The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-09-13
THE WORLD AS A POLITICAL
BOSS

more OF political boss than Mr. Bry-
an
In its issue of September 7th it
says that the World will not support
a Murphy candidate for governor.
That it will not support Governor
John A. Dix for reelection.
That it will support no one for gov
ernor who is not avowedly an anti
Tammany candidate.
In order TO keep up political or
ganization one should be willing TO
give and take.
If one goes into a political primary
he should be in honor bound by its re-
suits.
II one goes into a political conyen-
ton he should not only be bound by
his primary pledges. but he should be
alike bound by the results of the con
Yention in which he takes part
If ne cannot afford to do this-if he
feels that he is bigger. better and
purer than his party-then, as an
honest man, he should stand aloof,
for one cannot be party man and
at the same time be independent Of
his party.
The man who feels that his robes
are winter than his fellows'-the man
who feels that his garments would be
soiled by coming into contact with
the rank and file of his political par
ty-has no business allying himself
with that party. or with any party.
Those who seeded from the Balti-
more convention in 1860 disrupted
the democratic party, and the civil
war and all of its train of evils was
the result
Theodore Roosevelt, in refusing to
stand by the result of the Chicago
convention, is disrupting the republi-
can party
Champ Clark was brutally NAL
treated in the house of his friends at
the Baltimore convention.
Brutus-like, the political dagger
was plunged into his very vitals, but
it did not cause him to desert his par
ty, and he is giving his successful ri
val the full measure of his support
Three generations ago, before Jo-
seph Pulitzer ever put foot on Amer
lean soil, Belmont presided over Il
democratic convention in this cOun-
Try, and from that day to this the Bel
monts have been prominent in its
councils and loyal to its traditions;
yet, at the democratic convention held
in the city of Baltimore in 1912, the
grandson Of that elder Belmont with
out cause or provocation, was cruelty
and wantOnly insulted, yet he refuses
to betray his party because Of the
conduct of one man, and is giving 70
is standard-bearer a hearty and loyal
support
Mr. Thos F. Murphy was also
grossly insulted in that convention.
His being an accredited delegate
should have been his protection. but
despite which, not because of his per
sonality, not because of his own
wrong-doing but because he was the
acknowledged leader of Tammany, an
organization that has been as loyal to
the democratic party of the United
States as the Legion of Honor was to
Napoleon Bonaparte. yet because he
was so honored he was sandbagged in
that convention without cause or pro-
vocation, by Mr. Bryan, with the as
sent and applause of the New York
World
But Clark, and Belmont, and Muir
ply, and Parker, and Harmon, and
Ryan, though grossly and wantonly
insulted, as they were, are giving |
Woodrow Wilson the full measure of
a loyal support.
Yet, still not satisfied, the New
York World is going out of its. way |
the Tammany organization against
the national democratic ticket, and if
Woodrow Wilson is defeated he will |
not have to use magnifying glasses
to discern the cause of it.
But when and in what year was |
the New York World ever true to the
democratic party?
For the truth of this statement |
search the old files of the Commoner
and it will enIighten you.
Not satisfied with Bryan, when he |
was candidate, not satisfied with the !,
Tammany organization, although it is !
giving its support to Wilson, it is |
ceaseless in its efforts TO array the |
party against itself-member against
member.
The Atlanta papers continue to |
keep in touch with Mrs. Daisy Opie