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Show THE DEMOCRATIC SITUATION. It Is warm at -St. Louis. Not only is this so physically, but politically the temperature Is at boiling heat, and Is getting hotter every day. By tho time that the Democratic National convention conven-tion Ib In full blast, nothing but superheated super-heated steam will be a match for Its caloric. And then, like as not, .the boiler boil-er will burst. Tho spoilsmen of tho party, otherwise known as the reorganlzers, are determined deter-mined to cut looso from tho Byan influence, in-fluence, which represents In fact all there is of principle In the Democratic party, bad as that principle Is. But that Influence stands for something positive and definite in public life. The reorganlzers merely want the offices, and knowing that they can't get them under tho Bryan banner, even with another an-other leader than Bryan but of his way of thinking, they want to tramplo on that banner and raise one of their own which vill have no distinctive meaning, mean-ing, but which will be understood to be acceptable to the money powor and the corporations. And as Bryanlsm stands distinctly for wildcat money and for smashing the corporations, It is easy to see that there can be no affiliation af-filiation between those opposing wings of the Democratic party. As to condldates, the reorganlzers Insist that the nominee for President must be acceptable to the financial Interests, In-terests, while the Bryan wing stands for the Democratic masses as against the capitalistic few. Two campaigns on that Issue a fradulent one, by the way have caused the substantial men among the Democratic party leaders to demand a change of politics which shall not theaten the business and vested interests of the country. And that will also be a fradulent Issue, for no matter what declarations may be made, the piratical gang would still be In control. While, on the other hand, if the radical crowd were in control, the conservatives conserva-tives would bear down hard to defeat them. Parker just now seems to be the favorite fa-vorite among those who would for what they consider a glimmering chance of success, put aside all and everything that has in the past stood for Democracy, Democ-racy, But tho Parker candidacy Is especially es-pecially obnoxious to the Bryan-Hearst crowd. In reply to their protests, thoy ore offered Cleveland; and this makes them dance a frantic scalp-dance. As matters stand now, neither faction appears ap-pears to be able to control tho two-thirds two-thirds vote riecessary to nominate, and the chances that some dark horse will carry off the coveted but empty honor are rapidly growing. The fact that the convention Is held In St. Louis, where Folk has made his repute as the one honest Democrat, makes It highly probable prob-able that he will make a strong showing show-ing as such dark horse, If the convention conven-tion Is taken just right. This probability prob-ability Is much Increased by the fact that the Democracy of Missouri Is Itching to get rid of him as Its candidate candi-date for Governor. |
