Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-20
BRYAN THE ONLY ONE.
Inventor of All the Good Ideas Roose
 welt is Now Advocating.

Washington, July 20.-It is far cry to the next democratic national convention, but all the politicians who come to the national capital are talking nothing else but the fight that is two years off and the gen. eral consensus of opinion is that if the convention were to be held to- morrow William J. Bryan would be nominated by exclamation. We'll why shouldn't he be? asks man who is posted on the goings on at Wash ington. He is the inventor of everything that has been asked for by Theodore Roosevelt; of every thing that was passed by the last ses- sion of the congress that was of any peculiar interest to the people, and why should not the inventor of machine be acclaimed by the people as we'll as the man who uses it? Ev- erything that Roosevelt has advocat- ed in his messages to congress that has been worth shucks to the people, is democratic doctrine. It was adyo- cated either by democratic conven- tion in the platform, or else some democrat has blazed the way by speech in congress on the subject, long time before Roosevelt ever thought of saying a word in favor of anything that was passed by the con- gress.
 A glance at any democratic na- tional platform since 1896, or the Congressional Record since 1898, will prove the truth of my assertions. As long as year and five months be- fore Roosevelt ever said word about railroad rate regulation, speech was made on the floor of the house by the Hon John Sharp Williams of Mis- sissippi, the democratic floor leader, that read exactly as the message of Roosevelt on the subject and nobody doubts that from 1t Roosevelt got much if not all the inspiration when he wrote the message asking congress to enact railroad rate legislation. If he had stuck to his text and insisted on the same policy advocated by Will Hams we would have had law that would have had teeth; but he went back on all and everything that he had asked for and on everybody who haa VI usttu mn III tuc tIduSdGllDu.
 People seem to think that should Bryan be nominated by the demo- crats that Teddy will be forced to run by his party as the only man who would stand any chance to beat him. Those who know Roosevelt at short range know that if such a proposition is put up to him, Teddy will accept it, no matter what he has said to the contrary, and many peo- pie believe that he is working to that end right now. It would give the peo- pie of the entire country a chance to choose between the genuine thing and the pinehbeck. For if ever there was a piece of pinchbeck in the shape of politician in the whole range of human history. it Is the man now in the White house. And I speak advisedly when I say politician. He is one of the best politicians who ever sat in the White house. and one of the luckiest. He came as near being dragged from his pedestal upon which the people have placed him, when he tackled Tillman, Bailey and Chandler. but he wriggled out of that predicament by jumping on the meat packers. whom everybody hate and despise. He knew that fact and play ed on it for all 1t was worth and the trick won. Everybody immediately forgot the railroad rate incident and the fact that Roosevelt had played a double game and sworn bad faith and in the end had surrendered to the roads and gave them the broad court review. and at once began heaping praises on his head for hitting the hated meat trust. Have you ever thought of that7
 Do you rember that the two things followed on each others head7 We'll. that's the way he played 1t on the people and they swallowed the bait, hook and sinker.