Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-12

it preferably, to the man who had made
this sort of a watch a life study; one
who was acquainted with it's intricate
parts? l answer-Most certainly you
would do this.
All we need to do is to use a lit
tie common sense in these matters and
the answer is plain.
The other day l heard a man say
he would not vote for Mr.. Bryan this
year although he had voted for him
twice before when he likewise ran for
the Presidency, and this was his reas-
on: He said he would vote for Mr..
Taft now, because, if perchance Mr..
Taft should by any hook or crook suf-
fer defeat. which he did not think
possible. he was satisfied that he
(TafD would not run again for the
Presidency. But he felt a sort of con-
vlction amounting to a certainty that
ii Mr.. Bryan should be again defeat
ed, he would run and run again and
he could vote for Mr.. Bryan at any
old time.
What has Mr.. Bryan done to entitle
him TO be President of this great ma
ton: I hear someone Say-he is Il
good talller. and Mr.. Gompers says
he is the friend OF organized labor. and
it is claimed that Mr.. Gompers has as
sured Mr. Bryan that he and he alone.
can deliver the vote of organized labor
to Mr.. Bryan. What secret cause if
any, he may have for doing this-I do
not know. This much. however. I do
know: that laboring man, and hon
est son of toll did say to me, that if
he should be hungry and go to Mr..
Bryan for bread, he might not give
him a stone. but he was quite sure
he would give him handout in the
shape of a speech or two-perhaps
more. When did Mr.. Bryan ever look
a factory payroll in the face" Even
when a picnic was not abroad in the
land? Until a man has done this a
time or two. he cannot, he does not
realize what it is to employ and pay
regularly laborers, be the number
large or small
Mr. Bryan tells us in his letter of ac-
ceptance, that platform is binding
as to what it omits as we'll as to what
it contains What does he mean by
this? The platform, L believe, omits
free silver; omitS any mention of the
free and unlimited coinage of silver
Il
sent or aid of any nation. Does he
still Believe in this. 1t omits, | be-
lieve any mention of the awful danger
of this country of Imperialism Does
he still believe in this? 1t also omits
ship of public utilities. Does he still
believe in this? Or. has he abandoned
this socialistic doctrine?
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those things. rs he was in 1896, 1900
1904 and 1907" or, has he become the
artful dodycr" stand up. Mr.. Bryan,
| end answer these pertinent questions.
We do know that different persons Of
ter !sut Il different meaning and draw
altogether opposite conclusions from
| the same grammatical sentence. one
would interpret this way and another
that, and both might be entirely sin
| cere and honest.
Few DAYS ago. I CHANGED to TAX
vita a bright, brainy man. and III the
course of the conversation he sald
this to me in substance: 81 voted for
| Mr. Bryan and supported him loyalty
| in 1896. for | honestly believed that at
that time Mr.. Bryan was right when
| he said to us thai we would never
! have prosperity in this country until
We had. bimetalism established on a
basis of IS to-1, and again in 1900. when
| this platform was reaftirmed by the
| Democratic leaders and the dangers
of imperialism added thereto, l still
believed him and trusted him and fol
lowed him Loyalty to the end. Now, all
| is changed and much to my surprise
Mr. Bryan has apparently abandoned
| these issues together. with the issue OF
| imperialism, and he has given up Rad
| icalism and become at least partially
| conservative. He does say, however,
that all large corporations engaged IN
| interstate commerce must not only be
| subject to governmental control, put
he goes farther, and intmates that
| they must be annhilated. / belleVe
that capital and labor both have the
right to unite for lawful purposes, for
I know that in union there is both
safety and strength, and / have, after
carefully considering this matter, con-
cluded that Mr. Bryan has shifted his
| position so often that I have become
| tired-ves, very tired of trying to fol-
low him and / shall vote for William
n. Taft on November 5. 1908"
T have sought in a plain, homelS
| way. to point out to you some OF inc
reasons why I believe that Mr.. Bryan
! should not be elected President OF the
United states. / believe conditions arc
| such in the affairs of This nation AZ
this time and that while ] like &c
believe that Mr.. Bryan is honest ina
he is patriotic and that he has the vel
fare of this nation at heart somehow
I carnot resist believing that he Is
ot this time a shifting, unsafe ant
dangerous man in whom to place the
conduct of the affairs of this great ma
ton
The tariff question was never S'atc'
i'm fewer words: was never stated bHt
tor than it was by Abraham l4nroN
when he said that he did not preten'
to know very much about the tariff
but that he did know that when w
bought an article produced IN TN
country VIC had the article h'r" ;lli
the money too. but when we purchase
an article produced and manufactures
ir a foreign country, they have IN
! money and we have the article. | nav
.,1v-ays Thought and | still believe, tina