Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1908 — ONE TRUTHFUL WORD [ARTICLE]

ONE TRUTHFUL WORD

Hearst says there is no Democratic party any more. He is right in saying "there is only a Bryan party, and the followers of that party don’t know when they go to bed at night what they will be called upon to believe when they awake in the morning.” The Iroquois Club of San Francisco has asked Hearst to resign from its membership, and he expresses pleasure on receipt of the request. Then he talks to his fellow-members of that Democratic organization, which his father, the late Senator Hearst, founded; and was once its most prominent, member. He says: “You imply that I am not a Democrat, and I strongly suspect that I am not, according to Democratic standards of today. You imply further that you are Democrats, and I cannot help wondering what kind of Democrats you think you art. Are you 1892 Democrats or 189§J#emocrats or 1900 Democrats or 1904 Democrats or are you 1808 Democrats? Are you Cleveland Democrats, believing in tariff reform that we did not get, and the suppression of labor unions, that we did get? “Are you Parker Democrats, supporting the trusts if they contribute and opposing them if they don’t? Are you Bryan Democrats, believing in free silver sometimes and government in, the initiative and referendum sometimes? If you are Bryan Democrats, do you also believe in a Bryan platform that contains none of these things?”