The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-07-16
HEARST PAPERS
REPUDIATE BRYAN
SAY NOMINATION WAS RE
suit OF BOSSISM AND
THAT NO RELIANCE
CAN BE PLACED
IN PLA T.
FORM


York, Boston, Chicago and San
Francisco Saturday printed the
following editorial reputation of
Mr.. Bryan:
For the third time William ].
Bryan has been nominated by
the Democratic party-or rather
by that fragment of former effic-
iency which is called the Demo-
cratic party, we have lost conf
dence in the Democratic party,
as millions of other Democrats
h3ve done. We can not see in
this nomination any hope.
1--WE are bound to add, with
regret, that we have lost conf
dence also in William J.. Bryan,
who, by we'll manipulated boss
ism, has compelled this nomina-
ton.
1T is a fact that people OF the
country have absolutely nothing
to say in regard to the nominal
ton or the platform of either OF
the two leading parties. The
platform of the Republican party
is compromise between Roose-
Welt and the trusts, from which
campaign funds must be obtain
| ed. The platform adopted by the
Democratic party is nothing but
a compromise between the abso-
lutte will of Bryan and that will
lingness on Bryan's part TO dick
er with his own principles recent
lly made known to the public.
mo reliance can be placed on
the Democratic platform OF on
Bryans declarations. The Dem
ocratic platform 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
principle or sincere conviction, OF
even honest attitude.
"A note is promise to pay. II
lis valuable according to who
makes it and who indorses it. A
platform is a promise to perform
and a platform made by the Dem
ocratic party and Endorsed by Mr.
Bryan is not worth the paper il
is written on.
"The Democratic party has be-
come a weathercock of what its
inferior leaders imagine to be the
expression of public opinion.
1T reflects supinely the cor
poratoin instinct and servility Of
a Parker, and It is ready at the
next moment to reflect the half
baked, ill-matured opinion oil
some imaginary radical.
"The people would accept to-
day, as they have accepted in the
past, the republicanism OF Lin
coin, or the democracy of Jeffer-
son.
But the Republicaism of Taft
with its shifting, its connpro-
misses, its opportunism is not the
Republication of Lincoln.
And the Democracy OF Bryan
and Taggart and the others. with
its changing principles, its shift
ing platform, and its chameleon
candidates, is not the democracy
lof Jefferson, who wrote the dec
laration of independence. 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
lpeople.
But in this modern republican.
ism, so called, and in this mod
ern, decayed democracy. is Meth
er the spirit of Lincoln nor Of
| Jefferson. In them there is nc
hope for the people, who demand
a representative party breathing
the spirit which animated Jeffer-
sons democracy and Lincoln
republicanism."