The San Francisco call., 1904-10-10
PPuBT LeaderWats0n0fGeorgia Issues PROPAGANDA
Nominee Declares That the Principles of His Party Are Genuinely Jee
sonan and Denounce Judge Parker the Creature of Wall

ship II we fail to realize our responsibility.
The ballot is one Of the weapons with which
we must hold our ground The contention of
parties are wrong. wage war on both. Ours
is the two-edged sword. In campaign 1t
may happen that do greater damage to the
Republicans than to the Democrats-as in
1892, when Mr.. Bryan and other Western
Democrats were instructed by the Cleveland
managers to vote for Weaver In another cam
paign, 1t might chance that the greater dam
age IS done the Democrats. In the
selves about the matter. Such a result is the
accident OF war, not the purpose of the cam
paign, 1t is our business to- preach sound
Populism, which is sound Jeffersonian dem
ocracy, and to hit the Republicans on the one
hand and the Democrats on the other. We
must "hew TO the line" letting the chips fall
The statement has been made that in a
speech in Atlanta 1 expressed preference
in that speech nor in any other. have 1 done
so. Being a candidate for the Presidency
show to whichever of the other two candi-
dates 1 expressed a Observation-Disclosures l am
in full. militant, aggressive control of in
dependent show of my own.
Much abuse has been heaped upon me be-
cause more time was devoted by me to de-
nunciation of Parker than or Roosevelt. The
straight oCt Republican who declares boldly
fer Republican principles. denantly defending
existing conditions. To attack him is a short
easy Job. He is so conspicuous and stationary
a target that no who wishes to take
Shot at him could possibly miss the mark. He
is not in ambush; he is behind no blind; /;
he stands out in the open and he says to his
stsnds snemes Here lei sK1stn s RePT6can who
want to fight come on!' Now, 1 can under
stand a Republican like that: and while
would loVo to make my battle-aX ring on his
helmet until one of us went down in political
defeat and DEATH yet l could respect him all
the while. as a foeman worthy of any man s
STEEL Mr. Roosevelt will get Republican votes.
and other He is not seeking the support
of Bryan Democrats upon false pretenses. He
question He is not attempting to win Jerer-
sonians by a sham adherence TO Jeffersonian
principles. In short, there is no danger that
Jeffersonian Democrats will vote for Roosevelt
upon the assumption that he is a Jeffersonian
Democrat. There is no danger that Roosevelt
sonan in principle am entitled
With Mr.. Parker 1t is different. He is not
the sn0orf Of Teersonfans ne SEEKS 10 secure
speak out plainly and tell the people that he
is in principle the same, practically. that
Roosevelt is. the Bryan Democrats would fall
away from his by the million. would then
be enabled to organize such party of revolt
against the Republican rule would sweep
the country. His attitude is thoroughly dis
ingenious, profoundly lacking in true man
hood and leadership. He was willing to stand
Bryan denounced a dishonest platform. His
position was so indefinite, so foxy, so entirely
neutral, that Mr. BRYAN declared. to cheer
ing thousands, that Parker was absolutely
unfit for the Democratic nomination. and
that nobody but an artful dodger' could
StdnQ upon that New 4Ork plattOrm-WhtCh
much resembled its father. David B. Hill.
/ l believe It was also in the same speeches
be willing to die for his convictions-which is
also e very sound proposition.
Mr.. Bryan, who is always careful in the
statement of matured opinions has assured
the country that the influences back of the Par
ker candidacy are so intimately associated with
trusts and great corporations that the Demo-
with such candidate" said Mr. Bryan.
they would begin with a foot race and end
evident fact when he declared that the plu-
tocratic element for the first time being is in
control of the Democratic party
1t equally clear to Mr. Bryan, as II
was to many others. that the nomination OF
methods and that the nomination of such
a man who had, as Mr. Bryan declared, won
the honor with LOADED dice, virtually null
lined the antitrust plank in the Democratic
platform
These were fearfully important facts, and
they produced the impression on the minds of
millions that there was something stealthy,
deceitful. cowardly and utterly dishonest in
the Parker campaign for the nomination. Mr..
Bryan stated facts. profoundly important facts.
and they continued to be facts up to the time
that Parker actually got the nomination which
he had sought on a 'cowardly and straddling
platform, the honor for which he had played
with loaded dice''
Whether or not the healing virtues, the
nomination cured all the hypocrisy and fraud
by which 1t has been obtained, is a question
each citizen should put to his own intelligence
before he votes.
IhOSe Things Wn1cn MT. Bryd said were
facts, before the nomination, were obliterated
from the catalogue of facts by the nomination;
they facts yet.
BY dictatorial tone, amounting to menace.
Judge Parker was driven by the New York
World into the sending of the telegram which
told the Democratic Convention for the first
time. and many hours after Parker had Sc
cured the nomination, that the gold standard
'irrevocably fixed" Neither then nor in
any utterance afterwards did he say that the
gold standard right, until he had been
shelled so vigorously by myself and others for
having deserted the free silverites without
saying they were wrong. and having gone over
to the gold standard without saying II was
right Even Judge Parker finally realized
that the ground cavng under his feet
and was literally driven to firmer footing. At
last he has taken his place side by side with
Roosevelt the most deeply important issue
before the people.
Let It be borne in mind that Wall street
wanted the last Congress to Issue more bonds
let il be remembered that the Cleveland Demo-
Gratis want the Ereenbacks called in and
burnt do not forget that the "+adIess chain
precedent set by Cleveland stands a prece-
dent to be followed recall how easy II is for
the money power to hide their plans until the
victim is in their trap-and you will begin to
realize what terrible dangers still lurk in this