Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-12-02
POUND THE TRUSTS.
Recipe Of Bryan for Democratic Sue
cess Four Years Hence.

Recipe Of Bryan for Democratic Sue
cess Four Years Hence.
II Mr.. Bryan has his way In the
next Democratic national convention
the paramount issue Of the presiden-
tial election will be the trusts. Every
issue of the Commoner since election
and Mr.. Bryan's personal converse
tions with his lieutenants in the state
all indicate that this will be mis-
programme. To the latter he has
protested that the great mistake OF
the Parker campaign was in not max
ing a fight upon that issue earlier.
Mr.. Bryan says frankly that there
Is but one obstacle to the carrying out
Of this programme, and that Is the
possibility that the president In his
four year term will take up the cudg-
els against the big combinations OF
capital, and In this way deprive the
Democracy of its promised thunder.
He insists, however, that If the presi-
lent does this he will personally have
no regrets. He does not believe that
Mr.. Roosevelt will take any vigorous
steps in that direction.
Mr.. Bryan himself has no practical
plan to offer for reorganizing the par
ty for 1908. Here he Is not con-
sidered a practical politician, and In
his ante-convention campaign relied
entirely upon personal appeals to
stand by the declarations Of past
platforms. All the time delegation
after delegation was being put up
against him and he was impotent. If
he controls the next national conven-
ton 1t will be because the interests
that were in the saddle at St Louis
10 not care to contest with him.
He has outlined his plans In his
paper, but they are merely educa-
tional, not practical. He advises
Democrats to circulate literature
among Republicans and to watch for
every vantage point, but further than
this he does not go. He believes that
the pendulum of control in his own
party will swing to him, because ne
holds that an attempt at conservatism
has proved that success does not lie
that way. He declares that his radi-
cal programme is the only one that
will gain recruits.
There Is not room enough In this
country for two Republican parties"
he says in his paper, land the Demo-
Gratis will not, believe, make the ex-
pertinent again. I believe 1t will be
much easier to shape the policy OF
the party so as to bring back dissatis-
fed Democrats than 1t will be to con-
vert Republicans"
Mr.. Bryan declines to discuss his
candidacy for the nomination In 1903.
He insists that 1t is too early to talk
Of men, since the next three years
may bring forward some unknown
who will typify the new Democracy
much better than any Of the old
leaders. He has not lost his own de-
sire to be president, but stands by his
declaration Of four years ago that he
IS not candidate for the place.
He says he is pleased that Judge
Parker received a larger vote in Ne
braska than any Democrat since 1888.
Parker's vote was approximately S.
900. Cleveland, in 1883, polled S0,552
votes, but in 1890 the Populists came
to the front, and since then the largest
vote received by a Democrat was for
J. Sterling Morton, Secretary Paul
Morton's father, who polled $4,000
votes as a gubernational candidate In
1892. Mr.. Bryan himself received
$4,000 in 1900, but this included the
Populists also.