Show I A LAUGHINGSTOCK SLOGAN When Sir Bryans first acceptance speech the one made at Indianapolis came Tho Tribune ventured the be lief that the Democracy would Jocrac become powerfully sick of imperialism before election day Aa If in response to that the New York Evening Post which Is Democratic If it Is anything nays The Democratic campaign In the South for Bryan on the paramount iasuc of parmount IJue tho consent of the governed Is I fast becoming be-coming a laughing stock Texas Is the Democratic stronghold of lhat suction secton and the chief party ncwopnper of that Slate already trealri the cam ass as a joke I appears that one country weekly In Texas has been criticising another because the lattnr will JatI wi not give up free coinage and make the fight In opposition to Imperialism The Galveston I Galves-ton News tho chief dally of the State simply pokes fun at both of them and Incidentally at what it styles the scarecrow built up at Kansas buit anls City meaning thereby the consentofthe I governed plank We have already I quoted the repudiation of the antlim perlalistic plank by the Memphis Commercial I Com-mercial Appeal at the western end of the State The Chattanooga Times the leading Democratic Journal of the eastern east-ern part is still more emphatic and outspoken l says that In UB opinion 00 per cent of the people desire that the Islands should be retained and that however plausible the Kansas City Platform may be on this subject It Is utterly Impracticable tried by statesmanship states-manship It is nonsensical and Impoasl ble Despite all that Southern news j papers which repudiate the nntlIm l I pcrlallollc plank nupport Mr Bryan I I perfunctorily notwithstanding though Homo are crying out against his elec j lon because of his stand on this ques tion rhe Post cites he Memphis Scimitar In UT opinion tlu I I FjII 1 pplnpn the pinox are Vfimly inferior to thcuFputh I crn negroes and says If I the former are II to be allowed to rule their Islands the ncgroca of the Soulh will have just ag i much right to govern wherever they II I are In u majority and thinks the people peo-ple of the South ought to pause and consider before they follow this enthusiast enthu-siast Mr Bryan any further Aml I the opinion of the Post Is that It Is already al-ready evident that his position on thii j Issue will speedily reconcile a great I many white Southerners to his defeat The Post finally concludes that Mr j Bryans Topeka speech must result I In convincing the country that the real Issue of this campaign Is Bryanlsru asa I as-a whole and not any question new or old which he may seek to make prominent promi-nent I says His attltudc at the I present time Is that of a man anxious to show himself enough of a Populist I to prevent the desertion of his alllci In I that party and yet trying to make sound money men believe that he I really does not take so much stock in financial quackery as he pretends to do I I I is a composite now so well recognized recog-nized as Bryinism which is the real I Issue of thN DcmocratlcPopullstSU 1 I verRepubllcan campaign I 1 I |