The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-10-29
BRYAN CONDEMNED BY HIS ASSOCIATES
Real Sentiments of Ridder, Watterson,
Carlisle, Sullivan, ct al.
Carlisle, Sullivan, ct al.

~welI-rounded periods, the public
will come to hear him at SO much
a head. He is In politics ecaus
1t helps the gate receipts. Like the
actresses who have iscarded the
stolen diamonds dodge for the great
er publicity of a divorce suit, Mr..
Bryan will quit running for Presi-
dent and will quit politics just as
soon as he discovers that some other
form Of advertising will bring more
dollars to the box Office when he IL
announced to appear ON the STAGE
Can't Ride Both Horses.
The one-time running mate with Mr..
Bryan, Tom Watson, now Populist a n
didate for the presidency, commenting
editorially (See page 8, Watson's Mag.
azine. March, 1905) upon the small
vote Bryan secured for the United
States Senate in Nebraska in 1904,
said:
"NIr. Bryan says that reforms are
MOI to be secured all At once.' quite
right, and they will never be Sc
cured Mt all by leaders who change
front as often as Mr.. Bryan has done
within the last twelve months.
Neither will they be secured by a
political party which breaches q
certain creed for eight years and
throws 1T aside like .
garment"
Watch out, William! The people
have loved you and believed in you,
but your course in the last campaign
hoe sroIror -o-~ D1nrp~-S<- - a..
very foundations. Beware how you
trihe with the radicals. II you want
to come with us, como and be. done
with 1T. Be u Of this, William,
YOU CAN'T RIDE BOTH HORSES"
Bryan Doctrine Undemocratic.
This is what Col. Nose Wetmore, now
chairman of the Finance Committee of
the Democratic National Committee,
said Sept. 5, 1905, of Mr.. Bryan's views
on government ownership:
Government ownership of rail.
ways is undemocratic, un-Jener.
%sonian, If you like. Government
ownership Of railways would be
better than railway ownership Of
the government, but the thing hasn't
got that far yet. I think the rail.
roads can he properly regulated
without putting them into the hands
of the government. I don't believe
conservative democrats will follow
MIR. Bryan ON this issue and the
thing we've got to do Is to keen
it out of the platform. MY opinion
Is that it won't get INTO the plat.
form in any shape,',
"Et Tu Brute"
William r. Hearst, who in two pres
idential campaigns gave money and un-
stinted support of all his newspapers
to Mr.. Bryan's candidacy, now SAYS
Of the Peerless One:
she is the peerless prestidieitator
of modern politics, whose hand IL
quicker than the eye, who cause.
his principles to disappear and
changes his politics in full view OF
the audience. A Snowman Mt q
county fair, conducting q shell game
with his political opinions.
"Where is the little ball of free
stlvers Under the Arst shell9 Not
at all. 1t wa there one but it In
not now, and the confidinE voter
loses. Where is the little ball of
public ownership: Under the Sec
ond shell: Wrong again; and the
conhding voter loses again. wber.
Is the little referendum ball. I'm.
der h third shelf Wrong again.
and once more h conHdinr voter
loses.
MY friends, Mr.. bryan has NO
set convictions. Ho hns cbanr.d
Ills opinions ut every election. ana
II he has been wrong 10 often we
are justified In assuming that h. 4.
wrong again. Mr.. Bryan's definition
OF I" fundamental principle IL a prom
o"ition that will help to elect Mr..
bryan. II 1t fails to elect him II
ceases to be an eternal verify and
"se"mes an exploded theory"