The San Francisco call., 1904-10-10

ing for the New Yorker and against their own
son-hers in blood and sympathy and death
less devotion-ought not the New Yorker to
be compelled to speak out on this question?
In, In his formal letter of acceptance, just made
public, 1t is curious to note that Mr.. Parker
does not once mention the name of Jefferson,
jackson or any other great Democrat. He
makes no reference 10 the titular deIties Of the
Democratic party. The man to whom he
alludes with the greatest reverence Is William
Mckinley, and the next is James G. Blaine.
men and nds pTcy ,t 2, @ SGth 5nese states es
eaape he s,T Rss not rollSwsd their iDs
of Democracy amounts to a riddle
The most un-Democratic portion OF Judge
Parker's letter is that wherein he eulogites
Mckinley upon the subject of reciprocity.
What is reciprocity but free trade in those
turers want? If free trade be such a good
thing. why not let all of have some?
the masses, why not compel the manufacturers
to take II, too? In other words why not have
a system and stick to it? If protection Is
right. 1t should operate on all alike. II free
trade is right then the manufacturers should
not be the only to get it,
Judge Parker pleads for greater favors to
going to get enough?
II Republican policies are to be overthrown.
IL must be done by men who boldly declare
against them and who go up against them
with determination to defeat them. The
way to whip the enemy is to fight 1t. The
Democratic party has known what II was to
be led by captains who put the battle cry into
plain language that all could understand
Where the difference was vital issues. Such
a leader was Jefferson. Such a leader was
Andrew Jackson. Such a leader Stephen
A. Douglas Such a leader was William J.
Bryan. In this campaign 1t has no such
leader. To their secret shame and disgust the
rank and file OF the great Democratic party
sees that their captain will not fight In
spite of party loyalty and wish to believe
otherwise they see that Parker remains what
Bryan said he was last ApriI-an "artfuI
dodger, absolutely unfit for the Presidential
nomination. That Mr.. Bryan himself sup
ports the ticket does not change facts nor Gre
ate satisfaction.
The great party Of six and a half million
voters sent their leaders to st. Louis without
any Instructions to surrender to Wall street.
That surrender created a profound discomfort
which will not down Mr.. Bryan himself can
not make that bitter pill palatable to the
Bryanites. The sell-out was too brazen too
sudden. too complete. Nobody suspected an
down into the yawning chasm fell ali the
principles Of the Democratic party These
leaders went to St. Louis clothed from head
TO heel in good Jeffersonian Democracy. When
Dave Hill. Pat McCarren and August Belmont
nnished their work the Democratic bosses
were so nearly nude that had II been a per-
sonal matter rather than political they could
have been indicted for "a notorious act of
public indecency." Able statesmen have un-
dressed themselves in public. And now they
are furiously angry with me because 1 am
renewing the struggle which they abandoned
They resent the fact that some one else should
try to do that which they were not willing
TO try to