River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-20
win Jeffersonians by a sham adherence to
Jeffersonian principles.
Many win Vote for Roosevelt.


Democrats generally endorse what he
said about the honesty of Roosevelt and
the fact that he is not masquerading to
secure votes. AT first they were in
clined to vote for Watson as a rebuke
to the Parker gold Democrats, but of
late many Of the former free silver men,
particularly in the rural districts. have
taken it into their heads that they might
follow the precedent set for them in
1896 by the gold Democratic wing, and
instead of going to Watson, go straight
out to Roosevelt and thus make the les
son as impressive as possible.
There was great shout OF JOY among
the Indiana Democracy when they read
Watson's letter, and in more than one
community they chaered at the clever
| manner in which he took off the hide
from the hypocrisy Of Alton B. Parker,
when he said:
With Mr.. Parker it is different. He is not
JenersolAan Democrat. yet he seeks to
secure the support of Jeffersonians. His
attitude is thoroughly disingenuous, pro-
1oundly lacking in true manhood and lead
ershlp. he was willing to stand upon the
| New York State platform which Mr.. Bryan
denounced as a dishonest platform. His
position was indefinite so foxy, so en-
! tirely neutral that Mr.. Bryan declared to
! cheering thousands that Parker was ''abso-
l
| and that nobody "but an artfut- dodger'
| could stand upon the New York platform
| which so much resembled its father, David
| 3. Hill.
| This clipping from Watson's letter is
| being carried in the pockets of thous-
| ands of loyal free silver Democrats, and
nesting in the same pocket with it is
! little leahet containing extracts showing
| Mr.. Bryan's opinion of the Democratic
candidate for the Presidency. The In
| diana Democrats remember the sincerity
with which Bryan said in his speech at
Chicago last April long before the con-
vention at st. Louis:
Taking the New York platform as a text,
| / can prove to every unbiased mind that
! Judge Parker Is not fit man to be nomi-
! mated by the Democratic party, or any
thef pary that stands for ba honesty He
| sufficient to convict Judge Parker of abso-
| lutte unfitness for the nomination.
While Mr. Bryan comes into the State
at the particular request of the Parker
managers, it will not take him long to
find the sentiment of the people They
will listen to him as they did of old,
and they will cheer his magic eloQuence
to the echo. Nonetheless they will not
vote for Parker, because they know that
Bryan himself has been tricked and
estranged. They know that Mr. Bryan
will support Parker only because he
! deems it his duty to maintain his regu-
| larity in the party, and thus still fur
| Their to shame the political traitors who
left their party in 1896, and who are
| now seeking to be returned to power
| through the votes of Bryan and the
Bryan Democrats, whom they denounced
so freely only a few years ago as luna
| tics and incendiary.
| Mr.. Bryan's Purpose.
The people here perfectly we'll under
stand what Mr.. Bryan means by going
| on the stump for Mr.. Parker. Most
| of them look forward to still another
| regeneration of the Democratic party,
| following upon the crushing defeat of
| Parker next month, and they expect that
| their splendid standard bearer will be
| the leader of this final and successful
reorganization of the Democracy. 1t was
a personal triumph to William Jennings
| Bryan in the st. Louis convention when
! he secured the omission in the platform
of any allusion to the gold standard, and
| his friends feel that he was personally
tricked and shamed by Judge Parker's
| gold telegram. They fully agreed with
Bryan himself when he said in the Com
moner of July 18th, in speaking about
Judge Parker's gold telegram:
Then his friends attempted to secure a
! gold plank which was Overwhelmingly de-
! feated In the convention. After he had Sc
| cured the nomination he injected his views
| upon the subject at time when he could
| not be taken from the ticket without great
| decentralization. The nomination, therefore.
| was secured by crooked and indefensible
| methods. 1t was a plain and deliberate at
| tempt to deceive the party.
| None of Mr.. Bryan's speeches in In
diana during his whirlwind tour of the
| State can by any possibility efface the
effect which has already been produced
by his own deliberate statements before
and after the convention. These loyal
| silver Democrats have learned only too
we'll that the men now in control Of the
party despise Bryan as much as ever
they did, and that, if Parker should be
| elected, the loyal silver Democrats, who
represent the great mass of the party,
would have no more to say in the adj
ministration than they did during the
| closing years of Grover Cleveland's term
! in the White House.
| Bryan's tour in Indiana will only ac-
centuate the love Of the silver Democrats
for their leader. 1t will only make them
more determined to punish the New York
! coterie which surrounds Parker for it's
persistent attitude of hostility to Bryan
and all his friends. The silver Demo
| Gratis of Indiana are too smart to be
| tricked by INSCRIPTIONS political man
| ayers, and they will not vote for any can
| didate who represents, as Parker does
| to an extraordinary extent, the prevalent
| eastern sentiment of bitter hostility to
| William Jennings Bryan and everything
! he represents.
| Look out for a sensational slump in
| the Democratic vote of Indiana Make
| up your mind that the loyal Bryan Demo
Gratis have become tired of being made a
football for the INSCRIPTIONS eastern
men who have seized upon the manage
ment of the party to the exclusion of
every western idea ana OF every western
man. The Democratic vote for Roose-
Welt will be large, the Democratic vote
| for Watson will be much larger. but the
Bryan Democratic vote which will stay
| at home on the Sth day of November,
will astonish the natives.
PARKER'S SILENCE.