The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-10-30
CANDIDATES .
COMP AIRED,
Records Of Taft and Bryan
Studied For Fitness.
WHAT HAS EACH MAN DONE?

trasted With Ohioan's Fruitful
Life, With Its Long List of Duties
Accomplished.
William Howard Taft or William
Jennings Bryan will in few days be
chosen president Of the United States.
He who aspires TO that exalted place
should have done much to show his fit.
ness for the station he would occupy.
BY wisdom or by ability he should
have demonstrated his right to that
supreme and priceless honor. Take the
life Of each man and set the two rec
erds side by side. serutinize those two
Iivesl Measure the one by the other
and then judge within your heart--not
impulsively, not with partisan bias, but
calmly, worthiiy ard a. a patriotic
eitizen--whieh Of these two men is the
worthier 10 be honored by your vote
and to DO crowned with the glory of tho
greatest gift in the possession Ct the
citizens Of this nation!
Search frat the life Of William Jsn-
ninss Bryant II lies before you for
your inspection.
What has he done TO demonstrate his
fitness to occupy that great post to
which he now, for the third time, as
pires7
IL. l.. - al. ,.gt.ntn enurs. - Lie I;F.
ever done one solitary thing 70 benefit
the nation Of which he is a citizen or
to advance the eivi.ixs.ion and ca.
Iiahtennsnt Of mankind?
Search your memory 10 its uttsrmoss
depths, and IL you find that he has
done one single thing. either BY word
or deed, that has proved Of ever co tit
tie lasting benefit 10 the world set that
thing down TO his credit.
Think 10 there enc such single,
solitary thingf
Twelve years ago he advocated the
free coinage Of silver. urging II upon
the nation with all the strsnuosity Of
his fsvsrish and vehement nature.
This idea he no longer advocates.
But has he abandoned III
A little mere than q year ago he ad.
voes.sd with equal irnpetuosity the gov.
eminent ownership Of rail~ays--an
ownership that would have entsiIed
upon the United States a national debt
of more than FIVE thousand million dol
lars 80
This idea also he no longer advo.
Gates.
Bot has he abandoned h1
Twice he has advocated and twice he
has ceased 10 advocate . dangerous
and mistaken policy. What assurance
have you that he does net . third time
advocate q policy equally dangerous 10
the welfare ef the nation7
And II you elect him 10 the presi.
seaey what assurance have you that
he will no; attempt 10 put that dan.
sscous policy into disastrous sffeetf
His ineempe;eney and his insdsqusey
to fII any Ct the major opportunities
that he eovs,s are known 10 all the
world.
Il 10 notorious that his first nennina.
ton 10 the presidency came 10 him not
because Of his ability in public sffairt.
but only because he happened 10 make
= happy phrase in an oratorieal out
burst, which, Swsp. hin, into q posi-
ton for which he had never before
and has never since p, Svsd his fitness
In the intervals between his Unsue'
esssfui campaigns he has sunk into
comparative ebteirity. No, one act in
all that time gave any indication &c
the world that he was really awake 10
the needs Of the hour.
Consider ell thisl Are not all the
facts here set down about him ineen
tes,ably trus7 " they are net true
name enc thing that has baen sac
amiss or the. has bsen left unsaid ane
let Il stand 10 his credit.
". However, these things arc true
then how great 10 th>ir Significance:
How great 10 your responsibility II you
vote should help 70 sat this honest
errino. insempstsa, man in tts prssi'
Genital chair Of this natienl
= y
Turn now 10 William Howard Tat''
His life 10 known 20 all men.
Consider Ill Weigh Il in the balane.
ei your ealnest and most candid jHdg
trsntl
Think. u "su choose. only Of those
two ret sic and spIsnfi1 p.~fsrmanssi
tha: stsnd ssfsre che world 'eSay a.
r7eaumcnts 81 his wisdom and hi
aIisy-his civil sovsrnersaip G. h'
Philippines and his establishment a.
secretary Of war ef that vast COZ IN
mental work now being done upon 'h'
Panama canal.
Say nothing Of his brilliant eipio
matte successes In the Philippine .
Rome. In caba, in Japan--ssy nothn,
II a NsNR