Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-12-19
AFTER ELECTION
A LOUD Wall IS HEARD FROM
COLUMBUS, OHIO.
The Press Dispatch Pays Its Respects to the
Reorsanizers. Conventions May be Bought,
But Not the People. Only Room For One
Republican Party.

The 'reorganizers" have had their
innings and have earned the right to an
indefinite outing. At the convention in
St. LOUIS. Bryan an1 his following were
Inundated and repudiated, all because
1--WE want the votes. We want man
that can win. We are tired of Organism
and defeat" The delegates, dominated
by the ''solid south" and corrupt north
ern politicians, accepted this silly talk
as gospel and Immediately thereafter the
democratic party was gold bricked with
"gold telegram.
The methods used to accomplish this
result are we'll known to the people of
thecountry. and it is needless to say
that the wholesale purchasing Of dele
gates at st. Louis and in the local dis
trict conventions under the leadership Of
Hill and Belmont and Sheehan was. re.
pulsive to the honest men of all parties.
In the light of events ''safe and sane"
democracy is one whose vote is so small
that It can be scooped up in an ordinary
sieve and packed away in a smal.sized
safe.
The democratic party is in sore straits.
Parker has received a smaller electoral
vote than did Bryan in either 1896 or
1900, and much smaller popular vote.
1t has received "a blow that will necessi-
tate interment unless these political
doctors who prescribed the dose and
rammed it down the throat of the st.
Louis convention are Immediately rele.
gated to innocuous desuetude.
Speculation is idle and at this early
writing exact figures are wanting But
it is safe to say that Roo evet has re-
ceived tremendous triumph on the one
hand, while on the other hand the social
lists and populists have similar cause for
Joy, and between these as upper and
neither millstones, the democratic party
is gasping for breath. In conspicuous
isolation, the solid south may continue
to take pride in the label OF democracy,
but it must learn to discriminate be-
tween the advice OF the agents OF pluto
cratic interests and democracy founded
On patriotic principle.
The election has shown beyond perad
venture OF doubt what has often been
said that there is not room for more than
one republican party in this country.
For safety's sake, there should perhaps
be at least two parties, but neither OF
IL t>. al - Ia,
other. The political leaders OF the dem
ocratc party mistook the shadow for the
substance, and while they were chasing
the shadow the substance has been
swallowed up by the enemy.
Talk about being buncoed! The Par
ker men did not even receive the sup
port they had a right to expect. Where
was the promised support Of the money
kings who were going to furnish them
the immense campaign fund? Where
were the millions OF conservative
democrats who were pining for chance
to return to the fold? Where ale the
electoral votes of New York which they
said sit is absolutely necessary to have
and which Parker alone can get?" Where
is everything? Where is anything? Oh,
merciful father, where would the reor.
ganizers have been if it were not for the
solid south, which is so absorbed with
race strife as to be almost oblivious to
everything else?
The I.told.you-so man is ubiquitous
today, and his pet phrase is exceedingly