Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-30
Bryan Democracy Scored by Re
cent Presidential Candidate
In Language Superlative
SEES NO HOPE IN eRYAN's PLAN
He Declares Bryan Will be tho Demoo.
racy's Candidate in 1908 and Will be
Nothing More Than Stalking
Horse for Wall street-Predicts His
Defeat.

Charlottesville Ga, Nov. 30.-Thom-
as &. Watson, recently candidate of
the peoples party, for president today
addressed a large crowd at this place,
the former home of Alexander II.
Stevens. He spoke as follows:
I'm national politics the democratic
party stands without party. declara-
tion of principles. or accepted leader.
1t is utterly bankrupt IN reputation.
1t has no unity Of conviction, senti-
ment, or purpose. 1t contains antag-
onistic elements which can never be
harmonized. Its secret purpose is SO
foreign to what the Democratic mass
es approve that the eternal struggle
of the national leaders IS to prevent
the democratic masses from penetrat-
ing that secret purpose. What is that
secret purpose? To use the democratic
party in support of some system of
party stands for.
"The watehword is Keep up the at
tack upon republican individuals, but
do not attack the system of special
privileges which Is responsible for
present conditions. In other words,
the secret mission Of the democratic
party is to keep up sham battle.
BY keeping the people divided and de-
luded they hinder the organization Of
real opposition to privileged class leg
islation and corporate greed. Thus the
national democratic party Is the best
friend of which the plutocrat republic
can party can boast, for the Belmonts,
who call themselves democrats are just
as much in favor of special privileges
as the Carnegies and Morgans, who
call themselves republicans. ] make
this prediction. Bryan will be the can
didate of the democratic party in 1908.
And as the candidate of the party the
Belmont Cleveland German combine.
he will be worse beaten man than
Parker was. Does Bryan sincerely be-
lieve he can commit the national DEM
ocratic convention to his recently re-
paired and replenished populistic plat
form? If so he must see that he
would have two populist parties. Such
contingency would be laughable were
not the crisis so grave. Bryan must
know his program promises nothing
better than another spectacular COM
bat, at another st. Louis convention,
with another dog fall as the result,
another surrender on the part OF Bry-
an, another sham battle before the
people, and another failure in which all
will be lost, including honor. The dem
ocratic party cannot longer claim to
be national 1t is sectional. The
south is still its victim. The south is
still a quadrennial sacrifice, which the
corrupt or stupid southern politicians
deliver over to Wall street. But for
the solid south, eastern democracy
would have shut up shop, join the re-
publicans and face genuine party OF
opposition. What keeps the south SOL
i'd? Nothing in the world except an
out -of-date sectional animosity and
shamelessly hypocritcal cry OF negro
domination"
Watson said the south could not af-
ford to be sectional and made a plea
that southerners assert their manhood
against the tyranny of political bosses
and "Break the she'll of bourponism
which neither learns nor forgets."