Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-07-14
Olive Branch spurned.

Chicago, July II. - William J.. Bry-
ans attempt to mollify W.. R. Hearst
and induce MIN to support the Dem
ocratic ticket has failed. A recent ar
ticle in the Commoner was interpre-
ted by every n as a bid to Mr..
Hearst to let bygones be bygones. The
olive branch was extended SO con-
spicuously that the object of the arti-
Gle was u~nmistakable.
Mr.. Hearst's support is valuable as
he has a fat purse and is not averse
to opening it to assist a in
which he Is interested.
Hearst Editorial Scorches Bryan.
That Mr.. Hearst refuses to warm up
to Mr.. Bryan's offer is evidenced by
yesterday of the following scorching
editorial repudiating Mr.. Bryan:
For the third time William j. Bry-
an has been nominated by the Demo
cratic party or rather by that frag-
ment of former efficiency which Is
called the Democratic party. We have
lost confidence in the Democratic par
ty, as millions of other Democrats
have done. We cannot see in this nom.
nation any hope.
"We are bound to add, with regret,
that we have lost confidence also In
William J.. Bryan, who by well manip-
ulated bossism has compelled this
nomination.
ut is a fact that people of the coun
try have absolutely nothing to say in
regard to the nomination or the plat
form of either of the two leading par.
ties. The platform of the Republican
party is a compromise between Roos'
evelt and the trusts, from which cam.
paign funds must be obtained. The
platform adopted by the Democratic
party is nothing but a compromise be
tween the absolute will of Bryan and
that willingness on Bryan's part to
dicker with his own principles recent
ly made known to the public.
No Reliance on Bryan.
mo reliance can be placed on the
Democratic platform or on Bryan's
declarations. The Democratic plat
form declares for one set of principles
at one election and for an entirely
different set at the next election
while Bryan is apparently without
permanent principles or sincere con
viction, or even honest attitude.
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valuable according to who makes Il
and who endorses it. A platform is 6
promise to perform, and a platform
made by the Democratic party and in
dorsed by Mr.. Bryan is not worth the
paper it Is written one.
The Democratic party has become
a weathercock Of what It's inferior
leaders imagine to be the expression
of public opinion.
ut reflects supinely the corporation
instinct and servility of a Parker, and
it is ready at the next moment to re
fleet the half baked, Ill matured opin
ions of some imaginary radical.
"The people would accept today, as
they have accepted in the past, the
e~publicanism Of Lincoln or the De
mocracy of Jefferson.
"But the Republicanism of Taft
with it's shifting, it's compromises, Its
opportunitism is not the Republican
ism of Lincoln.
Not Democracy Of jefferson.
"And the Democracy of Bryan and
Taggart and the others, with its
changing principles, it's shifting plat
form, and its chameleon candidates, Is
not the Democracy of Jefferson, whit
wrote the declaration of indepen
dence, who lived by his principles and
stood by them.
THE Democracy of Jefferson, the
Republicanism of Lincoln, would have
represented the needs Of the nation
today, for the Democracy of Jefferson
and the Republicanism of Lincoln
were identical in that they sought tc
serve the real interests of the PEG
pie.
"But in this modern Republicanism
SO called, and in this modern, decayed
Democracy, is neither the spirit Of
Lincoln nor of Jefferson"