Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-07
LAST GASP OF sTRAeeLlNa,
LEADERLEss OPPOSITION
USED in VAIN.
BRYAN LOSES PREsTIGEl
Unless Something Dynamic oeeurS
Says E. P. Adler, Bryan's Isms Arod
Dead and the Nebraskan viii soonj
Be Forsotten-Reorsanlzers LlberaLI
[BY e. P. ADLER.l
st. Louis, Tuesday. July

[BY B. P. ADLER.1
st. Louis, Tuesday, July 8. 4
The last gasp of the defeated Bryan
Hearst, Tammany forces, in their fightl
against the inevitable nomination OF
Parker is being used tonight In yainl
effort to unite the struggling opposi-i
ton TO the New Yorker by simply en.|
deavortng to secure three hundred orl
more delegates to positively agree toll
vote for Hearst, Mcclellan, or some othS
er man on the first. second and everyi
other ballot until the Parker cohorts
are forced to realization that theyl
cannot secure a two-thirds majority andA
then compromise on some other cam
didate. General Weaver Is the Iowad
member of a committee, practicallYl
self-constituted, to endeavor to bring]
about this impossible thing. With no
leader and with no one candidate, with
no organization and with no sincerity
or hope for success this last breath OF
the dying Bryan or radical element
OF the party is being used In base
effort to defeat the man who holds q
majority of the votes to be cast. SIM
ply because he is said to be in league
with the trusts and the money power.
They do not realize that man cannot
be good democrat and support the
party platforms and be in league with
their common enemy" at the same
time. They have not given the matter
much thought. They are like drown
ing man frantically reaching out and |
clutching e rope. He does not know !
whether the rope Is fast or only float- |
| ing on the water. He reaches for 1t, \
only to find it can be of no use to
him MS he sinks for the last time.
Bryan's Race Has Been Run.
Unless something tleeii &c sffainfyt
occurs between now ana tomorrow Bry-
an and his isnss will be relegated to the
tall grass by the reorganized elementE
Of the democratic party, with Parker as
their standard bearer. Every effort /
has been made by the Bryan and
Hearst forces to stem the tide of dele-I
gates and states going for the Parker
bandwagon. Pamphlets and circulars
by the dozens have been gotten out,
calling Parker "fule," disgrace
to the party and about everything else. /
These have been handed out among
the delegates and others in the hotels /
and piled high in the headquarters !
rooms of the states and in the private
| for it,. They know the fight they have
to have no more effect than water
poured on ducks back It's Parker,
and that's all there is to it.
Reorganizers VIII Be Liberal. 4
| But, on the other hand, the reorgan-
izers, with Parker at their head, who !
have SO ably fought the party in power
for the past eight years, will not at.
tempt to rub it in" on the fallenI
heroes. They will dominate the cons
vention and nominate their candidates.
Then they will make the party plat
form broad enough so that every demo-
crat, whether he be Bryan, Hearst,
Tammany Parker or any other man.
can stand on it and consistently gol
out in his county and state and fight j
for it. They know the fight they havef
had for the past eight years and howl
many votes they have lost among their
friends by reason of the fanatical the
ories advanced as possible by the radi-l
cal wing of the party when in power
They do not want this repeated. They'll
want the democratic party reunited onl
common ground and they realize
fully that they need every radical vote
In order to bring about this result. For
these reasons they will be conciliatory,
and will see that the platform adopts
ed will be broad enough and strong
enough to hold every member of the
party. il
Tariff and Trusts the Issues.
The chief issues of the coming cam.,
paign of the democracy, united, will
be the tariff and the trusts, with the
latter predominating. A strong anti
trust plank will be incorporated into