Com
moner" in which he said: Il am op-
cratic party to organized and preda-
tory wealth. The Kansas City plat
form is a clear and concise statement
of Democratic principles. and failure
to reaifirm it will be equivalent to
return to corporation rule Those
who desire to prove that Mr. Bryan is
in earnest in his advocacy of Demo
cratic success on the st. Louis plat
form, may do SO by showing wherein
it refiirms the Kansas City platform.
On April Sth Mr.. Bryan made
statement on the origin and purpose
of the Parker candidacy. in the course
Of which he said: There is no doubt
that the corporation interests have an
understanding with Judge Parker. for
without such an understanding they
would not think of supporting him.
The decision in the merger case shows
how important it is that presidents
should be in sympathy with the people
rather than in sympathy with the cor
porations. If Judge Parker were
nominated by the influence of the cor
GCratiOns and elected with the aid of
their contributions, is there any doubt
that his appointees would be corpor-
alton men? Can the Democratic party
afford to lend itself to a movement to
so make up the supreme court as to
nCllify the efforts of the people at
reform? ~* If Mr.. Parker Is nomi-
mated it must not be as a harmony
candidate-it must be with the knowl-
no he ole
ment, the same influence and the same
methods which during Mr.. Cleveland's
second administration led the Demo
cratic party through the valley OF the
shadow of DEATH"
On May 9Th Mr.. Bryan declared in
"The Comnoner" that the reorgani-
zers are even more hostile to labor's
interests than the Republican lead
ers." He said that "Mr. Bryan be-
lieves that the party can win the only
success worth having by deserving it.
In his opinion, whenever the party
turns it's back upon the people, repu-
dates Democratic principles and sur
renders to Wall street, it will not only
go down to ignominious defeat at the
polls. but will forfeit the confidence
and respect of intelligent men"
In May Mr.. Bryan hired a hall in
Chicago and made a speech largely de-
voted to a protest against the control
of the Democratic party by the ele-
ments and interests back OF the Par.
ker candidacy. He took as his text the
New York Democratic state PLATFORM
which was prepared by Senator Hill,
and passed the inspection of Judge
Parker. Mr. Bryan said that he was
'sanguine enough to believe that | can
prove to every unbiased mind that
Judge Parker is not fit man to be
nominated either by the Democratic
party or by any other party that
stands for honesty or fair dealing in
politics. He protested against mort
gaging the party to the capitalists to
secure an enormous corruption fund"
He said that the scheme of the re-
organizers begins with the deception
Of the rank and file of the party 1t
is to be followed up by the debauching
OF the public with a campaign fund
secured from the corporations, and it
Is to be consummated by the betrayal
Of the party organization and of the
country into the hands of those who
are today menacing the liberties of the
country by their exploitation of the
producers of wealth."
On June Goth, 1904. Mr. Bryan at
tended a mass-meeting in Cooper I'm
ion. and spoke in favor of resolutions
directed against the candidacy of
Judge Parker. which raised the issue,
so the resolutions declared, of "wheth-
er the beneficiaries of special privi-