Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-11-04
BRYAN and
ROOSEVELT
EASTERN PAPERS ALLEGE their
Policies ALMOST IDENTICAL
There is Actually No Similarity Be-
tween the Two Men. They AdvO.
cate Doctrines as DiametrjCallv
Opposed as Those of Jefferson
and Hamilton.

Some Of the great newspapers Of our
day. euch, for instance, as the Washing.
ton Post, the New York Times and the
Philadelphia Press, are trying very hard
to mix up Roosevelt and Bryan. 1t looks
IS If these papers we're booming Bryan
in the interest Of another nomination for
Roosevelt.
The Press thinks that Mr.. Bryan will
be nominated. that he il no ordinary
man, and that no republican but Roose.
velt could defeat him. The Times is Of
the same opinion. The Post says: "Take
the tariff out. and what is the difference
between Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. ROOSEVELT"
And again: "If Mr.. Bryan were presi-
dent, wherein would he reverse the poll.
cies of MIR. Roosevelt?"
Now, there is just the same difference,
or more difference, between Mr.. Bryan
and Mr.. Roosevelt, than there was be.
tween Jefferson and Hamilton. Bryan
is opposed 10 tho "big stick" policy of
Roosevelt; and this constitutes radical
difference. Bryan is opposed to Roose-
velt's idea of granting immunity to
criminal individuals who, like Paul Nor.
ton, do the dirty work of the corpora.
tions; while Roosevelt is the parent and
defender Of that policy. Here is another
radical difference, Bryan believes in the
principles Of the Declaration of indie.
pendence and all the principles of Jeffer.
son, while Roosevelt despises and de.
nounces those principles. On all funda-
mental principles they are as far apart az
the poles. Their differences are irrecon.
cilable. Bryan believes as Jackson and
Taney believed respecting the dangers
and evils Of the banking system, while
Roosevelt favors to the utmost the great.
est of the national banks, and the whole
system Of concentrating and aiding the
money power.
Bryan opposes the substituting of ship.
owners, while Roosevelt favors it. Bryan
is opposed to government by injunction,
but Roosevelt favors it. No two men
were ever more completely and univer.
sally opposed in theory or in practice.
Yet we hear of Roosevelt Democrats and
Bryan-Republicans; and we find Roose-
velt's supporters trying to create the i'm.
preston that he is pursuing Bryan's
theories. The silly subterfuge is we'll
financed, but it will not work. There ia,
however, this similarity in the political
situation of Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.
Bryan: Neither can unite his party in
his own support. Leaving Mr.. Roose.
velt's fate to the tender mercies of his
opponents in his own party, it is most
unfortunate that Mr.. Bryan, who has go
many staunch friends, cannot draw all
democrats to bis standard. If he could,
he would undoubtedly be elected; for
the unsuccessful faction OF the republi-
cans will be at least lukewarm for the
nominees of the don liant faction of the
next Republican National Convention.
1t may be necessary, therefore, for the
Democratic Convention to seek some
more available candidate than Mr.. Bryan
for the sake of success for the minority
party must be united to achieve victory
over the party Of great moral ideas, but
of endless moral transgressions.