Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-10-27
rlr. BRYAN on the Issues.

gives his reasons for supporting
Parker and Davis in the present
campaign. He begins by pointing
out that Judge Parker's declara-
tion concerning thegold standard is
binding only upon Judge Parker
himself and not upon the Demo-
cratic party. This assurance may
be pleasing to the free silver Demo-
Gratis but it will not hasten the re-
turn of gold Democrats to the
party fold. Mr.. Bryan goes on to
discuss the issues on which he and
Judge Parker are agreed, discus
sing militarism, Imperialism and the
race question. Mr.. Bryan ought
to know better than to regard the
Booker T. Washington episode as
a possible attempt on the part OF
President Roosevelt to establish
general social equality between the
races. Mr.. Bryan conveys the
impression that he, Bryan, profess
sed champion of the common peo-
pie and ofthe rights of man, would
not have admitted to his table a
negro of such distinguished char
acter and service as Booker T.
Washington. The less the Demo-
Gratis have to say about this matter
the better it will be for themselves.
1t is not the Republicans who are
injecting the negro question into
politics.
The old criticisms upon the al
legged war-like spirit of the Presi-
dent are repeated by Mr.. Bryan.
He is careful, however, not to spec
ify when and where President
Roosevelt has sought to embroil
the nation in strife, either foreign
or domestic. The same silly
charge has been brought against
every strong President, including
Jackson. We may remark in
passing that had Jackson or Roose-
welt been President in 1860, in
stead of Buchanan, there would
have been no civil war. To-day it
is recognized by intelligent lovers
of peace the world over, that the
personality of Theodore Roosevelt
is a most powerful factor for peace.
The Judgment of such men as
Hay, Root and Taft will carry
more weight than will this base
less criticism repeated by Mr..
Bryan. The most inane charge of
any that have yet been brought
against the President if that he is
planning to succeed himself in
1908, on the ground that the un-
completed term of President Nc
Kinley is not to be counted. Mr..
Bryan bases this charge on the
failure of Mr.. Roosevelt to pledge
himself not to be candidate for
reelection in 1908.
Mr.. Bryan brings forward moth
ing new in his discussion of the
Philippine question. His content
ion is that American sovereignty
over the Filipinos is oppression to
them and a danger to American
liberty. He does not explain why
he advised the Democratic Sena-
tors to ratify the Treaty of Paris
in 1893, thereby endorsing the act
by which the Filipinos came under
American sovereignty. If it is
our duty to scuttle out of the Phil
ippines now, it was our duty to
have hept out in 1908.
Mr.. Bryan in effect, confesses
that Parker is negative candi-
date. He thinks that Judge
Parker may be useful in the way
of extinguishing the policies of the
Republican party, so preparing the
way for the advent of the Bryanic
Kingdom later on. This line of
argument is not very fattering to
Judge Parker, and if it has any eff
feet at all, it will be in the way of
alternating rather than by winning
votes for the Parker ticket.
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