Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-03-23

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the future?
Exactly what has happened to
Senator Foraker of Ohio has hap
pened to Governor Beckham of Ken
lucky, except that, in Kentucky,
there is no Taft to profit by it, and
from precisely the same cause, ex-
tieme partyism running amuck
against public opinion and relying
solely upon machine methods.
! 1t will be remembered that when
Senator Foraker got his first stroke
three years ago, the Courier Journal
warned Governor Beckham of i'm
pending danger, and it can hardly
have been forgotten how ungra-
ciously, even defantly, the governor
and his satellites took its disinter-
ested yet friendly admonitions. We
are just as anxious now to repair as
we were then to forestall, the evil
work of short-sighted and selfish
leadership.
The CourierJournal has no per-
sonal nor private quarrel with Gov
ernor Beckham. 1t will make no
fight whatever in the coming state
convention to refuse him whatever
honors and consolation the party
then and there assembled may care
to bestow upon him. Mr.. Bryan,
very mistakenly as we think, took
ii upon himself to come to Kentucky
in Governor Beckham's behalf, and,
If Governor Beckham wants to go to
| Denver in Mr. Bryan's behalf, and
| the convention wants to send him,
we can see no objection and shall
certainly not oppose it. In the event
that Mr.. Bryan is elected and, if as
sured of the vote of Kentucky, we
/ believe he viii be, he can commits
sion the governor to Timbuctoo or
i Patagonia, so that everybody may
| he haDpv. The real question is this
! has Governor Beckham's misleading
lost Kentucky hopelessly to the dem
Cc"Atlc column!
We do not think so, in the event
that the party managers have d
spoonful of common sense. The is
sue in the coming pres Dental bat
tie will be Rooseveltism versus Bry-
anism. The Courier-Journel re-
CARDS this in a sense as a choice of
evils, but it has not the least doubt
which is the lesser of the two In
the Roosevelt propaganda it sees
federalism running to revolutionary
excuses and partylsm more or less
! sectional unchecked and rampant, to
| so on working it's corrupt and dea-
potic will at Washington. In the
Bryan propaganda # SEES much to
condemn, but also much t. approve
and support, and, in any event, at
least a needful change Of parties
for the sake of change, along with
some respite from the intolerable
Estrenuosity and screaming of the
last three years.
Here the distinction makes all the
difference in the world, and conse-
Guently we shall labor for the cleo
ton of the democratic ticket pre-
oisely as If it stood for our origi-
raj convictions and preferences,
hoping always for an ultimate re-
turn to democracy, unterrifled and
indebted; the constitution immuta-
BILE and supreme except as amended
according to its own provisions; the
representative character of the gov
eminent intact against presidential
usurpat on and judicial construc-
ton; home rule in state, county and
city; the equal rights of all men,
whether taken en- masse or organ
led into labor unions and franchise
corporations; just taxation, local
and national, and, above all and
before all, tariff for revenue only.
1t has made some sacrifices OF
opinion and feeling to get to Mr..
, Bryan, the way to him made harder
by Mr.. Bryan himself. For Mr..
Bryan, personally, it entertains only
sentiments of friendly good will In
case he is elevated to the presiden-
cy it will neither ask nor expect fa-
vor at his hands; but, IL he is, it
will be the attitude and argument
of the Courier-Journal that elect
him: that is the bringing to his sup
port that great element which has
hitherto opposed him. In short and
in fine, the Courier Journal is a
democrat as far as, the blind leaders
of the blind will allow it to be. and
has good hope of seeing the national
ticket of the party. headed by Mr..
Rrvan. win in the campaign imme-
/ dfately before u.s.