Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-11
MR. RRYAN.

suits and points their moral in the following editorial:
 The advice William s. Cowherd. defeated candidate for governor of Missouri. has tendered his fellow dem ocrats of this state may well be ex- tended to the democracy of the coun- try at large. MT. Cowherd says the democratic party of Missouri must prepare at once 10 organize for the next campaign and that is the work democracy should begin without de lay in every state of the Union.
 Equally timely and wise is MT. Cow herds declaration that democrats will learn from the defeat of this year that they cannot win victories by assail- ing democrats. His plea for party harmony is the plea of common sense. Unity of warning clements that have sapped the party strength and weak ened it's political vitality is the les son of the hour. the imperative need of the future
 This unity and harmony cannot come if the disappnintments of 1908 are taken as occasion for deriding and reviling the leader under whom de- mocracy for the tblrd time marched to disaster Tuesday. It is no time for calling Bryan names. Nor is there excuse for increasing the sting of failure by putting the blame on the distinguished democrat who was made the party nominee because he was the personal choice of large majority of democrats.
 There is no occasion to read Mir. Bryan out of the parry because he has thrice failed in his ambition to be president. He will doubtless in his own way, and at what seems to him the proper time, acquaint his fellow democrats with his intent to take place in the ranks four years hence and fight there for some other nomi- nee who may have better prospect of leading the united and harmonious CO horts of democracy to the victory that has thrice been denied him, This Is so unmistakably the unselfish and pa triotic course that it may be antici- pated by the friends who would indig- nantly resent any hostile effort to force NIT. Bryan from his position of leadership.
 It is far too soon to canvass the availability of other candidates who may be named in 1S12. but it is not at all too soon to recognize the fact that Mir Bryan's undoubted personal popularity did not develop any ev1- dences of growth from 1900 to 1908. The attentive student of political movements will find in the incom- plete returns of this weeks election ample evidence that the Bryan strength was not grester in 1908 than it was in 1900 and not markedly greater than that developed for Par ker in 1904. 1t is the remorseless logic of politics that this should bring new leadership four years hence.
 Bryan carried two states, Colorado and Nebraska, that Parker lost, and the democratic pluraFties were some, what increased in three, Mississippi South Carolina and Texas. which are uniformly and certainly democratic These are the only points at which Bryan brought gains. On the other hand. the democratic pluralities seem to have been substantially decreased in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Ten nessee and Virginia And comparing 1900 with 1908 the same decrease 1T Bryan's strength Is apparent, for ht gained this year only Nebraska that he lost eight years ago and seems tc have enlarged the democratic plurali ties only in Alabama. Mississippi North Carolina and South Carolina Against the gains. however. must b, placed losses in Arkansas, Colorado Idaho, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana and Virginia
 The moral of the figure is not tC be escaped. Mir. Bryan cannot mis take it. His phenomenal popularit! is waning. No more forcjbie evidence of that fact is afforded than the Mis- sourf returns present. In 1896 His souri gave him 5S,727. in 1900 it gave him S7.sS0. Yet the state went agains him this week with 8 party reunited and apparently harmonious. The pol iticfans. it appears, were more united