The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-09-16
SHERMAN Put
BAD CR|MP N
BRYAN ARM0R
Candidate Must Stand by the
F Past History Of His
Party
'BRYAWs past VOTE CATCHING
SCHEMES RIDDLED WITH LOGIC
Democracy's Past Failures and Bry.
ans Past Professions Only Prove
\ the Party's Incompetency and the
Candidates Unstable Policies.


Wilkesbarre. Pa, Sept. 16.-James
g. Sherman. Republican candidate for
vice president, addressed one Of the
most enthusiastic gatherings of Re-
publicans ever seen in this state, the
occasion being the meeting of the
State League of Republican clubs. In
view Of the fact that this is the CEN
ter Of one> Of the large Industrial
regions Of Pennsylvania, his reception
by the local people and especially the
laboring people, was significant. He
was received at the station by dele
cation composed of representative
leader of the laboring people, mem
bers Of the municipal government and
. committee Of the league under
whose auspices he visited the city.
He was driven for two miles through
streets crowded 80 densely that at
times the carriages were forced to
stop to prevent accidents, and from
start to finish It was one of tremend-
ons ovation. At the public stand he
spoke as follows:
81 am gratified with this opportun-
ity to come into the keystone state
without the use Of key. Your splen-
did welcome is the opening Of the
door. I take 1t to be not alone the
opening Of the door Of the state, but
% we'll, the opening of the door Of
your hearts. I recognize that this
opening to me is not as ia citizen Of
your larger sister, the imperial en-
pire state of the union, but to me as
one Of the standard bearers Of that
mighty instrumentaldty Of economical,
commercial, educational and moral
advancement, the Republican party;
the party from whose national stand
ards Rennaylyania hassnsxer ;depaEfs
ed; to whose candidates Pennsylvania
has given an over increasing. majoT-
ity until 1t Is mountain hig 90 nth
that you must march through the
clouds to reach a greater altitude,
and that march will be made and that
altitude reached in November with the
aid Of the mighty forces Of the Penn
sylvania League of Republican clubs.
'The Philadelphia Record Of recent
date in Offering excuse for its at
tempted belittling Of the late Presi-
dent Cleveland's comnnendation Of Mr..
Taft's candidacy, says:
There are thousands Of good Dem
ocrats in the country who appreciate
and rejoice in the high attainments Of
Mr.. Taft. The man is better than his
party. It Is the party at whose head
he has consented to march, which the
country has reason to. fear
What inference can be drawn from
the Records words other than that
with Democracy, the, party is better
than the candidate-and IT, so, what
shall we say of the candidate? Mr..
Cleveland received the support of tens
of thousands Of American voters, be-
cause they believed him better than
his party; because they had conf
dence that whatever financial vagary
the Democratic party espoused. he
would stand for honest money and
would stand for the nations honor;
would oppose with all the force OF his
personality and the power Of his
mighty Office every proposition look
ing to the discharge Of public or pri-
vate obligations III deprecated cur
rency. Mr.. Bryan In two campaigns
has advocated with an ardor and ac-
uyity never excelled, with all the per
suasiveness of his pleasing i oratory,
the now abandoned issue Of free COIN
age of silver at a ratio Of 16 to 4.
And now abandoned why! Not be-
cause of It's inherent dishonesty, nor
because experience has demonstrated
its absolute fallacy. burt abandoned
because the American voters having
twice repudiated the issue as un-
worthy, 1t Is no longer considered ex-
pedient to press It, 5 81 & ..,s.
Bryan's DominatiBn
"If Mr.. Bryan's party be better than
he. heaven pity Mr. Bryan, and IL not
better, what patriotic American, what
American who believes in resumption
or whose country is honored the
world over because Of II, what man
who advocated, the gold standard, or
who in capital or wage has profited
by its adoption, what man who scent
ed danger in Mr.. Bryan's candidacy
In 1896 or 1900, can now consistently
support him? Democracy OF the pre-
sent Is Organism Never In our ma
tion's existence has any party. been
20 completely dominated by one man
as Is today's Democracy by Mr.. Bryan.
He is the party. the party ~ he.
Wherein then II the one better Or
worse than the other? In 1904 DE-
mocracy repudiated Bryan and much