The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-01-25
WHERE ARE WE AT?
Time tie Democratic Party WAS Think
ing About the Platform of 1905.

1t is about time for the d ,mocratic
party TO indicate how much democracy
it purposes to put in he national
platform OF 1908. and it Is also in or
der for Mr. William Jennings Bryan
10 say how much democracy he will
allow TO go into that manifesto. Will
the convention denounce or embrace
government ownership" III it should
denounce il in vigorous and emphatic
terms will Mr.. Bryan accept the nomi-
nation for president at its hands?
In 1854 the party nominated a war
democrat on peace platform and got
beat; in 1868 they nominated gold
bug on a greenback platform and got
beat worse than ever the party had
been beaten before-worse than in
1S40 even. In 1872 they nominated a
republican on a democratic platform
and got beat more disastrousiy taan
in 1868 In 1876 they nominated 0
democrat on Il democratic. platform
and elected him-some:hing the party
has rarely failed to accomplish when
party. fhe platform and the ticket
were all democratic.
Government ownership" ie sc~''1
ism rampant Will the party make a
democratic platform and nominate
socialist 10 head the ticket? The
democratic party is right up against
that proposition, and has got a lit
ue more than tWelve-mOnth to
weigh and consider it. With tho pop
ulace the candidate is the platform,
for every voter scrutiniZes the candi-
date and not one of Il thousand reads
the PLATFORM
But will Mr.. Bryan be muzzled? Is
he the Bryan of 1900? The 16-to1 folly
viii not be more dead issue in 1908
than it was in 1900, and the Quant1-
tative theory of money" will not be
more childish gibberish in 1908 than
it was in 1900. Then Mr. Bryan re-
fused to run unless his hobby of 16
to l was put in the platform. That
was how he hugged q dead hereSy
Government ownership" is a live
issue. and will be paramount before
the republic is a dozen years older
What is Mr.. Bryan going 10 do about
that? If he is the Bryan of 1900, he
will force it in the PLATFORM and if he
shall be the candidate, government
ownership" will be the issue, what
ever the platform may contain
It is time for the democratic party
and Mr.. Bryan to- have an understand
ing. At present the party does not
know where it is at. Does Mr.. Bryan
know where he is at?--Washington
Post.
Xr.iV. II, in, p.AE>x
For some time in some of the cities J
the care of minding the baby in day
light has been relieved by the nursery
room of the department stores,
where the kid is checked and cared
for during the day and called for and
taken home as night approaches But |
Portland, Ore, goes this proposition |
onte better, certain hospital there |
having made arrangements to take |
babies in hand for the night. The |
story runs this way:
when the infant begins TO show |
symptoms off the arrival of the sand |
man he is bundled up and taken forth |
with to the hospital, where he is turn
ed over to the head nurse, who tucks |
him away in his little trundle bed. |
Giving her young hopeful good night |
kiss, the mother hurries home to dress
for dinner or the opera, secure in the |
knowledge that her child is in good |
and experienced hands, and will enjoy |
all the comforts of home until dawn
There is no dropping of the curl
ing irons TO run and see if the baby is
still asleep.
"On the return from the evenings
the father retires with
the anticipation Of an unbroken slun-
ber and no fear Of having to arise at
tired in bedquilt to sing the slumber
song TO the accompaniment of falling !
furniture. It is married life idealized.
It is so obvious a way out Of the old
1ificulty that it is marvellous it has
lot been put into use before.
Now doesn't that jar you? The
Richmond Journal suggests that in
he case of an infant checked at a
department store for the day and
;hecked at a hospital overnight there
s danger that its acquaintance with
he authors CT us being would be 50
light that it would place its affec-
ions elsewhere; but, after ALL" q
The Journal philosophically concludes.
hllal affection is not necessary ad-
unct TO social success. ."-Charlo:te
observer