Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-11-28
The State Committee and the National
Committeeman.


the republicans and democrats
They hope to discredit several
mighty good Bryan democrats by
trying to make the public believe
that Mr.. Porter was sacrificed by
these leaders Of the Bryan demo.
cracy.
The facts are that Mr.. Porter was
defeated by his committee. No man
on earth could carry the dead weight
of that committee. 1t would have
crucified Christ.
The committee acknowledged its
total incapacity when it selected two
radicals to aid in conducting the
campaign. 1t used these two radi-
Gals as decoy ducks to bring wary
democrats within gunshot. 1t knew
we'll enough that it did not deserve
and discredited itself in
these selections.
1t is now trying to solace itself
with the thought that it reduced the
republican majority ip Iowa and is
therefore entitled to name an ultra
conservative as member of the ma
tional committee to succeed Walsh.
The facts are that the majority was
reduced in spite of the committee.
No power on earth could have driv-
en- the standpat vote away from Por-
ter with a club. The committee
made the fatal blunder of fishing for
standpatters when it should have
been trying to convince democrats
that it was democratic.
Every man in Iowa with any
knowledge of political affairs be-
lieves that Marsh and Miller were
members of the anti-rate regulation
convention at Chicago. Marsh is
decent enough not to deny it, though
his side partner, Miller, took oc-
casion to deny it in time for The
Register and Leader to prove it on
him. These birds of a feather give
it out cold that Marsh has been the
chief advisor of Miller all through
the campaign This accounts 70,
the defeat of Porter. How could
any real democrat have any conf
dence whatever in a campaign run
by Marsh, a bolter, and Miller, who
sat in an anti-democratic railroad
convention with him? "a =
Miller has been weighed in the
balance and found wanting. He ii
not a Bryan democrat, or he woulo
never have gone to Bryan boltei
for his inspiration, If any doubt
should exist as to whether he is a
Bryan democrat or r.not, his own act
has dissipated the doubt when he
came to Des Moines a few days age
with a pocket full of proxies and vo
ted them against what he knew t.
be the express wishes of Mr.. Bryan
He has placed himself outside of the
Bryan column, because no friend O
the democratic leader will oppose
his express wishes.
Miller's brand of democracy wa,
we'll expressed in an interview b,
gave in The Register and Leader
after his return from the east, wher
he sought to sell out all the Bryan
democrats in Iowa by the appoint
ment of Marsh. He took particula
pains to say that Sam Wright was {
hero because of his traitorious con
duct in the St. Louis convention
No democrat worthy Of the nam,
will ever endorse such infamous con
duct.
The selection of Judge Wade a,
the choice of the state committe,
after Marsh was deliberate insul
to every Bryan follower in Iowa
1t was done to pay Bryan and hi
friends for their opposition to Mars
and make them take a more bite
pill Wade had few days befor
issued an open letter advocating
Marsh. They constituted them
selves a mutual admiration societ
and patted each other on the back
Judge Wade is as objectionabl
as Marsh. Marsh had the courag
to bolt openly, while Wade, detesl
ing Organism, voted the ticket un
der protest.
The services of Judge Wade
democracy may be summed up i
the fact that he told few funn
stories while in congress and wa
careful not to get out of the consel
vative nine hole. His Bryan d.
mocracy may be summed betty j
his fight against every platforl
Bryan has run on, in every stat
convention where the questions ha,
arisen.
The state committee majority
wrong, forever wrong, if Mr.. Brya
is right. If Mr.. Bryan is a dem
crat Judge Wade is not. 1t is
we'll known fact that the majority {
the state committee is not in syn
pathy with Organism. They woul
fight him openly if they were N
afraid they could not get their be
lies up to the pie counter. II
Cleveland democrat is as hung
for pie as the standpat republica
AS as matter Of fact they are fasl
ioned from the same cloth. The
are always prating of harmony
the sacrifice of principle. There ca
be no harmony until all the conse
yative democrats are lined up vii
the conservative republicans whe
they belong. They belong to tt
past and cannot follow in the foe
steps of progress.
The way to elect a democratic go
ernor is to pay less attention to IL
spite vote and purge the state cor
mittee of every member that caus'
suspicion.
Nothing could have been mo:
humiliating to a sels-respectin