The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-22
TWO CANDIDATES.

THO CANDiDA ES.
IN current publication, william
Allen White tells why he thinks Mr..
Taft should be preferred to Mr.. Bryan
for the presidency. and his brief is of
interest because 1t is the best state
ment OF a Republican stock argument.
Mr.. White thinks Mr.. Taft has had the
ideal training for the Office and that
he has the better mind He urges,
further. that Mr.. Bryan, II elected.
would be helpless because he would
have hostile senate.
The weight OF the first reason VIII
depend upon the conception OF the ex-
perience ana training required 10 ft a
man for the presidency. II IS trde Mr.
Taft has had a wide and varied ex-
perience with departmental affairs
That might be said of some Of the
under secretaries WHO have been in
departmental service for long years
through changing administrations. But
il could not be said OF Washington
when he took the presidency. because
his experience until then had been al
most altogether military. II certainly
could not have been true Of Lincoln.
Grant knew little outside OF the mill
tary branch Garfield and Mckinley
were experienced only in legislative
service. Indeed, a survey OF the list
OF presidents since the foundation of
the republic shows that other prepara-
ton than familiarity with routine az
fairs OF government led to the selec-
ton of nearly all OF the chief execu-
tives.
Judge Taft has been known best as
an able lawyer and federal judge. but
his life training has been such as to
place him out Of touch with the
masses Of the American people. Born
10 the purple of federal Office. asso-
ciated constantly with men Of his own
intellectual and social class. he has
demonstrated that by his speeches. his
court opinions. his associations, his
lack Of familiarity with the wants and
wishes OF the common citizen.
Contrast the careers Of the two can
didates. as Mr.. Allen asks shall be
done: Mr.. Bryan has fought his own
way. He has held no appointive Of
nee. he has had no rich relatives or
friends to finance his political career
he has made his place by sheer force
Of character and a profound knowl-
edge Of his fellow-Inan born Of per-
sonal experience in plain living and
association with plain folks II there
is one big man in the whole nation to-
day who owes his bigness to his own
character alone, that man is William
]. Bryan. BY his intimate knowledge
OF the problems that affect the COM
mon people: by his constant and sue
cessful battles in their behalf; by his
answering devotion to high ideals,
even when they seemed fatal TO his
ambitions: by his vigorous. triumph
ant Arericanism. he is better quail
fed. a thousand fold. 10 represent the
American people than Mr.. Taft is now
or ever viii be.
Tie plea for Taft's election because
Bryan. il elected. would have hostile
senate is puerile. Apply that principle
to human AFFAIRS and no reform could
ever be effected. On that theory
Cromwell might better have staid at
home and looked after his cattle than
70 have waged war in behalf OF an OPP
pressed people against what seemed
hopeless odds. Accept that cowardly
idea, and Lincoln's first candidacy was
the hopeless venture OF a crack
Drained fool How are the American
people ever to place on the statute
books the laws they desire if the COM
plexion Of one house in congress is 10
be an argument against voting for the
candidate who represents the senti-
ments OF the peopls2
BesiCes. Mr. Roosevelt, with both
houses Republican. holding all the ex-
ecutive power and welding it ruth
iessiy. failed 10 secure the legislation
ne asked al the last session. He was
not only repudiated by the rulers OF
both houses. but his messages were
treated with an indignity that dis
g:sted his party and Inundated him
How could Mr.. Bryan fare worse. even
at the hands Of = Republican senate,