The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-11-28
bryan OK DEMOCRACY.

William Jennings Bryan has sta
toned himself at the fords OF JordonI
and none but Democrats may pass
He has pronounced the shibboleth OF
true Democracy. He has analysed
Roosevelt and found him political
|hybred. He lays down criteria for
the faithful, and he will thin out the
ranks. until none but the simon pure
viii remain. Four principles are
Democratic, four principles are un'
Democratic. and four principles are
I'M Rooseveltian. he says, railroad
| regulation, enforcement of antitrust
laws, income tax and labor arbitra'
ton are Democratic and Roosevelt.
ian; tariff reform, direct vote for sen
lators, restriction of Injunction in
labor troubles and Filipino indepen
ldence, are strictly Democratic.
Bryan also sums up some Roose
welt politics un-Democratic; ship
subsidies. national incorporation OF
railroads; interference of state rights
by the treaty power, and asset cur
rency.
The whole general analysis stamps
Bryan as no Democrat, Populist OF
Republican, but a rank demagogue.
Generalities are Bryan's special.
ties. In the first place, think of this
unregenerate free silyerite laying
down the qualifications for a party
that stood for the single gold stand
ard in the last campaign. II Bryan
is stifl for free silver and the party
Is still for the single gold standard,
he is not even of that faith.
Bryan is a lawyer and yet he does
not know that law is made by imph.
cation more than arbitrary dictum
What not to advocate the restriction
of injunction in labor questions and
not in all other questions under con-
ditons exactly similar. It simply in
dicates that Bryan Is up to his old
trick of playing to the classes. He
expects to buy the labor vote in a
block by advocating such a heresy.
II he was honest, he would advocate
some specific limitation of the pow
ers of injunction. but he knows he
could not do that without violating
the principles of equity. The injunc-
ton, though sometimes abused is
one of the safe guards OF our per
lsonal rights.
The idea of a candidate for the
presidency declaring that the treaty
making power Of the United States
does not supercede state rights
where they conflict. The treaty max.
lingg power is the one of the fune-
tons Of supreme government, and
the United States could not take
rank among the nations Of the earth
without the absolute, unqualified
right of making treaties. Mr.. Bryan
must know that in all instances tbs
question of the right of the govern
ment to make treaty depends on tbs
nature of the case in point. The con
stitution and the supreme courts
have long ago decided the principles
on which the governments rights are
based, and the question becomes ons
OF sound Judgment when it arises
Mr.. Bryan might as we'll go back tC
the old personal---very. issues Of
taxation without representation" o.
take up the question of the right Of
search, as to raise such dead issue
> as state rights and the treaty making
power.
Mr.. Bryan's speech satisfies NJ
upon only one point. and that is hi
, utter lack of an issue for the ap
! preaching presidential campaign
, Not one of the propositions he ha'
made Will support a candidacy, fol
, they do not amount TO a policy o
government. He has succeeded onl,
in unmasking the utter vacuity o
national Democracy.
The only possible issue that coul'
be evolved out of bis pleadings
[ that of Roosevelt VS.. Bryan. In 1891
Bryan represented something rea
: and he was taken seriously. New h
1 is to be taken about as seriously a
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