The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-10
vINDICTATiON OF
BRYAN'S POLICIES.
New Orleans States.

During the last two or three days OF
the recent session OF congress the
members Of the House on both sides
were granted the privilege OF making
campaign speeches. and among those
tunity was Representative Burgess. OF
Texas. To him the Congressional
Record credits the following bit OF
fervid language:
''We shall nominate as our stand
ard bearer in 1908 that man who has
stood for years for every popular con-
tention advocated by the present oc
cupant of the White House; for in the
language OF the distinguished gentle
man from Kentucky in this House.
Hon. Ollie NJ. DANES, there is not a
single issue advocated by Theodore
Roosevelt that is popular with the
American people to-day but that bears
the bloody stain of Bryan's faithful
feet.
While some fault may be found with
the metaphor Mr.. Burgess employed
there Is not the least doubt that he
got his, facts straight, and the popu-
larity which President Roosevelt now
enjoys is the result of his adoption
and adherence to the policies advo-
Gated by William Jennings Bryan for
the past ten years. The Washington
rost does not like Mt. Bryan, nor
does 1t take any trouble to conceal
the fact, but 1t admits that he has
doomed up as even a more command
ing figure in our national politics than
he was in 1896, and the tide of public
sentiment Is setting Enthusiastically in
his direction. In this connection 1t
says:
Let us be perfectly frank about
it: 1t is good for the conscience, and
1t Is known of all men that the party
which nominated William Mckinley
for president in 1896 and the millions
who elected him would have conteui-
plated with frozen horror the fiery
policies that have made Theodore
Roosevelt the idol Of the people.
General Grant said: The Demo
cratic party of this year camps on the
ground occupied by the Republican
party Of last year; but 1t has come to
this, that the Republicans of 1906 oc-
cupy the ground Of the Democrats Of
lS96-So far as concerns all living is
sues. Then there is a method in this
demand for Bryan. Tradition and SUI
perstition exclude Col. Roosevelt
from the calculations of 1908; his in
clination and his pledge also exclude
him. Then, II we are going to keep
up the hot gospel of latitudinarian-
ism, who so we'll equipped to lead as
the gentleman who went up and down
the earth proclaming it ten years
ago."
It is impossible to mistake the
swing Of the political pendulum, or
the fact that the radicalism so fierce
ly denounced in 1896 Is the inspiring
conservatism of this year of our
Lord. The Organism despised and
condemned a few years ago, will be
stronger and more inspiring In 1908,
because in all history there Is no
proof that revolutions ever go back
ward. This accounts for the Bryan
wave that is now sweeping over the
country and gaining force with eacn
passing day. Our Washington con-
temporary. realizing the situation,
and frankly accepting 1t, says: The
Republican President and Republican
party have made Organism the only
war, and If Bryan is inaugurated
president in 1908, he will owe his vic
tory to the work of the Fifty-ninth
Congress that out organs Bryan"
We do not share the view thus ex-
pressed by the Washington Post. Il
seems to us that the fact has been
made rather clear that Mr.. Bryan saw
end understood the evils and corrup-
ton to which the country was a prey
some years before they became clear