Show t I Mr Bryan Labels His Party Label Will Not Come Conie Off I HE Democratic party cannot hope to escape T THE during hiring the campaign from the label which William Jennings Bryan BIjan placed upon it following following following fol fol- fol- fol lowing the triumph of Judge Parker as the conservative conser conser- native candidate for temporary chairman Cba Chagrined by defeat and reckless of consequences Mr Bryan declared over oer his signature in the syndicate of newspapers newspapers news news- papers for which he ho is writing that the party is is in inthe in inthe inthe the hands of the predatory interests and that tho the country should understand this The outcome of tho the dwarfs to comparative c insignificance beside beside beside be be- side the fact that the foremost Democrat of the day dav declares that his own party wears the label of th the tho money power and that whatever er the convention does it will because the predatory influences are willing that it should be done Had Mr Bryan been able to keep his temper inthe in inthe inthe the hour of defeat it is probable that ho he would not have ha expressed himself in just dust that way He nn felt however that the conservative e forc forcin forces force in the thc convention were so strong that no candidate unsatisfactory to them could be nominated and that be he might as well lay in advance the foundation fo for forthe r the action upon which he long ago determined i in I aco necA f of nf d IrIS mMA a A hI ha i t tween th the conservative s ii and d radical dic dici i wings of T tho the tho I party impossible since tho the Nebraskan understands fully his own power and knows that no members o othe of f the radical wing dare to to enter into a deal without t the thc COD consent sent of Bryan Clark did that very thing to tot t his sorrow and it is is not probable that another i is s likely to attempt it l The showing of relative strength between the conservative conservative con con- and radical factious factions in in the party part coulto could coul Ii not be otherwise than disappointing to the sage b o of f I Lincoln Had he been as aware months ago as heis ho he hois is now of the interests that have pushed Cham Champ p Clark to the front Mr tIre Bryan would have prevented i 4 i the instruction of man many delegates for the Missourian 1 for no one will doubt the influence of Mr Bryan in iD those states where Clark poUnd polled most of f his hi his s strength The perennial al candidate for President wa was deceived ed by the talk of harmony he felt that th the e New York Fork crowd which has dicta dictated ed Democratic policies for man many years was really renny willing to b he be e carried on the wave of radicalism and that it would S sacrifice its own opinions for some hope of party success at the polls Bryans Bryan's an anger er when hen he discovered his mistake c a 1 need not occasion surprise His desire for revenge c against the men who refused to support him in 1896 has bas never been satisfied and it really is is more important important important im im- to him than his own on political future In his s frantic c desire to inure injure them he has as greatly injured in injured in his party part since he has tarred it with the companionship com com- of the predatory interests and has broken its influence because he has shown it to be under the control of Wall all street The l label b l which has hits been upon the Democracy will remain with it throughout the campaign and will help to defeat i it t. t I FOLLOWING the Chicago SOBER JP con convention n and the dramatic dramatic dra- dra SECOND matic mahe exit from the Republican Re Re- publican can party of its chief j THOUGHT I beneficiary the newspapers BEGINS which had been supporting I Mr Roosevelt's pretensions pretension were wore eager for h his s third party idea to begin its growth They breathed threaten ings rugs and slaughter thc they scented the battle from i r afar the noise of the captains and the shouting During Daring the past few days however a change ha has come over the spirit of their dreams The careful ex examination of the proceedings of the national convention convention con con- dispassionate inquiry into tt c reasons which prompted the former President to take his dolls and go homo home have hae strengthened the general knowledge that a bolt can be predicated only upon the colonels colonel's hallucination that certain delegates were ware filched hed from him This latter being not only spro eu by too tins f facts in in the case but also by the attitude of oC the national the credentials committee and the convention itself self sober second thought is is- having its sway and is cooling the en en- Several Se of thorn thom are beginning to advise ise their readers to accept the results no matter how they were achieved ed With ready speciousness they arc arc discarding what whatever ner they hey said in lathe the past and moralizing moralizing moral moral- izing to the effect effect- that having ing sent delegates to the convention to transact their business it may may be aswell as aa aswell well to accept the result of their deliberations without inquiring as to how it was done The i motives which actuate these agile editors to whom a I backward handspring is a mere bagatelle because of proficiency due to long practice are man many and varied Some of them see the impossibility of the success of a third party others who have c been waiting waits wait wait- s l ing impatiently for the guarantee of funds fonds from the Roosevelt side for their moribund newspapers have hav grown convinced n ed that there is to be no distri distri- Whatever their reason sober second thought has come to stay NE 2 of the most famous o AMERICA and talented artists B BIG IG EN ENOUGH R H born in Holland a ZI land of great painters has FOR TALENT died at German Gorman a health re reTO resort re- re TO EXPAND sort and all aU the tho world is told that he was English It is true as far as long residence ill in London and citizenship in Great Britain could wipe out the claim of nativity and Alma Tadema 1 will go into history as British rather than Dutch a In like In-like like manner Maurice a Fleming b by y t birth and blood has lived in France so long and I written so uniformly in in French that when his brili bril bril- i career ends he is likely to go into history as Iii French bench rather than Belgian And so the noted Dutch f author kno known n as Maarten Maartens though thought he chose br to live in Holland carl early decided to write in English th for the sake of ofa a wider audience 0 Americ Americans ns are never hampered in any such way rn when they seek seck the great honors and gains of life d However high their genius it find can ample ro room m for expression ih in their own country However great eat 1 their powers they cannot lack room for action in the 1 United States Stales It means much t to big men to be bo citizens of a big country Incidentally it is not ot bad for lor small men either V I After a long and varied Y list of political deaths Mr Bryan is still the biggest st single figure in his Party part k I I. 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