Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-30

authority of the Courts. WISH to
adopt this method ofgpewrNtingS this
pictures side by side and especially at
this point because Mr.. Ef3ryans
apologists tell us that we should deal
gently with their candidate because
Mr.. Bryan was young.
Sam Small is de cleverest man that
this we're town has ever had" said
Richmond darkey to another some
years ago. te .tt.
"Oh. / dunno, He amt General
Grant" was the response
NO. he amt General Grant, but
the way he carried everything before
him in the last lection was powahful
smaht"
ooh, he's smaht enuff but he amt
Abraha Lincoln
| mo, he amt Abraham Lincoln, but
look at de way he hadle dat ne fab
company, dat shows what kind of man
he is e,
Gwayfumhayan iaiggah, Sam smalrs
! he's d smaht man but he. amt God.
| mo he amt God but you got to
member Sans toung YETI
Mr.. Bryan was powerfully young at
| that time, we. might almost place him
I
America and his apologists think that
III judging hisicareer, at that time we
should deal gently With him because of
thar TACT. He was under forty they
tell us, and had not yet reached ma
| turity. But at this same period Mr..
TAFT too, was under 40 and had already
| served the public honorably and we'll
| for 10 years and was now justice up
| on the Federal bench rearlesSly inter-
| preting the laws of his country with
| out fear or favor and in the precise
| year that Mr. Bryan was clumsly en-
| deavOring to overthrow that regard
| for the law which is an essential of
| good citizenship everywhere, Mr. Tart
| was considered to be so profoundly
| verscd in the scirece of his profession
| that in addition to his labors on the
| beach he was chosen to expound it's
| fundamental principles to the students
| of the law department of the UNIVERSE
| ty of Cincinnati. In a day when for
| learned qualities the American bar was
one that ranked among the foremost
of the world William Howard, Taft
was a recognized leader in iurispru-
dence and when we regard his career
up to this POINT we find in it that
Which calls not so much for apology
on the score of his youth as for pride
that ours is the land in which Youth
properly trained and taking advantage
OF its opportunities can achieve the
highest professional rewards either in
place or in financial emolument.
In other words we have two pictures
at this first step of our progress the
one of a man carried away on the
wings CT high ambition, endeavoring
to lure us into the dishonor of a dol
lar that our creditors would not ACCEPT.
and lnsidiously in every one of his
thousand spoken words sowing the
seeds of dissatisfaction and contempt
FOR the law and it's machinery: the,
other OF a man at the sacrifice of his
private interests serving we'll the ma
uon that gave him his opportunities.
endeaVoring to allay discomfort by n
fearless Interpretation and enforce
ment Of the statutes of the land. One
the picture of destroyer who
tore down or at least strove to tear
down the admirable structure that
Others had laboriously erected the
Other the picture of one who
guarded well that structure from tho
dangers which beSet it and QUIETLY
went his way strengthening and up
building the institutions on the preser-
walton of which hang our National
homer and prosperity.
-Four years clapse and with all re-
spect due to other periods of our his
tory as nation they were as vital
as any IN the whole progress of our
development, filled with dangers and
showing us emerging from the position
oi merely continental power into a
people OF world wide influence A
smouldering fire and fostering sore a.
our threshold was taking on qualities
OF offence which compelled attention
and the rulers of the country were
peset almost at the beginning of the
Mckinney administration with prob
lens, the proper solution of which
taxed to their utmost the most
thoughtful minds of that last decade
OF the century. During this period
we find Mr.. Bryan welding the enor-
nous powers of his vocabulary
towards what? The settlement OF
these pressing problems? No; to the
1urtherlnS of his own personal and DO
litical fortunes by still further preach
ing the gospel of his discomfort and in
enunclating the principles anew for
which he had stood before the people
ana been happily defeated When our
troubles finally came to a head and we
found ourselves at war with Spain Mr..
Bryan awoke for a moment to a con-
dltion to which he could not even know
of and offered himself as commits
stoned officer with a regiment behind
him to go forth and do battle to the
common enemy. Mr.. Bryan practical
ly offered his physical services to this
country and he is entitled to
the honor which comes from recogni-
ton of the fact but did he do what n
truly great Democratic leader did
nearly forty years befor, when Stephen
A. Douglas. the leader of his Darrv
against Abraham Lincoln, placed him
self in his intellectual and moral force
at the disposal Of his successful rival
for the Presidency, at the final sacri-
flee of whatever public career re-
manned before him M 1adias onI