Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-08-24

published in the Chilean press OF the
10Th. And it may be we'll to note
that so thoroughly has scientific dis
c0vcry opened the Book of Nature
that the record Was read by scismo-
graph at Washington simultaneously,
or nearly SO, with the great convul-lon
of nature, nearly 5000 miles away.
Mr.. Bryan Individual!sm.
Some of the pewlt papers are criti-
cising Bryan for his vigorous rebuke to
Roger Sullivan, National Committee.
man, for his recreancy to principle.
They seem 80 think that it WAS "poor
politics" 10 attempt to make repudia-
ton of Sullivan condition of his own
endorsement by the Chicago Conven-
ton. That depends considerably upon
the way the matter appears from diff
fcrent standpoints. 1t must be adj
mi,,ed that when looked at from the
narrow bounds of the professional pol
itican, it does seem to have been
rather unwise, if not altogether mex
pcdient, when personal success is the
controlling incentive; but it must be
considered that Mr.. Bryan is not out
gathering in endorsements; that it is
quite evident that the people want
him for Chief Magistrate much more
than he wants the office OF President,
and that he can, therefore, act with
absolute independence.
1t is that trait OF character which
has endeared him to the masses. He
does what he believes to be right; de-
fines duty as thinks is right, and avows
principles he knows to be founded
upon right, as conditions may at the
time warrant. That is why he still
believes that bimetallism was the pro.
per policy in 1896 and 1900. He still
believes he was right, but that the in.
creased length OF the golden leg has
enabled Finance to hobble along and
has probably made as much progress
as if on two legs not counting the
inconvenience which has been mani.
tested by the wabbling gait that sent
call money to cent.-per-cent. premium
few months ago, in an impending
panic, and required all the conserva.
tism and nerve of Wall street and the
U. S. Treasury combined to keep from
a terrible rupture. He is willing to
admit that monometallism, with plen-
ty Of the standard metal, may meet the
requirements at home and abroad,
although the Treasury now has to call
on the despised metal as an aid in af-
fording tho subsidiary coin that is
found almost solely in the pockets
Of the poorer classes and is never
boarded in the vaults of the rich.
Mr.. Bryan is content that the issue
which has virtually ceased to exist, ex-
cept as indicated by an occasional
groundswell, shall be relegated to the
past, but he does claim the right to
place flowers over the resting. place OF
valued aid to national thrift and
greatness, which had contributed quite
as much towards producing conditions
of general prosperity as his yellow
brother, Gold.
1t should by this time be pretty we'll
conceded that if Mr.. Bryan cannot be
accorded the right to live up to his
conscience, he will not pose as a can.
didate for even the highest Office with
in the gift of the people. 1t may,
therefore, be just as we'll understood
that when he declares that bimetal.
lism is not now an issue before the
people and is no. essential under
changed conditions, nor likely to be,
that he means it and will live up to
to the policy it has quite firmly in
stalled.