The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-13
THE Y SIDE
By Edward Kenny

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Mr.. Taft is elected, the people OF the United States will have a good. 7
patriotic, welequlpped American in the presidential. chair The idea that :
! injure the business interests of the nation, is the verest nonsense, and any !
mar who, in speech or in writing, SAL otherwise, is a man of low order :
A., nterurenc or bas but little espect for the intelligence of the American !
people. 1t is simply a difference of policies. Either man will be safe. !
There seems to be something, there is something, about the presidential !
office that seems to lift the occupant, SO that the man, whatever he was :
that when Chester A. Arthur became President the New York Sun tersey !
expressed the opinion Of many when 1T printed att the head of its editorial :
columns "Chet Arthur President IF the United States! Well, Welt" Mr.. 8
Arthur had previously been known only a 5 a ward politician, but he be- !
can known as the Gentleman President, and wa accounted n Of the !
most satisfactory and n of the most conservative presidents of the :
United States. !
Sc, anybody who says that Mr.. Bryan u Mr.. Taft will ruin the country :
or the business interests of the country is talking the veriest rot They 8
BILE; they are both men whose public records command the admrato OF &
the American people. :
It is hen W e cor to look into the different methods that brought !
about the nomination of the two men,, when we come to look 1t the asso- !
cates of the two men when W e come to look at the policies of the two :
men, when W come to look at the promises of the two men and the guar 8
antee OF me performanc u lose promises lat We are oohsed to iHer 3
And looking at both mn# from that standpoint, / think Mr.. Bryan should I
I think everybody now admits that Mr.. Roosevelt brought about the z
nomination of Mr.. Taft and by questionable means The convention at :
Chicago vas an ofhce-holders' convention and directed by the President, !
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Mr. Taft. The only instance I have ever heard OF a President selecting !
the candidate to succeed him, as Mr. Roosevelt selected Mr. Taft. the Z
selection Of Martin Van Buren, by Andrew Jackson, and the result, it must j
be admitted. did not turn out we'll
AS to the nomination of Mr.. Bryan. At the Denver convention, the I
bosses" Or leaders" were all against Mr.. Bryan, but the people had all
ready chosen Mr.. Bryan, and the delegates were at Denver simply % re- /
spond to the wishes of the people. and they voted to nominate Mr.. Bryan ]
by the orders of the people, and despite the wishes of the "bosses" or &
leaders" !
So that it is up to the American people whether they viii vote FOL !
the selection Of Mr. Taft by MI. Roosevelt. as Mr. Roosevelts successor Z
0and Mr.. Roosevelt after, according to Mr.. Longwuthl Dr. vote for Mr.. 8
Bryan S the acclaimed chosen Of the people /
I think 1T is better to elect Mr.. Bryan, the candidate who comes from Z
the hearts of the people, than Mr. Taft who vas put before the people 8
through the medium of wires u from the White House I
Now let US look at the policies and promises Of Mr. Bryan and Mr. !
Taft. and the guarantee each offers for performance. MI. Tafts promises 8
and his partys promises are to be found In the Republican platform. Mr. {
Bryans promises and his party's promises are to be found in the Demo- 4
cratic platform. For the guarantee Of those promises W o must look at g
past performances. Se ~ /
I will take those platform promises. !
The Democratic platform promises to take measure to guarantee the l
safety o. the depostors in the natonal banks. {
The Republican party is against that proposition. !
Now, why should not the government guarantee the depositors? The :
national banks are part of the government, for the government delegates 6
to those banks n of the inherent powers Of the government to coin !
money and emit bills of credit" the directors Of those banks ire recog- :
nized officers of the government, for they are prohibited by law from being Z
even presidential electors. Those banks being simply branches }. the i
eminent, endowed with governmental functions, why should lot the :
eminent guarantee the depodtors who entrust their money to the agents s
Of the government fr saek keeping Those of us who are old enough to +
remember how the people Of Newark were deceived and BETRAYED b h :
faithless actions of the agents of the government known as directors of 8
the Mechanics National Bank and the First National Bank and the dreful /.
results that followed in the wake of the betrayal and deceit, ought to de- !
mand that the government should guarantee the deposttors from loss at the =
hands, o through the actions O. those governmental agents. {
As Mr.. Bryan defends and espouses that proposition, and is Mr.. Taft j
and his party denounces it, I think Mr. Bryan, and not Mr. Taft, should be 3
elected, 10 that Mr. Bryan may be n a position to see thu. it is carried ot. 4