The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-01-13
FIGURE m OUR poIIrIcs.


MORAL FIGURE m OUR POLITICS.
Willism y. Bryan the strongest Foroe5
in the Nation.
Thoughtful men in America are
coming steadily and rapidly to the
conclusion that William y. Bryan is
the strongest moral force In the poll.
tics OF the republic, says the Atlanta
News.
There has never been a cam paign
led by this great democrat in which
the moral note has nc. been heard,
clear and definite, above all other is.
isu ss Of the canvass. Right, just CT.
and truth, az Bryan saw them, have
been the key words Of every argument
that has pulsed the twoSmost clio
quent and stirring presidential cam.
paigns that the American hustipps
have ever known. Everywhere the
moral note has been dominant.
rake fer Instance the recent contri
button Ut the Outlook, perhaps the
most thoughtful utterance Of MIR.
Bryan since the ST. Lnuis convention.
and this is Its general paragraphs:
ihe democratic party IL now In
position to con>idar the moral issues
presented by pending problems, and
In the presentation of the moral
phases OF public questions Is the
strength OF the democratic position
today. Every great political cues
tion has an economic bearing, and
every economic question is at 1unda-
tion moral question. Tue line be-
tween right and wrong runs through
every problem of government, and the
final decision Of the problem is along
this line. No propJsitior Is better
supported by history thau thai
"righte usness exalteth a Nnaticn,"
and it is As true OF party aa it is OF
nation. In fact, no one IN form an
accurate JUDGMENT upon the fAdividu-
f. u man or upon groups OF 1hen who
NJ accept as his major premise
rests upon justicei and Is
Just In 81 far ias an in
rnrAMnaCt. this doctyIne he sue.
ceeds; there Is no U..kcr measure OF
success. In proportion as he departs
from this dootrine he fails. II for
time he seems to prosper, his pros.
perity Is only apparent, for no amount
or wealth or honor can compensate for
the doing Of an I'M lstice, and his tory
deals with men, with parties, and
with nations, according to one inex.
orab!c law-"The wages Of sin is
death"
Where was there ev.r a political
career more cleacl, pitched and moro
iesolutely maintained along high lines
than thi? 1t Is like a west wind
! driving the miasma of mniern nrli
tics to hear a man talk like that
when all men know that there is
man behind the words who has lived
the words to the Ii ne and the letter. {
There Is not a. stain on Bryan'st
public or private life, even in the
mirror which his enemies bod up be.
fore him. No wcnd that Lyman
Abbott, in the Outlook, saunch in.
dependent, and often staunch repub.
licAn. should edito tally declare:
There IL no miiunderstan ndiug Mr..
Bryan. He does hot guard his affirm.
atlons with SO many qualification that
no man can guess what he really af.
firms, nor leave 70 many loop-holes
for retreat In Case hi, doctrines fail
TO find adherents, nor use words In a
double sense, nor employ them to OBJ.
scufe his meaning, nor put on a sem
blaEce of wisdom and morality by in.
diligence in geEefal plattitudes. He
Is clear, detiuite, positive, concrete.
The intelligent and honest reader can
easily understand his meaning.
Whether he will be the democratic
candidate In 1908, or even the deme.
cratic leader In the interim, 1t is too
early to prophesy. But it cannot b.
doubted that he IS the clearest AM
ablest exponent, II not Of opinions en-
tertained, at least Of a political spirit
and purpose shared by a very great
number OF American citizens, and so
the representative Of a polit cal fore
which must be reckoned with, and
II reckoned with, must be under
stood"
II is not the language OF epthusi.
asm or OF partisanship, but simple
STATE ment OF truth which cha!lenle e the
candcr OF all true citizens, that Bry.
aus life and Bryan's arguments and
Bryan's record Of consistency and sin
certify have enriched the moral tone
Of the republic.
We have said years ago as we say
today, that IL William j. Brya1 lives
and labors for ten years longer on the
same lofty plane that he follows nov,
he will hold In this replblic the
position which William e Gladstone
held in our Mother England across
the sea.
A moral force in republic must
eventually bicome it's mightiest force.
Found His Dead Body.
The body of Neil S. Phelps, the
capitalist OF Battle Creek, Mich, who
IN vSf rinnalu diyannnarod a nunaho.