The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1907-07-20


dependence League. Can Mr. Bryan
hope to undercut it's extremisn? AS
socialist can he hope to cope with
Mr.. Hearst? Is not the line of the
making a Democratic campaign against
the protective tariff and in favor of
the better regulation of the railroads
and other corporations? There is such
thing as trying to do too much as
we'll as doing too little. Paramount
issues are not made to order. They
make themselves and fit into the situa-
ton as it is developed out of the womb
of time. I am not hostile to Mr.. Bry-
an. l am his friend and would advise
him to his own good and to the party's
good. Personally. I am quite out of
it. l shall not be in the next Demo-
cratic national convention. Let us re-
member that there are twelve months
between now and the nominating con-
vention Of 1908 and hope that both
Mr.. Bryan and the Democratic party
may grow in wisdom and grace. If
Mr.. Bryan is bent On making the race
he should quit the lecture platform.
That would answer the charge that he
is making money while the party is
losing strength. He owes so much re-
serve to the position of a party leader
To lat
ter defeated Mr.. Clay. sentence de-
feated Mr.. Blaine, yet Mr.. Bryan is
making speeches every day for great
sums of money!"
Mr.. Watterson calls upon the Demo-
Gratis to adopt simple, brief platform.
One so short that all would know its
could misunderstood.
DO you think" he says. "the Con-
stitution, assailed from so many quart
ers and in so many ways, has fallen so
out of the popular mind and heart that
the summons. back to the constitu-
ton would fall on deaf ears? Here
is the confession of faith would bold
up before every delegate to the ma
tional Democratic convention. He who
hesitated or quibbled over an item of
it, him 1 would throw out of the WIN
dow
II believe in the Constitution of the
United States strictly construed as the
ark and covenant of our free institu-
tions. l believe in the coordinate
branches of the federal government as
the sure safeguards against the
usurpation of power. believe in the
maintenance of the federal power and
the state power unimpaired in their
several functions
This is the platform of the great
Kentuckian. OF Republican candi-
dates he thinks either Fairbanks or
Hughes the most likely. In reference
to Taft he says, II don't believe the
president can name his successor.
General Jackson is dead. Great judges
make disappointing candidates. Judge
Taft has been too much of a pet to
Mr.. Roosevelt
Fairbanks he calls the typical and
orthodox Republican. The talk of
Roosevelt for third term he calls in
sanity. saying that times are not yet
ripe for revolutions"
He says, "the Republican party is
militant and triumphant organization,
its discipline is perfect, it's leaders are
experienced and sagacious public men
with an ample field and a good field
to choose from. The nomination of
Mr.. Roosevelt would be an act of
causeless suicide. The merest political
tyro ought to see that Even as free
silver wrecked the Democratic party
would third ternism wreck the Re-
publican party"
These are the views of Mr.. Waiter
son and it is pretty safe to assume
that they are the views of large
contingent of the Southern people.
They are undoubtedly the views Of
many men who will be in the next
Democratic convention from the Demo-
cratic states of the South Mr.. Wat
terson makes it plain that he will
not oppose Mr.. Bryan and that Mr..
Bryan needs but to ask and he will
receive his support. but he makes it
equally plain that in his opinion it is
for the best interests of both the DEM
ocratic party and Mr.. Bryan that some
other man should attempt the task of
reuniting the party. The views of the
South ought to be controlling in the
next Democratic convention. For three
elections the South alone has remained
loyal to the Democratic party. Demo-
Gratis of the North have been almost
equally divided between what is known
as conservatives and radicals. There
is every reason for believing that thew