The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-10-28
AN EMBARRASSING TRUTH.
Jealous Parker Man Thinks Bryan q
Danger to the Party.

In the course of a political campaign
the truth will come out at moments and
IN quarters most unexpected. Some MEM
bers of the party more honest and can
did than the rest will speak out and utter
truths that must be most embarrassing
to the party, and which, like a fash of
lightning. reveal objects and purposes
that before were shrouded in grateful
darkness. Such effects must have been
produced by the utterances of the honest
and able editor of the South Bend Times,
one of the most influential Democratic
newspapers in northern Indiana, and
these utterances are worthy of more
than a passing notice because they re-
veal a condition of things within the
ranks of the Democratic party sugges-
tive of it's hopeless dissension and deca-
dence.
Mr.. j. B. Stoll, the editor of the Times,
comes out openly in advocacy of the cleo
ton of Parker and Davis. not on the
ground that they stand for principles Or
measures which are not also advocated
by Roosevelt and Fairbanks, but for this
one and chief reason: that the election
of Parker will effectually and permanent
ly kill Bryan and all that Bryan repre-
sents in the past and will represent in
the future. Among other things, Mr..
Stoll says:
Parker and Davis, triumphant in Novem-
Der. will put a quietus on the radical de-
parture foreshadowed by Mr.. Bryan. $50
An engaging personality and persuasive elo-
quence may. under certain conditions, popu-
larize a project fraught with incalculable
danger to cur institutions and lead to the
destruction Of the republic itself.
Thus it is plain how Mr.. Bryan's past
and future Democracy is valued by the
friends Of Parker. yet Mr.. Bryan was in
vited to stump Indiana ON the theory
that he could induce his former followers
to vote for the very candidate whose
election will put the stamp of condem-
nation on all that the ever did and advo-
Gated, and upon the good judgment, in
telligence and patriotism Of all his friends
and supporters. telling them, in effect,
that they have been nothing less than
enemies Of the republic.
When we place the damning judgment
OF Parker's friends against the opinions
heretofore held by Mr.. Bryan about Par
ker we must come to the conclusion that
the two great leaders of Democracy have
formed a remarkably true estimate Of
each others virtues and methods. This
is what Mr.. Bryan said in his Chicago
speech Of April %:
l can prove to every unbiased mind that
Judge Parker Is not a fit man for the
Democratic party or any other party to
nominate that stands for honesty and fair
dealing in politics.
And here is what Mr.. Bryan said in
the Commoner, Oh July 13, after the
nomination Of Parker:
! HAVE NOTHING TO TAKE BACK. I
HAVE TO WITHDRAW OF
THE THINGS l HAVE SAID.
In view Of these unqualified statements
it will be particularly interesting to
watch how Mr.. Bryan will be able to
convince his many friends in former bat
ties that he really wishes Mr.. Parker's
success, and especially after the Parker
leaders have shown such an undisguised
disposition to consign Mr.. Bryan to DO
litical oblivion in case Of such success.