The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-12
SEE NO HOPE IN
NAMING OF BRYAN
All Hearst Papers in Singing
Editorial Repudiate the
Nebraskan.
CONFIDENCE is LOST
DEMOCRATS ALL OVER THE
COUNTRY DO NOT CONSIDER
BRYAN AND HIS PARTY AS
THEY FORMERLY DID.

New York July 11-All the Hearst
and San Francisco today print the
following editorial reputation of 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 can not see in this
nomination any hope.
We are bound to add with regret,
that we have lost confidence also in
William J. Bryan, who, by we'll man
ipulated bossism, has compelled this
nomination.
1T is a fact that people of the
country have absolutely nothing to
the platform Of either of the two lead
ing parties. The platform of the re-
publican party is a compromise be-
tween Roosevelt and the trusts. from
which campaign funds must be obtain
ed. The platform adopted by the dem
ocratic party is nothing but a COM
promise between the absolute will of
Bryan and that willingness on Bryan's
part to dicker with his own principles
rece ntly 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 princi-
pies at one election and for an entire
ly different set at the next election
while Bryan is apparently without
permanent principle or sincere convic.
ton, or even honest attitude.
"A note is promise to pay. 1t is
valuable according to who makes it
and who indorses it. A platform is a
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 on.
The democratic party has become
weathercock Of what its inferior lead
ers imagine to be the expression OF
public opinion
IL Tie COTpOT-
alton instinct and servility of Park.
er, and it is ready at the next nome nj
to reflect the half-baked, ill-matured
opinions Of some imaginary radical.
The people would accept today, as
| they have accepted in the past, the
republicanism of Lincoln or the demo
crazy of jefferson.
But the republicanism of Taft, with
| its shifting, its compromises, it's op
portunism, is not, the republicanism
of Lincoln.
Not Democracy of jefferson.
And the democracy of Bryan and
! Taggart and the others, with its
changing principles, its shifting plat
form, and its chameleon candidates
| is not the democracy of Jefferson
who 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 to
serve the real interests of the people
But in this modern republicanism
so called, and in this modern, decayed
democracy, is neither the spirit OF
Lincoln nor of jefferson. In them
there is no hope for the people, who
demand a representative party breath
| ing the spirit which animated Jeffer
sons democracy and Lincoln'S repub
| licanism.'