The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-25
DOES BRYAN MEAN MIsCHIEFs

uUFsS bh1A m MEAN MNSAhtcE
In commenting on Mr.. Bryans per-
Torrance at Cooper Union on last
Monday night, Henry Watterson, of
the Louisville Courier-Journal, says:
Mr. Bryan's latest performance is
rather more curious and amusing than
significant. One would suppose that a
party leader, with any sense of dig
nifty, having set his own house in
order, would leave the houses of his
friends to take care of themselves.
But this is not the waV of Mr.. Bry-
an. Not content with the action of
Nebraska, he is no sooner through
with the business that detained him at
Omaha than he HES away to New
York, hires hall, assemblies rabble
and assails the organized Democracy
of the Empire State, like any Repub-
lican, or Populist, or other enemy:
Though no one has impeached the regu-
larity, or the orthodoxy of the New
York Democracy whilst their pref
erence for President, Judge Alton
Brooks Parker. is an eminent and life
long Democrat, who supported Mr.
Bryan both in 1896 and in 1900 There
can be no MISLEADING the meaning of
such demonstrations. They ought to
make 1T plain to Democrats everywhere
that Mr.. Bryan means mischief and
only mischief. He goes to st. Louis
to stir up strife"
There is no doubt that Mr. Bryan
is determined to do all he can to pre-
vent the nomination of Judge Parker,
or any other conservative on a con-
sentative platform. The fact that he
went to New York, and, at great
meeting held in Cooper Union, attack
ed Judge Parker and the platform
adopted by the New York Democracy,
shows that he is opposed to harmony
in the party, except upon terms die
tated by himself. He doesn't want his
party to succeed unless it be upon
platform upon which he was twice
defeated.
He sees very clearly that the ma
jority of the st. Louis Convention will
not be in harmony with him and his
political views, and he is desperate
enough to take almost any step to
show his resentment at being deposed
from the position he held as leader of
the party, and his hostility to the men
who will control the convention.
He will be a member of the Com
mittee on Resolutions. and If he fails
to have such a platform as he APP
proves reported, he will make a minori-
ty report and carry his fight into the
convention. There he will endeavor to
create dissensions by the same sort of
oratory with which he captured the
presidential nomination in 1896.
He will find, however, that his ora
tory will not be as potent in 1904 as
it was in 1896. He will doubtless be
given a respectful hearing, but he
will have but few followers. He will
be surprised to find that he is re-
garded as a back number and that his
political ideas are no longer popular,
except in two or three Western states
The South and the East will turn a
deaf ear to him, and most of the
West will hear him with impatience.
He will get no announcement from
a delegation from any state which
gives a Democratic majority, or from
which Democratic majority is hoped
for
Therefore, while he may mean mis-
chief II is not apparent that he can do
any, The conservative forces will
thrust him aside if he persists in
blocking the way.
There is not much probability of his
boiling the convention; but if he should
he couldn't carry any voters with him
in states which the Democratic party
expects to carry. The fact that by
boiling he could do the party no harm,
will have a restraining influence on
him. He may mean mischief, as Mr..
Watterson says, but his ability to do
much mischief will be limited.