The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-04-13


The srectacle. OF the eastern Democracy turning,
with the olive branch 81 cancellation, 10 William j.
Rfyauy alter cng years Of opposition faneing from
slyy covert 10 bitterly detnonsrativs, is occasionug
a great deal Of interesting comment
The consensus Of opinion seems to be that the
conservative" Democracy in accepting Bryan will
do 50 because he himself has become less radical
but because the conservatives are becoming radical
themselves along with the rest of the country
Reslizng that there is today no place for Conserve
tveg Democracy and compelled to choose between
the radlealism Of Bryaa on the one hand and that
Of Hearst the other they appear to prefer tho
former
The New York Tribune eees. in this turning to
Bryan, "a surprising obieSt lesson a the spread Of
radica.sm in the Democracy" II quotes a prominent
NV York Democrat as saying:
While Hearst is man Of capital, be is too much
Of socialist to suit the conservative Democrats and
for that reason. more than for any other they viii
oppose him. Bryan. on the other hand while good
deal Of a radical. has been brcadened by study and
travel and observation could be trusted by the
mau in the Democratic organization who opposed
him before to run tAings sensibly 4 he should be
elected president
The Brooklyn Citizen. Democratic paper
formerly hostile to Mr Bryan. makes this comment:
The impression once held that Mr.. Bryan an
sccidentr has long since been abandoned by think
ing persons is now seen that back Of bis meieonc
appearance in the national convention Of 1896 was a
popular sentiment as deep and enduring as the crisis
which prec.pitated The civil war As IN all popular
movements OF this kind. the followers frequently
iesve tae leaders behind, and with the passing Of
years the radicals II 1886 in closer fellowship
with Las lie ana Karl Marx than with Mr. Bryan,
whose intense Amercsnism has halke dat the
specter Of socialssm al exotic in free Democracy.
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ing the fundamental basis OF society the right OF
property Is the whole Of the Bryan creed and with
the awakening Of privilege to this need check to
rising soeialstic spirit the bridge is formed upon
which conservatives and radicals OF The Bryan class
can march together IN the campaign Of 1905.
The Springfield Republican, an Independent Re
publican newspaper finds that Bryan is more rad-
cal in practical and efective way than he was in
1896 snd adds:
1t would be spectacle for gods and men If the
gold Democrats who thought public hanging was
too gool fer him in. 1896, to accept Bryan as
tacir candidate in 199S-sometlling unique even in
the rdnary vicisstndes Of American politics;
bur this would not result from a iessened radicasn
on his part It would grow out OF decided change
in the general attitude OF the country regarding the
reed Of radical reforms in tn industrial Organization
Of society change which even the most hourbonisf
of tho 'plutocracy' ere being forced 70 recognize
And the Republican we think, Is right. Tho
Bryan Of today Is ae Bryan OF 1886 grown wiser an,
stronger with years ard experience, but with not on'
jot or little of his Democracy changed or abated
And the Democrats who followed him in 1896 are mo-
chasing of after socialism. ths Brooklyn Citizer
seems believe but standing today as they STOOD
then. staunch ana Jealous advocates of the individ
uasm and Democracy thAt Thomas Jefferson taught
Go where Bryan had the most loyal Democratic sup
port in 1896 and you VIII find the least socialism
go where alleged Democrats fought him most ef
fectively and you will find socialism growing '
menaaing proportions.
Il is natural logical ana proper that the Dem
ocracy OF the country when Il finally unites to hgh
plutocracy on the hand AMI 10 oppose socialism
on the other, should do so under the leadership o
William J. Bryan. abuses Of the one extreme tina
threatened to ha1ten the coming Of the other