The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-03

heads together. At last the spirit of alb
solutlSIn, growing on what its feeds, he
tackled the supreme court Of the United
states. where, as the saying is, he struck
a snas. But, the average man Loving a
ughter and ever carried away by daring.
the unthinking among the people threw
up their caps, falling to discriminate.
even to see that the very form OF their
government was put to menace by this
resoiute federalist, this intrepid central
izationist, this bold revolutionizer of sys-
TENS and destroyer of constitutions by jul
dicial construction and executive assump-
ton.
1t will be remembered that twelve
months ago, when we set out to try to
organize within the Democratic party
volume of opinion sufficiently strong to
impress Mr.. Bryan and his friends that
IL were wiser of him to play Warwick
than king, its purpose was not to divide,
but to unite the party.
Guyed His Dark Horse.
The entire summer and autumn were
wasted on tomfOoling about dark
horse Did he have a mustaehe?"
wired Scott Bone Was this blonde or
brunette? Joined in the chorus. Then it
leaked out that the Democrat in reserve
was the governor of Minnesota, and, tier
ating line in a famous old play, we had
deal of guying which may have been
humorous, but was certainly i'll timed,
about a party by the name of johnson.
an angel il would have been eXasperating.
Yet it seemed Democracy. Governor john
son declared himself out of it. So did
Governor Folk. So did Senator Culber-
son. We were put in for the costs and
left to hold an empty bag. Naturally, it
threw up its hands in disgust and took
to the woods. And then? Why. then,
right out of the open mouth of Wall
street came stentorian voice, "John-
SON.
What chance would Johnson have over
the dead body of Bryan? What chance
would johnson have of carrying Wall
street tag? What chance would Johnson
have using the undemOcratic two-thirds
rule to defeat the will of the majority.
and that at the behest of the east, defy
ing the west and working the south?
The thought is preposterous.
Too Late for Johnson.
Mark the sequel. The time has passed
for some one else" MI. Bryan retain
ing the field; it is too late for some one
else" the conditions what they are; and
1 confess that | am in sympathy with
Mr.. Bryan in refusing to be ruled off the
track by group of New York newspa-
pers-whose motives are, to say the least
of them, suspiciouS-which will support
no ticket except one framed by them
selves, and which do not agree with one
another touching the ticket to be named.
Whatever his claims may be, or may not
be, Mr.. Bryan has his rights, and no
thoughtful man can, or will, say that he
cannot be elected, the ipse diXit equally
of the unthinking, the interested and the
prejudiced to the contrary being of no
weight whatever. In American politics
anything is possible; assuredly Mr.. Bryan
may be elected; as an affair of dinner
pals, if empty. he will be.
But among Democrats who know why
they are Democrats there ought to be
other and higher considerations; some ar
rest of the breakneck speed on the high
way toward the Capitalization of power;
some real and not spurious purpose to-
ward tariff reform; some sure separa-
ton of the politics of the country from
it's partnership with high finance and
high financiers; some breaking up of
groups and rings, of wheels inside of
wheels, always involved by a change of
parties. even when made only for the
sake of a change.
MY paper is a Democrat not a Repub-
lican. and, standing by the sincerity OF
its record. il will support the ticket to
be headed by Mr.. Bryan as actively ana
as earnestly as if it represented its orig
inal preference and opinion.