The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1900-10-05

THE TIMES For BRYAN
Our esteemed contemporary, the
.Philadelphia Times, in a leading
editorial on Monday, came out frank
ly and flat-footed for thesDemocratic
ticket, The Times had been for years
the leading Democratic paper of
Pennsylvania until the campaign of
1896 when it supported Mckinley on
account of the free silver issue. In
this it admits that with many others
it was carried away on the grounds
that it was safer'to elect him Presi-
dent than Bryan on the broad patrio-
fairgrounds that the former would be
the. salvation of the country. This ex-
cellent paper now sees the error of its
way and frankly admits it. No one
can help but admire its candor and
the frank admission of it's mistake
We have 'republished its views in
full, feeling as we do that the present
situation is more succinctly expressed
therein than any words we can con-
vey. .-
"The Times was from it's first issue
an independent newspaper, free from
any control but that of its obligations
to the public; and its political indie
pendence very early led it to oppose
the corrupt, despotic and dangerous
policies'of the party then as now in
power in city, State and nation, and
to support the principles and TIE can
didates of the Democracy. From the
very first year of it's publication. it
has been the leading advocate of
every Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor Of Pennsylvania, and from
Tilden to Cleveland it earnestly sus-
tanned every Democratic candidate
for President. .,.ls D., 80,
This advocacy was due to no self.in-
terest-for Democracy has had few IA
vers to dispense in Pennsylvania-but
toconsistent conviction of what was
to the public advantage, a conviction
that experience has sustained. Not
alone the degrading effect Of machine
politics in Pennsylvania, but the
whole tendency of Republican rule in
the nation, with it's constant centrali-
cation of authority, the subservience
to the money power, the building up
of favored interests by class legisla-
ton, had nowhere a more earnest op-
ponent than The Times. and the Dem
ocrats of Pennsylvania learned to
look to itas their representative news
paper. 7a." 81 VIZ 4 L..a.. a. -. .-..-.l
The Times has been unfailingly hos
tile to those measures with which Nc
kinley was particularly identified,
such as the monopoly breeding, deficit
producing tariff that bore his name.
Yet four years ago,in the sudden crisis
that divided the councils of the Dem
ocratic party and for the time being
seemed to have checked its great
career, it seemed better to The Times,
as to many other leading Democratic
papers, to sustain Mr.. McKinley's
election as President rather than that
of Mr.. Bryan. The decision was
made in good faith. The. result has
shown it to be wrong. 1t is repented
and recanted.
All of the evils and the perils OF the
so-called Republican policy have re-
turned sevenfold, developed and ex-
tended till the very foundations of
the government seemed threatened.
A false economic system has resulted
In vast combinations of capital that
throttle individual industry and hold
control over all the functions of gov
eminent, and the spokesman of the
administration, a representative of
one Of these Trusts, is calling upon
his fellow-capitalists for contributions
to buy another four years license to
rob, another four years life for their
inflated and false prosperity. The
government thus controlled has found
its fittestg expression in schemes of
military conquest and the blood and
treasure Of the nation are poured out
to subdue distant people and. rob
them of those rights of liberty and In
dependence that America has always
claimed for all mankind.
Imperialism, "a miIitarism, are the
natural outgrowth of commercialism
in politics, of the power of the few
over the many, the elevation Of money
above manhood, with all the system
Of special privileges and corrupt con
troll that the Republican party since
the civil war has increasingly fostered.
The upholders of this system are them
selves aware Of its hollowness and are
calling for aid from the money power
to bolster it up for time longer. The
condition is one that the country
must meet and, meet now, and the
way to meet it is by q reassertion, of \
the Democratic idea and the election
of a Democratic President. " =
This, The Times means to advocate |
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