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70 TEE rDEruR or TMI BUN--stvs Nohoavo
Imagination can conceive Of any OF the Prsnl-
dents OF the United states pursuing the once
by gaddinx over the country. like q oom-
nsrcial basman. a. sryan does. soAeaeang
a nomination BY tho DennooraeSo party 70 DO
for 4 third time Ne candidate. He fAncies
himself the modern Jefferson. bat che ancient
Jefferson was never q eravelllng seig-seeker.
PosalbIy Roosevelt thinks he N the modern
Jaolgson. but tho 9noient Jacobson hated the
ancient Jefferson With all ths intensity OF his
vehement nature. Historians say tney old
not speak 70 each other after Jaceeon's sx-
pioslve words at Richmond In 1907. He used
10 say OF Jefferson that he believed he would
some time be unanimously chosen 20 De
President. az washington was. Perhaps the
modern Jefferson n delUded By Q similar
fancy.
u 10 very silly Of the modern Jefferson 20
insist. az he touts his candidacy, that the
Republican party has stolen Democratic
thunder" Possibly Roosevelt has ApproDri-
ated some Of Bryans crudlties. but Roosevelt
10 not the Republican party. nor IL Bryan che
Democratic party. that refused to nOuninaes
him In 1904.
The Republican party distinctly and ON
clalIy declared by its national conimittse.
which conducted its campaign for Roosevelt
In 1904. that e did not seek the destruction
by Legislation or injury by fictitious hgitA-
ton OF legitimate enterprise through sreas
manufacturing SYSTEMS. by which proSuctton
10 cheapened. prices OF manufactures re-
duced and permanency Of employment as
sured." Roosevelt has by writing ana speecn
egged on such destruction. and by 90 doing
has initiated Bryan. The modern Jefferson
and the modern Jackson have worked on the
same lines.
ne is ridiculous for Bryan 20 claim inter
state railroad regulation and f~crbiddtng or
restraint OF interstate trade ~ Deinocratic
inventions. and In origin a. exclusively Demo
cratic pollcies. Regulation OF interstats
commerce by railways could not have begun
before railways carried on that
The late Mr.. Justice Miller has exc
planned In his volume OF lectures jpage +tD
how by his ruling on Q case In his ctrcuis
In 1854 he started Federal control Of inter-
state railway He persisted IN
the Supreme Court tul. In 1888. he carried
through the decision In the Illinois caee.
which caused or led up to the enactment OF
the Interstate m law OF the next
year. That legislation was not Democratic
In any exclusive sense. In fact. the apptios-
ton Of the interstate commerce clause % the
Constitution Co railways and Co t~ranspoTts-
ton on LANE originated and began in the
Federal courts.
IL is equally ridiculous for Bryan to say
that Democrats invented and applied the
plan for preventing restraint Of Interstate
trade formulated In thu sherman law OF
1890. Democrats. as a rule. sneersd &C the
legislation. took no stock in IT, and nearly
all wise men In both political parties are now
condemning 10.
Even more fat witted Is Il for Bryan to
pretend that Democrats Invented and pushed
through Congress the Elktns Taw and the
several amendments Of tho Hepburn and
sherman laws.
The record OF the Fiftieth and FIfty-secoud
Congresses refutes Bryan on every point.
The only Affirmative Democratic lesislation
against trusts was inserted In this WILSON,
German tariff law OF 1894. That ives not
very stupendous, but a. q rule tho Demo-
Gratis when they have had legislative or sx-
ecutive power have treated corporations and
monopolies with good sense. as they did I'm the
Democratic national platform which nominated
Chief Justice Parker.
The opinion Of corporations held by a ma
jorlty OF the Republican party may De one
thing. and the opinion held by Roosevelt may
be a very different thing; and % 40 between
the Democracy and Bryan.
Roosevelt may nave bsen stealing" poll
oiss from Bryan. or the last named stealing"
from the irst named. and yet neither party
stealing" policies from the other. 1ooes-
welt and Bryan have been selr-seeking rivals
Of one another. each endsavorinR 10 infame
innammable voters against the manageTs Of
corporations. until 10 the end they broughs
to pass the panic and existing currency dis
order.
Which OF the two has had priority In In
venting wicked issues against the other IL h
not easy IN say. Roosevelt got q good start
with his predatory utteranoes as Governor
OF New York on January ., 1900. but Bryan
antedates him by wild words In tho previous
September addressed 10 Q trust conference
at Chicago. Possibly those words inspired
Roosevelt's. four months afterward. And
vet In the next June only I've Democrats
voted In the House OF Representatives for q
constitutional amendment giving power to
Congress to regulate State corporations as
Bryan wished. DEMOCRAT.
new YORK. November ~.