The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-07-27
WHAT BRYAN SAYS
Nomination OF Parker Is Triumph
OF Wall Street.
ANTITRUST PLANK Is NULLIFIED
His Nomination Was Brought About
by "Crooked and Indefensible Meth.
ods"-His Candidacy Was a Plain
and Deliberate Attempt to Deceive
tho Party.

In the first issue of 1.-THE Common
er" after the st. Louis convention
Mr.. Bryan makes statement with
reference to the Democratic national
ticket and platform. 1t constitutes
the only editorial reference to Judge
Parker in the paper. Mr.. Bryan says
in part:
"a Democratic victory will mean
very little, if any, progress on eco
nomic questions so long as the party
is under the control of the Wall street
element. Nothing good can
be expected of him on the money
question.
"On the trust question the Demo
cratic platform is very much better
than the Republican platform, but the
nomination of Judge Parker virtually
nullifies the antitrust plank.
$50 far as the labor questions are
concerned we must await Judge Par
ker's letter before we shall know
whether the laboring man has any
thing to expect from his election. The
labor plank as prepared by Judge
ParEer's friends on the subcommittee
was a straddling, meaningless plank.
In the full committee planks were
adopted in favor of arbitration, the
eight-hour day, and against govern
ment by injunction; also a plank on
the Colorado situation. If Judge Par
ker is silent or ambiguous on these
subjects it will mean that the finan-
cial influence back of him will not
hiv1o to TO Ia ho 10
these disputed questions.
ION the tariff question some little
progress may be hoped for, but the
Parker men on the committee were
nearly all in favor of a very conserv-
alive tariff plank, and it remains to
be seen whether Judge Parker will
| carry out the positive and definite
| plank which was submitted by the full
committee This is the situation.
Judge Parker stands for enough
| things that are good to justify me in
| giving him my vote, but as l have
| tried to point out for several months,
the triumph of the Wall street ele-
mcnt of the party denies to the coun-
try any hope Of relief on economic
questions. I have nothing to take
back, 1 have nothing to withdraw of
the things that | have said against
the methods pursued to advance his
candidacy. 1t was a plain and DELHI
crate attempt to deceive the party
The New York platform was vague
and meaningless and purposely SO
because the advocates of Judge Par.
ker were trying to secure votes from
among the people who would have op
posed his views had they known them
If he had sent to the Albany conven
ton the telegram that he sent to the
st. Louis convention he would have
had very few instructed votes from
the SCUM and no possible chance fol
the nomination. But he and his man
ayers adroitly and purposely con
cealed his position until the delegates
had been corraled and the nomination
assured. Then his friends attempted
to secure a gold plank, which was
overwhelmingly defeated in the com
mittee. After the party had rejoice(
over the harmony secured by the omis
sion of the question, and after he ha(
secured the nomination, he injected
his views upon the subject at a time
when he could not be taken from tn.
ticket without great decentralization
The nomination was secured, there
fore, by crooked and indefensibl
methods"