The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-07-28
TICKETS CONTRASTED.
Mckinley and Roosevelt--Bryan and
Stevenson.
From the New York Journal.

age along with Bland wnen bryan waS
bow at school. Later he criticised the
Democratic party for not doing enough for
silver and told how much more the Re
publicans would do if they we're entrusted
with power. In the Republican conven-
ton four years ago he was afraid to have
the word ''gold' mentioned. Now ne Is
a partisan of the absolute, unmitlgated,
single gold standard.
In Congress, when he had no offices to
distribute, Mr.. Mckinley was an ardent
civil service reformer He became Gov
ernor of Ohio and turned over the helpless
lunatics in the insane asylums, and the IN
mates of all the other State charitable IN
situations, to the tender mercies oil the
spoilsmen. When he was candidate Tor
President the first time he promised that
he would take emo step backward IN the
matter of civil service reform. When he
took office he became the first President
to take a backward step since the reform
was first instituted under Arthur, fourteen
years before. :,
President Mckinley said that we could
never be guilty of terminal aggression,
and then he began and carried on an I'M
necessary war in the Philippines.
He said that it was our ''PLAlN DU-
TY'' to give the Porto Rican free admis-
sion to our markets, and then he not only
accepted but actually forced through Con-
gress bill leyying heavy taxes both ways
ON Porto Rican trade.
He promised pure government to our
dependencies, and he filled the public SER
vice in Cuba with thieves.
All these inconsistencies have a single
cause-Mr. Mckinley is not his own mas
ter. He speaks from the good impulses
of his heart, and then he does what he Is
told to do. 1t is impossible even to imag-
inc William Mckinley making such
stand for his principles against the pres
sure of party leaders as William }. Bryan
has made this week. When we elect
Mckinley to office, therefore, his words
furnish us no clew whatever to his proba-
BILE course after he gets into power, To
know what he is going to do we must know
the man who, for the time being, is run
ming" him. In this case it is Mark
Hanna.
William J. Bryan is the very antithesis
of his opponent No man has had more
yirulent or more unscruplous enemies; no
man has been more outrageously mlsrep-
sented; no man has had his character,
opinions and conduct more distorted and
caricatured, but in all the whirlpool OF
detraction that has surged about him no.
BODY has ventured to suggest that MIR.
Bryan is owned by anybody but William
j. Bryan.
He takes orders from no Hanna. He
does not have to call anybody into consul
tation to find out what he thinks HIS
convictions, based on his own matured
study, are his own property, and when he
has once formed them no power on earth
can induce him to give them up, or modl-
fy them, or hide them under mask.
The country is coming to know and ad
mire that splendid stubborness of MIR.
Bryan's. The Democrats who did not
agree with him on the silver question, an
moved as they we're with what seemed to
them an unnecessary sacrifice of political
strength, are beginning to be glad that
they have had that revelation of uncon-
querable inhexable conviction. While ii
is against them on the point, it gives them
confidence that upon the other points on
which they and the candidate agree they
will not be betrayed. They have been
looking for man who would display on
the side of the people that same immov
able obstinacy that Cleveland displayed OF
behalf of the privileged classes, and they
have found him. 1t is this feeling tina
inspires gold Democrat to write to thu
Mugwump Evening Post
Another term of Mckinley, involvin:
the Endorsement of the almost unbrokei
record of bad faith which has character
lied nearly all the acts Of his Admlnlstra
ton, would be about as bad commentar
on popular government as could be mag
ined. But would not the cause of popula
government suffer still more should tn
party which has taken up the task of re
wing the Declaration of Independence
and our old-fashioned views of nation;
honor be betrayed by its candidate2 /
the present crisis signs of surrender by tina
candidate to bosses or to moneyed intel
ests, or the exhibition by him of any {
the marks of the COULTER, would
very disquieting to many gold Democrat
What we need in the Presidency no
above all other things is an honest man
not merely one who is above picking pocl
cts himself, but one whose honesty is as
gressive-one who will not tolerate Neelys
and Rathbones under him or Hannas owe
him, and whose honesty extends not mere
" to matters of money, but to matters {
principle.
We know that if William J. Bryan sal
that anything was our ''plain duty l
would shut that steeltrap jaw of his au
keep Congress in session until that dut
was performed or the Congressional ter
expired. If an organ told him that tn
action would cost him three million vot,
of growers of filler tobacco and ''garde
sass, he would tell it that the peop
could elect another President if they chos'
but that fifteen million voters could nj
make him do thing he thought wrong
That is a comfortable sort of person I
lean on in national crisis. With hurr
cane signals flying in China even go
Democrats would like to feel that they hi
such nickel-steel, Kruppized will
trust in
So much for the heads of the ticket
The contrast between the candidates Fl
second place is of different nature, b.
equally striking.
Grave as are McKinleys faults, if
and Roosevelt should be elected every p
triot would offer up daily prayers for Il
health of Mckinley The accession
Theodore Roosevelt to the President
would be public calamity. Impetuo'
as the German Emperor, his impetuosit
is not guided by the Kaisers trained il
telligence. His continual breaks,