Amador ledger., 1900-09-07

If, peradventure, William J. Bryan
were unhappily to be chosen president
OF the United States, he would not be
IN Office quarter of year before con-
sternatlon would reign throughout the
ranks of the forces who conspired to
elect him. His champions, who are
now reassuring electors with the declar-
alton that the 16 to plank in the Bryan
platform is only there for consistency's
sake. would experience nervous chill
when they found that he was ordering
United States bonds paid in silver and
was using the power of patronage to
force open the mints to the free and un-
limited coinage of the white metal.
Those comforting Democratic optimists
who declare that if Bryan were elected
there would be no great change in the
Philippine policy would have a rude
awakening when they found that Mr..
Bryan had ordered the soldiers home from
the islands leaving foreign and domes-
tic interests entirely to the mercies of
the semi-savage Tagalos. Those who
now profess with him lively fear of
mllitarism would find such fears not al
together groundless when Mr. Bryan, by
proclamation, had warned the combined
powers of Europe that if they inter
fered, in the interests of their own peo-
pie, with internicine strife in the Philip
pine Islands it would be considered an
act OF war against the United States
And when his late associates came to
demonstrate with him he would call
their attention to the platform adopted
by them at Kansas city and say: 'I
meant what l said if you didn't, and
would then turn with undiminished
zeal to the attempt to do the impossible
things he has promised in his platform
to do. The human mind stands incap-
able of expression before the possibilities
which might follow the elevation to the
presidential office of this imperious, in
tractable, adventurous enthusiast. In the
hope of smothering what he calls COM
mercial greed he would stife commerce.
To break down what he regards as the
money power he would paralyze indus
try and flood the country with an ire
deemable and deprecated currency.
To destroy the gold standard of the
world he would range the United States
with China and Mexico on standard of
discredited silver. To uphold the Mon
roe doctrine in the Orient, where it was
never meant that it should be applied,
he would run all the risks of precipi-
tating war with the world The presi-
dental Office demands of its occupant
70. oh ta6
power; zeal for the right tempered with
the tactfulness of trained diplomacy;
adherence to continuing polity rein
forced by such faith in the onward
march of high national destiny as
will give the chief executive patience
to await the favorable moment for
catching the tide of human events at
its flood rather than to attempt, with
nervous haste, to force that current into
experimental channels or reverse its di-
rection altogether. President Mckinley
has shown himself to possess these high
qualifications in pre-eminent degree.
Mr.. Bryan has demonstrated his utter
want of any of the safeguarding re-
quirements for an executive office and
in the event of his election the only in
surance against national disaster would
lie in the possibility that a rebellious
congress, ,defying the power of patronage,
would intrench itself squarely across his
path or impeach him at the bar of the
senate for tyranously attempting to
wreak his will in defiance of counsel
and at the cost of the public peace and
welfare