The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-09-10
In a cIsverIy Sarcastic Letter
Tells Why He WithdraWs
With Qualification.
THERE IS NO DEMOCRACY
There is Only Bryan Party and Its
Followers Don't Know When They
Go to Bed at Night What They
win Be Called Upon to Be-
Ieye When They Wake
Up in the Morning.

aentially Democratic organization, OF
Ban Francisco, few days ago sug-
gested to Mr.. William Randolph
Hearst that since he had decided to
oppose the election of the Democratic
candidate, Mr.. Bryan, he could not
consistently retain his membership
In the organization. In reply to this
suggestion Mr.. Hearst has sent
the following letter to the associa-
ton:
San Francisco. August "a.
To the Iroquois Association, San
Francisco, CAL:
Gentlemen received your letter
with both pleasure and surprise. l
was surprised to know that Mr.. b.
CART was sending four dollars dues
TO your organization, but pleased to
learn of 1t, as am exceedingly ready
TO stop that. / was pleased and sur
prised, too, to learn that the lro-
Quois Club was still in existence, for
thought that it had died the death
and had been peacefully buried along
with the last remnants of the defunct
Democratic party of California.
But since the Iroquois Club still
In way exists, am glad to resign
from 1t, and the situation suggested
in your letter seems sufficient reason
for me.
You imply that I am not a Demo-
crat, and | strongly suspect that I
am not, according to the Democratic
standards of to-day. worked hard
for the Democratic party at one time
and contributed many thousands of
four dollar checks, and cheerfully
suffered much abuse and much in
jury for the Democratic party, but
! believed in 1t then, and don't now.
You imply, furthermore, that you
are Democrats, and ] cannot help
wondering what kind of Democrats
you think you are. Are you 1892
Democrats, or 1895 Democrats, or
1900 Democrats, or 1904 Demo-
Gratis, or 1908 Democrats? Are
you Cleveland Democrats, believing
in the tariff reform that we didn't
get, and the military suppression OF
labor unions that we did get? Are
you Parker Democrats supporting the
trusts II they contribute and oppos-
ing them II they don't? Are you
Bryan Democrats, believing in free
silver sometimes and in government
ownership sometimes, and in the
initiative and the referendum some
times? And II you are Bryan Demo-
Gratis and believe in these things, do
you also believe in a Bryan plat
form that contains none of these
things?
Dear friends and brothers of the
Iroquois Club, you all remember how
the Democracy of free silver was
taught you and how you got intensely
excited over 1t. and cheered for 1t
and marched for 1t, and then were
informed that free silver was not
true Democracy after all, but that
public ownership was. Then you
remember how you threw your hats
in the air over public ownership and
worked up an almost hysterical en-
thusiasm for 1t, and then we're in
formed that this wasn't true Democ-
racy either, but that the initiative and
referendum were. Then you came
nobly to the front again and affirmed
undying devotion to the everlasting
principles of the initiative and refer
endum; but now you have platform
in which there Is no free silver, in
which there is no public ownership,
in which there is no initiative or
referendum, and still you are in
formed by the old DR.. Gringle of
Democracy that only that platform
with the owners trademark pasted
on the front and the owners name
blown in the bottle is genuine
Democracy, and that II you don't
subscribe to that you will be read
out of the Democratic party.
Friends and ex-brothers OF the
1roquois Club, there Is no Democratic
party. There is only a Bryan party,
and the followers of that party don't
know when they go to bed at night
what they will be called upon to be-
lieve when they wake up in the morn
ing.
Once there was a man who had an
old carving knife which he said had
been handed down to him from his
grandfather. A friend said to him:
at looks rather new. Haven't you
ever done anything to it?' And the
man said: ooh, I've had the blade
changed once or twice, and the
handle renewed couple Of times. but
otherwise It is just the same knife
my grandfather had"
Mr.. Bryan tells us that his variable
doctrines are the Democracy of our
fathers, but say that both the blade
and the handle have been changed
so often that there is no recognizing
the original principles.
Once. again, there was a farmer
who had balky mule and he
couldn't make the mule 60. A
stranger came along and offered to
help, and the farmer told him to go
right ahead The stranger had a
bottle of turpentine, and he opened
the mules mouth and pushed back
his head and poured about half OF
the bottle into the mules stomach.
The mule gave one startled gasp and
struck out across the prairie, and
was lost to sight. The surprised far
mer stood for while immersed In
deep thought, and then he said:
stranger please give me the rest
OF that trrpentine: I've got to catch
my mule"
Friends and ev-hrothers OF the
one-time Iroquois Club. / have always
stood Just Nhere stand now, square
~ upon the principles nj the founder
of the Democratic party and the
Trainer OF the Declaration of hide
pendence; but the Democratic DON
key has gone galloping over the