Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-10-16
His Presidency.

Is he fit! Bryan, bred In the
Drawn and brain breeding west, will
bring to Washington not only what
he went THERE with. in the early
nineties, but the ripened result Of
fifteen years Of careful blowing hoe
ing, reaping and harvesting of the
golden grain fields Of the world.
No man has had such a chance to
study, not even Taft. No man ever
made better use of his time. On
the basis of his college education,
Bryan has been able tn build up
a superstructure SURPRISING an! tang
of which we have knowledge. In a
day that is dawning, when We are
TO- be one of the worlds great pow
ers, politically as we'll as commercial
ly, his knowledge OF the worlds af-
fairs, his splendid share in the
worlds work, will fit him for just
such work as he will find on his
desk at Washington, D. c., every
day, if he is elected president. Our
foreign affairs, not only because Of
the Philippines, but because Of our
Pacific coast and other Pacific po-
sessions, will take up much of his
time. Our rapidly increasing for
eign commerce will interest him.
In extending it, he may be able to
direct it into new channels, and
secure success for it in old ones.
When in London, on his way home
from a trip around the world, he
attended the Worlds Peace Congress.
His speech was the best delivered
before that body; his ideas, the
nobleSt as we'll as the most practi-
cal. Never was the nation prouder
Of its Great Commoner than 1t was
that day; and never had the Repub-
Lie better reason to be proud than
when he, one Of the kingliest Of
her sons, set a pace in peace for
royalty. Not all our efforts at The
Hague, Portsmouth, Toxic or any
where else, were so fruitful as this
mans one earnest, honest effort in
London, and which raised him to
heights high as Lincoln at Gettys-
burg; Lowell in his great ode, Wash
ington in his farewell address, Jeffer-
son In his Declaration of Indepen-
Idence, Harry in his address to the
terrified Royalists. God give him
power to go on in the good work.
What Manner of Man is Bryan?
By a mans deeds Is he best known.
Bryan is the type of man most need
ed in our public life. Absolutely
incOrruptible, with convictions as
well as courage, with ideals to which
he is faithful, he will II elected
president, be constant source of
inspiration to the whole country.
His aims are high his purposes ho-
ly. In The Commoner, a paper he
owns and edits, he will not take the
best paying advertisements be-
cause of moral purpose to publish
nothing that will, directly or indi-
rectly, injure the morals of his read
ers. What that means can be learn
ed at the office of any heightened
paper. He is uot now with decla-
ration IN favor of publicity Of funds
for the campaign, and he has put
a ban on any contributions large
enough to be dangerous.
! wish we could have a symposium
for this column Of what even his
enemies will say of him when he
passes away. Mark what was said
of Cleveland before and after his
death. l put my bays and laurels on
live, not dead, mems brows.
Bryan brings into public life the
Gospel Of Jesus Christ He was
never, one to whitewash over the
, black arts of men who could coerce
conscience when 1t protested against
q congressman taking fees as a law
yer. The Golden Rule, expanded and
expounded in the large, is the law
OF his life. It is his guide to all
that he gives to God, and in all
that he gives to man. This may
unfit him for the Presidency. Per.
haps 1t does. Washington's ways
have seldom or never been the ways
OF Jesus Christ. AS he said, with
that superb literary sense, when ut
the conference of governors gath
cred to save us from our sins Of
wanton destruction of our resourc-
es. There is no twilight zone be-
tween the nation and the state, in
which exploiting interests can take
refuge from both; and my observa-
ton is that most, not all, but most
OF the contentious over the line be-
tween nation and state are trace