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Show The speech of Mr, Bryan in Chicago, while quiet in tone, was still a notice that a Hill-Cleveland platform will hardly be adopted at Chicago, without an almost certainty that a new Populist platform will be adopted, another candidate calling call-ing himself Democratic (Bryan or Towne) nominated nomi-nated and with the hope that enough disgruntled Democrats and enough dissatisfied Republicans can be drawn to it to carry the election. If tna is tried -it will have the effect to set the bets a 2 to 1 for Roosevelt the day it is accomplished On- its face the differences seem almost IrrecoDd ciliable. If a compromise is reached a pate W up platform adopted and then some comproni candidate like Hearst or Gorman is nominate . still the prospect of success, under present lights, would lie very small, for ueithqr the .Cleveland-Hill .Cleveland-Hill nor the Bryan contingent would "enter the campaign with the least enthusiasm, while the Republicans would be jubilant and would press the campaign from the first day. The Democracy needs a Moses as badly today as did the Israelites In Egypt and at tne ase of sna1. |
