The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-09
BRYAN AND JEFFERSON.

Louis R Enrich in N Y. Evening PoSt)
But it is said that Mr.. Bryan has had
very little executive experience. orav
tell me, how much executive experience
Gid Abraham Lincoln have when
elected to the presidency? MT. Bryan
has thus far been less of a failure than
Lincoln was at his ag@his congress
sionaI career was far more brilliant
and his experience with men and the
world generally is indefinitely more ex-
tended.
II is maintained that Bryan is 8
demagOgue. Let me recall a significant
page in American history: Just 100
years ago Thomas Jefferson was nom
mated for the presidency. The intel
lect, wealth and culture OF the cOun-
try opposed him. He was denounced
as the demagogue of demagogues, IAN
atheist in religion and a fanatic in pol
itics. An historian thus formulated
the prevailing political sentiment of
that time: Every dissolute intriguer,
lOOse-liver, fOrger, faIse-eoiner and
prison-bird: every hair-brained loud
talking demagogUe; every Spectator,
scofter and atheist was a follower of
Jefferson: and Jefferson gas himself
the incarnation Of their theories The
result of the election showed that JEFF
ferson was entitled TO the same number
Of votes in the electoral college as
Aaron Burr, and that he had only eight
more votes than Adams. In was only
after six days Of ballOting in the house
mat he was elected president. During
his term of Office his executive author
lty was more complete than had ever
before been known in American his
tory" Nevertheless, the administra-
ton of this "demagogue" was so salts
tying TO the nation that in the election
OF 1904 he received all but fourteen votes
of the entire electoral college As a
writer puts it: He had annihilated Op-
position and had become the idol of
four-tifths of the nation" History has
fashion of repeating itself. The words
Of Lowell can well be pOndered at this
time: 1T is a pTOyerb that to turn
radical into a conservative there
needs only to put him into office, be
cause then the license of speculation or
sentiment is limited by a sense of
responsibility"
The forces that are alisning them
selves in support of our Ubiquitous
Philippine policy are in substance the
same forces that supported the cause
OF human slavery. AS Wendell Phil
lips said: "A nation has set itself to do
evil, and wealth, party and piety defend
1t. The same class whom Beecher de-
nOunced as men who read their
ledgers for their duty, and feel in their
pockets for their consciences," are
ready to support the administration.
Today just as in 1850, the supreme
fear of northern cities is pecuniary."
The base, enslaying spirit of party eX-
erts its all-controlling influence from
the lowest ward heller UP to Senator
Hoar who maintains that this Philip
pine question is greater than parties.
than the happiness of prosperity of a
single generation and Then announces
that Mr. Mckinley will have no more
enthusiastic supporter than himself,
And the church 1t is not passing
strange that with few noble exceD-
tons, the prCfessed followers of the
divine man who taught: blessed are
the meek" should everywhere be apol-
ogists and meters Of war, force and
oppression amOag men,