The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-17
PENSACOLA FLORIDA TUESDAY MORNING NOVEMBER H. 1905

ed in justice, our efforts will weigh
in the final victory.
Can any fair-purposed man or news
paper see in that hign-minded, unself-
ish deliverance any lurking desire of
Mr.. Bryan to be a fourth time a can
didate for the presidency? Surely
lot, for the man has almost effaced
himself in his manifest effort to keep
brayely in the foreground-not Bryan
but the great reforms for which ne
stood, reforms so clearly needed that
Roosevelt himself has necessarily urg-
to which the whole democracy of the
nation was fully committed by t1e
Denver platform.
And yet the New York World, which
always hated Mr. Bryan, although it
gave him a cold, perfunctory support
during the campaign, sees in those
plain, simple, honest words the deep
purpose Of a demagogue to thrust him.
self to the forefront of his party,
maintain his leadership at any cost
and four years hence again seek the
nomination for the presidency. The
World says, after aenouncins the dem
Ocratic leaders of the South for suf-
porting Mr.. Bryan for his last nomi-
nation:
Tney believed that with another oe-
feat Mr.. Bryan would be eliminated.
| Now they discover that he has no
more intention of abandoning mis- per-
petual candidacy than he had before
| they surrendered to him.
Mark the language and see how
bitterly disparaging it is to the SINGER
ity of Southern statemen. They be-
| lieyed that with another defeat Mr..
Bryan would be eliminated" ana con-
sequently they abandoned their man
hood, forfeited their independence.
betrayed their party and their sec
ton and Frustrated themselves in
utter abasement before the Molocn of
Organism. well knowing that defeat
| was inevitable; and from no higher
motive than to propitiate Mr.. Bryan
himself. a single unit in the millions
of democracy without a trust or a cor
poration behind him and relying for
his advancement solely upon his mer-
its>~as strong. brave, honest man
who had approved himself worthy the
faith and confidence of his party
Weakness in argument and absurd
| ty in inference could go no farther.
and the World. after brief spasm of
| political virtue in which the force of
circumstances literally compelled it
to support the democratic ticket. goes
back totits old association with the
plutocracy to which it formerly be-
longed and of which William J. Bryan
is the most formidable opponent in
this country.
For that reason chiefly it hated
him, and for that reason only it is
now seeking to knife him when he is
down and permanently eliminate him
as factor in national democracy.
1t is. an absurd aspiration on the
part of a newspaper great in many
things but purblind as TO Organism.
No strong personality honest to the
core and brave as honest, was ever
destroyed BY a newspaper, and Mr..
Bryan will continue to live as an in
fiuential factor for good in the poll
tics and morals of his country and
party despite the New York World
and all kindred Influences.
1t would have been in detestable
bad taste for our late candidate to
have declared that he would not again
be candidate for the presidency.
before anybody had even talked about
Offering it to him or associated his
name in that connection; nut because
he kept silent on the subject as any
other gentleman would under SINH
lar circumstances, the World makes it
text for reviling him and parading
its own diseased egotism in a vulgar
display of it's Map of Organism"