The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1905-07-22
BRYAN HEARS FROM PARKER
Eastern Democrat Takes Shot at the
New Policy Of the West
ern Leader.

The prominent and PROFESSIONALLY IN
nuential part borne by Mr.. Bryan In the
presidential campaign Of 1904. his siren
uous effort prior to the assembling Of the
national convention to prevent the nom
nation OF Judge Parker, or, failing In
that, to insure his defeat by the electors:
his great and successful lAbors as
member of the convention to give the
candidate and party fatal handicap
all this, says the Washington Post.
seems to afford strong assurance that
the twice defeated will be profoundly
interested in the latest public utterances
of the once and worst defeated candi-
date. There were several points In
Judge Parkers Fourth of July address
to Tammany that were as squarely OPP
posed to Organism as the gold standard
is to 16 to /, but in the following para
graph the hit at Bryan is SO palpable,
so obviously and refreshingly pat, that
the reader will scarcely be able to re-
press suspicion that It was with DELHI
crate intent. constructed for and accu-
rately aimed at the proposition which,
from present indications, Mr.. Bryan in
tends to paramount" in the platform
that he Is preparing for 1908.
Because greed, left to run riot, has
produced some bad conditions In cities
and in great corporations, we are adj
vised to run headlong into municipal or
government ownership and operation.
This policy is advocated in spite of the
fact that, in other countries and in sur
| roundings far more favorable for these
| experiments than our own, they have
uniformly interfered with development
and curbed initiative. In other words.
the only alternative thus presented for
the curbing of greed is that of rushing
wildly into all the perils of over-govern-
ment."
II That comes much nearer being COM
| municatian to Mr.. Bryan than anything
else that has emanated from Judge Par
ker since, at the close of the Nebraska
statesman's stamping tour in Indiana
the judge wired him graceful and
grateful Acknowledgements his eminent
services. AS to the real value Of these
services, 1t is logically, eloquently and
eonvincingly set forth in the official re-
turns of the voting in Indiana, which
show that the disciples Of Bryan con.
Guided that loyalty to him and his am
bition required them either to stay away
from the polls or vote for Roosevelt
1t is not the purpose of this article tc
go into discussion of government own
ership, as to which the position of the
Post is well known and Is identical with
the views so happily expressed in ex
cellent English by Judge Parker. Blu
II is as interesting as anything in part!
or factional politics can be in this dull
time to observe the wide difference tina
exists, the great gulf that yawns and
refuses to be bridged, between the con
sentative and the Bryan wings of thu
democracy-the wings that refuse t.
flop together" now as positively as the,
did in 1896, 1900 or 1904. New York ant
, the east generally is as much the en-
. envy of Bryan on the question of gov
eminent ownership and control o
railroads as 1t was on the coinage
! issue and other features of thu
Chicago platform of 1896. And OF
, this newer question the area of 9Th,
enemys country" will experience de
, cided expansion. But as Judge Parke
has given Col. Bryan what he may wei
: consider more of a challenge to thar
an excuse for a rhetorical cloudburst
the gayety of nations is bound to be pro
noted.