Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-08-06

the Republican convention what
they believed to be evidence of a
retreat. To these the Democratic F.
cand idate and the Democratic
Platform will make a powerful APP
peal"
One can we'll afford 10 await the
developments the next few weeks
with an open mind, sug gests the
Springfield d Republican, Ind, and
the Washington Herald thinks that
1.-THE Republican party will have a
fight on it's hands that will tax it's
resources to the very limit -
Bryan's fsthird nomination, says
the New York Evening Post, Dem,
''is, in any aspect, a mementous
thing which ''testifies to per-
vasive political influences which
it W ould be folly to ignore. To
quote further:
Bryan is not to be disposed of
by calling him a charlatan and
adventurer. He has not lifted
himself by his own boot-straps.
+ He has been borne aloft by a great
wave of disconten- and desire for
radical changes, which has swept
over large parts of the country.
mo intelligent survey of the ma
TONS defenses against Bryanism
can blink the truth that they have
been greatly weakened during the
past four years. A party that has
appropriated Bryan's ideas can
not, with good effect, attack his
person. -
The Republican press are in
clined to agree that Mr.. Bryan's
candidacy is not to be regarded
lightly. ''He is a marvellous and
dangerous man, 4" exclaims the
Brooklyn Times, Rep and the
New York Evening Mail, Rep,
considers him the strongest man
the Democrats could have named.
SAYS The Globe, Rep, of the same
city:
''The difference between the two
parties is amply typified. by the
two candidates. One is voluable,
unstable, untried in any pt acttical
way; professional strirer up of
discord. The other is steady,
experienced, sane, and eminently
fair minded. A fair estimate of
Bryan and fair estimate of Taft
bring home the fact that in spite
of bridging platforms there is a
great gulf between the two candi-
, dates.
On the whole, as an independent
. paper observes, the anti-Bryan press
have SO far given no indication of
, the zest and vigor displayed in
1896 or even in 1900.
Among Southern Democra tic
, papers which are supporting Bryan
. are the Atlanta Constitution, the
1 Savannah Press, the Memphis
Comm.rciai-Appea the New Or
, leans Times-Democrat, the New
, Orleans Picaune-which accepts
him ION the announcement that
: he has abandoned the silver stan l.
ard of fifty-Cent dollars and regard:
' the government ownership of rail.
ways as too radical the Louis
: Vile Courier-J Journal, the Frankfort
v 0tdtC Joutildis TIC NiSillhOiiu iNCWS-
, Leader, the Richmond Times.
Dispatch, the Roanoke World, the
Wheeling Register, the Parkers-
/, burg Sentinel, the Jackson Clarion
1 Ledger the Wilmington Star, the
r Columbia State, the Tampa Tri.
: bune, the Pensacola Journal, the
/, Beaumont Enterprise, the Houston
: Post and the Ba timore News.
/, Mr. Bryan's choice of John
Z Worth Kern, OF Indiana, for his
running mate is said to emphasize
the shifting of the CT inter- of gravi.
9 ty OF the Democratic party to the
7 West. Says the Wall Street Jour.
: nal on this subject:
. .'It is there that the Bryan
8 strength has been consolidated
o The votes of the solid South are
h always useful, but where their
. opinions were not echoes they car
f ried no weight. The Democrat:
= of New York, New Jersey, anc
: New England are shrewdly sus
4 pectcd of conceding the chosen can
: didate enough rope to hang him.
!, self. The Empire State no Longer
. dominates. This is marked new
r development of sectionalism, es
:, tablishino a new line of cleavag,
+. between the East end the Middl,
and Farther West. Probably NOR,
of the future of this country lies il
that than in the merely ephemer