The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-04-11
GENERAL JAMlsoN,s cAen.


Editor Leader It seems to me
that AL this talk about the possibility
Of ex-Presieent Cleveland or w. j..
Bryan being the nominee Of the ma
tional democracy for the presidency
is the raerest bosh, and finds its basis
in The Republican desire to cripple and
handicap the TIA ional Democracy.
While the leaders in the Republican
party recognize the fact that Roose-
vent will he the candidate OF that
par y they also recognize that ether
end more potent fact that owing to
his hasty temper in dealing with
great national and International
problems and his other idQiosyncrasies
and Rooseveltisms. his election is a
most doubtful and hazardous under
taking and only the mistakes on the
part OF the Democrats in their ma
dcnal andard bearer can avert the
danger which confronts them. They
know that II would be as absolutely
impossible to bring what they term
the Bryan Democracy to the support
OF Cleveland as it would to bring the
Cleveland Democracy to the support
Of Bryan. The estrangement Of these
two elements of the party Is as TIRE
concilable as II lis possible for two
opposites to be. Nominate either OF
them. or the pronounced friend and
adherent of either and the national
Democracy VIII have played the
"cutre" card from the deck held out
to Il by the hand OF the Republican
party
In the unnatural and greatly to be
regretted condition of the national
Democracy. one can 20 far in extenu-
ation Of the attitude Of Mr. Bryan and
his friends. for be and they know that
had Mr. Cleveland not repudiated the
nominee and the work of the Chicago
convention in 1896, Mr. Bryan would
have been elected. Net SO Ia the
Kansas City convention. Conditions
were entirely different then and
Cleveland nor any other support of
any single man or hosts Of men could
have changed the result Bryan Isl
human. and Ht is not strange that he
should feel deeply the treachery of
the one man who could have saved
him and would not, but gave his pow
erful name and influence to accomp-
lish his undoing and the defeat of the
party which had honored him as It
had honored no other man.
see the Leader is giving the gal
liant young Democrat, w r.. Hearst,
valiant support. He is brilliant
young gentleman and thoroughly in
rapport with the great masses of the
people and is an ideal Democrat, for
whom the fu-ure holds in store bright
promises. but I doubt the wisdom of
making him the leader OF the Dem.
ocracy for the presidency in, the ap-
preaching national contest. It would
take mp too much space to set forth
the reasons for this, or elaborate
arguments why the Democracy should
look elsewhere for its candidate In
this presidential year.
With the leaders OF the Republican
par dissatisfied with the man whom
they know will be forced upon their
party together with the many object
ionable traits already developed In
his public character, the Democratic
parry neyer had presented to it a
more hopeful outlook for a great vic
tory and therefore Il should take
warning from it's mistakes of the pas
and select that man who IN the
united wisdom of the national Demo
cratic convention can bring to bis en-
thusiastic support the en- ire strength
cf the party Less than this would
be suicidal Less than this would be
a crime.
do not say who. in my judgment,
should be the Democratic candidate,
but do say that neither w. ]. Bryan,
GrcHer Cleveland, or William Ran
dolph Hearst are among the names
which can bring to the support of the
national Democracy the united
strength of the party >,
G Iannison