The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1908-10-03
Ex.Secretary 0lney Discuss.
eS the Issues of the
Campaign.
DEMOCRATS SHOULD WIN
Says the Election of Mr.. Bryan Would Be
Best for The Country in Every
Particular.

Hon. Richard olney, formerly Sec
retary of State under Mr.. Cleveland,
has contributed one of the strongest
articles favoring the success of the
Democratic party that has appeared
in print since this campaign opened.
This article was furnished a city
paper in reply to request that he
discuss the question with which his
article begins, and is as follows
The question is: Ought the Repub.
lican party be defeated in the pend
ing presidential campaign? That is
the issue now before the American
people in comparison with which all
others are insignificant.
The platforms of the two great
parties need not be discussed It
would hardly be necessary, even if it
were not almost entirely true, as an
influential newspaper declares, that
if they were to be "surreptitously
transposed nobody on either side
would ever find it out"
No more need the personalities of
the respective candidates be consid-
cred. The truth is that each is sim
ply the representative of his party.
Each if elected, will be the creature
of his party, and each, if elected,
win and must obey the behests of his
party. In short, ours is government
by party, and at the coming national
election it is party and not merely
individuals that the American peo-
pleare about to to keep or place in
the seats Of power.
WHAT ARE RoosEvELT's POLICIES?
Republican partizans, among them
the Republican candidate himself
are apt to delude themselves with the
notion that there are Democrats who
may be reasonably expected to vote
for Mr.. Taft. But if the variety of
Democrats know as the White House
Democrat be excepted, what good
reasons are there why Democrats
who neither hold office nor seek
office, but are genuine Delivers in
Democratic institutions, should vote
for Mr.. Taft?
1t is urged that Taft stands Tor the
Roosevelt policies and that Bryan
also stands for them and for nothing
more.
But what are the Roosevelt pol
icies referred to? The Rooseveltian
platitudes upon them which usually
occupy the attention of statesmen
can no longer deceive the most cred
ulous. Mr.. Roosevelt now confesses
his ignorance of banking, of the
tariff, of currency and of economic
questions generally, and claims credit
only for moral teaching"
The Rooseveltian policies, in other
words, simmer down to the Ten Com
mandments, which, according to an
eminent statesman of his own party,
Mr.. Roosevelt evidently deems re-
cent discovery OF his own, and which,
in theory atleast, he esposses with
all the zeal Of new convert.
COMMANDMENT NEED ENFORCING.
That, if these are the policies of
Mr.. Roosevelt, Mr. Bryan concurs in
them, is, of course, to be cheerfully
admitted. But these policies are of
no account except as practically ap-
piled, and herein lies a difference of
the most vital Importance. Mr..
Bryan would unquestionably apply
them uniformly and impartially to
all parties concerned. The Roose-
welt plan, on the other hand, con-
templates exceptions and discrimin-
ations bS the national executive in
favor of the particular persons and
interests he happens 10 befriend.
whoever believes in the prevailing
policies and tendencies Of the Re-
publican party will, of course, act
with that party in the pending pres
identall contest But whoever be-
lieves those policies and tendencies
to be vicious and injuries can record
his belief and make it effective ia no
other way than by acting With the
Democratic party.
In the coming election there are
Republicans who will vote for Bryan
as being more radical chan Taft and |
there are Democrats who will vote
for Taft because, as the replica of