The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-06
JUDGED BY HIS ENEMIES.

JUDGED BY HIS ENEMIES.
AS was to be expected, the New York
papers which profess to be Democratic
between elections. but which usually
support Republican principles when the
nominations are made, are making a
great TODD about Mr.. Bryan's discus
sion Of government ownership and. as
usual. are misstating his Speech One
Of these papers. the New York Times,
reads Bryan out Of the Democratic
party because he has ventured to ex-
press his own personal opinion on the
subject in a most conservative way.
The Times Is not now, never has been
and never will be a Democratic news
paper. It is identified with the ele-
ments that have made Democracy in
New York City a byword, it's affilia-
tons are entirely with financial wreck
ers and stock-waterers, it's Democracy
is Of the same breed as the insurance
Democracy which gave freely OF trust
funds to the Mckinley campaign fund
to save the country" the Democracy
that supported a straight Republican
ticket or promoted the candidacy Of the
Buckner gold-brick ticket to catch
suckers with. What It may say on De-
mocracy is. therefore. just as effective
from party standpoint as the utter
arces of any other Republican author
ity masquerading in Democratic guise
In his speech Mr.. Bryan made no eff
fort to commit his party to government
ownership. He distinctly refrained
from doing so. recognizing frankly in
every sentence the honest and irrecon-
cilable differences OF opinion among
Democrats on that subject. Here are
his words:
Z Il do not know what the sentiment
Of the people in this country may be;
! do not know whether the people have
yet reached the point where they are
willing to consider government owner
ship of railroads. l do not know
whether a majority of the members of
the party to which 1 have the honor to
belong believe in the government own
ership Of railroads, but my theory IS
that mo- man can call a mass conven-
ton to decide what he himself shall
think. I have reached the conclusion
that there will be no permanent relief
on the railroad question from discrim-
nation between individuals and be-
tween places, and from extortionate
rates, until the railroads are the prop
erty Of the government and operated
by the government in the interests Of
the people"
There is no attempt i'm that utter
ance to put the Democratic party on
record in favor of government owner
ship. IL is an expression of one Dem
oCrats personal opinion-a Democrat
who abides by the decision Of his ma
tional convention both as TO platform
and nominees. which cannot be said of
the New York organ Of plutocracy
which challenges his Democracy.
The Democrats of the nation wish
to carry New York in the next presi-
Dental election: but they are not will
ing that either the candidate or the
platform shall be dictated by that
stripe of so-called Democrat of which
the New York Times is the mouth
piece. They have not forgotten that
this same aggregation. after knitting
Bryan in 1896 and 1900, induced the
party to nominate a candidate of its
own selection in 1904 candidate who
received less votes. even i'm New York
than Mr.. Bryan received in that state
both times he led the party.
The Democracy of the insurance
thieves. Of the trusts and the stock
gamblers is not the Democracy OF the
west, the middle west and the south.
The grating old party and Senator