The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-10
SILVER HOLSTERS
SORE ON BRYAN
Nebraskan Will Face EmbaIrass-
ing Questions When He
Stumps Indiana.
FORMER FOLLOWERS
LEAN TO HEARST
Claim to Leadership Of Radicals
Imperilled by Aid to
Parker.
BY w. w. Jermans.

BY w. w. Jermans.
Indianapolis, Oct. 1O.-C. A. Walsh
of the old Bryan national committees,
Is in Indiana, operating for the demo-
cratic state central committee what he
naively calls a ''trouble bureau. -
state, each of which is in charge of a
district chairman, who is supposed to
be posted regarding it's political lean
ings. Mr.. Walsh several weeks ago |,
asked these chairmen to report to him
at their earliest convenience the names
of all democrats who are lukewarm or
openly hostile toward Parker. The re-
plies came in such numbers as to startle |
him. While Mr.. Walsh refuses to dis
close how many silver democrats in the
state are openly against Parker, 1T IS
understood that the number reaches
30,000-an average of almost ten to the
precinct. One chairman sent in type
written list of names which filled three
pages. More than a hundred sent in
an average of $50 names each. 1t is
said there is trouble in every voting
precinct in the state.
Mr.. Walsh quickly communicated to
Chairman Taggart the result of his
inquiries, and then it was that Tag
CART began to plan to have Bryan make
speaking tour Of the state.
Silver Men Ugly.
The silver men in Indiana, according
to Mr.. Walsh s report, are in a very
ugly state Of mind. Many go so far
as to say that, in addition to deter
mination to vote for Roosevelt or Wat
son, they have stopped the Commoner,
a part of their wrath being directed
against Bryan because he has agreed
to help the Parker candidacy. Others
say they will withhold Judgment until
they have heard what Bryan has to
say for himself and for Parker. All
are suggestively sullen.
During two national campaigns these
Indiana silverites followed the Bryan
standard as the result of conscientious
conviction. They were for Bryan be-
cause they believed in the principles
which he advocated, and they wonder
what has happened that has made these
principles less binding than they were.
And so Bryan may have very chilly
Indiana. He will have considerable. diff
fieulty in squaring his present attitude
with that which he occupied while a
candidate for the presidency.
Many of these Indiana silverites, who
90 thinking with their politics, say that
Bryan is deliberately standing in the
way of the radicals, whose leader he is,
when he advocates the election Of Park
err. Every silver vote cast for Parker,
they say, will make more difficult the
radical platform. H ow can Bryan,
they ask, be sincere when he thus ad-
vocates the election of Parker7 Doesn It
he know that if Parker should win, or
that if, in defeat, he should make a run
which would be found to have justified
- the conservatives In nominating him
Bryanism would disappear from the
democratic party forever?
Until Bryan announced that he would
take the stump for Parker in Indiana
the Indiana slverites believed he really
desired Parker,'s defeat. They accepted
his public professions Of party loyalty
following the st. Louis convention, with
due allowances, and made up then
Watson. After the campaign it was
their purpose to join with Bryan in ar
effort to restore radicalism to party con
troll.
Bryan's Inconsistency.
Bryan s. stamping tour flies into tn
face of all this program. If Bryan L
sincere in his expressed determination
to renew the battle for leadership, VIII,
is he preparing to make speeches. il
Indiana, which, if they have the effec
which it is desired they should have
will turn that state over to Parker an
thus make the battle more ditficult7
BryanT will be asked number numb re of oa cues es
Indiana, and if he doesn't find himsel
embarrassed, the L1dianians will be SUI
prise!. Hearst, the Indiana silver voter
- say, is much more consistent tina
SENTATIVE program, and he is still OF
posed to it. His newspapers are civ
ing the democratic ticket only a pei
functorv support. Judge Parker's nam
is never mentioned in them, nor hav
they ever announced that Hearst stand
bv the democratic national platform Q
this year.
- Indiana, it will be remembered, wa
strongly for Hearst early in the summe
and he would have had it's votes at S
hut for no Sbo arm q IF 90
tain conservatives who happened to h
in position to control the state CONVEX
tion.
Hoosiers for Hearst.
If vote Of the Indiana democrat
could be taken today, it would sho
- that four-ffths Of it is for Hearst il
stead of Parker, and this was the sit
alton when the state convention WI
manipulated in May and Parker del
gates selected. These Indiana dem
Gratis were for Hearst because Of Br
an s Endorsement, in the first instanc
because of the political doctrines whi(
he promulgated in his newspapers.
49, Mr.. Bryan isn't careful, the India1
silver men will switch from him
Hearst and head movement to NAL
Hearst the leader of the radical viii
presidency in 1908. This is one of tt
delicate questions which will confro
Bryan during his forthcoming spea
ing tour.
It is estimated at democratic sta
$500 headquarters that 10000 free-silv
democrats in Indiana have stopped t.
Commoner since the announcement tn
Bryan had agreed to, take the stun
for Parker. Many of these had pa
in advance for a year and had receiv
only a few copies since paying. Go
currently the subscribers to the Heal
organs have increased in number.
Because Of the situation here OF
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