The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-10

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In his speech at Youngstown Sena-
tor Albert j. Beveridge of Indiana dis
cussed national questions. He re-
viewed the remedial legislation en-
acted by Republican congresses, ad-
Vised a revision of the tariff and dis
cussed the problems Of labor and the
manner in which the Republican party
has met them. He urged larger navy
and respect for the Monroe doctrine.
Continuing he said, in part:
Comparison of Bryan and TAFT.
This is a campaign of candidates even
more than Of platforms. The question is
not which candidate Is most upright pa
triotic, brave, for both are equally So
Both mean equally we'll toward their
country. The real question is which
candidate will make the best president? Z?
Which is the wsest and steadiest? Which
man would you choose as administrator
of your estate? Which would you select
to manage your business? Which has
the best training and most experience?
Mr.. Bryan never has handled a single
foreign problem. He has governed no
Philippines, regenerated no Cuba, built
no canal, avoided no alien danger, saved
us from no threatened peril
Mr.. Taft has done all. 1t was his genius
for the practical and devotion to human
ity that took Philippine chaos and made
Philippine order; took Philippine hate
and changed it, by the alchemy Of his
tact, to Philippine love. 1t was his states
manship that achieved the impossible,
converted an oriental people into a voting
citizenship, and laid the foundations for
a future which, as God wills, may become
a separate nation or a glad and patriotic
part of this great republic.
1t was William H. Taft who set Cuba
In order, established her feet in civiIiza-
tion's upward path; and it was he who,
when 80 directed by President Roosevelt,
who first advised with Mr.. Taft, when
these children of liberty tore his work to
pieces, set up once more the blessed rule
of order and liberty and law with a faith
ers patience and a statesman's wisdom.
1t is he who is commanding the practical
work of that greatest enterprise Of hu-
man history the building of the Panama
canal
Taft the Experienced.
1t was he whose counsel President
Roosevelt sought at every crisis of his
historic administration; he who helped
avert war when little politicians and
narrow minds would have plunged US
into conflict. 1t was William H. Taft
whom our president, when confronted
with foreign perplexities and with the
awful weight of our ninety millions well
fare on his heart, sought for strength
and wisdom; and it is William H. Taft
more than any man ever called to the
leadership of the American people, who
has had the best training, the widest ex-
perief4ee and the WiSest teaching to fit
him for that glorious but serious task.
In domestic affairs Mr.. Bryan has writ
ten not one law, administered not sin
gle department advised no president
while lecturing all. He is a preacher Of
righteousness. but not an administrator
of affairs. He never conducted the gov
ernment of a city county, a state or
a nation. William H, Taft has been judge
on the bench, governor of a people, ad-
ministrator of department His hand
has helped to shape most of the progress
siVe laws we have passed In the last
seven years. and his great heart and
splendid mind are behind every law we
propose today. The sought for counselor
of three presidents-as different yet as
wise as Harrison, Mckinley and Roose-
velt-fate has equipped him to be the
trusted leader of the people who loved
and honored these three chief magis-
trates.
Bryan's RIghtfuI and Useful Place.
Let no man denounce Mr.. Bryan. Such
men are necessary to human progress
Always such men have been the voice of
a protest, but never the statesman Of a
cause. Always they have been the urgers
of reform, but never the doers Of the
work.
Mr.. Bryan is an Aaron, but not a
Moses; a Henry, but not a Washington; a
Wendell Phillips, but not an Abraham
Lincoln He is the storm of unrest Whir
clears the atmosphere, but not the trade
winds that carry to port the freighted
ships of a peoples hope.
Four years ago. in his own home, pay
ing lflDuIe 10 HIS CHdEdCleT ana mInQ,
called him dreamer who beholds happy
visions but achieves no useful deed His
is the mind that thinks of the barren
field bending with grain; but his is not
the plowman's hand, the sower's craft or
the cleaners husbandry. The poets
dream of an undiscovered Utopia has
cheered US all; but the Pilgrims, actually
landing on Plymouth Rock, planted the
real tree of liberty, beneath whose real
shade we rest and by whose real fruits
we live.
William H. Taft is of the Pilgrim
stuff-his is the wisdom that makes the
ideal vision living fact. Tried In every
realm of government. tested in every de-
partment of craftsmanship, he never yet
has failed. He is a skilled seaman Of
craftsmanship who takes his reckoning
by the fixed stars Of human nature and
eXperience-not an uncertain astrologeF
casting absurd horoscopes from imagin-
ary signs and symbols And not once on
all his voyages has the reckoning he has
made been wrong; not once has a single
horoscope that Mr Bryan has cast bean
right.