The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1908-09-25
sTFoRD, OHIO CONGRATULATIONS, SEPTEMBER 25 1905

those far distant islands owes 1t d.
rectly to the inspiration which the OPP
position of the Democracy under Mr.
Bryan to the policy of Mr.. Mckinley,
in the Philippines furnished.
He was beaten on these issues. and
we continue to celebrate the Fourth
OF July with fervor.
At the end of the next' four years.
Mr.. Parker was nominated. Mir. Bry-
an still insisted on inserting in the
platform clause in favor of free sill
Yer. but it was left out. He then
Joined with Mr.. Parker in making the
paramount issue the tyranny of Theo-
dore Roosevelt, executive usurpation
and militarism.
He denounced Mr.. Roosevelt as COM
! pletely subject 10 corporate interests,
and neld up TO the country the dan
! gers of war to which 1t would be sub
! ject under Roosevelt administration.
Although the same policy was be-
ting pursued in the Philippines as be-
I fore, imperialism mad ceased to be then
a paramount ISSUE
7 e prophecy which Mr.. Bryan made
Win reference TO the war-ike ten
denotes of Mr.. Roosevelt and to his
subsection 10 corporate influence ne
mad only TO wait, as ne had TO wait in
previous instances when he made a
propnesy, some two years to find
them utterly refuted
For never in the history of the
world has any Chief Executive mad
such a triumph in making peace as
Theodore Roosevelt in the Russian
Japanese war, in Central America in
Santo Domingo and. in Cuba and
never in the history of the country
has there been such complete tri-
ulnph over corporate influence as that
wnicn the courage the honesty and the
persistence of Theodore Roosevelt nas
wrought during the present admins
tration.
''In the campaign of 1904 and in
previous campaigns Mr. Bryan mas de-
nounced militarism and imperialism
but this year he was advised that the
visit of our navy TO the Pacific coast
had aroused such an interest in the
navy, had made il so popular on that
coast that his Pacific friends persuaded
him 10 approve plank in the plat
form for an adequate navy for the
protection OF the Pacific coast.
Just what he means by this is a
little difficult TO tell, What Inc Re-
publican party means by it is clear,
Ii means an increase in the present
forces of the navy and yet with char
acteristic inconsistency. Mr.. Bryan a
already said, attacks the Republican
party for making suitable appropria-
tions for tie increase of our naval
force.
In 1906 Mr.. Bryan went around the
world and his return was heralded
with the statement that in his visit
around the world he had so gained in
formation and knowledge that he had
become safe and sane; that he was\
a conservative, and all the Democratic
rarty awaited his coming with great
interest.
Immediately upon his arrival he
dispelled this erroneous impression by
declaring that he was convinced that
the only solution of the railroad prob +
lem ultimately would be Government !
ownership. He had previously declare
in favor of national initiative and
referendum and also in favor of the
election of Federal Judges.
All these most radical propositions
have now been excluded from the
Democratic platform. They do not
meet such popular approval as to JUS
tify their being brought forward as a
means of acquiring office in this cam
paign but they illustrate tine charac-
ter of the man who proposes them:
they show the instability and variable j
ity of his views and they justify the !
fear that so many people of this coun-
try have In respect to the danger to
which the public veal may be exposed
should he be put at the helm of the
pilot -,
Bean-TaVIOr