The daily sentinel., 1908-05-05
WATTERSON SAYS
HE IS FOR BRYAN
Editorial Of Famous Kentuckian Attracting Attention
Throughout the Nation--- -"What Chance Has Johnson
Over the Dead Body Of BryanY

The following characteristic edi-
torial from the pen of Henry Waiter
son, the famous and brilliant editor
of the Louisville Courier-Journal
has attracted more attention than
any editorial written on the political
question in months. Ut has been
given republication by practically ev-
cry great paper of the country. 1t
was written last week:
1.-TWO weeks in Washington and
two weeks in New York-rather in
the thick of it-leaves among other
impressions the idea, or fancy, which
ever you may care to call 1t, that
both parties are treading on eggs and
that some of the eggs are rotten.
You are not going to put that
deaths head upon us again, are
you?'' said a distinguished Demo-
cratic senator, referring to Bryan.
with something more of heat than of
relevancy or justice. Why, 1 an
swered, what are you kicking about?
Whilst there was a chance |, not you,
made an honest effort for an alter
native. You and the like of you
were as silent as the tomb. You lay
fiat down and let him tramp all over
you. ! got no second to my motion.
The only response that came to me
from you gentlemen in congress was
second your own motion, you SON
of-a-gun!'
Eastern Papers Unfair.
'Said an eminent Democratic edi-
tor of the South Atlantic seaboard.
Well beat him. meaning Bryan, for
the nomination, don't you doubt it.
And / replied, Suppose you do beat
him, what will you get for your vic
nf 100Io'
The New York newspapers,
Astounding in conceit and ignorance,
suffering from both provincialism
and landlordism-some of them, as
Parnell used to say of Ireland, from
absentee landlordism'-are at this
time especially misleading and un-
fair. They have acquired the anti
Bryan habit, and, seeing nothing the
other side of Jordan, or Jersey, 1T
seems impossible for them to adjust
themselves to actual conditions and
the rest of the country. They imagine
that money will do all things. and
think that, as New York has the
money, New York should and Will
dominate all things.
Truly, DR.. Eliot of Harvard hit
the nail on the head when he de
clared that the need of the time is
publicity. Theoretically, the people
rule. In practice, things are done
by few gathered together inside of
lock and key too often in a dark
ened chamber.
predatory wealth struggles to
keep its footing and hold its own.
Aggregated capital is confused with
predatory wealth. The three coord-
mate branches of our triple scheme
of government are at loggerheads, n
puissant executive seeking the pow
er of an autocrat, the congress weak
ly rebellious, the corrupt party man
ayers see their opportunity; newt
ably the corrupt leaders of high fl
nance see theirs. Amid the chaos,
socialism thinks it has chance.
whilst the leaders of the people and
the woud-be leaders of the people
of varying degrees of honest zeal and
good ntention-truckle to every
vagrant fancy of the hour, sure-foot-
ed stability and clear-sighted states
manship for the most part caviare
to the general, isolated, segresate.
Conspiracy of Money.
"The shocking disclosures of the
last three years made it quite certain
that there has existed for long time
conspiracy among a few allied
kings of money, making their head
quarters in and about New York, to
control the operations of both par
ties.
Owing his election to the money
devil, whom he has surprised in his
lair and had throttled into submis-
sion, Theodore Roosevelt was too
honest and too brave man to be-
come the slave of the beast he had
beaten. No sooner did he find him
self master of the situation than he
began to assert himself. But here