Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-07-23
WHOM TO SELECT?
COMPARISON OF THE PRESlDEN-
TlAL NOMINEES.
Certainty That the American People,
in View of the Records of Both
Men, Will Choose Taft for
High Office.

How are the American people likely
to vote next November with reference
to Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Taft?
The memories of the prosperity
which year ago we were enjoying to
the full are very sweet indeed. In
taste, temperament and ideals the
American people have changed not at
all in the year. They are quite as
anxious for comforts, luXuries, content
and happiness. They are the same
light-hearted, industrious, pleasure
loving people
The country's resources have not
been reduced Crops are as opulent;
manufacturing facilities are un-
changed. Everything is quite the same
as it was a year ago when we were
frankly and unprecedentedly prosper
Gus.
What is wanting then? Confidence
is wanting. That is all-quite all. The
farmer needs confidence in his mar
ket. The manufacturer and store
keeper need confidence in their Gus
toners. The capitalist needs conf
dence in his investment.
What appeal has Mr.. Bryan to the
American people, to vote for him, to
give him the administration of the ma
tons government at time when the
people are vitality concerned only in
the restoration of public confidence?
A year ago when we were prepos-
terously prosperous, the people in their
recklessness might have taken a
chance with Mr.. Bryan in spite of his
radicalism, in spite of his admittedly
socialistic policies, in spite of his
promises to undo or try to undo the
established order, economic, industri-
al. financial, as well as political.
A year has taught us lesson. a
hard but vastly impressive lesson. To
day is the day of widespread, univers-
al caution. The people need the restor-
elton of confidence, of the quiet and
peace and tranquility without which
the return of prosperity is obviously
impossible. They want the country's
equilibrium restored. Is Mr.. Bryan
a radical. almost a revolutionist-the
man to do it? Do the American peo-
pie think that Mr.. Bryan is the man
for such work?
Almost the last public utterance of
Grover Cleveland was this message to
his party:
Il should say that more than ever just
at this time the Democratic party should
display honest and sincere conserva-
tism, regard for constitutional limita-
tions and a determination not to be
swept from our moorings by tempor-
ary clamor or spectacular exploita-
ton"
For whom then are the American
electors likely to vote-Mr. Bryan,
who in the light of the years events
and prevailing conditions and his own
public announcements can be looked
upon only as an experiment? Or for
William H. Taft, who has restored
peace in Cuba and the Philippines,
who has been the countrys pacificator
abroad and moderator at home, who
has tact finesse and judicial foresight,
and to whom the country now looks to
redeem the errors of the administra-
ton, If such they prove, and realize
for returning prosperity the admins
tration's policies for precisely this end
inaugurated?
What, in a word, do Mr.. Taft and
Mr.. Bryan, respectively, potentially
represent in the minds of the Ameri-
can people ?-Detroit Journal.