The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-05-11
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81 tsI9 ~ ,ni5A Ell ot n e Hinton lndts
1endent n eraie has some IDEAS on Ia
IDemocratie situation that strikes 4
responsive cord In the minds Of al
true Democrats. He says that thn
Stauntol Spectator, the. Clifton Forg,
Review the Houston Post, and MI
Bryan last week were diagnosing thu
disease OF the Democratic party. o.
course each pne Of them abuses III,
..traitofs more lor less, and wal
Street and Grover Cleveland. or
good Lord there are. certain thing.
in this world shat makes us sick nigi
unto death! In the United States
America nearly every man is eithe
knowingly or unknowingIy Democra
and nearly. everybody believes In thu
principles Of the Democratic Irarty
Nearly everybody would like to belong
to the Democratic party II he were
not kicked out by forces beyond hi.
control SeVenty.Rve per cent OF al
/ the people of the United States have
at some time or other belonged to
the Democratic party. And yet 70:
seventeen years hope of Democratic
success has been..a stranger in ma
ttonal election. Whether conserva.
tive or radical, Parker or Bryan, every
national battle since 1892 has resulted
In our utter rout and confusion.
We will neither lay our distress to
Bryan nor Cleveland nor 10 things
past nor present, nor to the traitors
nor the money power, NOR 10 Wall
streetnor the trusts. We will do like
good old Daniel did when his logic
seemed to lead him to charging the
Lord up with things unseemIy. We
will as he did, eXonerate the Lord and
lay 1t OH the angels. We're we to say
Bryan and his policies caused oui
undong forty million of the best PEG
pie In America would say we were
pack OF liars and had sold out to
Wall street. Should we lay 1t to Gro.
yer Cleveland forty million more
would say we were a pack OF asses
for ever forsaking Cleveland and
taking up with Bryan. In order there
fore that we may come out Of the
lions den unscrat ched let us do like
Daniel and lay 1t on the angels.
Bro. Sawyer observes that the
Staunton Spectator. after its custo.
mary abuse and SANDER of Grover
Cleveland, and It's usual dedication OF
William Jennings Bryan says thai
the Democratic party as it is now
constituted and organized can never
win In national election. And we
agree with him. If we continue with
the same slack jaw in the future that
we hive in the past-if we continue
letting people with about as much pc.
litical gtmption as n mule, dictate
The policies of our party Gabriers
trumpet will, find us out in the cold
with nothing TO do with the govern
ment
A few years ago Mr.. Bryan returned
from q trip around the world. The
leading Democrats OF the nation went
to New York to welcome him home.
There was not n Democrat in the
United States that did not want to
vote for him for president. There
were at least two million OF Republic.
cans that could have been persuaded
over to his camp. Mr.. Bryan is a
great man and good man. We will
not disagree about that. But II ten
year old boy. had exhibited as little
political sense as Mr.. Bryan exhibited
in a speech TO his party and his
country on that occasion he ought
TO have been treated for the simples
Bryanites and anti-Bryanites, friends
and foes. returned from New York
wiltcd. Even the most rabid Bryanitc
looked like sick calf that had been
struck by battering ram. The fault
was not Mr. Bryan's. He was too wise
10 err but the fault was in the fell
. lows that went there to meet him.
They should never have gone Then
there would have been no dinner. no
speech. and no further disruption Of
the Democratic party.
Directly afterwards the country got
sick Of my policies" oh, SO sick.
The panic struck us and my poll
cies" we've in the public mind, held
responsible. Who is working at my
policies" now? Nobody on the face
of the earth; not even me" am now
hunting lions in the jungles Of Africa.
We had in 1908 everything for an
issue. Panic, people sick O. Roose.
veil, and the Republican party split
up In forty factions In every State in
the Union. Then Mr.. Bryan came
along and said that Mr.. Roosevelt was
not half damphool enough-that he
was hampered by Congress and all
that thing from prostrating business
further and running the country. The
prayer of the people was to be let
alone. They had enough reform.
Bryan said he would not let them
alone: that he would keep on pursuing
the octopus even il the country went
| TO hell. And the people elected Taft