Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-21
OUTSIDE POINT OF VIEW

| Within the past year or two Il no.
| ticeable change of opinion concerning
| William j. Bryan has been much in
| evidence. In republican ranks many
voters say that Roosevelt is only car
rying on many reforms Bryan preach
| ed as necessary four and eight years
! ago Whereas during the days of the
/ l6 to | discussion Bryan was fanatic,
| an extremist and an unsafe man TO
trust with public office. in the years
| that followed Bryan has grown, evolv-
| ed as 1T WERE into statesman. man
entirely fit to fill the presidential chair.
| And his guarded words abroad, the
| good common sense he evidently had
/ and used during the numerous public
| functions, while NE journeyed around
/ the world, seemed to justify this
growing belief that William j. Bryan
had with increasing years, added
much to his knowledge of men and
methods. In Other words the extrem-
! list had become the conservative.
But was he? Hardly had he touch
ed the shores of his native land be-
fore he uttuered his now famous doc
trine of governmental control of trunk
| lines of railroads, and state control OF
railroads operating entirely within the
borders of state. The latter para
graph was a sop thrown to state SOW
ereignity vote of the south but the
whole is SO thoroughly tinged with So
cialisn that Bryan was at once placed
back again in the ranks OF the aRlta-
tors demagogues and impracticables.
this by the thinking men OF both OF
the great political parties OF thls
country. His numerous following eX-
plantations have failed to explain.
Even before he reached New York
his fiat went forth that Sullivan, the
democratic committeeman of illinois,
must be removed. unfit for the oHlce
In democratic ranks. because he was IN
the employ of a gigantic and un1ust
combine Because such a boss could
not serve two masters, the trust ana
the people. That sounded well. 1t reac
we'll, and while it seemed poor pohtlcs'
it showed apparently desire for clean
notifies. And right here in Iowa in ms
Des Moines speech, he said If 1T could
he proven that the democratic state
central committee was receiving money
roads, the member receiving such mon
ey should resign his office The Du-
buque democratic Telegraph, proved to
it's own satisfaction as we'll as many
others, that such was the case, and yet
we have heard of no designations, nor
has Bryan repudiated any of his Iowa
'henchmen.
And here is another count in the In
dictment of Bryan versus the People OF
the United States. A week previous to
the election in New York, VIM. j..
Bryan said that '.he hoped that Hearst
would be elected governor of New
York a she deserved to be- To the
minds of sober thinking men, demo-
Gratis and republicans, these words
ought to end all of Bryan's claim to
any place of trust and office. Any man
that cannot see or understand that the
success of Hearst is public calamity.
has a terribly warped estimate ana
Judgment. Mr. Bryan has a full and
complete knowledge of Hearst and his
methods. No man is better judge
and critic of yellow journalism than
Bryan. Bryan probably knows much
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his paid political workers, that the
public is not familiar with. In the face
of all this Bryan endorses Hearst ana
Hearstism. And so Bryan kills Bryan
To nominate Bryan for the presidents
chair after such unequivocal alignment
with the worst form of socialism that
Hearst is the exponent thereof, means
another democratic ticket will be IN
the field, one that self-respecting dem