Show BRYANS GROWING POPULARITY II I > I Silver Leader Will Certainly Receive the Democratic Nomination Review of Reviews Mr Henry Watterson of the Louisville Louis-ville CourierJournal a distinguished Democrat who does not look at public questions through Mr Bryans spectacles specta-cles has nevertheless declared within a month that NIr Bryan will certainly by th1 Demoghitic candidate for the 111 iidoncy neXt year His popularity wherever he goes is almost unbounded It Is certainly true that Mr Brjaii is more idolized by his followers this year than he vas during the campaign of 1S96 He has personal qualities which seem to grow upon the plain people of the country and as Mr Vat terson says iiIs likely enough that he may carry th Democratic convention acclamation But the Bryan Democracy in 1900 as in lSOC will differ considerably insofar as its leading mon are concerned from the Democratic party that was headed I by Mr Cleveland Those Democrats who had thought that Bryanism as represented by the Chicago platform j I would have evaporated in four years I and that it would be possible to restore the Palmer and Buckner Democrats in 1900 to theJr old places of honor at the Dtgnocratic board begin to see that I they were mistaken Mr Bryan is the I i real as well as the nominal leader of I his party and he has even less compromise < l < com-promise in his makeup than Mr Cleve i i r land had Mr Cleveland indeed was known to care something about the character of the party platforms on the several occasions when he was running t run-ning for the presidency but Mr Bryan f 7 is a man who cares even more 4 He continues toglory in theChicago i r platform and holds that jts rare I r r-are immutable and ethrnalit turns I out that we were mistaken in our in 1 ference last month regarding his po j 1 tot j r i iiII sition on the silver question Our comment com-ment were based upon the telegraphic reports of his speech at Des Moines at the time of the holding of the Iowa state Democratic convention which occurred oc-curred as we were about to go to press The reports in the New York papers were to the effect that Mr Bryan had intiniated that his position on the monetary question did not oblige him necessarily to adhere under all possible pos-sible future circumstances to the precise pre-cise coinageratio of 16 to 1 Mr Bryan has since personally informed us that tills inferencedoes nut accord with his real views and that it would not have bean derived from a complete report of his speech |