The Washington herald., 1908-02-10
Who Are the Radicals?

Editor The Washington Herald;
Perplexlty is professed by some that
the President in a part of his message
used the plural we rather than the
usual Il" The people understand that
there he speaks for them. hence in their
name-"we,' the people OF whom he is one
and for whom he is the spokesman, His
voice in that part of his message is the
voice of the people-he evidently feels
that-and that the people will understand,
and there he makes no mistake. That
being SO. il gives assurance. if the voice
and votes OF the people be not smothered
in the next election, as was done in 1895,
Mr.. Bryan. as next President, will In
IKE manner act for and with the people
in the enforcement of the principle pro-
claimed by Mr.. Roaseyelt in that part
of his last best mA&age voiCng as he
does the sentiment of the people OF both
parties who. rising above party and
placing themselves beyond party bias, rec
.ognize right regardless as TO whether it
finds expression through Republican or
Democrat, Mr.. Roosevelt or Mr.. Bryan.
As crime and corruption know no party
both parties for the promotion Of sinister
purposes, so 10 a still greater extent can
and VIII the public conscience ignore
party lines for the promotion OF those
principles of public polty which VIII
most honestly and, consequently, most
equitably and surely, subserye the gen
eral good.
In no manner has the Democratic party
more distinctly and ingenuously demon
strated its loyalty 10 the country at large
than that in which through its repre-
sentatives in both branches Of Congress
il has received this message, rejecting the
sentiments of their constituents of the
Democratic party throughout the country,
who do not fail To express appreciation
OF the Presidents administration in many
affairs I believe no opposition party in
any deliberate body has been more ais
interested or displayed greater regard for
/ the public good than has the Democratic
opposition during the Roosevelt admins
tration.
II in the early days of the republic
Patrick Henry, the Revolutionary patriot.
regarded squirting at monarchy as
dangerous and disgusting, would not he
and his COmpatriots be appalled, and sick
eued at the sight OF these corporations,
SO regally clothed and panopied with
power? Constitutional mOnarchies would
never dare attempt 10 SO infringe the
rights Of the people, 10 so Oppress them,
and flch from them. Are not such doings
a direct radical departure from the faith
Of the conscript fathers, the founders Of
our government and trainers of our Con-
stituuou?
IT So then those who oppose such
practices are the true conservatives. Mr
Roosevelt and Mr.. Bryan are the real
conservatives. while these reactionarjes
are the radicals. who in their departure
from and contempt for constitutional re-
qurements and rights have intTenched
themselves in more than monarchical
power and perquisites behind the ramparts
Of predatory wealth.
II is the desire Of Mr.. Roosevelt and
Mr.. Bryan alike to expose these vam-
pires these bats of finance, feeling that
when the people once see plainly the
hide0usness Of their proportions and pur-
poses, they will rise In the might and
majesty of their righteous wrath and in
diguatiOn and destroy them utterly; and
that is the hope Of the nation.
The few Democratic dodgers who i'm
agine themselves leaders should be quick
/ iy undeceiyed, or relegated to the rear, as
were the suspects Of the allied army at
Waterloo, and the loyal Democratic hosts
led by Mr. Bryan should, like the legions
under the lead of Wellington and Blucher
advance their entire unbroken line 30 the
defeat and rout Of the enemy.
\. c, PRYOR.