The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-06-20
MoNoPoLIsTs BOOMING BRYAN.

lillian press.
MoNoPoLISTS BOOMING BRYAN.
The New York capitalists are play
ing big game in their endeavors not
to lose control of the various state po-
litical organizations. Perhaps the
boldest move they have as yet made
was in permitting the candidacy of
William Jennings Bryan to be endors-
ed in four states. 1t was a slick move,
but fortunately for the American peo-
pie, was so poorly executed as to be
perfectly plain to nearly everybody.
Bryan has been endorsed in Indiana,
Missouri, Arkansas and South Dakota,
four states in which the leaders of the
Democraticparty are VIGOROUSLY sub
servient to those arch make-believe
Democratic leaders, Belmont and Ry-
an. The very men who bolted the
democratic party at the time Bryan
was first nominated, are now coming
backfto, the fold, spouting reform and
every other thing they do not believe
in. 1t is simply a gigantic attempt to
once more gull the American voters
into voting for party which will sup
port the trusts and other rotten corpor-
OH n, IN, Il
ing for this scheme, are simply obey
ing their masters, John ID. Rockefeller,
Henry Rogers, and the rest of the
Standard Oil crowd, all men who have
been crossed by President Roosevelt
and prevented in carrying out their de-
signs of robbing the American people
through his vigilance. These men
want Mr.. Roosevelt out of the White
House, and are willing to work for
the defeat of the Republican party to
secure this end. On this subject the
Brookly Eagle says:
Bryan has been brought forward as
men who bolted his candidacy in
1894 and 1900, and who wrested the
Democratic national organization from
his control at the st. Louis convention
in 1904. Four states, Indiana, Mis-
souri,, Arkansas and South Dakota
have endorsed his third candidacy
Not one of them would have declared
for him if word had not been passed
from Wall street to each state organi
cation. By these Endorsements Au
gust Belmont, Thomas F. Ryan, the
traction and insurance monopolists
and, by the alliances of high finance
the Standard Oil, railroad and pack
ing house trusts, have so strengthened
their hold on several State organiza
tons that they can and will, dictate
the congressional, judicial and legisla
tive nominations for this falls cam
paign.
organs recrudescence does not sig
nifty an incre ase of Bryan's popularity
"a Democratic reaction in his favor q
new prospect of his elevation to the
presidency. 1t is by no means &
spontaneous concession of his availa
bility as leader by the Democratic
masses of the country. 1t deceives no
| body. 1t probably does not even de
ceive Bryan. 1t signifies merely 6
still hunt by exposed and discreditet
corporations for Congress and the leg
islatures which enact the federal ant
State laws under which the corpora
tons are governed, and for the courts
which interpret those laws. 1t by nj
means assures the nomination of Bry
an in 1908. On the contrary, it put.
the fate of Bryan unqualif1edly in the
hands of Belmont and his associate.
in high finance, than whom Bryan ha.
no worse enemies.
IF Belmont and his associates sue
coed by these devious processes in re
tanning their control of the Democrat,
national organization and in holdins
the power of nomination in the conven
ton of 1908, they will certainly manip
ulate the Democracy as seems at thu
time best calculated to promote ant
protect the interests of the trusts will
which they are connected"