The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-09-20

CURRENT COMMENT.
WANTS DEWEY TO BEAT BRYAN
WITH.
(N. Y. World Democrat. }

| The need of the hour Is a name-not
an ambttioni man-not theory. And
the right man Is at hand. He is a man
Tor whom every Democrat will vote, al
| well as every Republican not bound to
the machine; man for whom even Bry-
| an might stand aside with honor and adj
vantage to himself. He is one OF the best
examples OF American manhood known
| In our history; man of the supreme
simplicity that IL part OF every lofty char.
| acter; qualified to perceive all the obliga
/ lions OF great patriotic duty and with
courage to fulfill them; man upright,
earnest, sincere and u hero. We do not
know what his party affiliations are. We
know that there Is but one really living.
| burning Issue OF principle that today
concerns the American people, that of
| Imperialism and Europeanism, and that
in that issue he Is ON the side OF Justice.
freedom and true Amreicanism. This is
Democracy.
This man is one whom the devotion.
ment OF our national life has brought
| forth from obscurity at this crisia He
cannot be even nominated IL no. by the
democratic party. and that party should
| recognize the fact and constitute itself
the organ OF the nation to put him in the
supreme place Mr.. Bryan cannot be
Preslueut next year, but he can make the
PRESIDENT can have more power and
prestige by sacrificing his ambition than
by accepting barren nomination sure
20 drag his party down to another defeat
nnd involve the country in even a worse
period OF corruption than the present.
Mho is the man who cannot be beaten?
George Dewey
SHOULD TRY ARBITRATION.
Lewiston Journal
1t will be disgraceful IL the nation
which has been as prominent as the
United States in crying for international
arbitration allows itself to declare war
against the Dutch in South Africa, with
out nrst appealing to a court of arbitra-
ton to settle the issue between itself and
the Transvaal. The Issues between the
TWO states are not serious, and ill-temper
Is now the chief cause OF fuss. Whether
an Englishman shall be allowed to vote
alter i've years or longer residence in the
1ransvaals is not = matter to shoot over
What authority Great Britain has under
the terms of the treaty can easily be set.
tied by referees. No doubt, as matters
now stand, the Dutch are impertipent:
but IL the Transyaal deslines to arbi-
trate. England may be justified in tax.
ing warlike measures, II she decides her
Tighss are menaced. The suggestion that
President Mckinley tender the good
Offices OF the United States on behalf OF
peace, is not untimely. The whole world
is now SO closely allied in industry. that
| war Is an international grievance. And
Christian nation ought to listen to any
honorable proposal calculated to avert
war. Yellow ooveredajingoists should not
dominate the foreign policy of any state.
When war cannot be avsrted, let It come;
but thu issues in this South African
affair ought to be- debated ana settled
by parliament of arbitration, rather
than by the guns of war But for the ex-
plosion OF our battleship Maine we bo-
lieve tho Cuban question. might have
6een settled by Mckinley rather than by
Dewey.
MR.. REEDS FAREWELL LETTER,
(Boston Herald.)
MI. Thomas B. Resd'ss address to his
constituents is a model Of vigorous and
condensed expression. Its tone Is always
lofty. 1t Is pregnant with aphorisms
strongly stated, and none of them ia more
worthy of admiration than tina In which
he says, "otfioe as q ribbon TO stick in
your coat 10 worth nobody's ,considera-
ton. Office as an opportunity is worth
all consideration. His parting express
ion OF confidence that the district he has
represented will always be true to the
principles of liberty, sslf-governm ent and
the rights of man" is In the nature alike
Of "A le0aey and an axhortutEnn