Show WHAT DEMOCRATS THINK 1 i The Brooklyn Eagle notes that the New York Journal and the New York I World the one friendly and the other not unfriendly to Mr Bryan agreo In saying that threefourtha of the delegates dele-gates a Kansas City wanted 1C to 1 left out of tho platform They further agice in saying that it was put In with absolute unanimity against the wishes I I and convictions of threefourths of the delegates on the personal insistence of I Mi Bryan and on his threat to withdraw I with-draw as a candidate If it were left out I That Is a dlrtrt charge that the Democracy i I De-mocracy knowing Mr Bryan to be a candidate of the Sioux Falls Populists and knowing that he would not withdraw with-draw from that ticket and knowing further fur-ther that they could not by any pos sibility elect a ticket unless they would I unite thc Populists with them the Democrat In their anxiety for office srpothered their convictions lay down and let the Populisls walk over them The Eagle sayaj No othor party cpr made so utter and abject IL surrender of its convictions to a man It paralyzes all incidents of despotism des-potism i and MibmlSRlni 1 1 can bo LX J lmli ned only by l confidence In I thu in frill bility of Mr VJryon or by huch a doRni dation uid diimdonco of spirit amounting amount-ing l to degeneration In a imrty as never before was exhibited And farther on it says A more lamentable drsUtutlon of Presi dentin capacity In a political party could not be conceived A lOon iomplote dls pkremont of gtulwnui from ronsldera tlon court not bo Imagined A more mortifying mor-tifying confession of ho I reduction of tho Piarty to a Thespian droamer who Is also a fanatical 1 egotist Jould not bo registered regis-tered There n > ver I was anything llko It bcfory In politics There should nevur bo anything Ike It again Tho organization whlcn nominated Mr Bryuu in tho t way and on tim terms which he prescribed bus done much to Impair belief In its capability for govunnmiit I The evidence of what he hna done with a party furnishes fur-nishes an linlox of what hu uould Uo b with tho government It should make his In I I veatiturc with time Presidency Impossible In the same way the CourierJournal after staling that 11 fought the one man power of Cleveland says We shall always antagonize tho oneman power Wo shall always be found skeptical of the prevailing idol Holding Hold-ing man worship to be hardly leas of a capital crime In politics than a species spe-cies of original sin in religion we shall never cease to warn the people against it and lo seek to arouse and to culti ate that stouthearted and clearseeing I manhood which built in selfrespect requires of public men in public affairs a strict personal accounting We are in a word oposed to Imperialism quite as much when individualized as when dominating national policies and hence we arc not In sympathy with the spirit which would elevate any one person into the beginning and the end of party movement nt once the lord of hosts and the keeper of the common conscIence con-science And still the CourierJournal Is goIng go-Ing to support Mr Bryan It shows what n fear the Journal ban of him incase I in-case he is elected President It shows the shame it feels which Is expressed by what we copied from an editorial at the beginning of this article mid when the foreihost Democratic Journals Jour-nals of the United States speak that I way what will be the feeling among the intelligent honest men throughout I the country I The Baltimore Sun another Democratic Demo-cratic sheet turns from the ticket in I despair and begs the Democracy to try I to elect a Democratic House |