The daily sentinel., 1908-09-05


tackled Mr.. Bryan's stand on the navy
question. Then Mr.. Beveridge en-
tered into a comparison of the two
presidential candidates as follows:
Comparison of Bryan and Taft.
This is IA campaign of candidates
even more than of platform. The
question is not which candidate is
most upright, patriotic, brave, for
both are equally so. Both mean
equally well toward their country.
The real question is which candidate
will make the best President? Which
is the wisest and steadiest? Which
man would you choose as administra-
tor of your estate? Which would
you select to manage your business? ?
Which has the best training and the
most experience?
Mr.. Bryan never has handled a
single foreign problem. He has gov
erned no Philippines, regenerated no
Cuba, built no canal, avoided no alien
danger, saved us from no threatened
peril.
"Mr Taft has done all. 1t was his
genius for the practical and devotion
to humanity that took Philippine
chaoc and made Philippine order;
by the alchemy of his tact. to Philip
pine love. 1t was his craftsmanship
that achieved the impossible, con-
verted an Oriental people into vot-
ing citizenship, and laid the founda-
tion for future which, as God wills,
may become separate nation or a
glad and patriotic part of this great
Hepublic.
1T was William II. Taft who set
Cuba in order, established her feet
in civilizations upward pathe and it
was he who. when so directed by
President Roosevelt, who first advis-
ed with Mr.. Taft, when these child
rem of liberty tore his work to pieces,
set up once more the blessed rule of
order and liberty and law with a
fathers patience and a statesman's
wisdom. 1t is he who is command
ing the practical work of that great
est enterprise of human history, the
building of the Panama Canal"
Senator Beveridge then told of
Tafts experience and called him
counselor of presidents. and express
ed belief that Taft had been pre-
pared by Providence to be the captain
of this chosen people" Mr.. Bev-
eridge then said:
Let no man denounce Mr.. Bryan.
progress. Always such men have
been the voice of a protest but never
the statesman of cause. Always
they have been the urgers of reform.
but never the doers of the work.
mir. Bryan il an Aaron, but not II
Moses; "a Henry, but not Washing
ton; a Wcnde.. Phillips, but not an
Abraham Lincoln. He is the storm
of unrest which clears the atmos-
pherc, but not the trade winds that
carry to port the freighted ships of
peoples hope.
-Four years ago, in his own home,
paying tribute to his character and
mind. called him dreamer who be-
holds happy visions but achieves no
useful deed. he is the mind that
thinks of the barren field bending
with grain; but his is not the plow-
mans hand. the sewers craft or the
cleaners husbandry. The poets
dream of an undiscovered Utopia has
cheered us all; but the Pilgrims, ac-
tually landing on Plymouth Rock,
planted the real tree of liberty, be-
meath whose real shade we rest and
by whose real fruits we live.
No Astrologer.
William II. Taft is of the Pilgrim
stuff-his is the wisdom that makes
the ideal vision living fact. Tried
in every realm of government. tested
in every department of statesman-
ship. he never yet has failed He is
a skilled seaman of statesmanship
who takes his reckoning by the fixed
stars of human nature and expert
ence-not an uncertain lstruioger
casting absurd horoscopes from i'm
aginery signs and symbols And not
once on all his voyages has the reck-
oning he has made been wrong: not
once has single horoscope that Mr..
Bryan has cast been right.
I'VE dare not trifle with oar fu-
ture:
Humanity with all its fears.
With all its hopes of futu-e Years.
Is hanging breathless on our fate
When the great commando who
has guided our ship OF State throu.h |
storms of opposition and amid the |
rocks of hatred straight for the port |
of our higher hopes mi our larger |
liberties. voluntarily steps from the |
bridge and delivers 70 Us his high |
let us haal il 10 The |
ablest officer aboard and safely make |
the harbor of our hearts dcsirc.'
Governor Hughes in opening his
address. which was very lengthy,