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Show THE DEMOCRATIC ROW Bryan's grouch grows time goes on. The "Gonnnoner" is ro einbittered againsl Wilson that he cannot on the eve of a national election, restrain himself. In liis letter from San Francisco on Tuesday Tues-day he soul . Was it not humiliation enough to the party to have a Democratic Jresiden1 ail silrnt in the White House and take no part in the grcatcaj mora victory of tlic generation 1 1 think I am not mistaken when I say that hv never uttered ttm a word to aid those who made the fight for submission for H ratification and for the passage of the law enforcing con- atitutionfl prohibition Was it necessary to add to this hu-radiation hu-radiation by gagging a national convention and forbidding it to give expression t the joy that fills the hearls of a majority of the men of the land and a still larger majority of the women of the land? If in the matter of prohibition the president's offenae against the party is grave whal shall we say of his crime when wp conaider the treaty plank? He demanded that twenty-three Democrat ie senators should he rebuked, sen-ntors sen-ntors nearly all of whom live in closely contested states. 1 where the president's attitude endangers the re-election of those now in the senate and make practically impossible the election of Democrats to succeed them! Hut the defeat of the party is of little oonsequence aa compared with the re-sponsihility re-sponsihility that our party assumes when it attempts to make a partisan issue of the greatest international question our country has ever confronted Under the pretense of devo-tion devo-tion to the league of nations he demands that we strangle the league, for nothing else can result from the iron rule that he enforced upon the convention. That is about the extreme m rebellions spirit for a man three times honored by his party as candidate for president. Bryan's hatred for Wilson must be intense. But the peculiar fl mental process pursued by Bryan in his criticism of the president i disclosed when one thinks how uncompromising the "Commoner1 baa been in all his policies He demands thai Wilson p-ivo way to expe diency on the league of nations ami then he scores the president for failing to be immovable on the liquor question. It is wrong for Wilson to hold steadfastly to his conviejbions, but Bryan can he dogmatic, because Bryan is right and everyone in con Diet with him is wrong. That is Bryan's view; but the peaple are tryinp of his constant lecturing. Xo one doubts Bryan's honesty of 1 purpose, his high moral suasion and keenness of intellect, but al! begin to see in the man a disposition to be intolerant. Ths Democratic row should be enjoyed by those in the bleachers and grandstand occupied by the Republicans. |