The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-14

Bryan the individual. and which can
not bind any other Democrat Nhatso-
ever. For four years the Democratic
party has got TO stand BY the action
of the st. Louis convention whether
they wish to do so or not What they
did there is official and binding. Again.
Mr. Bryan has no substantial reason
for believing thas he can ever get the
national Democratic party to adopt the
Popuiist programme. which be has just
formulated. The DemocFatic party
never did do il, and the presumption is
that il never will. The plutocratic eie-
ment has just as much power within
the party now as il had when the ST
Louis convention met Indeed. IT has
more, 1t has all the machinery now
which the Bryan men then had: il has
the same control over the newspapers
which il then had; therefore. il is as
certain as anything can be that they
viii again be able to defeat Mr.. Bryan
in the national convention when he
comes before it with his Populist plat
form. Suppose, however, that he should
be victorious oE>y them in the national
convention-can they not knife him as
successfully as they did in 1896?
No Hope For Bryan.
- ~ ilol dDSpiuAclN ctIAdiil ltidt AurN
are just as much joined to their idols
now as they were then? VIII they not
as desperate and INSCRIPTIONS in knit
ing their own ticket as they were in
1896? Every argument based on human
nature says they VIII. Then. If Mr..
Bryan should win the nomination of
his Populist platform ina 1898, the plu-
tOcratic element in his own party VIII
bar his progress and compass his de-
feat just as they did before. Again,
suppose that the pIutOcratic element
should triumph over Mr.. Bryan in 1905
as they did i'm 1904 then Mr.. Bryan VIII
have 10 submit just as he did submit
in l904-after having declared publicly
and positively that he would never sup
port the gold standard nominee of the
Democratic party. Mr.. Bryan could
rot bolt in 1908. The time 10 have done
that was 1904. That opportunity will
not return. He himself has set the ex-
ample of submitting TO what was wrong
because, although it was wrong. il was
regular.
Hopeless Situation.
I'm short, the Democratic party has
this hopeless situation: The Bryanites
can not drive out the plutocratic ele-
ment. the plutOcratic element can not
drive out Mr.. BRYAN. They exhaust
their strength with intcipal struggles,
leaving the party where its enemies
can always defeat 1t at the polls.
There is this further weakness in the
programme of Mr.. BRYAN. The pluto
cratic element has shown that it can
safely defy him and combat him al
though he is the nominee. whereas he
submits to them when they put up a
T.
hOpelessly divided it is the rankesu
folly in my judgment to expect any
reforms. From year to year it is
dreary go round and round of one fac
tion lighting another faction, each OF
which alternately whips the other and
neither of which ever whips the
enemy.
L should be only too glad TO co
operate in parallel lines and honorable
terms with any Jeffersonian Demo
crat Ike Mr.. Bryan or Mr.. Hearst or
George Fred Williams to accomplish
purpose which is common to us all.
but I believe that the best way to
assure the final success of the reform
movement is for us to build up party
OF Jeffersonian Democracy on solid
founda tons where unity of sentiment
goes hand-in- hand with unity Ct pur-
pose. and where. therefore. some hope
of accomplishing that which We wish
10 accomplish canirbe reasonably
entertained. fae
Position of the South.
an the south there are peculiar
reasons why the present policy Of the
Democratic leaders should he de-
feated. and better line of policy
adopted. For the last twenty-five
or thirty years the Democratic ma
chine politicians have made that great
section a mere tool in the hands Of
Wall street and a handful OF eastern
Democrats who have no purpose IN
common with US and who use the
electoral vote of the solid south for
their own selfish purposes. In this
manner, our southeHe country, which
is an empire in itself. has been made a
province for a few great financial
n;agnates who exploit it for their pri-
vate gain without the slightest refer
ence TO the welfare of the southern
people The situation is pitiable The
degradation of ii finds expression in
the phrase. The solid south would
vote for a yellow dog on the Demo
cratic ticket As southern man /
am ashamed of such a state # affairs.
and resent il profoundly. II / can do
political Independence of my own peo-
pie from this slavish servitude, 10
handful of Wall stree. politicians. 7
consider il a duty to dc so. If the
Peoples party had no other mission
than to relax the grasp (which the
great railway corporations have upon
the commercial throat OF the southern
states. a grasp which is maintained by
the alliance between Democratic bosses
and Wall street financial kings. then it
would have sufficie.t mission to war
rant its continued existence
Georgia's Thralldom.
My own state of Georgia is as com
pletely under the thumb Of Morgan
and Belmont one of whom con-
trolls the southern railway combine.
While the other controls the Louis
Vile & Nashville combine. as the
state of Pennsylvania is under the
control of the Pennsylvania railroad.
or the state of Wisconsin is under the
control of those corporations which La
Toilette has Won national fame in
combating. The situation is simply
APPALLING and would not be believed by
anybody who was not conversant with
the facts. / expect to return home
and open a campaign OH the lines of
Jeffersonian Democracy to take our
state government out of the control of
Morgan and Belmont and TO put it in
the control of the Georgia people.
where it belongs. In nearly every
southern state there is a similar con-
test TO be waged against corporation
tyranny. BY the time the next presi-
Dental election rolls around there is
every reason TO believe,th there will
be sufficient sentiment IN favor of
the reform principles which are en-
bodied in the national platform Of the
Peoples party TO win success at the