Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-07-16
BY MEAD PUBLISHING co
OFFICIAL PAPER OF COUNTY
To Democrats Of Sense.

For the past seven months we have
been trying to impress upon the demo-
Gratis in Iowa the necessity of being
forever on guard against the standpat
democrats who scuttled the old ship in
1896 and again in 1900 and selected an
unworthy captain in 1904.
There is no difference between stand
pat democrat and standpat republi-
can except that one is trying to hold
back the democratic party and the 9TH
er is trying to hold back the republic
cans.
All over the United States there is
at the present time movement to de-
feat the will of the masses of the dem
ocrats in this country.
This movement has been in existence
for some time and we have time and
again called the attention of democrats
to the fact only to be damned by
certain so-called democratic newspapers
who should have helped instead of him
dered.
The selfish interests of this country
are between two fires, Roosevelt and
Bryan, and they are determined that
the successor to Roosevelt shall not be
Bryan.
It is for this reason that the press
dominated by these interests is busy
day in and day out nominating candi-
dates and fixing up slate for the dem
ocrats in which Mr.. Bryan does not
figure.
Time and again have they suggested
reasons why someone other than Mr..
Bryan should lead.
The fact that nearly every convention
that has met during the past year has
declared for Bryan spontaneously, with
out solicitation, does not change the at
titude of these opinion moulders.
The fact that in the eyes of the great
masses of the people Of this country
there is no other possibility than Bryan
does not seem to change the point of
view of those who wish to wreck the
party.
There are in Iowa hundreds of these
so-called democrats who would jump at
the chance to throw Bryan at any time.
A great many of these men are or
the state committee and more of them
on the county committees of the organi-
cation.
Those who have the best interests of
the party at heart must see to it that
these men do not go back on the COM
mittee again.
1t is all right to have these men in
the party if they wish to vote the
ticket, but they have no business what
ever in the management.
A party should be managed by its
friends, not by its enemies.
These men who are willing to give
the nomination to any other than Bryan
will try. to get on the delegation to the
national convention.
1t will not do to let one of these men
on the delegation under any circum-
stances.
1t will not do to let them get on tn.
delegation under the supposition thai
they can be tied by the majority of the
delegates or put under iron clad instruc-
tions.
No amount of instructions will bine
an unprincipled delegate
In 1904 two of these men got on thu
delegation to the national convention
at St. Louis.
These men were put under iron cla'
instructions after a hard fight.
They bolted their instructions
St. Louis.
These two men were Sam Wrigh
and w. w. Baldwin, neither of whom
should be permitted ever again to mis-
represent the democracy of the stat
or nation.
No honorable man can do as thes
men did.
No honorable man can endorse thei
conduct.
c. w. Miller, state chairman of tn
Iowa democracy. as the result of inadver
tence, inattention and Indifference
endorses and has endorsed the conduc
of both of these men.
G. w. Miller regards Sam Wright a
hero because he was dishonorabl
enough to bolt his instructions and re
fleet upon the integrity Of the delega
ton from Iowa.
There are even fool democrats i
Iowa who not only desire the defeat O
Bryan but they are even talking o
nominating c. w. Miller for governor
If Bryan should be defeated for tn
nomination and such man as C. w
Miller nominated for governor of Iowa
there would not be enough democrat
in Iowa to get on the ballot without
petition, and yet such condition woul,
be welcomed by the pirates who max,
it their business to mutiny every fou
years and scuttle the ship between
times.
Several national meetings have BEEF
held to devise ways and means to defea
Bryan. Big democrats, so-called, hav
attended these meetings. Iowa ha
been represented at these meetings
Men that you democrats have entruste,
with power have thus abused it. VIII
you let them have the power again?
Let the entire democracy of Iowa b
alert.
Eternal vigilance is the price of pur
democracy.
Wherever head rears itself DARN
to suggest any other candidate tina
Bryan, take a lick at it for luck.
No man who really loves the demot
racy and sincerely desires its success
will dare, at the present time, to permi
his mind to be diverted by any othe
! candidate.
The democracy 5of Iowa, and tn
democracy of the nation has Gelecte
its candidate and all that is require
now is convention of ratification.
The man who tries to make you thin
otherwise is n enemy. Democrat
Chronicle.
Not Matter Of Ambition.
Those who urge the nomination of
conservative candidate by the demo
cratic convention studiously insist tina
Mr.. Bryan's friends say he does no
want the nomination. But is this tn
real issue? The presidential nomina
tion ought not to be regarded as com
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pliment to be handed to some one be
cause he would be pleased to have it
A candidate should be selected becaus