The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1906-07-13

The pocket-book Democracy seems
to have o>erplayed their game. They
have been saying nice things about
William j.. Bryan boz order 90 head oil
Hearst and cause him to bolt and
split the Democratic party. They
have no love for Bryan, in fact they
hate aud fear him intensely 10 did
not enter their heads that Hearst
would not try 90 rule or ruin the par
". And So there Appeared through
out the country the most Nenomous
attacks ON Hearst coupled with
pleasant things said about Bryan as "a
conservative.
These thing, were calculated Co stir
Iearst's wrath. and, according 10 the
calculations Of the pockct-oook Demo
cracy. would naturally cause him to
attack Bryan. But it seems that these
plans have miscarried, and these peo-
pie will have TO try some other plan.
Hearst ma, declared i'm % cleau-cut in-
ter,iew that he is not q candidate ion
the Presidency, and that SO long as
the Democrats put i'm nomination "a
clean mar, representing real Demo
cracy, he is willing TO work IN the
ranks. He states that his reason for
running as a candidate i'm 1904 was be-
cause ne believed those controlling the
nomination were "thc forces of cor
ruption. " and that be still believes so.
Hearst declares that Bryan suits
him. Very good Now let as see Do
those papers which have heretofore
fought Bryan viii continue 10 talk OF
"Bryan, the conservative They Will
not. Already they have become pam
icky over his wonderful popularity
and with the remarkable out-ourst OF
popular favor shown whenever ms
name is mentioned And now they
are hedging. They are down ON their
knees begging the people not to nom-
mate Bryan now; to wait two years
as conditions may change. And
whenever they catch breath long
enough to do So, they fcryently pray
that conditions will make it impossi-
bile to nominate the man who Will
break up the very conditions they de-
sire to see continue.
What game. Al, long as they
thought Bryan politically dead they
showed their courage by kicking him.
Then when they feared that Hearst
was getting too strong, they thought
they would start Bryan boomlet OF
lust sufficient size % Kill learsts
strength, or TO force HIM to bolt and
thus insure the continuance Of the
power Of the Observation-Disclosures
mont-Ryan Democracy. They ana
not dream Of the matchles- power OF
Bryan among the people
It looks now as if the old fight oil
1896 is TO occur again-the fight OF the
plain people supporting Bryan on the
one side; and of the trusts, railroads.
and spectators supporting Fairbanks
or someone like him ON the other side
while the cuckoos Will have another
Palmer and Buckner side-show iu or
der to insure the election of Fairbanks.
But the people have learned some
things since 1896, and they will have
their eyes open in 1908. They will
not lock at side-shows; they will de
eide definitely whether they prefer
Fairbanks aud continuance of rail-
road rebates, of corporation control Of
legislation, of the theft of the insur-
ance funds Of widows and orphans, OF
the sale Of rotten meats with a gov
eminent label on them, Of the control
of prices by trusts, and of the many
other infamies that now exist OF
whether they prefer TO put I'M the
presidential chair a man who will, |
like Hearst, expose rottenness wher-
ever he sees it; who Will, like ROose-
welt, not fear to tell the truth TO the
people; and who will, unlike Roose- !
welt, never surrender important prin- |
ciples at critical moments.