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Show B (AW 1 1 Mr. Bryan insists that the test of true Democ- H J lli ' ' racy is to endorse the Kansas City platform. This I is probably natural, for Mr. Bryan dictated that B 1 instrument, but there is not very much wisdom in H ytM the insistence, for the certain reason that there m 11 si are many things in that platform which will never oilflf ; again bo 'included in a national platform. There H Us! I were two or three policy planks inserted in !that platform which were intended simply as palliatives, pal-liatives, to satisfy certain elements in the coun- -mm t try, more especially the silver plank, for in the H 1 M campaign which succeeded Mr. Bryan never once Hj M IS referred to them. In point of fact, Mr. Bryan is Hjl much more a Populist than a Democrat. Two Hj ii years ago he dictated the platforms of both the H wis Democracy and the Populists, and when consid- H V pi I ered side by side there not not enough difference Hj l m between the two to count. We suspect the up- Hj m shot of the whole busines's will be that Mr. Bryan Hlljffj will, if he lives to be the candidate for President, H I J M j run on a purely Populistic platform in 1904. |