The Cairo bulletin., 1906-09-26


= Mr.. Sullivan off of the national com
! mittee. and he IL determined 10 shoN
y the people of the country that he i
. able 10 d. this But in his persona
fight upon Nj Sullivan he should no
D be disregardful Of the interests an'
the rights OF the Democratic candi
dates in Illinois this year. who ar,
} Justly entitled 10 the support of al
the members of the party in this state
and 10 Mr.. Bryan's support as we'll
maintain that the Democratic candi
dates should not, Of right, he crnei
fled this year in order to help M
Bryan win personal victory oyel
Roger Sullivan.
Il am willing to subscribe to every
line of Mr.. Bryan's Madison Square
Garden speech-eXcepting that
would slightly change his paragraphs
| relating to governments ownership OF
railways; although what he says on
this subject does not in the least hurt
me, and | see no reason why any
Democrat should go into Mysteries
over H. AS for myself I would give
the new railway legislation a full and
| fair trial. | think that it is only fair
that we should do this. And then II
this fails Us: If we see that we can
not get relief by legislation; if We
sea that the railway managers can
circumyent our legislation and thus
nullify L. then | believe the people
will be ready for government owner
ship. To this slight extent would
charge Mr. Bryan Madison Square
Garden speech.
but | do not understand that Mr., /
BRYAN is pushing his government own |
ership upon the party. as a Democratic |
tenet. ! take ii that he-~is merely /
giving his views upon the subject
and preparing the people to look for-i
ward TO government ownership for /
ultimate relief from railway oppres
sion. The Democratic party is not |
held TO what Mr. Bryan says tETffat I
he says about government ownership
Of railways L not binding upon Demo- /
Gratis until il is put into Democratic +
platform. Democrats as a body must
formulate the Democratic creed.
Il think il was unwisa and hurtful
for Mr. Bryan to force the Sullivan |,
issue into this campaign. take it
to be especially so since the holding |.
of the Peoria conyention-for if ever
a convention was fairly run the Peoria
convention was thus conducted. 1t
would be impossible to run a conven-
ton more fairly than the Peoria con L
vention was run.
Mr. Bryan Believes in the majority
rule. Then why does he not submit 10
majority rule as expressed at the
Peoria convention? He surely cannot
claim that the will of the majority
was not fairly expressed at the Peoria
IF we cannot forget can We not at
least PUT behind Us the wrongs of the
Springfield convention? Can we not
out the dongs Of that convention
away upon the shelves of history,
along with the doings of other con
ftfiNioHos uHu raw 'iAtlh tHFtt W D'
covered by the dust of forgetfulness?
IF we could right the wrongs Of the
past there might be some excuse for
rying to keep them alive; but since
We cannot do this. why not throw
hem behind MS into the limbo Of for
GOTTEN things?
a. with thousands Of oher Demo (
rats in this country, am sick and
ired of fighting Democrats Not since
S92 have we been working together
tremendously. Fourteen years Of
chickering's and wrangling
re quite enough I wish TO see once
more before | die Democrats working
ogether harmOniously shoulder 10
boulder and heart 10 heart. And we
we're getting into this condition when +
Ar, Bryan revived the Sullivan issue
n Illinois And what good can come
f it all-cince II IS impossible to 4
light the wrongs that have been com
nitted in the past?
IF the Democrats ~ Illinois could s
ct together this year and work har- Z
noniOusly. shoulder to shoulder. and
eep mp the good work in 1908 il
'ould be possible 10 put Illinois in the .
column in that year. even
S we put her in the Democratic col 3
mn in 1Sq9'f