The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-04-29
Whit Is a Den.ocratq


The New York World Is sun con
strained 10 inquire: What is al
Democrat this year?" So far there
has been no professedly Democratic
paper able to answer that question.
The World wants to know If Mr..
Bryan is a Democrat, what is Mr..
Cleveland? II Mr.. Cleveland is a
Democrat, what is Mr.. Hearstg II
Mr.. Hearst is a Democrat, what is
Mr.. Parker?
All together with the World know
there is a wide divergence Of poll
teal belief between Mr.. Bryan and
Mr.. Cleveland. One stands for prin-
ciples populistic in their nature, the
other stands for conservatism. They
fail. to agree on any one thing-even
the tariff, and one has never ex-
pressed the intention of supporting
the other. Mr.. Bryan does not be-
lieye in Mr.. Cleveland, nor does Mr..
Cleveland believe in Mr. Bryan. Both
have their separate and distinct fol-
lowing. Neither will cooperate with
the other, nor will they strike a
medium both can support. And as
they both claim to be true Demo-
Gratis, some one would do party
service to define what Democracy is.
Bryan says it is not clevelandism.
Cleveland says 1t is not Organism.
Then. what is it? If Cleveland is a
Democrat, Bryan is not, and, If Bryan
is Democrat, Cleveland is not, and
there you are. Even Parker who
of right by virtue of being the leader
regularly chosen in the last cam
,paign ought to be a Democrat, but
even he is not in the best graces of
Cleveland and certainly far from
those of Bryan, and Hearst, the once
posing great party spokesman, is out
of the favor of the entire bunch, vet
he processes the only true Democ-
racy.
Such disagreements of belief in a |
church denomination would cause
the immediate dissolution of the de- !
nomination, if tolerated even half
as long as this state of affairs in the
Democratic party. The integrity Of
the church would no longer exist and
it could not longer regard itself as
an existing body with faith and
policy that would even warrant its
existence.
Thus II is with the Democratic
party of today. if there be one. It's
integrity has been destroyed; its be-
liefs have scattered and its numbers
have dispersed. Indeed, it has be-
comes so heertic that there is no part
Of It sufficiently loyal to or versed
in its old-time faith to call any other
part to account and none to lead the
wayfaring hosts back to the fold,
were such fold existent.
The World partly illustrates the
disastrously conflicting political be-
liefs of the personages mentioned
herein by suggesting that The follow
ing platform would combine all their
political principles, beliefs and prac-
tees, which platform is so ludicrous-
ly meaningless, except as to showing
their confusion OF beliefs, that It
would be of no service, 10 the party.
that adopts It: : y 1880
We. the delegates of the Demo-
cratic party in convention assembled,
pledge ourselves anew TO the consti-
tutioual doctrine of State rights. We
denounce all Entertainments BY the
Federal authority upon the several
States, and We unquaifedIy demand
such extensions of the Federal power
as viii enable the National Govern
ment to regulate the business of all
corporations engaged in interstate
commerce.
1--WE denounce Capitalization. and
demand a strong central government
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