The daily Alaskan., 1908-10-28

This day Of next week will have been chosen a new president of the United States. |, might be as well to stop aud thlrk about that a mOmeut-mere lookers-op though we be.
 The isr aud faint echoes of the battle tha, reach us indicate titanic struggle. And to some of us the sltu- s,ion offers strange anomalies. That there should ee struggle between those two is the primary auomsly--that any contest between them before the people should be Q struggle.
 On the one hand we have a man who has lived 8 busy life of accomplishment; who has been doing things and saying little sbou. 1t, doing things demanding the highest executive force, as well ss, equally, diplomacy. He is the natural heir Of the present order, chosen 10 be such from among many willing applicants and by years of care iul sorting. That the present order has the cedaite approval of vast majority of the people, that it's found. CT would have li:tIe or no opposition had he chosen to continue at it's head, nearly all will admit
 % the other hand a man who sspires to the direction of this great business who has nothing to offer as a guarantee Of fitness but au ability to promise. His career and be is not a young man any longer is marked by everything said and absolutely not 8 thing done. He is loved for his elooueuce-and the thought that be speaks what he really believes. Mos, men ba.ieve that he believes what he says he believes. And this is as much as any man claims for him. Those early beliefs Of hls which ha wenJ letOse the people and taught them to believe. as something whereby they were to be saved, he has himself Iorsaken-and left his follow CTS to scraubIe for shore as best they they cau--and they are still at sea. Scratch a real Bryauj,e to day and you vii! dnd a believer ID free silver-bu, Bryan DO longer believes in that H, could, wi bis eloqlence. teach them his uubeltei, 5u. he has been silent.
 Of his presen: beliefs, 10 expound- ipg which be is employing that remarkable gift of eloquence, there is a strong general declaration that the trusts must be "gone atter," that aucieu, ald vacuous promise of the democracy. This rrus: business has become and IS aud was the moving principle Of the campaign. No mau in Jbe history of this-or any other country went after the trusts and special privilege, went after them to GET THEM, as Theodore Roosevelt vent after them. Mir. Taft is the legasee Of that campaign, as capable for accomplishing results and as cer- tain to maze headway as is and was Theodore Roosevelt. What more is there to be said
 The American people love action better than words. It is for his action and the absolute confidence in his honesty that the people love Roosevelt The people thrill when they think O the Panama canal, for instance. Any body who has glanced at the history of that enterprise knows that the Panama canal is Theodore Roosevelt. Now think, at this splendid stage of the game, of turning that enterprise over to au orator. Would there be any hes itation about placing it in the strong hands of William E. Taft?
 Compared to the immense undertak- iug of the government against special privilege which Mir. Roosevelt has just gotten fairly under way that of the Panama canal is a bit of anna teur engineering. What chance has a shitty, changing, dreaming orator however sincere-against those deep schemiug, effective captains of in. dustry?"