Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1908-10-16

mans one earnest, honest effort in London.
and which raised him to heights high as Lin
coin at Gettysburg, Lowell in his great ode,
Washington in his farewell address, Jeffer-
son in his Declaration Of Independence, Hem
~ in his address 10 the terrified RoyalisS.
God give him power to 60 on In inc good
work.
By mans deeds is he best known Bryan
ia the type of man most needed in our public
life. Absolutely incor ruptible with convic-
tons as well as courage, with ideals to which
he is faithful, he will, II elected president, be
| constant source Of Inspiration to the whole
country. His aims arc high, his purposes
holy. In the Commoner, paper he owns
| and edits, he will not take the best paying ad-
vertisements because Of 9 moral purpose TO
publish nothing that will, directly or indl-
| rectly, injure the morals Of his readers. What
that means can be learned ct the office Of any
heightened paper He Is out now with dec
aration in favor Of publicity OF funds for the
| campaign and he has put q ban on any con-
| tributions big enough TO be dangerous.
wish we could have a symposium for this
| column of what even his enemies will say of
him when he passes away. Mark what wa
said of Cleveland before and after bis death.
put my bays and laursls on live, not dead,
men'e brows.
Bryan brings into public life the Gospel of
| Jesua Christ He was never one 10 white.
wash over the black acts of men who could
coerce conscience when 1t protested against 8
CONGRESSMAN taking fees as lawyer. The
Golden Rule, explained and expou nded In
the large, 10 the law of his life. 1t 10 bis
guide to all that he gives TO God, and In all
that he gives to man. This may unit him
| for the presidency. Perhaps it doeS. WASH
| ington's ways have seldom or never been the
| ways Of Jesus Christ. As he said, with that
| supurb literary sense, when at the conference
| of governors gathered TO save us from our
sins of wanton destruction OF our resources
"There ID no twilight zone between the nation
and the State, in which exploiting interests
can take refuge from both and my observa-
ton is that most, not all, but most OF the
| contentious over the line between nation and
State are traceable TO predatory corporations,
which are trying to shield themselves from
deserved punishment, or a:e endeaVoriug to
prevent needed restraining legislation" That
one sentence 10 worth all the presidential mes
sages since McKinley's death. For William
Jennings Bryan there 10 no twilight zone In
which the editor or congressman can exploit
interests at the expense Of q peoples majority.
He reminds enc OF Papinian, who went TO the
block rather than write . brief in defense oil
CaracalIa, who murdered Geta, his brother.
With D'Aggasseau or Thomas More he would
have welcomed death In his defense OF honor
| and the law.
am not a prophet II is hard TO predict.
| Still, If prediction based upon q belief that
is based on years of careful observation Is
worth anything, Bryan, II elected, will make
good and Q great President. Besides, he
has back Of him much that is best in our
traditions and history. The platform upon
which he stands is not platitudinous-it IS
sound timber, every plank. There will be no
compromise with crime. No Paul Morton
will be whitewashed, no political criminal
or scalawsg appointed to Office. No stalls
ties will be tempered with till they tell lale
such as parties 10 exigencies call for. Tine
divisions, bureaus and departments will not
be made TO snbServe partisan purposes, es,
alas, they have too often been made TO 40
under others.
These, then, are the main features Of the
mau. Whether he wins or loses be will go
down to his grave . great American, q splen-
did specimen of what was thought OF when
Lowell wrote the great ode in which ne re-
ierred TO Lincoln as the First American
Luckily the land Is no longer dependent upon
one man, however, great. II isto 60 on, and
on, and on, irrespective Of its Presidents.
The fathers, faithful to their trust, planted
the tree Of liberty 20 deep that its roots run
out into all parts Of the earth. The world
powers will never be able TO pull 1t up. In
all our past there was no more powerful, nc
nobler personality, than the great HebFAskan
William Jennings Bryan.