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Show S THE MUD SCOW NO RACING MACHINE. 5 Mr. Bryan's arraignment of Mr. Cleveland has a comical look. His special indictment is that Mr. Cleveland, when President, went back upon t a part of the platform. That is certainly true, ; but when platfoims are being considered how I does Mr. Bryan stand? He had left his party I once and been a Populist. He was already, on the .P morning of the day he was nominated for Presl- I ( dent first, unless the convention adopted a plat- foira to suk his individual views to bnl- the convention. con-vention. When the platform was being incubated 1 on which he was nominated a second time And he was appealed to accept it without the insertipn of one particular plank, he answered that it must be included or he would not accept the nomina- i v tion, and then when it was inserted and he was nominated, he never mentioned that plank during K the campaign. More, he had a few days prior to m the Kansas City convention dictated the platform of the Populist convention, and it was often K charged and never disputed, that if he failed to B get the Democratic nomination, it was understood m that the candidate named on the Populist ticket m would withdraw and he would be the candidate. B Considering tho whole business it looks oxceed-R oxceed-R ingly as though Mr. Bryan, while being a stickler M touching the matter of platforms, his great rever- ence for them is limited to such platforms as he H may be the architect and builder of. B The condition of the warring faction of the H Democracy would be most encouraging to Repub- H llcans if the Democratic exordiums were ever a ,P certain indication of what the argument and per- ' K oration would be. If we were to cast a horoscope H wo should say that the stars did not indicate the l IK nomination of either Mr. Bryan or Mr. Cleveland IK nex y6ar We should say that the nomination of M either would mean defeat for tho party. But U should Mr. Gorman, Mr. Watterson and some oth- im er strong men pf the South assert themselves and K send to northern Pemocrats an ultimatum some- i thing like this: , I "We are Jeffersonlan Democrats, and as we 2 m read Mr. Jefferson was the great expansionist of I his day. I I "He was a Democrat, but he believed in the I n rue aw' see tne code PrePared with his ap- l If proval for the government of Louisiana. I II He believed in the sovereignty of the Repub- K m lie and to plant the symbol of that sovereignty in the wilderness sent Lewis and Clark farther, as time Is reqkoned, from Washington than the Philippines are today, and contemplated every plan except by conquest of arms tor the acquirement acquire-ment of Cuba. He believed in the brotherhood of man, and never thought of putting unjust rest! re-st! Ictions upon the opportunities of any man or class. He believed in success through merit alone and not through advertising the possible demerits of an opponent. While preaching the equality of mankind he meant only that no opportunities were to be closed against any man or class. He did not mean that Intelligence, sagacity, skill, Industry In-dustry and money were all to be merged In favor fa-vor of Ignorance, indolence and unthrjft. He believed be-lieved in no limitation to man's ambition or power, save that in the world's wprkings no man should trench upon the inherent rights of his fellow men. If you can prepare a platform on those lines and nominate great brained and great hearted candidates, we will support them. But we have made our last race on a mud scow in opposition to a steamboat while starting on those lines there would be a fair show to win a victory. But to win, to start out with a hope of winning, a platform plat-form will have to be framed that will be above the heads of both Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Bryan. The country is roaring with prosperity that did not come through singing dirges over the grave of Hope, or through the attempt to figure out that the original purity and simplicity of the past haye been discarded and a reign of tyranny Inaugurated. In-augurated. For it is true that more laborers than eyor before are being employed and at better wages than were ever before paid since the bo-ginning bo-ginning of time. |