Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-05-13
His Two Fatal Defects.


such distinct and aggressive type
that it hns availed itself of the Presi-
dental Office to make him the pre-
eminent and predominant figure of his
party. While other Presidents have
gone before National conventions with
formidable antagonists, like Blaine in
1884 and Mckinley at Minneapolis in
1892, this mans personality so informs
and distinguishes the Administration
and the party that all other possible
candidates have long since gone the
way of the illogical and malapropos.
The fact is apprehended by Demo-
Gratis of keen vision. While the more
obtuse are nursing various fond objects
like negro domination, Panama Revolu-
tion, tariff, trusts, money and postal
frauds, hoping to see them habilitated
into issues, the Democrats of sense
have realized that Roosevelt himself is
to be the issue and that it is upon him
that true strategy requires them to di-
rect their fire. Each party differs so
much within itself concerning tariff
reform, the trusts, the Philippines and
civil service that the force of any plat
form utterances must be something
abated by the CONSCIOUSNESS of a minor
ivy IN the party who disbelieve it. The
candidate, however presents clear-cut
issue. The man will be above the
plank.
The first of the Presidents two great
faults is that he is unsafe from busi-
ness point OF view. He rushes pell-
nell at the coal barons and the railroad
mergers and the agents of manufactur-
ing corporations in departments at
Washington, so that the trusts are
afraid of him. They are not alarmed
without cause; for the pproachabil-
ity of Theodore Roosevelt to the unlaw-
full desires of certain "ousiness inter.
ests" was known in Wall street when
he was Governor of New York. They
didn't want him again for Governor,
and they wouldn't have permitted him
to be nominated for e-President il
they could have helped it, had they sup
posed he would accede to the Presi-
dency. Yes, the President is far from
safe for these Wall street worthless in
whose behalf Hill will nominate Par.
ker isafe) or Murphy will nominate
Mcclellan (also safe).
The second of the Presidents two
great faults is that he is unsafe from
the anti-business point of view. We
have this from Mr.. Bryan himself, who
is always looking for a believer in the
man before the dollar. Mr.. Roosevelt
will not mount his Rozinante and 90
forth to do battle with the windmills of
property. He has nothing against COR
porations merely because they are cor
porations, as honest MIR. Bryan has,
but ventures to judge them by their
acts and by the law. He assumes to
think that business may be conducted
legitimately. even on large scale, and
he does not propose to destroy the
trusts by destroying all business and
property. This sublimated sense of
discrimination stamps him as an un-
safe man in the eye OF all populists,
socialists, anarchists.
Between the toiling masses of Wall
street, therefore and the aggregation of
sense and disinterestedness known as
Bryan, the Republican President and
candidate will have to content himself
with the approval and support of those
who believe that corporation should
obey the law, but when it has obeyed
the law it should be proof against med
dlesome and predatory interference.
That he is too hostile to trusts to suit
the anthracite roads or merger promot-
ers,. and too friendly to them to harass
them all alike without cause, is not an
offense but merit in the eye OF those
who have the discernment to see that
business thrives most safely and in the
long run most protitably when II is re-
strained within legitimate bounds, and
that the dollar and the man will get
along better under business conditions
which will not separate the dollar from
the man.-Oregonian.
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