Arizona republican., 1912-06-29
The Bryan Resolution

The Bryan Resolution
 The more one considers the Bryan resolution of Thursday night, the more it appears to be d piece of cheap demagogism. MT. Bryan had nothing to lose and he was certain of some gain of prestige, a refurbishing of the delusion of Bryansm which has lost some of it's sheen.
 Mir. Bryan probably did not expect the resolution in it's original form would be adopted and in constructing it, no doubt, he expected proposed amendment eliminating that impu- dent demand for the withdrawal of Ryan and Belmont. To that he would readily assent But when no amendment was offered in order to ] save the resolution he eliminated the offensive clause on his own motion. This left the resolution in such a form that it could not be defeated however great the disgust of a ma jority of the convention may have been.
 The body of the resolution then stood:
 As proof of our fidelity to the people, We hereby declare ourselves l opposed to the nomination of any | candidate for president who is rep l resentatiye of or under obligations to J. P. Morgan, Thomas Ryan, August | Belmont or any other member of the privilege hunting and favor seeking class"
 Instead, it might have read like this:
 As proof of our fidelity to the l people we hereby declare ourselves | opposed to the nomination of any | candidate for president who is in 1 favor of arson, robbery murder, or who may be a leper or an imbecile."
 No delegate could object on prin- ciple to the hearty endorsement of either of these propositions though all might properly object to the doing of d thing so palpably unnecessary. 1 The adoption of the first resolution did not bind and could not bind delegate against doing anything he had in mind to do.
 There is no evidence beyond the hints of MT. Bryan that any candidate so mentioned was representative of the favor seeking class Of course, he had in mind especially two can didates, Harmon and Underwood whose offenses have been that they have not followed Mir Bryan into populism.
 As to Harmon, previous to the pres ent republican administration he was the only active prosecutor of the
 favor seeking class" and he was such a vigorous prosecutor that he
 was called off by MT. Roosevelt. MT
 Harmon first announced the doctrine
 guilt is personal" when crimes against the law are committed by
 corporations, trusts and monopolies.
 This we believe is the extent of the
 relation of MT. Harmon to the favor
 seeking class.
 The relation of MT. Underwood to it was established when as chairman
 of the ways and means committee he
 declined to accept the dictation of MT.
 Bryan, not then a member of con
 gress, in the matter of tariff legis-
 lation, and in which course he was
 sustained by majority of the mem- bers of the committee, by Speaker Clark and majority of the members of the house.
 But MT Bryan gained by the reso-
 lution all that he expected to gain, d
 circulation in the back woods and among the ignorant that he led the circulation of the impression in the backwoods and among the ignorant l. that he led the convention around by y the nose. That isn't much but ire s quently a demagogue is satisfied with 0 little.
 e It appeared to be all that was 1T
 sight for doubtless MT. Bryan had : despaired of the nomination and felt f that even the power to dictate it hac e slipped away