The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1906-09-18
FATE AND THE DEMOCRATS

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Gratis will have to nominate Bryan in
1908. They have nobody else" AS a
patriot Mr.. Cannon regrets this. AS
partisan he is glad of it. Bryan's can
didacy will make republican success
certain, says the Globe Democrat. This
note of exultation at the fate which
dooms the democracy to make one more
disastrous canvass under Bryan's lead
ership runs through all of the speeches
of Cannon, Taft and the other republi
cans who are on the stump in Maine.
They see that the democratic party is
in the hands of its enemies. The fact
that Bryan is likely to be the candidate
two years hence is casting new sort
of credit on that party in the congress
sional canvass this year, and is frus-
trating all the efforts of its newspapers
and stump speakers to inspire the
party with confidence. This Bryan
menace has passed sentence of defeat
upon the democracy in 1906 and 1905.
Up on the firing line in Maine all the
republican orators are jubilant over the
fate which ties the democracy hand ard
foot in the Bryan bonds. They are
even forgetting Gompers, to sorle aX-
tent, in their rejoicings over the things
which are looming Gompers and his
democratic allies to overthrow. Il has
been learned that some of the demo-
Gratis in New York who saw Brvan's
Madison Square Garden speech before
it was delivered warned HIN L he re-
tanned his vernment-railroado owner
ship scheme the democracy would be
beaten. He disrcgarded their counsel
and detied fate. All this was oppor-
tune for the republicans. The congress
sional canvass WIS only just fairly be-
ginning. In Maine. the first of the i'm
portant States to vote, nearly a week
and a half of active campaign work was
ahead of the republican spellbinders at
the time Bryan threw his dynamite
bomb into the ranks of the democracy.
Speaker Cannon, quick to see the pow
erful weapon which Bryan had placed
in the republican hands, began to use
it promptly. He as we'll as the rest of
the republican orators have used this
goyernnent-railwa y-ownership club in
hitting the democracy in every speech
which they have made in the past
week
Every republican campaign orator,
f,.p1,, Common apJ To Jou,,, oro olo
ing Bryan as valuable republican as
set. Bryan is doing more to turn the
scale in the republicans favor in all the
close congressional districts than could
any twenty-five spellbinders within call
of Chairman Sherman's congressional
campaign committee. And the demo-
cratic New York World says that "Bry-
anism, altered and made over for the
same old uses, again strengthens the
republican and weakens the democratic
party" Appeals are made to Chair
man Griggs, of the democratic congress
sional campaign committee to induce
Bryan to drop government ownership
Of railways until after the present cam
paign ends in November. Griggs is as
powerless to do that as 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 50-cent
dollar folly did in 1896. He will exploit
it to his own and his party's ruin. The
south weakly protests against the sui
eide which he has fixed for his party
But the cup of hemlock is prepared for
it, and the south, as we'll as the rest Of
the democracy will have to drink it.
Texas feebly counters on Bryan by pro-
posing the impossible Bailey for the
candidacy Nobody outside of Texas.
and a 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 Wat
terson, by Senator Carmack and other
democrats who know that Bryan's folly
has driven away from their party ali
the chances which any of them ever
thought it had for winning in 1906 or
1908. They will receive him, however.
as their leader and their spokesman IN
the canvass. The old man of the sea
never had a tighter grip on Sinbad rhan
Bryan has OH the democratic part 1t
cannot shake him off until after he
leads it to another calamtoua defeat
1t has placed its fortunes III Bryaa's