Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1908-09-09

THERE IS NO DEMOCRACY
There Is Only Bryan Party and Its
Followers Don't Know When They
Go to Bed ct Night What They
Will BE Called Upon to BE.
licve When They Wake
Up In the Morning.

San Francisco. a few days ago SUE
gested to Mr.. William Randolph
Hearst that since he had decided I,
oppose the election Of the Democrat
candidate. Mr.. Bryan, he could no
consistently retain his membership
in the organization. In reply to thi
suggestion Mr.. Hearst has sen
the following letter to the ,associa
ton:
San Francisco, August "a.
To the Ir0quois Association, Sar
Francisco. CAL:
Gentlemen received your lettel
with both pleasure and surprise.
was surprised to-know that Mr.. Bo
CART was sending four dollars due,
to your organization, but pleased tc
learn OF It, as am exceedingly ready
to stop that. ! was pleased and sur.
prised, too, to learn that the lro.
quois Club was still In existence, fol
I 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 IroQuols Club still
In a way exists, am glad to resign
from 1t, and the situation suggested
In your letter seems sufiicient reason
for me.
You imply that | am not Demo-
crat, and ! strongly suspect that I
am not. according to the Democratic
standards of to-day. l 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 1896 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-i
timea? And " you are Bryan Demo-
crats and believe In these things, do
you also believe In 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 It. and cheered Tor II
and marched for It, 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 ana
worked up an almost hysterical en-
thusiasm for 1t. and then were 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 afEirmed
unS Wing devotion to the everlasting
nrincfples 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
IroQuois Club, there Is no Democratic
party. There Is only Bryan party
and the followers of that party don,
know when they go to bed at nign'
what they will be called upon to De
lieve when they wake up IN the morn
ing. :.
Once there was man who had al
old carving knife which he said nat
been handed down to him from MI
grandfather. A friend said to him
aver done ANYTHING to it?" And tn
man said: "Oh, I've had the blad'
changed once or twice, and tn
handle renewed couple of times, blu
otherwise 1t is Just the same knit
my grandfather had"
Mr.. Bryan tells us that his variaOi
doctrines are the Democracy OF GU
fathers. but say that both the blad
ana the handle have been changes
"a often that there ia no recognizin
the original principles.
Once, again. there was farme
Who had a balky mule ana q
e6uldn't make the mule 60.
stranger came along and offered I
help. and the farmer told him to
right ahead. The stranger had
bottle OF turpentine, and he opene
the mules mouth and pushed bac
his head and poured about half
the bottle into the mules stomach
The mule gave one startled gasp an
struck out across the prairie, an
was lost to sight. The surprised Ia
mer stood for while immersed
deep thought. and then he said
stranger. please give me the re-
OF that turpentine; I've got to cate
my mule. =
Friends and ex-brothers OF II
one-time IroquOis Club, have alwa!
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