The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-24
REPUTATION
Of ROOSEVELT
IN PLATFORM
> Mr.. Bryan Again Pays His Re-
SpeCtS to the Republic
an Crazy Quilt.
STAND-PATTER STILL
CONTROLS THE PARTY
PRAISE FOR THE PRESIDENT,
BUT A KNOCK ON THE HEAD
FOR HIS POLICIES.

EOfA ITO EOLlSIE
lincoln, Neb., June 23.-Denouncing
the Republican platform as a silent re-
pudiatiOn of Rooseveltian principle,
William Jennings Bryan today COM
pleted an editorial summary Of the
work OF the Chicago convention. Mr..
Bryan viii say in the next issue of the
CommOneT:
Stand-Pakter in the Saddle.
Have you read the Republican plat
form? If not, you ought TO read it,
The contest in the Republican party
between the Teformer and the stand
patter is tor the present at an end
with the stand-patter in the saddle
The platform is silent population of
nearly every promise of reform that
the president and his followers have
given to the country. II begins with
an eulOgy of the president In no other
period since the days of Lincoln ac-
cording 10 the platform, has there
been such mighty progress in those
ideals of government which make for
justice. equality and fair dealing
among men, The highest aspirations
of the American people have found a
VOicei' "a reflection is here implied on
previous Republican presidents who
have failed to furnish a voice for the
highest aspirations of the American
people. Their most exalted servant
represents the best aims and wOrthiest
purposes Of all his COuntrymen, Amer
lean manhood has been lifted TO a
noble sense of duty and obligation
Some Pertinent Questions.
Without asking why the Republican
party has held office and divided the
official salaries among its partisans so
long without giving us president who
represented the best aims and
wOrthiest purposes of the people,
without asking why no other Repub-
hcan president, in recent days, has
lifted American manhood TO pOble
sense Of duty and obligation, we may
ask why II Is that the Republicans
spend so much time in praising the
president and give so little attention
10 the specific endorsement of the
things he has advocated. But the pres
70 ident must not feel that he is the only
Republican deserving of praise The
recent congresses, according TO the
platform, have been fun of patriots,
been keeping step in the forward
march TO better government How
does the president like being bracketed
with Republican senators and men,
bers of congress in this indiscriminate
praise? Nothing is said of the con-
spiracy formed among the Republican
leaders of the senate TO defeat the
presidents railroad rate bill; no init
nation is here given that he sent sew
eral messages to congress in a vain
endeaVOr TO get the lower house to take
up the reforms which he fas urging.
Roosevelt Must Feel ResentfuI.
The president must resent the fact
that the platform expresses no graft
tude 10 the Democratic members and
senator's for supporting him when the
Republicans deserted him. Not only
does the platform fail 10 give the Dem
ocrats credit for helping the president
in every effort to lift up American
manhood TO "a noble sense Of duty and
obligation but il actually condemns
the flibuster which the Democratic
minority instituted and carried on for
the express purpose OF compelling Re-
publicans 10 furnish thirty votes in
support of the presidents policies and
pledged the Democratic minority to
furnish the remaining number of votes
necessary to carry out several Of the
presidents recommendations. and yet
the men who wrote the platform pre-
sumo upon the ignorance Of the public
and complain that the fihSuster pre-
vented the enactment of many WHO'LL
some and progressive laws
Emergency" Currency Bill.
THE writers of the platform especial
IL commend the passage of the emeT-
gency currency BILL a bill which COM
bined two features. one of which had
been rejected by the senate and the
other by the house. So long as there
was q chance for a discussion there was
sufficient Republican opposition to con-
denim both features OF the bill; but I'M
der the influence of a few financiers
the bill was rushed through during the
closing hours with all Of the bad fea-
lures restored and all OF the good ones
eliminated. How proud the Republican
bosses in the senate and house must
feel TO have their work thus Endorsed
by a Republican national convention!
The plank demanding a permanent
change in the currency system is gem
eral enough 10 permit the Republican
orators 10 advocate in each section of
the country the system most popular
there, and sufficiently indefinite to en-
able congress TO do whatever it pleases,
or nothing, without violating any
pledge.
THE trust plank must prove a dis
appointment TO every Republican who
has come to understand the iniQuity of
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