The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1910-11-10
THE FLY IN THE OINTMENT.


THE FLY IN THE OINTMENT.
There's a fly in the ointment.
Amid the din of Growing ROSTERS
and the shouting of the victors,
there rises a voice above all the rest
from far away Fairview, Nebraska.
II is the voice, which cried you
shall not cruelty us upon cross of
gold: il is the voice that sounded
the keynote of "anti-imperialism 4"
For the first time IL is not a note of
protest, but of hope and encourage
ment; and yet,-strangest of para
doxes-when il was a voice of pro-
test II was welcomed by the Demo-
cratic party as the one forlorn hope:
now, that its words speak of victory
achieved, it strikes terror to the
hearts of the very ROSTERS on the
front page of the Gibraltar press.
William Jennings Bryan, victori-
Gus, casts his shadow across the
future of Democracy. He was a
glorious martyr to all the lost causes
a fanatieal and desperate opposition
could snatch at; but William Jen-
nings Bryan, still fanatical. If you
please, but triumphant, just when
his party is reactionary and hopeful,
is forbidding figure, indeed.
Mr.. Bryan has just achieved the
defeat of the Democratic candidate
for governor of Nebraska on a
county local option platform. He
has done more: he opposed the
nomination of Dahlman and on
posed his election: but espoused the
cause of the candidate for United
States senator and the other state
Offices, and they were all elected.
Was ever the power of one man
more signally exemplified in a state
election? o, you Murphys and Fingy
Corners, of New York; you John r.
McLeans and Harmons, of Ohio;
you Woodrow Wilson's, of New Jer-
seyi-remember the fate of Alton
b. Parker, and Mayor Dahlman. !
Neither was pleasing to the boy
Orator of the Platte, and he has
demonstrated once again. IL not his
personal influence, at least, his
ability to sound and keep in touch
with the sentiment that fills the
breast of the ranehman and the
farmer of the Mississippi
plains. VIII Bryan submit to the
domination of the reactionary in
fluences, which have won the Demo
cratic victories in the eastern states
and pushed two strong figures upon
the national platform-Judson Har-
mon and Woodrow Wilson?
VIII he? Not If Bryan knows his
west, and we know Bryant
The same impulse that made in
surgency such a force in Republican
politics beyond the Mississippi pro-
duced Bryan and the Bryan type of
Democracy. He and it represent the
spirit of the west; and Henry Wat
prophet that he is, foresaw
this antagonism between the west
and the east, but with pardonably
human prejudice he concluded that
he west would Join the south
against the east, and that the south
md west would be Democratic and
he east Republican. He is mistaken.
L has been our observation that
outhern Democracy Is one of those
ANDY, dependable things, which can
'e attached to most anything, origi-
Iating either in the west or east, II
labelled with that name. 1t ,
free silver, anti-imperialismI
nd state rights with the same blind /,
oyalty that 1t follows gold standard, ,
'ank guaranty and the Lakes-to-the-l
iulf-Deep-Waterway. 1t will be Wall
treet and conservatism, now that /,
'ammany has captured the whole ;
national organism: but
,ryan won't be and the west won't 4
mark this. H.
Bryan stands out a figure, who
as achieved striking single vic '
Dry, amid the general drift OF
hings. One other man also looms Il
irge amid the wreck-William III. Il
aft. He is the one man in his {
arty without factions or enemies.
o him alone must insurgent and 9
dictionary, progressive and stand c
after look for political patronage; {
e is the one man, who is personally I
'iendly with them all. The short b
sssion of congress, which the Re- r
ublicans will hold before they re- n
nquish the house to Democracy, Z
i'll be absolutely dominated bylt
resident Taft, and his reform meas j,
res will be rushed through. IN
There is no one. now. who can OPP q
ose him in 1912; and there was c.
Dthing in the recent election to re- Il
ect on his work.
Dix in New York had no larger CT
ajority than Bird S. Coler had in O
Ie city, when Odell beat him in the "
ate. The anti-Roosevelt Republic ~
ms upstate simply refused to work u
r the ticket. In Ohio fractional
fferences kept the Republicans ID
'art, and they elected the same
an who carried the state when -
aft carried ii. In Indiana Bever-
ge was opposed by a Republican
ctlon against whom he had fought
I'd pVaruubarn fho IN