The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-18
ERYAN's LATENT STRENGTH.
Can Carry New York Against Any
 Representative of Rcactionaries.

AtNHhNSIiiNNtAN0 VI ANNuNtlOAhuAlNAs
 Every election, general or local, that has been held in this country since the American people embraced with Roosevelt the radicalism that on first presentation they rejected with Bryan, Indicates that if the Common CT, instead of Parker, had contested New York in 1904 he would have fur ther reduced the Republican plurality correspondingly with the cut he made. from that of 1896 to that of 1900. So. overwhelming had been the change of. public opinion concerning radicalism, however, that, with the Democratic candidate out of that saddle three years ago and MT. Roosevelt the can didate climbing into it, the Repubr- can party won this State by larger plurality than it had scored against Bryan four years before. The very weakness of the Democratic party in 1S96 had become the invincihle strength of the Roosevelt Republican party in 1904, and the very strength of the Republican issues under Me Kinley became the pitlful weakness of the Democrats ln 1904 under Parker,
 That is what we mean when we say that whether Bryan can carry this State next year depends on who is nominated for President by the Re publican party, Our Judgment of the public's temper regarding the pro- gressive movement begun by Mir. Roosevelt and the reactionary attitud of those elements that are bitterly opposed quite impartially to Mir. Roosevelt and to Mir, Bryan alike, is that there Is not the slightest doubt that next year the Commoner could carry New York against a Knox, a Fairbanks or a Cortelyou, He could do this, if we understand anything at all about the sentiments of the peo- pie of New York and of the United States, because they know that he rep resents their views and their purpos- es vastly better than any of the other three whom we have mentioned, The voters of the country do not. byfahy manner of means, indicate that they believe Bryan has the capacity to do for them the things they are deterrn- ined to have done before they relln- quish their present mission of making political revolutions, But they know that Bryan at least Is in sympathy with them, and nothing could convince them that Knox, e Fairbanks or a CorteNou would dream of fulfilling the resolve of the people or of serving their interests before the special in- terests, And the American voters. without the slightest hesitation. will choose the man who Is for them, though he may lack the gifts to per form their program, over any candi- date who is known or merely suspect- ed to be against the ful1llment Of their will,
 Nothing could he more foolish for the Republican party and more stupid 1 for anybody than to ignore this vivid truth-that Bryan will carry New York and the country against any rep ressntative Of the reactionaries. who. ever he may be, Ou the other hend, l a Republican committed by both word and deed to the progressive program of the American people and of I prov- ed capacity to get actual resaits, the right results, that they are resolved to obtain, will beat Mir, Rryan in New York and in the nation ju=t as surely as the sun will rise and set on election daN And in considering such a man taa minds of the voters so naturally exclude all ethers to-day that it is su- peTfueus to giTe further description of nilp taan the mere mention oF tAe name ee Charles Evans Hughes, gov fernar of New York.-New York Press Rep.