The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-10-31
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One os,tberHrasloDoek offered by the
Republican PRESS al argument against
Mr.. Bryan. IS that be is found with
different chief issue each campaign
That this great Republic, with her
people progressing and remedylng ali
conditions would advance far enough
70 bring new issues 10 the fore each
four years does NOT seem to occur to
the press bureau OF the Republican
party
And again when these seifsatisfied
writer's calmly assert the Republican
party has settled the former issues
and have done so to their best abgli-
sies, Il does not occur to them they
are admitting defeat should be their
portion.
II the issues were correctly settled
and 10 the very bert CT Republican
ability way. men and fellow.eitlzens.
Is it that The Republican party is
pledglng reforms?
They have fought for a protective
tariff for forty years and now admit
II IS wrong in policy and "we viii fix
i after the electon!"
They Aave advocated their party
was settling lnsular affairs. aad stln
We find their platform pledging to turn
loose those islands when they are
capable oe seltgovernmehii"
Their insuiar platform has arrived
where the Democratic platform OF 1900
was stationed.
The Republican party In 1895 de-
clared for international bmetalism,"
VhRteyer that might be.
Ia 1900 and four years later the Re
publican party boasted OF IT'S none
tary reccrd-in 1903 they got up the
Aldrleh-Vreeland admission OF Repub.
lican error and inability to handle any
great question OF the time.
The Panama insurrection: the do.
natlRg OF $4O.0O0000 10 French and
American plunderers; the taking OF
malaria-yellow-fever infested Panama
as a canal site against the report Of all
ciVil engineers and the great students
OF equatorial health facilities was bat
another instance OF Republican ineom-
peteney-R great party ruined hy the
cOnnivance between and mholy ALI.
ance with those who have for
quarter century feasted at the festal
boards OF special privilege!
No wonder the press cf that party
Enaryeis the. Mr.. Bryan tfor twelve
years the most wonderful statesman
who has led the forces OF right against
the entrenched armies of greed
avarice, sin. oppression and amalga.
mated rottennessl IS sull popular
idols
Mr.. Bryan stood the champion Of
great measures each time he has been
before the pc pie. and, in 1904 wnen
Judge Parker eore the standard OF the
Democracy. standing for the consiitu-
tion to be Che law and declaring whose
violated Mass eglnlinn the Nebraskan
also sloode 81 hAer aDr and went to
defeat With TIE New York iurist tand
the years ar9fast 'all, ,wing the Alaeri,
can people lt0 lundeiSiand the worst
defeated man in fifty years for pFesi.
dental honors Is one Of the greatest.
purest and ablest men this cOuL,ry
has pr0duced) and yet now. Roosevelt
Cromsell, Pennypacker Knox ct al
are finding the great, ihrobbing Ques.
tions OF 1905 as advocated by Mr.
Bryan through the Denver platform are
too great for them to laugh away: too
transcendent Ia Importance to be over
shadowed by the child.like. fictitious
big stick the most disgraceful term
IN American public life
Mr. Bryan stands for living ques
tions aud places the voter IN fun pos
session OF his belief he argues for
that belief with wisdom and honor. and
has no one with millions OF patronage
10 belabor and curse these who dis
agree with hin.
Siandered yillified and charged Will
evil when those who assaled him and
reViled him start on their Journeys
some 10 the peniteniiaries. some Il
alicidal graves and others 20 the fr
eign lands with which we have no ex
tradition treaties the cOmmoner re-
gre;s the nisionunes OF his foes
standing as ever the tower Of sirengti
for measnres--never resoriiug q,
blllihgsgate nor arguing falsely lik,
the demag0gues who have so ruthless
~ assailed him. A great impregnalA.
rock { strength to righteousness: pur'
Ia heart and free from guile; states
maa, philosopher and Christian evan
gelisl'
Again Wao are the men who har'
bsen prominent since the day william
9enalugs Bryan took upon himself thi
le1dersaip of those who declare III
constitution Is 10 be enforced an,
ah1ll be- ta1t 40 modificatign can b.