The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-01

of the country by firm adherence to principle, they began that series of at tempts to humbug the public, which ended in the earthquake of November Sth When Southern Democracy troop ed at the heels of interruptions lead CTS and declared in National Conyen- tion their devotion to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments, they lied so artlessly that even the artless Knew
 And Henry watterson of Kentucky, was president of that convention! Be- ginning with this kind of false pre- tense, 1t was no wonder that Maeionai sa,,i leader since the Civil War. Nor is 1t any wonder that this leader, Cleveland, left the party in plight so hopeisss that not even the strategem practioed upon the Populists in 1896 could save it. To secure his victory in 1902 Cleve- lands managers had to make pledges to Wall Street which Harrison had re- fused to make. When Congress and Cleveland began to pay these campaign debts, the people at last awoke to the truth National Democracy was re- vealed in it's true light as "the other horse' of plutocracy.
 When Grover Cleveland and John G. Carlisle made secret midnight deals with Morgan and Belmont to issue the bonds which Harrison had refused; and when those bonds of the richest nation on earth were sold behind closed doors for a price less than the negroes were getting for their bonds in Jamaica, deepseated hatred and indignation was aroused which nursed its wrath Of ten long years and then broke like temp est over the Cleveland candidate or 1904.
 In national politics, the Democratic Party stands without party, q decla- ration of principles, or accepted leader It is utterly bankrupt in reputation. It has no unity of conviction, sentiment or purpose. It contains antagontstic element which can never be harmonic ed Its secret purpose is so foreign to what Democratic masses approve that the eternal struggle of the national leaders Is to prevent the Democratic masses from penetrating that secret purpose. What is that secret purpose? !? To use the Democratic party In support of the same system of class legislation which the Republican party stands for. The watch word is keep up the attack upon Republican individuals, but do not attack the system of special privi- leges which Is responsible for present conditions" In other words. the secret mission of the Democratic party Is to keep up sham battle. By keeping the people divided and deluded. they hinder the organization of a real opposition to privileged class legisla- tion and corporate greed. Thus the national Democratic party is the best friend of which the plutocratic Repub- lican party can boast, for the Belmonts, who call themselves Democrats are leges as the Carnegies and Morgans who call themselves Republicans. On November 18th last, I gave out a statement in New York in which it was argued that there was no hope of re- form inside the Democratic party At tention was called to the fact that the machinery of the party was iR control of the plutocratic element" and that this element would seek to maintain the advantage it had won at St. Louis.
 This prediction has already been veri- fed On the night of November Fl. Judge Parker and several other chiefs, representing the plutocratic element" met at the Manhattan Club in New York city for the purpose of forming plans to insure the future control of more certain than that this ''plutecratic element will maintain its power. They control the sinews of war-the money, the newspapers, the machinery.
 And I make this predictions: Bryan will be Its candidate for the nomina- tion!
 Second to that prediction, I make an- other: When Bryan runs for President in 1908: as the candidate of the Parker Belmont nt-CIeveland- German combine, he VII VIII pc worse beaten man than Par
 Does MT. Bryan sincerely believe that he can commit the National Democratic Convention to his recently repaired and replenished Populist platform? If SO, he must see that the country would then have two Populist Parties. Such contingency would be laughable were not the crisis 50 grave. Mir. Bryan must know that his program promises nothing better than another spectacu- lar combat at another St. Louis con- vention, with another dog fall" as Ehe result, another surrender on the part of MT. Bryan another sham battle before the people. and another Waterloo in which all will be lost including honor.
 Mir. Bryan in this campaign tried to lead Democratic gentlemen where gem tlemen could not go. He failed. If has is wise man the lesson will do him good. Let him quit playing politics with sacred principles. Let him quit trifling with the passions. the hopes the convictions, and the sufferings of the American people. Let him realize that radicalism In this country Is stronger than Bryan. or Hearst. or Dehs, or Watson; and that the self important leader who seeks to butt the engine of the track will politically "dfe as the fool dieth."
 The Democratic party can no longer eiGln to be national It is sectieaal' The South Is still its vletlH. The South Us stun the quadrsRpial sacrifice which