| Show TilE THE MERGER New cw York Tribune Tills This Is preeminently preeminently pre pre- eminently the tho era of consolidations S We e have o sown seen so 80 mall many overnight S I S. S amalgamations of or oPIo opposing Interests I IS S and antI so many mergers of discordant cl elements that wo we have acquired an au I almost limitless faith In tho the S 'S of f thu tho c e pluribus unum process That process That Thal t f faith alth was ns hardly shaken haken therefore S. S 4 when a week or two ago ngo a r i 5 t ton tIon on was as announced which pushed 1 all other othor recent Into tb the tho S S shadow B By fly omo some mysterious tour tou r do force we were Informed the tho fifty fifty- p 5 S seven extant varieties of oC Democracy y had been boen tU fused tI and welded Into on one olle a aS S variety I Even Iet et Democrat In tb tho 0 I United States had become a n Bryan Dran DranD S D Democrat Without premonition or S ceremony a D. distinguished statesman seeking relaxation In 5 S foreign travel travelS S had been suddenly drafted as ns a Cm- Cm 5 Cinnatus and asked to name namo tho the terms on which ho would accept the leadership leader leader- i ship of or a n devoted and antl reunited part party By Dy all the fifty tIftY factions ant and sub sub- 5 factions ho he was to be recognized as 5 1 5 the single and final arbiter He lie was S to become the solo center of Democratic Demo Demo- cratic deal desire re and arid tho the solo pillar of Democratic hope t From tho the the thc success BUCCo of S i the tho merger seemed assured With Uh a 5 common Impulse Democratic loaders S East West Vest and South proclaimed S S' S their to serve fena the new chieftain chief chief- 5 I tam tain and friends now and old proS pro- pro S pared to celebrate hl lila his return to tho the United States and antl to pavo pao avo the wa way 5 for tor his luls for Cor the thc presidency prell- prell S dency denoy In J 1908 Tho The of or S th tho past wore were Ignored and ox rad S and antl con ex-con Joined Jollied In planning to welcome home tho the party's S r 55 oft only candidate Its It solo surI sur- sur I asset from the shipwreck of oC 5 S 1904 Governor Folk Foil of oC Missouri S Senator Joseph AV V. Bailey of oC Texas 5 and Representative o John Sharp Williams Wil 11 S llama liams of or all of ot them theta conr con- con S t. t r J aspirants for Cor national load load- S 5 J or publicly renounced their am- am Voll I In favor r rt of t Mr Bryan Colonel Irk s c e I Watterson atterson burled his trenchant ed- ed tonal hatchet and dc declared that ho forgave and would take chances on b being forgiven Senator Ex-Senator Vila Vilas ex- ex Secretary David R. R Francis FranchI and other representatives of ot the safe sate and sane Democracy scrambled for or seats scats on the Bryan band wagon and tho the safe sate and sane newspapers which had hat for years vehemently assailed the tho Nebra Nebraska Ne Ne- Nebraska bra braska ka statesman as a dangerous radIcal radical rad rad- ical teal In politics polities vet veered red around and antl began beall began be- be be be- gan all to laud him him a as a n. potential con con- ser Other Oilier r consolidations and have tave been heralded as the inspirations InspIration of ot genius But none e ever er r approached In Ingenuousness s and simplicity simplicity simplicity sim sim- this project of ot unifying the Democratic vote ote for fOI Mr rr Bryan Dryan by tagging him him fore ore as a radical conservative conservative con con- and antI nit aft as a conservative radical We 0 are arc pained to learn from from our neighbor The Tile World orld that promising promis promis- inK ing as ns W was vas S th the pro prospect of ot Democratic Demo Demo- cratic unification a week ago ngo Mr 11 Bryan's Bryans recent London Interview has sadly adly dulled the Jeffersonian rainbow A week weck ago said snit our neighbor yesterday the Democrats of oC the country were looking forward orward with enthusiasm to a new order o of things S Mr 1 Bryan Bran was wa accepted as the leader leder of oC the party and the InevItable Inevitable inevitable able nominee for or president In 1908 Now there Is dismay In Democratic circles s and Mr Bryan Bran is p practically II turning the presidency over o to tho the Republicans again b by not reading the Book Dook of Proverbs Pro and learning there there- from that the first filSt dut duty of a n Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic candidate for Cor or president Is si silence silence silence si- si lence and sTIlL more silence It isa Isa is isa a little to reconcile The Worlds admission that Mr Ir Dr Bryan an anIs is the accepted leader of or the Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic party with Its criticism of or hImor him for or exercising his functions of or lead lend If Mr h Bryans Bryan's Democracy is li today the only standard of Democracy it Is advisable to have that standard understood by friends as well welt as en en- If the Democratic party has been Mr Bryan Is its proper and authorized spokesman If It It has not been we have only witnessed another experiment experiment experiment ment at tying tIng contraries together and harmonizing differences which are logically Irreconcilable |
