Durango semi-weekly herald. (Durango, Colo.) 1899-1907, 1906-09-13
FATE BEATING DOWN
THE DEMOCRACY

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908. They have nobody else" A.
,atriot Mr.. Cannon regrets this. As
! partisan he Ii glad Of It. Bryan's
will make Republican sue
,ess certain. This note Of exlutation
1t The fate which dooms the Democ-
rAcy to make one more disastrous
under Bryan's Leadership
runs through ali the speeches Of
Cannon, Taft and the other Rcpubli
cans who are on the stump in Maine.
They see that the Democratic party
is In the hands OF lts enemies. The
fact that Bryan ia likely to be the
candidate two years hence Is casting
q new sort of credit on that party in
the congressional Canvass this year,
and is frustrating all the efforts of Its
newspapers and stump speakers to In
spire the party with confidence. Thi
Bryan menace has passed sentence
OF defeat upon the Democracy in 1905
and 1908.
Upon the firing line in Maine all
the Republican orators are jubilant
over the fate which ties the Democra
cy hands and foot In the Bryan
bonds. They are even forgetting
Gompers, to some extent, In their re
joicings over the things which art
booming Gompers and his Democrat
ic allies TO overthrow. 1t has been
learned that some Of the Democrats
In New York who saw Bryan's Mad
ison Square garden speech before 1t
was delivered warned him II he re
ership scheme the Democracy would
be beaten. He disregarded their
counsel and defed fate. All this was
opportune for the Republicans. The
congressional canvass was only just
fairly beginning. In Maine. the first
OF the important states to vote. near
ly week and half Of active cam
paign work was ahead Of the Republi-
can spellbinders at the time Bryan
threw his dynamite bomb into the
ranks of the Democracy. Speaker
Cannon, quick TO see the powerful
weapon which Bryan had placed in
Republican hands. began to use It
promptly He az well as the rest of
the Republican orators have used
this government railway ownership
cry speech which they have made in
the past week. This new argument
which Bryan has furnished for the re-
tention of the Republicans In coptrQl
OF the government will tell powerful
ly in the vote in Maine on Monday
next.
Every Republican campaign orator
from Cannon and Taft down are
claiming Bryan az valuable Repub-
lican asset. Bryan is doing more to
turn the scale In the Republican, IA
vor in all the close congressional dis
tricts than could any twenty-five
spellbinders within call Of Chairman
Sherman's congressional campaign
committee. Says the Democratic
New York World: Organism, alter
ed and made over for the same old
uses. again strengthens the Republi-
can and weakens the Democratic par
ty." Appeals are made to Chairman
Griggs of the Democratic congress
sional campaign committee to induce
Bryan to drop government Ownership
of railways until after the present
campaign ends in November. Grigzs
Is al powerless to do that AZ Bryan's
safe and sane friends in New York
were powerless to get him to cut it
out of his Madison Square Garden
speech. That craze has seized him
with grip even more powerful than
the 5o-cent dollar folly did in 1896.
He will exploit 1t to his own and his
party's ruin. The South weakly pro-
tests against the suicide which he has
fixed for his party. But the cup of
hemlock is prepared for 1t. and the
South. as well as tho rest Of the Dc
mocracy. will have to drink 1t. Tex,
as feebly counters on Bryan by pro-
posing the impossible Bailey for the
candidacy. Nobody outside of Texas
and very few inside OF It, will give
any thought to Bailey. Bryan visits
Louisville in few days and makes
his first talk direct to the South. He
Will be welcomed at Louisville by Col
Watterson, by Senator Carmack and
other Democrats, who know that Bry.
ans folly has driven away from their
party all the chances which any Of
them ever thought 1t had for win
ming in 1906 or 1908. They will re-
ceive him. however. as their leader
and their spokesman in the canvass.
The old man OF the sea never had
tighter grip on Sinbad than Bryan has
on the Democratic party. 1t can not
shake him on until he leads It to an
other calamitous defeat. 1t has plac-
ed its fortunes in Bryan's keeping for
the next two years at least. regard
less OF the chances that some other
Democrat mi9ht appear in the fntar-