The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-11-21
RYAN Will ACCEPT
THE NOMINATION. /!
lSkdn Is Not Seeking the Honor and Will Not Make ANY
Fight For 1t, but Will Do His Duty as His Party Bids
Prospect Bright for Democratic Success.

democratic party is more united than |
1t has been for years, and the repub- |
lican party more divided, still the |
action of the democratic party can.
not be made dependent on the pros
poets OF success.
The prospects now seem excellent,
but democratic national conven-
tion will be held, platform adopted
and candidates nominated whether
the prospects are bright or gloomy,
aud the party must make the best
fight it can, whether it enters the
campaign with fear or with conf
dence. Democrats believe that dem
ocratic principles are sound and that
democratic policies are necessary:
| they should, therefore, endorse those
principles and present those policies
and then select as their candidates
those who in their Judgment will
give the party the greatest assurance
OF benefit in case OF victory.
If the members OF the party believe
that Mr.. Bryan's nomination will
help the party, it's principles and its
policies, he will accept the nomina
tion whether the indications point
to defeat or victory. A defeat can
bring no disgrace where the cause is
a just one, but cowardice would be
disgraceful, especially in one who is
as deeply indicted to his party us
Mr.. Bryan is
'The next campaign will be an ap-
peal to the public conscience. The
investigations have shown now only
the corrupt use of large campaign
funds, but also the only source from
which they can be drawn; namely,
the corporations that seek to convert
the government into business asset.
The democratic party stands for the
doctrine of equal rights to all and
, special privileges to none, and there.
fore cannot promise our voters tC
avor-seeking corporations. Ii ii
/, made such promises to the voters, as
the republican party has done, in
order to reward those corporations as
the republican party has rewarded
them. The democratic campaign
! must be carried on by volunteers who
J will work because they desire the
/ triumph of democratic ideas. W.
5 cannot hope to appeal to the sordid
or to buy the purchasable, even i
: such course would contribute to
= ward democratic success.
y "None should favor Mr.. Bryan
t nomination unless the party is will
[ ing to open it's books and show wher
its contributions came from and TO
D what the money is expended. Th
d republican party ought to be chal
q lenged to conduct its campaign il
, this open and honest way, and II th
e republican leaders refuse to accep
= the challenge the democrats ca
S well afford to leave the issue wit
S the public.
e IAN appeal to conscience is pdiit
J. icaIly expedient as well as moral
n right, for the conscience is the mos
potent force with which nan deal.
t The national conscience has alread
n been aroused and large majorit
II of the voters have sheen educated
If the necessity of real reform, reforl
b that will make this governmer
If again government of the people, /
4 the people and for the people.
,e only remains for the democrat
a party to convince the voters that
can be entrusted with the work
te reform, and nothing will do more
or convince the public than a refusal
s. negotiate with predatory wealth al
Of an honest appeal by honest metho'
ne to the honest sentiment of the cou
n. try"
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