The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-07-16

whatever will the Eagle be.
For no platform and for no candidate
whatever of Mr.. Bryan's making or pre-
scription will the Eagle be.
The Eagle neither waited for Chicago
to say the foregoing nor is it waiting for
Denver to qualify the foregoing.
The Eagle is historically and logical
ly Democratic, wholly anti-Bryan and
wholly anti-Populist.
After the Republican nominations
had been made the New York Sun
urged that the sensible men of the
Democratic party-if any were left
should get together, SHOULD look away
| from Bryan, resume the covenants of
the ancient faith and nominate a man
| to whom the country can safely confde
its welfare In that event, despite
this fact that Taft himself is strong
man of most engaging personality"
and "unobjectionable record they
might win, while in default of that
Bryan will again lead them to calam-
, ity." And further:
As a matter of fact, William j.
BRYAN. the leader the party seems to
have selected, has nothing to offer
! which would seduce sane men away
! from Taft. Bearing the Denver en-
blem. Mr.. Bryan will have no following
save that of 1896 and 1900. He will not
entrap the colored vote in any of the
debatabIe States. The so-called 'labor
, vote" which is no vote at all save in
the impudent and noisy assumptions of
Gompers, will depend as it always has
depended upon the predictions of the
individual. And the silent, independ-
ent vote which carries elections in this
country in close campaigns will not be
so much as budged in the direction of
Mr.. Bryan as against candidate OF
Taft's accomplishments and character.
The Brooklyn Eagle and the New
York Sun are Democratic papers of a
pronounced type and a national stand
ing. Here is what Republican daily
of conservative tendencies, the New
York Mail, has to say of the Demo-
cratic candidate for the presidency:
If it were possible to cure Bryan of
demagogy the lesson of 1896, repeated
in 1900, would surely have done so; but
his interview confirms the opinion so
y frequently expressed of late that he has
learned nothing new, that he is the
same old Bryan of twelve years ago
a demagogue at heart, demagague in
/! purpose.
! People have only to recall his stirring
word pictures of country enslaved by
the money power, and of a people cheat
ed by the use of 100-cent dollar, to get
an accurate measure of Mr.. Bryan and
his ideas. Twelve years ago Mr.. Bryan
was prophesying that his election and
the supremacy of his ideas-a fifty-cent
dollar and a packed Supreme Court OF
the United States-Were essential to
the prosperity and life of the nation.
The country voted the other way, and
there followed a period of prosperity
and of broadening world power unpar
alleled in history. The twelve years
that have elapsed since the first Bryan
defeat have meant more to the country,
and to every Individual in it, than any
period of time has ever meant to man
kind
Yet it has ali been accomplished in
the face of Organism, and despite his
opposing influence.
The Wall Street Journal no doubt
voices the sentiment in financial and
business circles when it says of Bryan
and the Democratic platform: "He has
five hundred principles, any number you
want, changeable at will. But if he
should proclaim and cleave to the wis
est and soundest principles in the world
the country's profund distrust of the
man would defeat him. For twelve
years he has had chance to impress
himself upon the people of this repub-
lie. and he has failed. He has not won
their confidence. The arts and devices,
the shifts and the turnings by which he
has sought to win it have been fatal to
the accomplishment of his purpose.
His prating about the masses and the
classes has reacted upon himself, for
no statesman in our recent history has
more distinctly and openly made his
appeal to class votes"
| On the eve of the Denver convention
Bryan held out the olive branch to Will
! liam R. Hearst, hoping, it was iDtlmat-
ed, to secure the endorsement OF the
Independence League, but that his
overtures were in vain was indicated
last Saturday by the attitude OF Mr..
! Hearst's two New York newspapers,
| the American and the Evening Journal.
The two papers announce loss OF con-
fidence on their part both in the Demo-
cratic party and in Mr.. Bryan.
Thomas E. Watson of Georgia, can.
didate for President of the Peoples
Party, does not take kindly to the nom
ination of Bryan and in letter pub
lished this week says:
In his bid for the vote of capital Mr.
Bryan deserves to lose that of labor. Ir
propitiating conservatism, as he does
| he has given the radicals the best rea
sons for losing confidence. In his bic
for the negro vote he has insulted ant
outraged the South. And if the Soutl
does not holly resent his insolence ant
recreancy it will prove that the South i
no more what she was in her best day
!, than the crafty trimmer of 1908 is tn
Bryan of 1896.
shall denounce Mr.. Bryan through