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Show BRYAN'S VIEWS ON THE ELECTION LINCOLN, Nob.. Nov. 9. William J. Bryan today .j.. gave out an extended ex-tended statement coia ei n'mg yes-terday's yes-terday's election which, is, intended to serve as his comment upon the result, and as an tii:sver to reports connecting connect-ing him with a movement looking to the formation of. -a now party. Mr. Bryan said he would not attempt to deny all the reports circulated as to his future political action, but would let hi statement serve to explain his ; position. He says: I "The Democratic party has met with an overwhelming defeat in the national election. As yet the returns are not sufficiently complete to permit I analysis, and it is impossible to say whether the result -is due lo an actual increase in the number of Republican voters, or to a falling off in the Democratic Demo-cratic vote. Tin'.-: phase of the subject will be dealt with next week when the returns are all in. The questions for consideration at this time are. what lesson does the election teach? And what of the future? The defeat of Judge Parker should not be considered a personal one. He did as well as he could under the iroumstanccs: he was the victim of unfa vena bio conditions and of a m 'eta ken party policy. Odds Were Against Parker. "He grew in populai'ty as the campaign cam-paign proceeded and expressed himself him-self more and more: strongly upon the trust question, but could not overcome the heavy odds against him. Th? so-called so-called conservative Democrats charged the defeats of iS!6 and 1000 to the party's position on the money question and insisted that a victory could be gained by dropping the coinage Cues-tion Cues-tion entirely. J "Th-? convention accepted this theory, and the platform made no: reference to the-money question. . but Ji.dge Parker felt "that it was his duty j t( announce his personal adherence' to j th gold standard. His gold telegram, as it was called, while embarrassing to J the Democrats of the west and south,! wa applauded by the eastern press, j He had the cordial "endorsement of Mr. j Cleveland, who declared that the party! bad returned to 'safety and sanity:' he had the support of the Democratic papers which bolted in 1X96. and he alsi had the aid of nearly all of those who were prominent in the ennipaign of lsOH.and 1900. and yet his defeat is apparently greater than the party suffered suf-fered in either of t'ho'se year's. ' ' Where the Fault Lies. "It is unquestionable also - that Judge Parker's defeat was not local bpt general. . the-- returns .from - the eastern states being as. disappointing as the returns from the west. The reorganizeis .are in complete control of the party.. " - . : -",' They planned the' campaign and carried it on according to their own views, and t,he verdict against their plan is unanimous. Surely silver coin . can not be blamed for this defeat, for the campaign was run on a gold basis. Neither can the defeat be charged to emphatic condemnation of the trusts, for the trusts were not assailed as vigorously :this year as they were four years ago. It Is evident that the cam--' paign did not turn upon the question of imperialism, and'it is not. fair to consider the result, as a personal, victory' vic-tory' for the presidents for his administration adminis-tration was the 'sulijaet of criticism. The result was due to the fact that the Democratic party attempted to bo conservative con-servative in the. presence of conditions which demanded radical remedies. It sounded a partial, retreat when it should have ordered a charge all along the line. . T Republican Party's Position. "(n 1896' the line was drawn' for the first time during- the-present generation between plutocracy and Democracy. and 'the party's stand on the side, of Democracy alienated a large number: of plutocratic Democrats, ' who in the na ture of things evn not be expected to return, and it drew to itself a large number of. earnest advocates of re-forn, re-forn, whose attachment to -thee reforms re-forms 'is much stronger than attachment attach-ment to any party name. The Republican Repub-lican party occupies the conservative position. That' is, it defends those who. having secured unfair advantage through class legislation, insist that they shall not be disturbed, no matter how oppres?iv3 their exactions mayj become. "The Democratic party can not hope to compete successfully with the Republican Re-publican party for this support. To win the support of the plutocratic, element ele-ment of the country, -the party would have to become more plutocratic than the Republican party, and it could not do this without losing several . times as many voters as that course would win. The Democratic party has nothing to gain by catering, to organized organ-ized and predatory wealth. What Democracy " Must Do. "It must not, only clo without' such1 support, but it can strengthen itself by inviting the open and emphatic opposi-J tion of these elements. The campaign just closed show s that it is as inex-1 pedient from the standpoint of policy j as it is wrong from the standpoint of principle to attempt, any conciliation j of the industrial and financial despots who are gradually getting control of all the avenues of wealth. The Democratic Demo-cratic party, if it hopes to win success, must take the side of the plain "common "com-mon people." Mr. Bryan says that for two years he has pointed out the futility of: any' attempt to compromise with wrong or. to patch up a peace with the great corporations which --are now exploiting exploit-ing the country," but the sound money Democrats were so. alarmed by the race issue that they listenexl .rather reluctantly, reluct-antly, be it . said, to their credit, to the promises of a sue-cess held oiit-by those who had contributed to the defeat of the party in the two preceding cam- paigns. He continued: Costly Experiment. "The experiment has been a costly one. and it is. not likely to bo repeated during the present generation. The eastern Democrats were also deceived. : They were led to believe that the mag- j j nates and monopolists, w;ho coerced j the voters in lS'PG and supplied an j i enormous campaign fund in both lS9d j I and 190ti, would help the Democratic ; party if our party would only be less ! radical. The corporation pr ss aided j ; in this deception, and even the Re-pub- I : lican paper? professed an uns drish de- ; sire' to help build up the Democratic party. The 'election has opened the I eyes of hundred? :f thousands o'J honest hon-est and wed meaning Democrats, who. '. a few months ago. fnvored the reorgan-: reorgan-: ir.ation of the party. These men now see that they must either go into the j Republican parly or join with she Dem- ' oc,-ats of tlie west and south in mak-j ling the Democratic party a positive.: ! aggressive and progressive reform or- jganization. There is no middle ground. I Did What He Could, j "Mr. Bryan did what he could to : prevent the reorganization of the De-m-jocratic party: when he fail-d in this he did what he c: ul.l to aid Parker and Davis in order to secure such reforms and theie were sevei al promised prom-ised by their election. Now that the campaign ih over, he will asids; those who desire to put the Democratic party once more on a siund basis: lie will assist in organizing for the campaign of 1P0S. It does not matter so much who the nominee may he. During the next three years . circumstances mayj i bring into the arena s me man -spe- I jeially fitted to carry th - standard. It! will be time enough tn nominate a can- didate when we are near enough to th? j campaign to measure the relative availibility of those woithy to be con- sidered. "But we ought to begin to lay our plans for the next national campaign j and to form the line of battle. i Future Issues. j "The party must continue to protest j 'against a large army, against a large I navy, and to stand for the independence indepen-dence of the Philippines, for imperial-! imperial-! ism and menace of militarism to the j corrupting influence of commercialism, and yet experience has shown that, however righteous the party's position j on this subject, the Dsue does not arouse the people as they can be warned by a question which touches thein immediately and individually. The injustice done tr, th-- Filipino is not received as it should ber or as we resent re-sent a wrong to ourselves, and the costliness cost-liness of imperialism is hidden by the statistics and by our indirect system of taxation. While the party must maintain its position on this subject, it cannot present this as . the only issue. "The pa.ty must alr-o maintain its position on the tariff question. No answer-has been made to the indictment against the high tariff, and yet. here, I too. the burden of the tariff system is concealed by the method in which the I taxes are collected. ' The Income Tax. "It cannot be made the sole is'sue in a campaign. The party must renew its demand for an income tax. to be secured se-cured through an constitutional amendment, in order that wealth maybe may-be made to pay its share of the expense ex-pense of the government. Today we are collecting practically all of . our federal revenue fpom taxes upon consumption, con-sumption, and these bear heaviest upon j the poor and light upon the rich. "The party must maintain its posi- I tion in favor of bimetallism. It cannot j surrender its demand for the use of its ! gold and silver as the standard money of the country, but the question must remain in abeyance, until conditions so change as to briny the public again face to face with failing prices and a rising dollar. This, therefore, cannot be- made the controlling issue of the contest upon which we are entering. The Greatest Question. "The trust question presents the most acute phase of the contest between Democracy De-mocracy and plutocracy, so far as economic eco-nomic issues are concerned. The president pres-ident virtually admits that the trusts contributed to his campaign fund, but 1 he denies that they received any promises prom-ises of aid or immunity. No well-informed person doubts that the large corporations have furnished the Republican Re-publican campaign fund during the campaigns of 1896 and 1900 and 1904. and no one can answer the logic of Judge Parker's arraignment of trusts' contributions. . The trusts are run on a business principle.' They do r.ot subscribe sub-scribe millions of dollars to a campaign unless they are paying for favors already al-ready granted or purchasing favors for future delivery. The weakness of Judge Parker's position was that the charge was made at' the close of the campaign, when it was neutralized by a counter charge. The trusts cannot be fought successfully by any party that depends upon trust funds to win ! the election. j. Attack Must Be Vehement. ' "The Democratic party . must make its attack upon the trusts so vehement that no one will suspect ,it of secret aid from them. It will be to its advantage if it will begin the next campaign with an announcement that no trust contributions contri-butions will be accepted, and then prove its sincerity by giving the public access to its contribution list. In public, pub-lic, enterprises the names of contributors contribu-tors are generally made public :n order to denote the' character and purpose of the work. "Roosevelt has four years. in which to make good his declaration that no obligations were incurred by the acceptance ac-ceptance of trust funds. He will disappoint dis-appoint either the contributors or the voters. If he disappoints the contributors, contribu-tors, the trust question may be put in the process of settlement. If he disappoints disap-points the people, they will have a chance to settle with his party four monopoly' must be the slogan oi the party in this question: any other iosi-tion iosi-tion is a surrender. The plaU'onrs oL 1!K0 and 1904 declare that : private monopoly is indefensible and intolerable, intoler-able, and this declaration presents the issue upon the trust qmsiion. Must Protect Labor. "The party must eor.tlnue its defecsa of the interests of the wage-earners: it must protect them from the t-!iereuch-linnts of the capitalist. The tact th-.it laboring men have not always shown their appreciation oi Hie party's post-lion post-lion ought not in deter she party from doing its duty in regard to them. Tho labor question is ivt or..- that concerns employers and .mpoyt alone: it concerns con-cerns the entire community, and the people at large have a. .Meivsi i:i th" just settlement of labor .outrovtrsies; for that reason rl-.ey most insist upon I remedial legislation in regard to the 'hours and arbitration, and they must so limit the authoritv of the courts as to overthrow what is kn.wn as gove'-mm nt by -injunction. The party must contiin-'. its opposition to national banks of issue and musi insist upon divorcing the treasury department de-partment fiom Wall strict. Popular Election of Senators. "The party must continue its light for the popular election of senators and for direct legi.-Iati n wherever the Vpriti-i.Ie can be applied It mut not only maintain it posiiion o:s old is- : sues, but it must advance to the con- j ! sideral ion of new questions as they j l arise." t" It take;- lime to direct attention to an ! eil and still in re lini- to consolidate 1 sentiment in favor or' remedy, mid j Mr. Bryan is not sanguine enough to . b"!i-?ve" thai all the i, forms that h" jj ' ... s a d! as .-no be endorsed by any ; party plait'oim. but he will proceed to 'point on: ti reforms which he be- I ; iitves t . be needed. i Anion".- these may be mentioned th- I postal telegraph system, state u ne- - I 'ship of railroads, lie election of f---- , eial judg s for lived terms and the Potion oi postmasters by the people ; : for their respective communities. In- j 'stead f having the govtrnmeot cmi- trolied by corporations, thro-igii evli-I evli-I cers chosen by 'corporations, w c nui. I have a government o!" the poople. by , the people and for th- pe.ple: a government gov-ernment administered b th.- .iVfferson-! .iVfferson-! iaa maxim of "equal rights to all and ; special privileges lo none." Hope and ! duty point the way. To doubt the su -i cess of our cause is to doubt the tii-; tii-; uniph "f the right, f-e- ours is. and must : be. the cause of the mass-s. With malice toward none, and charity for ail. let us begin the i-i-mpaign of lOos; l"t j us appeal to the moral sentiment of : J . ihe country and arraign the poli--i.s "f : the Kepublicaii narty before ih.; bar of j 1 the public conscience. i I I |