The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-10-13


all could understand where tie diff
leader was Jefferson. Such leader
was Andrew Jackson. Such a leader
was Stephen A. Douglas. Such
leader was William J. Bryan. In this
campaign it 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
a wish to believe otherwise, they see
that Parker remains what Bryan says
he was last April, can artful dcdger,"
absolutely unfit for the presidential
nomination" That Mr.. Bryan himself
supports the ticket does not change
facts nor create satisfaction.
Bryan Cannot Sugar Coat the Pill
The great party of six and half
million voters sent their Leaders tc ST.
Louis without any instructions to
surrender to Wall street. That surreL-
der created profound discomfort
which will not down. Mr.. Bryan him
self cannot make that bitter pill paia-
table to the Bryanites. The seli-out
was. too brazen, too sudden. too COM
plete. Nobody suspected an earth
quake like that The ground opened,
and down into the yawning chasm tel.
all 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 finished their w1-k, the
democratic bosses were so nearly nude
that, had it been personal Matter
rather than political, they could have
been indicted for "a notorious act of
public indecency.' Able statesmen
had undressed themselves in pubic.
And now they are furiously angry
with me because l ana renewing the
struggle which they abandoned. They
resent the fact that some Gle else
should try to do that which they were
not willing to try to do.
s1issitjnSss RI
"The peoples party is helping the
republicans" cry the democratic lead
ers If these leaders had not aban-
doned their own platform and gave
over to Wall street. we could not have
hurt anybody AS long as tbe demo-.
cratic party pretended to bel populist3
in principle, the populist party could
not do business. Too many OF our
men were dupes of the fraud. The
moment the democratic Leaders
dropped our platform, we seized upon.
lit again, and we began to rehahilitates
our own party Sell-out?! Why, we
have surrendered no corfvictic rs; we
have not parted with a single plank
in our platform. What have NC sold?
70 whom did we sell?3 If we had shed
our political garments as the demo-
cratic bosses did at St. LOUIS, and
Wall street had dictated eveYy line
of our new creed and had put at the
head Of our ticket man who can not
state wherein he differs in principle
from Mr.. Roosevelt. we would have
hung our heads every time We passed
a mirror, to keep from looking into
the eyes of renegades to Jeffersonian
democracy, servile tools of northern
corporations. They went to ST. Louis
with principles; they came back with
out them; they were clay in the hands
Of the Pat McCarrens of Standard Oil,
Belmont of the Louisville G. Nash
vile, German of the sugar trust. The
very first speech of the campaign was
| in Brooklyn by Senator Barley of
feiNsls, az 9sr chs es,arinaa inf the
dard Oil company lobbyist. Pat Nc
Carren. The chosen advisers of MI
Parker are the men who led Tor the
trusts and corporations when the tax
payers were looted during Cleseiand's
second administration. From German,
who reeks with the foulest trust leg
islation Of the last twenty years, to
Carlisle, who wrote the sugar sche-
dule at the dictation of the sugar
trust, and Belmont. of the secret mid
night bond deal. down to Olney, who,
in effect advised the too willing Cleve-
land to lend the United States army
to the Pullman Palace Car company
in Chicago, the notorious old band of
boodlers are there. What may be ex-
pected OF them if Parker is elected can
be guessed by those who remember the
carnival of class-legislation which
rendered forever infamous the second
administration of Grover Cleveland
A Hungry Crowd
The leopard can not change his