The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-12
Can't Win PIuteorats.

Can't Win Piuteorats.
THE democratic party cannot hope
to compete successfully with the re-
publican party for this support. To
win the support of the plutocratic ele-
ment of the country. the party would
have to become more plutocratic than
the republican party, and it could not
do this without losing several times as
many votes as that course would win.
The democratic party has nothing to
gain by catering to organized and
predatory wealth. 1t must not only
do without such support, but is can
strengthen itself by inviting the open
and emphatic opposition of these ele-
ments. The campaign just closed
shows that it is inexpedient from the
standpoint of policy as it is from the
standpoint of principle to attempt any
conciliaation of the industrial and
financial despots who are gradually
getting control of all the avenues of
wealth. The democratic party. if it
hopes to attain success must take the
side of the plain common people,"
Bryan then reverted to efforts
through the courts of the land to either
bring the trusts and monopolic corpo-
rations to check, or some reasonable
method of doing business. He declared
that there could be no compromise with
wrong.
Many, Were Deceived.
The democrats of the southern as
we'll as the eastern states said Bry-
an, were deceived They were led to
believe that the magnates and mo-
nopolists, who coerced the voters in
1896, and supplied an enormous cam
. paign fund in both 1896 and 1900, would
help the democratic party if our party
would only be less radical. The COR
poration press aided in this election,
| and even the republican papers pro-
fessed an unselfish desire to help build
! the democratic party. The election
| has opened the eyes of the hundreds
of thousands of honest anu well-mean-
| favored the reorganization of the par
| ty. These men now see that they
must either go into the republican par
| ty or join with the democrats of the
west and south in making the demo-
| cratic party a positive, aggressive and
| progressive reform organization. There
is no middle ground
campaign Bryan said he has tried to
prevent the platform being upon ole
lines, and failing in this had given his
best efforts for the election of Parker
and Davis, believing that through
them might come a measure of refor-
nation. He said he was still working
to see sound democratic party or
| sound principles and would continue
to do so, hoping for better results in
1908. The standard bearer of the party
would be a secondary consideration
as it was the measure more than the
man that would bring about needed
reforms for the countrys needs.
Must Lay Plans.
But we ought to begin to lay oul
| plans for the next national campaign
and to form the line of battle The
| party must continue to protest against
a large army, against a large navy and
| to stand for the independence Of the
| Philippines, against Imperialism, the
menace of militarism, and the cor
rupting influences of commercialism
however righteous the party's position
on this subject, the issue does not
arouse the people, as they can be
| warned by a question which touches
] them Immediately and individually
The injustice done to the Filipino is
| not received as it should be, or as we
| resent wrong to ourselves, and the
costliness of Imperialism is hidden
| by the statistics, and by our indirect
system of taxation. While the party
must maintain it's position on this
| subject, it cannot present this as the
only issue.
1.-The party must also maintain it's