Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-09-11

san francisco, a lew days ago SuB
gested to Mr.. William Randolph
Hearst that since he had decided tc
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.
was surprised to know that Mr.. BO-
CART was sending four dollars dues
to your organization, but pleased to
learn of it, as I am exceedingly ready
to stop that. l was pleased and sur
prised, too, to learn that the lro-
quois Club was still in existence, for
l 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 a way exists. l am glad to resign
from it, and the situation suggested
in your letter seems sufficient reason
for me.
You imply that I am not a Demo-
crat, and l strongly suspect that l
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
l believed in it then, and l don't now.
You imply, Furthermore, that you
are Democrats, and l 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 1903 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 If they contribute and oppos-
ing them if 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 if 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 it. and cheered for it
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 and
worked up an almost hysterical en-
thusiasm for it, 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 affirmed
undying devotion to the everlasting
principles of the initiative and refer
endum; bat 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 if you don't /
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 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-
Iieve when they wake up in the morn
ing.
Once there was a man who had an
Did carving knife which he said had
been handed down to him from his
A friend said to him:
1T looks rather new. Haven't you
ever done anything to it?" And the
nan said: "Oh. I've had the blade +
hanged once or twice, and the
handle renewed a couple of times. but +
otherwise it is just the same knife ,
ny grandfather had. A" p
Mr. Bryan tells us that his variable 6
doctrines are the Democracy of our +
athers but say that both the blade a
nd the handle have been changed .
o often that there is no recognizing y
he original principles.
Once. again, there was a farmer s
tho had balky mule and he s,
ouldn't make the mule go. A n
ranger came along and offered to D
clip, and the farmer told him to 90 o
ght ahead The stranger had it
)ttle of turpentine, and he opened al
e mules mouth and pushed back Y,
s head and poured about half of
e bottle into the mules stomach.
ie mule gave one startled gasp and
ruck out across the prairie, and
Is. lost to sight. The surprised far 4
or stood for a while immersed in
ep thought, and then he said:
tranger. please give me the rest
that turpentine; I've got to catch W
! mule" P
Friends and ex-brothers of the w
9-time Iroquois Club, have always m
cd just where stand now, square th
upon the principles of the founder W,
the Democratic party and the of
mer of the Declaration of Inde- TO