The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-09-10
The Dreamer and the Doer.


The Dreamer and the D0er.
United States Senator Albert J
Beverage sized William Jenningl
Bryan up about right In his splendid
speech at Youngstown, o., when he
pointed out that the Nebraskan Is 9
political dreamer and not apoliticaI
doer.
"Let no man denounce Mr.. Bryan.
said Senator Beverage. Such mer
are necessary to human progress. AL.
ways such men have been the voice
OF protest, but never the statesman
of cause. Always they have been
the turgers of reform, but never the
doers of the work.
"Mr. Bryan is an Aaron, but not a
Moses; a Henry, but not Washing
ton; Wendell Phillips, but not an
Abraham Lincoln. He is the storm
of unrest which clears the atmos-
phere, but not the trade winds that
carry to port the freighted strips OF 4
peoples hope.
-Four years ago, in his own home,
paying tribute to his character and
mind, called him a dreamer who
beholds happy visions OF the barren
field bending with grain; hut his is
not the plowman's hand, the sewers
craft or the cleaners husband dry. The
poets dream of an undiscovered
Utopia has cheered us all;but the Pill
grims, actually landing on Plymouth
Rock, planted the real tree of liberty,
beneath whose real shade we rest and
by whose real fruits we live"
For the last fifteen years Mr..
Bryan has been dreaming wierd and
strange political dreams. No rude
awakening, however, seems to dis
courageF him. for he goes ahead and
dreams more fantastic things, dreams
them to order, so 1t seems, and al
ways has new assortment OF
schemes and fancies every time it APP
pears that he is in imminent danger
of becoming rusty in the eyes and the
hearts of his deluded followers. For
tunate, indeed, it is that Mr.. Bryan
has the happy faculty OF passing from
dream to dream without having the
fantasies permanently continued for
in such case he would be the victim
of a series OF Nightmares horrible In
the extreme. His glorious, glittering
vision Of the silver dollar, or his gov
eminent ownership phantasm, or his
numerous other imaginative extrava-
ganzas would doubtless make him SO
uncomfortable that he would envy the
comparative ease of the WEIGH rarebit
fiend in the comic supplements. But,
aside from the building of these high
ly colored air castles, what in the last
fifteen years has Mr.. Bryan done to
uplift and save his people. OR what
has he done to strengthen the Demo-
cratic party and its principles?
In sharp contrast with this dream-
er of dreams, this creator of pleasant
fairy lands, stands the record OF his
opponent, Judge William Howard
Taft, whose work in the interest of
his people, his country, his govern
ment and in the interest of the un-
fortunates in other lands is almost
incalculable. He brought order out
OF chaos in Cuba and in the Philip
pines. He has been the counselor Of
presidents, has helped to frame all OF
our most progressive laws of recent
years, and as Senator Beveridge
pointed out, he is not only competent.
experienced, well trained, but seems
to be a man prepared by Providence
to be the leader of the chosen people.
The presidency of the United
States is too important position to
be turned over to a mere dreamer,
and merely to satisfy a dream. The
position calls for a doer, man of
genuine executive ability combined
with wisdom and Judgment and ex-
pcrience. Shall we turn the White
House into fairy castle, or shall we
employ a man to stay there and run
this G3Yoram I. for us?