The Springfield herald., 1904-10-21
win Jcffcrsoninns by a sham adherence 10
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Many win Vote for Roosevelt.


Many will Vote for Roosevelt.
Watson has made many friends by his
letter of acceptance, and the Bryan
Democrats generally endorse what he
| said about the honesty OF Roosevelt and
the fact that he is not masquerading to
secure votes. AT first they were in
clined to vote for Watson as rebukc
to the Parker gold Democrats, but of
late many of the former free silver men.
| particularly in tho rural districts, have
taken 1t into their heads that they might
follow the precedent set for them In
1896 by the gold Democratic wing, and
instead OF going to Watson. go straight
out to Roosevelt and thus make the les
son as Impressive AS possible.
| There was n great shout of joy among
| the Indiana Democracy when they read
Wntson's letter, and in more than one
| community they chsered at the clever
manner in which he took off the hide
from the hypocrisy of Alton B. Parker,
when he said:
| With Mr.. Parker 1t is different. He is not
4 Jefrersoninn Democrat. yet he seeks to
secure the support OF Jeffersoninns. His
altitude is thoroughly dIsingcnuous, pro-
| foundly lacking In true manhood and lend
| ershin, He was willing to stand upon the
New York State platform which Mr.. Bryan
denounced ms a dishonest platform. His
position was SO indefinite. so foxy. so en-
|
cheering thousands that Parker was 'abso-
| lutely unfit for the Democratic nomination..
and that nobody Ent N an aTfp Yr1 dodgsr
which much resembled Its father. David
| Ii. Hill.
This clipping from Watson's letter is
being carried in the pockets of thous-
ands of loyal free silver Democrats. and
nesting in the same pocket with it is II
little leatlet containing extracts showing
,,,'. af IL,
candidate for the Presidency. The In
diana Democrats remember the sincerity
with which Bryan said in his speech at
Chicago last April. long before the con-
vention at st. Louis:
| Taking the New York platform ns a text
can prove to every unbiased mind that
| Judge Parker Is not n nt man to be nomi-
| mated by the Democratic party. or any
fair dealing in politics. We have evidence
| sufficient to convict Judge Parker Of abso-
| lutte uniitness for the nomination.
| While Mr.. Bryan comes into the State
at the particular request of the Parker
| managers, it will not take him long to
find the sentiment of the people. They
| will listen to him as they did of old,
and they will cheer his magic eloquence
| to the echo. Nonetheless they will not
vote for Parker, because they know that
Bryan himself has been tricked and
estranged. They know that Mr.. Bryan
will support Parker only because he
deems it his duty to maintain his regu-
| larity in the party, and thus still fur
ther to shame the political traitors who
left their party in 1896, and who ore
now seeking to be returned to power
through the votes of Bryan and the
Bryan Democrats, whom they denounced
so freely only few years ago as luna
| tics and inceudiary
Mr.. Bryau's Purpose.
The people here perfectly well under
stand what Mr.. Bryan means by going
on the stump for Mr.. Parker. Most
| of them look forward to still another
| regeneration of the Democratic party
| following upon the crushing defeat of
Parker next month, and they expect that
| their splendid standard bearer will be-
the leader of this final and successful
reorganization of the Democracy. 1t was
n personal triumph to William Jennings
Bryan in the st. Louis convention when
he secured the omission in the platform
os any alusion to the gold standard. and
his friends feel that he was personally
tricked and shnmed by Judge Parker's
| gold telegram. They fully agreed with
Bryan himself when lie said in the Com
moner of July 18th. in speaking about
Judge Parker's gold telegram:
Then his friends attempted to secure a
| gold plank which overwhelmingly de-
| feated In the convention. After he had Sc
| cured the nomination he injected his views
| upon the subject Mt time when he could
| not be taken from the ticket without great
decentralization. The nomination, therefore,
was secured by crooked and indefensible
| methods. 1t was plain and deliberate at
| tempt to deceive the party
None of Mr.. Bryan's speeches in In
diana during his whirlwind tour of the
| State can by any possibility efface the
effect which has already been produced
| by his own deliberate statements before
and after the convention. These loyal
| silver Democrats have learned only too
well that the men now in control of the
party despse Bryan as much as ever
| they did. and that. il Parker should be
elected, the loyal silver Democrats, who
| represent the great mass of the party,
| would have no more to say in the adj
ministration than they did during the
| closing years of Grover Cleveland's term
in the White House.
Bryan's tour in Indiana will only ac-
centuate the love of the silver Democrats
for their leader. 1t will only make them
more determined to punish the New York
ccterie which surrounds Parker for its
persistent attitude of hostility to Bryan
and all his friends. The silver Demo-
trickcd by inscriptions political man
ayers, and they will not vote for any can
didate who represents, as Parker does
to an extraordinary extent, the prevalent
eastern sentiment of bitter hostility to
William Jennings Bryan and everything
he represents.
Look out for sensational slump in
the Democratic vote Of Indiana. Make
up your mind that the loyal Bryan Demo-
Gratis have become tired of being made a
football for the INSCRIPTIONS eastern
men who have seized upon the manage
ment of the party to the exclusion OF
every western idea and of every western
man. The Democratic vote for Roose-
welt will be large, the Democratic vote
for Watson will be much larger, but the
Bryan Democratic vote. which will stay
at home on the Sth day OF November,
will astonish the natives.