Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-11-22
Friday. November 20. 1907.
Mr. BRYAN'S CANDIDACY.

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Mr. BRYAN'S CANDIDACY.
Mr.. Bryan statement of bis posi-
ton with regard to the approaching
campaign for the presidency, is pub
llshed in this issue of the SPECTATOR
and will be widely read, and gladl
welcomed by true and loyal Democrat
everywhere. 1t is needless to say tina
the elements of 1896, which left tn
Democratic party then and threw tn
hooks into Mr.. BRYAN. are ready, will
ing and anxious to slaughter hin
again, and will be bis most daDgerou
and implacable foes. Most of the
leading so-called Democratic journals
in Virginia are against him. Thu
same is true Of Maryland and Ken
lucky, and possibly other Southern
States. These pretending Democracy
are supposed to train inside the camp,
and they are spies, because they will
know what the party intends to do, OF
attempt. and give the plan to the enc.
my. Those which support him will
preach superior wisdom. They will la.
ment the nomination, but all the time
will profess loyal determination to
give their support to losing game. "
Some, Of course, will jump the fence,
having gone over without touching the
top rail in 1896.
We have never understood such
"loyaltY." For the good of any party
all those why profess its name should
leave it out and out, when the party
no longer reflects their sentimental.
What Is the party name to them, de-
void of principle? The objects. the
aims, the actions, of party make 1t.
Black is never black unless it is black,
nor is white white when 1t is not white.
For our part we would rather be dog
and bay the moon, than to be hitched
on to any party name when every
principle for which We had fought had
departed. Yet to our surprise we
learn that many leading SO called
Democratic journals denounce Mr..
Bryan with great Yehemence, and
still undertake to teach Democracy.
We note, however, that in all these
cases they are those that b0lted him in
1895. These are talking of a "conser.
vative candidate" They allege that
MIR. Roosevelt, or whoever may get the
Republican nomination, and Mr..
Bryan, or whoever may be nominal.
cd by the Democratic convention. will
ecessarily be radical, and that the
middle men, the milk and water fel-
lows, those who do not oppose corpo'
rate greed, or any other thing that the
business Interests practice, and some
which got a hunk of the corruption
campaign fund Of 1896 will
make q nomination of their own, they
will trot out horse. Just now they
advocate that old 'rlnger" Grover
Gle veland. But they seem to admit
that bandages and swathing In fan.
nels and liberal use of IMMINENT, would
hardly make him fit, 80 they have
east about for another, and the lean,
lanky, high bred herd have been look
cd over. Finding there was not much
"a cling blood there, that is In the cor
porate stables, they have been looking
over the heavier breeCs. We lean that
they even opened the Maryland stable
door and led forth that well groomed
"racer" Gov. Warfield. But on doing
90 there was such a guffaw that be was
Inn mediately sent back. There lie,
no wever, q disposition among these
cons ervative patriots to do the Palmer
and Buckner trick again-they are
either going over into the Republican
camp this time, If Hughes Is nomi
mated. or they are going to nominate
some NOR stool pigeons. if Hughes is
not nominated. That seems certain,
Do they not recall that they were given
free hand by Mr.. Bryan and the Dem
ocratic party In 1904 !? They told us
they wanted "a candidate who could
win, that they would name one such
and they got him. He did win, but
he won the most humiliating defeat
that b as been served upon any politi-
cal table since Horace Greely's mem.
orable fiasco. The country had no
fai tn either in them or in their candi-
date. II this Is the best they can do,
we mean the safe and sane-ought
tn ey to find fault Who should they
kick? 1t is very tiresome to regular
DE mocrats, those who never had sense
enough to bolt, those who just NOV
along and swallow the nominees. those
who have no dollars to save, by saving
the Nation from 16 to ]. or from gold
standard panic, to have wisdom preach
ed to them in the shape Of what MI.
Bryan and the Democratic party
should do, and when they themselves
undertake to do what they themselves
pre- ach, their efforts become the laugh
ing stock of the nation if not of the
civilized world. The people will likely
follow Mr.. Bryan instead Of these tin
horn statesmen.
A panic comes as thief in the
night.
A Roosevelt panic cOmeth not alto
gsther by night, it stalketh about In
the broad light Of day.
A Roosevelt gold standard panic
cometh both by night and by day, and
sntereth the palace and the hovel. II