Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-01-04
THE WORLDS LESSON. "

The New York World in recent ed
torial gives the presidential vote from
1864 up to and including the year 1901
Then it proceeds to draw a lesson
from the returns.
The World says that the republican
party may have lost one election by re-
fusiDg to yield to its "populstic" e.e-
ments, but that the democratic party,
by yielding to these elements has lost
three successive elections" The
World, after having claimed credit for
Judge Parker's nomination, after hav
ing urged him upon the party as just
the man for the place, now doubts the
wisdom OF his nomination and Is not
sure Just how far Judge Parker was
responsible for this disaster" THAT is
the recent defeat), and then follows the
statement that in the Worlds OPINION
lit IS apparent that Mr.. Cleveland
would have made better run" 1t as
serts that 1.-THE slump really began in
1896 when the democratic party openly
surrendered to the silver republicans,
The populists and the advocates of
wild cat money in general
The fact that Mr.. Bryan, whom the
World opposed, polled in 1896, 946 600
votes more than Mr.. Cleveland polled
in 1892 or 1888, and 100000 more than
Mr.. Cleveland polled in 1854 does not
disturb the World at all Even the
fact that Mr.. Parker polled. something
like million and quarter less than
Mr. Bryan polled in 1900 does not jar
the Worlds compOsure. 1t puts 1t
aside with the statement that 1.-The
tragical rout of 1904 followed as a mat
ter of course" If the World knew the
''traglcal rout" was to follow as mat
ter of course, why was it so lnsstent
upon debating the course of the party
In order TO make its condemnation of
the democratic party complete, it as
serts that Judge Parker only polled
100000 more votes than Cleveland poll
ed 20 years before and says that this in
crease marks twenty years of demo
cratic progress.
The World thus ignores the progress
the party made before that newspaper
became the party's confidential advisor
1t condemns the democratic convention
for refusing TO endorse unequivocally
the gold standard, and declares that
1.-THE economic sins of a whole genera,
tion of greenbackers and free silveIites
have been visited upon Judge Parker"
The World demanded that Judge Park
eli send the gold telegram that figured
so consplcuously in the campaign, and
after it was sent the World assumed
that the party would receive the sup
port OF those whom it described during
the campaign as Independents and
sane democrats" During the cam
paign the World lost no opportunity to
insult the men who were willing to
support the ticket in spite of Judge
Farker's views on the money question.
And on the Sunday before the election
1T published tor pay republican car.
toon which covered almost an entire
page.
VI all the papers that figured in the
last campaign no paper played so con.
temptible, so despicable and so mercen.
airy part as the New y ork World. 1t
iirst picked out the candidate, then IN
Structed him from day to day in bois.
ferrous way as to what he ought to do
1t claimed credit for debating his pol
Icy and then sold its columns to the re-
publican committee to criticise the
man whom it claimed to be supporting,
and now when the election is over il
calmly informs its readers that the
"tragical rout of 1904 followed as a
matter of course.n
After this record the World had the
lmpudence to pose as an advisor of the
democratic party and to abuse those
as "demagogic" who insist that the
democratic party shall be democratic.
Before the democratic party takes
any more advice from the New York
World 1T ought to require the owner to
give bond that the proprietor will not
sell the paper to the opposition. The
sooner the World announces itself re-
publican paper the sooner will the
democratic party be relieved of heavy
load 1t ought to follow the example
OF the Chicago Chronicle --Commoner
The Peabody faction of the re-