The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-09-05
In a Cleverly 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
Will Be Called Upon to Be-
lieve When They Wake
Up in the Morning.


Francisco, Il few days ago suggested
to Mr.. William Randolph Hearst that
since he had decided to oppose the cleo
ton 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 as
ISOLATION:
To the Iroquois Association, San Fran
cisco, CAL:
Gentlemen-I received your letter
with both pleasure and surprise. |
was surprised to know that Mr.. Bogart
was sending four dollars dues to your
organization, but pleased to learn of 1t,
as | am exceedingly ready to stop that.
was pleased and surprised, too, to
learn that the Iroquois Club was still
In existence, for l thought that it had
been peacefully buried along with the
last remnants of the defunct Demo
cratic party of California.
But since the Iroquois Club still in
way exists, l am glad to resign from
it, and the situation suggested in your
letter seems sufficient reason for me.
You imply that l am not a Democrat
and | strongly suspect that | am not
according to the Democratic standards
of to-day. l worked hard for the Dem.
ocratic party at one time aud contrib
uted many thousands of four-dollar
checks, and cheerfully suffered much
abuse and much injury for the Demo
cratic party, but believed in 1t then
and l don't now.
You imply, furthermore, that you are
Democrats, and | cannot help wonder
ing what kind of Democrats you think
you are. Are you 1892 Democrats, OF
1896 Democrats, or 1900 Democrats
or 1904 Democrats, or 1908 Democrats,
Are you Cleveland Democrats, heliev
ing 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 If they contribute and opposing
them if they don't? Are you Bryan
Democrats, believing in free silver
sometimes and in government owner
ship sometimes, and in the initiativ,
and the referendum sometimes? Ant
if you are Bryan Democrats and be
lieve in these things, do you also be
lieve in Bryan platform that contain.
none of these things?
Dear friends and brothers of TIL,
lroquois Club, you all remember how
the Democracy of free silver wal
taught you and how You got intensel,
excited over it. and cheered for it anl
marched for it, and then We're INFORMED
that free silver was not true Democ
racy after all, but that public owner
ship was. Then you remember how yol
| threw your hats in the air over publi
| ownership and worked up an almos
| hysterical enthusiasm for it, and thel
were informed that this wasn't tru
| Democracy either, but that the initia
| tive and referendum were. Then yol
came nobly to the front again and al
firmed undying devotion to the ever
lasting principles of the initiative an
referendum but now you have plat
form in which there is no free silver
in which there Is no public ownership
in which there is no initiative or refer
endum, and still you are informed b
the old Dr. Gringle of Democracy tina
only that platform with the owner
trademark pasted on the front and tn
owners name blown in the bottle
genuine Democracy, and that if yo
don't subscribe to that you will be rea
out of the Democratic party.
Friends and ex-brothers of the Ire
quois Club, there is no Democrat
party. There is only Bryan part!
and the followers of that party don
know when they go to bed at nigh
what they will be called upon to b,
lieve when they wake up in the morr
ing.
Once there was a man who had a
old carving knife which he said ha
been handed down to him from hi
grandfather A friend said to him
1T looks rather new. Haven't yo
ever done anything to it," And ii
man said: "Oh. I've had the blad
changed once or twice, and I'll
handle renewed couple of times, bl
otherwise it is just the same knife IN
grandfather had"
Mr.. Bryan tells us that his variab
doctrines are the Democracy of OF
fathers, but | say that both the blat
and the handle have been changed s
often that there is no recognizing Il
original principles.
Once. again, there was farmer WI
had balky mule and he couldn't mab
the mule go. A stranger came alo1
and offered to help, and the farmer tol
him to go right ahead. The strange
had bottle OF turpentlne. and /
opened the mules mouth and pushe
back his head and poured about half {