The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-10-23
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AS Mr.. Rocs cgelt has done nothing
for the tariff reform-though some
twenty years { so treasurer of the New
York Free TraLe Club-it:is of course
idle to expect airy emancipation of our
commerce at tie hands of his locum
tenens, who is pledged to the perpetu-
alton and propagation of all his poll
icies..
Mr.. Bryan was not originally my fa-
vorite among the various candidates
for the Office of President at this cleo
ton, perhaps because L had never met
him or heard him speak, for his pow
ers of persuasion have certainly won
for him national fame and nation
el eminence. He is without dispute a
man of exemplary habits and char
acter. He owes to no mans exertions
but his own three successive nomlna-
tions to the Presidency by the DEM
ocratic party, and on each occasion
he polled a larger popular vote imam
was ever polled by any President OF
the United States before Mckinley,
whose popular vote only exceeded
Bryan's 100000 out of total OF some
14OOO,000. He has had no patronage
to attract supporters nor private for
tune with which to multiply friends.
To his great credit be it said also that
he has earned all the bread he has
eaten from his youth upward by his
own exertions We may therefore be-
lieve him to be under no obligations
of any kind for whatever support he
may receive ct the polls to warp his
conduct. If elected he will be the
President and as free to do what he
thinks best as any Of his predecessors
have ever been presumed to be. He
has pledged himself over and over
again if elected to do what he can
to help the country to return to
revenue tariff, than which there is no
more important or more importunate
duty at present for President OF the
United States to discharge.
| expect to vote for him both be-
cause I am encouraged to hope Tor
some relief from the confiscating tarif
policies of the Republican party dur
ing his administration, while l could
expect little but what l should regret
from Mr.. Taft should he keep the
pledges which he gave will not say
for, but before, his nomination-pledg-
es made with a strange disregard OF
any opinions of his constitutional adj
visers and in fragrant disregard OF the
legislative department Of this Govern
ment, which is very liable to have
some policies of it's own which most
of our Presidents have deemed it their
duty to respect.
A dancing bear is content to be led
about the country patiently to per-
form tho tricks his Ip96Pr teaches
him, because he is only an animal and
does not know that his leader expects,
when he has survived his usefulness,
to wrap himself in his skins.
Is this the model Of candidate we
require to occupy the chair which has
been filled by Washington, by Jeffer-
son, by Jackson, by Van Buren,, by
Lincoln and should have been filled by
a Tilden, who was the chosen of the
people by a plurality of more than
100000 votes? Is such a candidate
the best to be found for the existing
or is Mr.. Taft the only
man the people will be permitted to
choose as a successor to the present
Incumbent?
Is the Presidency henceforth to be
IN executive appointment? Or are
We carelessly drifting back to an her
,ditary monarchy which our ancestors
ess than a century and a half ago
oravely risked their lives and their
fortunes to be delivered from?
Let us wait in tranquility till the
des of November for the peoples reply
o these inquiries. Yours very re-
'pectfully,
JOHN BIGELOW.