The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-07-15

The Chicago Chronicle, a dem
ocratic paper, has deserted the
democracy because they failed
to promptly and effectually sit
down on Bryan and Organism.
In an editorial announcing it's
repub licanism the Chronicle
says:
When one thousand men represent
ing the democrats OF the United States,
most of them chosen with much diff
called conservative democracy, permit
wrOngdOing it must be that the dem
agogue is greater than the party.
Two-thirds of the delega tes to the
national democratic convention voted
for Judge Parker on the first ballot
the man whom Mr.. Bryan had ira
duced for three months, the. man
whose friends Mr.. Bryan had villifed,
the man whom Mr.. Bryan had said
should not be nominated and could
not be elected.
When q cowardly committee repre-
resenting those delegates brought in
a platform which was silent on the
money question not a vote was raised
in e~xpostulation or protest. While
hundreds were ready to shout for
Parker. not one appeared in defense
of elementary democracy.
Mr.. Bryan MOI only graciously
permits the democratic party to nam
q candidate whom he has done his
best to defeat in advance, but he
places him on a platform with a hole
in it big enough to drop the entire
party through.
1t is bad enough to have Mr.. Bryan
dominating radical democratic con-
ventions. When Mr.. Bryan is able
to silence a conservative democratic
convention the situation becomes in
tolerable. A mixture of William j.
Organism and David B. Hillism is
insupportable.
The Chronicle is not in sympathy
with MIR. Bryan's ideas. For eight
years it has refused to believe that
Mr.. Bryan's ideas were acceptable to
the real democrats of the country.
The result at st. Louis appears TO
end the discussion. He and Hill are
in control and he and Hill have
named the ticket and made the plat
form.
A timid eastern democrat, who
fondly imagined that he could be
nominated as an unknown, has been
! placed on the ticket with an octogen-
! arian free silverite from West Vir-
virginia and supplied with a platform
| which amounts TO an Endorsement of
the platforms of Chicago and Kansas
! City. The populistic west and the
reactionary south are again in ALI
! ance with a new leader, it is true, but
with no change in principle and pur-
pose. The ticket bears the stamp of
populism. There is not a plank in
the platform which was not modified
by populism.
AS at present constituted and led
the democratic party is a menace to
the peace andprosperity of the United
states and the people. 1t has dis
carded democratic principles and
taken up with the radicalism of pop
ulists and socialists, the Obstruction-
ism, and the cowardice of wreckers
and demagogues. No good can come
out of it.
With a blank for a candid ate and a
blank for a platform it will become
more and more a contemplate instru-
mentality for the exploitation of Will
liam j. Bryan and the school of
demagogues following in his train.
The Chronicle believes that the
republican party while not yet free of
fault by any means, offers the Ameri-
can people at this time the only pros
pect of efficient, intelligent and honest
government that is anywhere to be
! seen, and so believing, it will do what
it can to advance its principles and to
strengthen it's candidates.