The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-10-03
HANSbR0UGH A Candidate
To SUCCEED M'CUMBER.

OAOtAAdtlOH OI OPINION aDOuC Demo-
cratic and Republican Headquarters is
that Mr.. Bryan has only to blame him.
self for Haskell. Government in Okla
homa and the personality IT its gov
ernor were inspirations that gave the
Democratic candidate, for president
his material for campaigning. The gas
was bad and the balloon is sagging
badly.
The thought uppermost in the minds
of Democrats and Republicans alike is
whether Mr.. Bryan will not even at
this late stage promulgate new issues
that have not the Haskell brand. Pip
Ing on the old songs will not seem like
the same music to the ears of his hear
ers for the linnet has lost his note.
The situation, perhaps, would not
be 80 bad nor the disaster 80 great
had not Mr.. Bryan known this Has,
kell. He was told all about him long
ago. Under the, circumstances is It
hard to assume that the mystery of
the 100000 contribution to the Demo-
cratic campaign fund and the evinced
ability of Haskell as treasurer of the
fund to provide the sinews of war
made 1t easier to hope that he would
not be found out?
Clergyman for Taft.
An unqualified approval of William
H. Taft as presidential candidate
was given by Rev. James Coote, d. D.,
pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
church in Thompsonville. Conn, when
he call at the headquarters of the Re-
publican national committee. For
years DR.. Coote has taken a prominent
part in Methodist circles in New Eng
land and in New York, having been a
presiding elder and occupied leading
pulpits.
No man has spoken so earnestly in
favor of the great work that Christian
missions are doing in the Philippines,
in China and in the orient generally
as Mr.. Taft said DR.. Coote. "In an
address at Yale university he empha-
sized that idea particularly, and on
several other occasions he spoke en-
Enthusiastically of the good being done
by aggressive Christian evangelical
ism in the different countries which
he visited. 1t seems to me that no
evangelical Christian should hesitate
to support Judge Taft. He is Just as
big and broad in his religious ideas
as he is in his physical proportions.
He can be trusted to do what is fair
and right with all denominations"
Brownsville Affair.
Senator Foraker's reply to the
Standard Oil charges is a much more
weighty matter. 1t. is more than a
lawyers brief in argumentative vindi-
cation. 1t is a direct effort to incite
prejudice among the colored race,
with view to turning their vote from
Mr.. Taft. This attempt is seen when
in referring to Judge Taft's letter the
Ohio senator says: "No self-respect-
ing negro reading what Judge Taft
says in this letter and adding to 1t
all that has gone before can vote for
him without feeling that he is making
greater sacrifice than most men.
white or black, are willing to make ''
But the Brownsville affair had shot
Its bolt earlier in the campaign. DEM
ocratic managers of Mr.. Bryan's cam
paign made the most of it and the
futile effort of corralling any consid-
cradle part of the negro vote in the
north has long since spent itself. The
hopelessness of this endeavor on the
part of the Democrats has taken the
scheme out of the campaign as a seri-
GUS consideration.
The colored race is menaced by
graver dangers than any possible
harm at the hands of the Republican
party. Not satisfied with their dis
franchisement in the south, the at
tempt Is being made to bring this
about in Maryland and West Virginia.
In Kansas, too, the man who is spok-
4f o&f
in the remote possibility of his cleo
tion is actively advocating the same
thing in that state. The negro is
fully aware Of this and will not be able
to get to the polls quick enough to
vote for the Republican candidate.
Bryan's Campaign at Standstill.
Consensus of opinion is that the
presidential campaing is just where ii
was before the Nebraskan began his
speech making tour. Mr.. Taft's elec-
ton was as sure as the return of the
equinoxes. Bryan's remarkable adroit-
ness as campaigner and the unpre-
cedented vigor with which he pushed
his advocacy attracted attention and
aroused discussion. 1t was all merely
disturbance of the atmosphere and
nothing in it traceable to the laws of
cause and effect like seed time and
harvest. There was really very little
to it at all In results. merely a big
noise.
Now that the expose has come
Bryan's campaigning has come to an
abrupt standstill. 1t is felt that II
will be next to impossible to get 1t
going again and II 1t does it will never
attain any momentum. The power be-
hind It has gone forever. Confidence
in Mr.. Bryan has been rudely shaken,
and there is no one among his friends
who has the temerity to hope that II
can be restored.
II Haskell was seeking notoriety
he has attained 1t. He is the most
conspicuous object in American poll
tics today. 1t is easy to foresee that
in future years when Democratic de-
feat In 1908 is being explained other
and sufficient potent reasons can be
hid behind the Haskell scapegoat.
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