New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-20
pIcKnInKIAN oRATORY.

ar Prvan anneared at serious disadvan-
+or. o+ Carnepie Hall ON Friday evening be-
canse he tried to make good the promises OF MS
agents that he would not throw d scaIe in'o
Wall Street" He dwelt as little as posoioie'
therefore on what he would do IL elected fIeS-
dent taking refuge in academic anu scal'eilne
criticism of what he called the dangerous ten
denotes Of RenubIicanism" These tendencies
NAV be open to attack; but Mr. Bryan III at
lacking them is handicapped by the fact that
his opposition is necessarily PickWicklan' slhce
ha does not himself propose anything III lhe
1vav of legislation which really connlcts VIII
those tendencies His brief against tnelh 10 .n'1
OF an advocate who has much more oiueh CIV VIZ
his services to the other side.
According to Mr. Bryan. there are five evil
Republican tendencies. The first is o'eIeA-
nenditure Mr.. Bryan faYors economy anu ,e-
trenchment But he never says uis'lnCu'
where he will begin TO retrench he complain
vaguely of the cost of mlltarisIn. pu' 'ne
Denver platform, on which lie stahus uoe' ny
demand q reduction of the size of the army OF
+bn navy or of the pay of the officers and men
tn tho two services. 1t does not promise to
eto, the construction of batteships or TO cut
no nansions OF those on the pension list II
does NOT attack the enlargement of the CIVIL
service by the creation of bodies OF onlclai"
charged with carrying out the provisions OF TIE
railroad regulation, pure 1000, meat lnSpeC'io"
irrigation and forestry laws. On the contrary
T. demands the creation of a new executive
denartment-a Department OF Labor-dnu IL
Mr. Rrvan's schemes of government regulduoh
of production and government operation Oh inc
railroads are put into practice the nunlDer VI
federal enonIoves-"tax eaters" as he calls
tbem-will be easily quadrupled YET MI
BRYAN is theoretically for governmental re-
renchment.
The second tendency which he opposes is tne
rsa of Presidents influence to secure the
nomination of a successor. But this is no more
q Republican tendency than Democratic one.
Jefferson. Madison and Jackson took mana
in nominating candidates to succeed them'
Moreover, such nominations are not nnal Inc!
bava To he approved by the people, just as d
eolfn,ade nomination like Mr.. Bryan's last one
has to be. ,.
Another tendency which he deplores is I'M
Derialism" Mr.. Bryan tried TO 90 sohleIhiis
with this issue in 1900, when he went up anu
down the country proclaimlng tnat caesar ISM
and the Man on Horseback were at manu- CT
be had to contend with the embarrassing fact
tba+ orr present method of governing the over
seq danendencies is an exact copy of JEFFERSON s
method for governing the Territory of Loulsl-
ana IF Mr.. Bryan's theory is the correct one'
we o1,pht TO turn the Philippines and forIo
Rico loose at once. But neither he nor the
Democratic party now seriously proposes such
programme. .,.o
It is amusing TO hear Mr.. Bryan accuse LI0
Republican party of fostering Capitalization he
hos such an adherence of Capitalization thdC
ha wants TO compel all the banks to unite IN d
+7-nst TO guarantee one aDother's deposits anu
Is sbout the only conspicuous public man III
America TO advocate government ownership anu
oneration of all the Observation-Disclosures OF lhIeL-
state. commerce. As centralizer MI. Bryan Is
leagues ahead of the father Of Capitalization
Alexander Hamilton.
Finally the Democratic candidate for fresl-
dent deprecates the deplorable tendency OF the
Repuhlican party to encourage socialism. lie
says he believes in free competition. Yet ne
denies the right of any producer to control more
than a certain part Of the output IN MS HE
of production. He wants to compel the stons
banks to pay the losses incurred Dy tneil
weaker associates. and he declares not only that
unchecked private conduct of the railroads is
failure but that private ownership regulated
in +be public interest must also fail and be sue
ceeded by state proprietorship. Mr. Bryan is
an ACCOMPLISHED talker, and it is interesting IL
NOT ALWAYS instructive. to listen to him. Some
day he NAV accept "The Worlds suggestion
and deliver an address to disproTe his parental
relation to Organism.