Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-09-28

he is elected president Our foreign
affairs, not only because of the Phil
ippines, but because of our Pacific
coast and other Pacific possessions
will take up much of his time. Our
rapidly increasing foreign commerce
will interest him. In extending it. he
may be able to direct it into new
channels, and secure success for il in
old ones.
When in London on his way home
from trip around the world. he at
tended the Worlds Peace Congress.
HIS speech was the best delivered be-
fore the body; his ideas. the noblest
as we'll as the most practical. Never
was the nation prouder of its Great
CommOner than it was that dav: and
never had the Republic better reason
to be proud that when he, one of the
kingliest Of her sons. set pace in
peace for royalty. Not all our efforts
at the The Hague, Portsmouth, Toyko
VI tli. w litI I tlot, WcIt 81 lluIi IuI uS
this mans one earnest, honest effort
in London, and which raised him to
heights high as Lincoln at Gettys-
burg, Lowell in his great ode. Wash
ington in his farewell address, jeff
erson in his Declaration of Independ-
ence, Henry in his address to the ter
rifia6 RnvoJictc 10 Il triy Il ;,,,,,
to go on in the good work.
What Manner of Man is Bryan.
By a mans deeds is he best known
Bryan is the type of man most needed
in our public life. Absolutely incor-
ruptible, with convictions as well as
courage, with ideals to which he is
faithful, he will, if elected predident
be constant source of inspiration to
the whole country. His aims are high,
his purposes holy. In The CommOner,
a paper he owns and edits, he will not
take the best paying advertisements
because of a moral purpose to publish
nothing that will, directly or indirct-
| ly, injure the morals of his readers
| What that means can be learned at
the office of any high-toned paper. He
is out now with declaration in favor
of publicity of funds for the campaign
and he puts ban on any contri
buttons big enough to be dangerous.
l wish we could have a symposium
for this column of what even his
enemies will say if him when he
passes away. Mark what was said of
Cleveland before and after his death
put my my bays and laurels on live,
/ not dead mems brows.
l am not a prophet 1t is hard to
predict Still, if prediction based
upon belief that is based on years
of careful observation is worth any
thing, Bryan, if elected, will make a
good and a great president. Besides,
he has back of him much that is best
in our traditions and history. The
platform upon which he stands is not
platitudinous-it is sound timber, ev-
cry plank. There will be no COM
promise with crime. No Paul Morton
will be whitewashed, no political Grim
inal or scalawag appointed to office
No tatistics will be tampered with
till they tell tale such, as parties
in eXigencies call for. The divisions,
bureaus and departments will not be
made to subserve partisan purposes,
as, alas, they have too often been
made to do under others.
These, then, are the main features
of the man. Whether he wins or loses
he will go down to his grave great
American, a splendid specimen of
what was thought of when Lowell
wrote the great ode in which he re-
ferred to Lincoln as the First Ameri-
can. Luckily the land is no longer
dependent upon one man, however,
great. 1t is to go on, and on, and on,
irrespective of its presidents. The
fathers, faithful to their trust, plant
ed the tree of liberty so deep that it's
roots run out into all parts of the
earth. The worlds powers will never
be able to pull it up. In our past
there was no more powerful, no
nobler personality, than the great Ne
| braSkan William Jennings BRYAN