Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1907-09-12
FOR HOUSE OF DELEGATES:
DESKINS GREEN.
RIDICULOUS BRYAN.

Mr.. Bryan is making himself ridicu-
lous as critic. He is so hard run for
something to say about Mr.. Roosevelt
and Judge Taft in the way of criticism
that he is becoming ridiculous, even in
the eyes of Democrats. Not only is he
absurd but so inconsistent that it pro-
vokes the ridicule of such Democratic
newspapers as the Richmond Times
Dispatch and the News Leader.
A short time ago Mr.. Bryan assailed
the national Incorporation idea of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, and declared it was a
Capitalization idea This caused the
Times-Dispatch to ask for an explana-
ton of the difference in principle be-
tween national incorporation, advocated
by Mr.. Roosevelt, and national license.
advocated by Mr.. Bryan. The Times
Dispatch might have extended its in
quiry little further and asked, IF
national incorporation is a centraliza-
ton idea, what is national government
ownership"
Secretary of War Taft recently made
a speech to the people of Oklahoma in
which he gave them some very sound
advice both as to national and state pol
itics. The great Peerless" found it
convenient to go down to Oklahoma
City and try to respond to what had
been said by Judge Taft Of course
Mr.. Bryan was enthusiastically receiv-
ed, by ten thousand or more people. q"
there always being that many people
lying around loose and ready to shout
themselves hoarse over the greatest po-
htical fakir this country has ever pro-
duced. And Mr.. Bryan expressed
his disfavor of the advice of Secretary
Taft to the people of Oklahoma to vote
down the constitution prepared for that
territory, and postponement of State
hood. While Mr.. Bryan thought the
advice of Mr.. Taft might have been
given through a desire to prevent the
admission of Oklahoma with its seven
probable Democratic electoral votes,
he pretended to take a more generous
view of the matter, ard ascribe the ad-
vice to the disposition of Taft to post
pone everything. Thereupon the Great
Commoner proceeded to dub the Great
Secretary of War as the Great Post
poner." Mr.. Bryan said: HE prom
ises to win the title of the Great Post
poner. -
Mr.. Bryan would have acted more
reasonably and his utterances been
more consistent if he had continued to
play the part of accuser. 1t will be re-
membered that only short time ago
he was engaged in accusing President
Roosevelt and other prominent Republi-
cans of appropriating his (Bryan's)
ideas on various important public ques-
lions. If he had continued to play the
role of accuser, he could have with some
consistency charged that Mr.. Taft was
trying to rob him of his lawfully ac-
quired right to the title of the "Great
Postponer. If Mr.. Bryan is not the
owner of the title, who is? He made
free silver the paramount issue in 1906;
and very artfully asked the question at
banquet in London, eff the United
States could do so well walking on one
leg (the gold standard) what might it
not have done if it had been walking for
the last ten years on both legs?" He
still believes in the double standard and |
free and unlimited coinage of silver at
the ratio of 16 to /, but he has post
poned that paramount issue to more
convenient season. He asserted that
imperialism" was the paramount is
sue in 1900, but he has also postponed
that question for use at a more conven-
lent season.
After landing at New York from his
trip around the world, in his Madison
Square Garden speech, he declared that
Government ownership was the vital
but he soon began to back
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