The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-10-15

One OF the .,ost frequent and
seemingly plausibie arguments In be-
hG1k OF Bryan's candidacy is that as
President of the EDITED States he
SOu1d do no harm. because the SEN
rte and the House also, II Republi-
en- would prevent him from having
Ms own way. Would any sane ousl-
ness man In the United States enter
tam such a suggestion? He womb
reject Il Indignantly and rebuke the
DeEBon making 1t. WHAT! he would
exE1Rim. place an untrust%orthy
DsrBon In charge of my AFFAIR." ana
TRUST to others to see that he Is not
auOWed to injure me? The very
flea Is an insult to my common
Gense!"
Yet day in and day out, In news
paper articles, speeches and talk be-
tween man and man, the argument
tie have quoted is applied to the
Greatest Office in the United States,
die Office the holder of which pos
TiIsrees more power, for good or i'll.
MN any king or emperor, and who
EN-, even by mere utterance, enect
SNEa1cuIable evil to business interests
throughout the United States. 1t is
6GhaIE of Bryan toNthe business men
OF the country, and the persistence
S5fEh. which 1t Is repeated suggests
INT those who present 1t think 1t IS
EA41ng some effect, or perhaps
which is more liIkely-it Is the only
IiRea they dare to present, conscious
aB they are of the utter unhtness OF
EI1eTr candidate and/of the futillty of
UDeklng to gain support for him on
IaEs merits as a public man.
BE Is a false plea, as false as 1t Is
Gl[ameless. Bryan in the White
ED0se could be and would be for
&nur long years the most dangerous
fesE and plague the business inter
GEB OF this nation have ever encoun-
6REed The lack of ballast in his po-
1IEfcal career up to date, his weather
SSne veering to>this or that point OF
tie compass to catch a promising
tEeeze. his lightning somersaults
nom one political hobby to another.
HIS plagiarism OF any novelty that he
thinks may attract the thoughtless-
an these foreshadow the instability
6e his course should he achieve the
aim of his ambition and prove the
menace that his very presence In the
White House would be to business
neither Senate nor House could
prevent him from doing irremedtable
harm, and business men who had
been deceived into accepting him as
harmless would have abundant time
and leisure to repent.
What a contrast between the can
dldate whose strongest plea Is that,
II elected, he would be unable to do
IRythIng very bad because Congress
could not let him, and William H.
T&ft of whom president Mckinley
6SId. s'I am sending Taft to the Phil
tppInes because he IS the broadesC
amd most unselhshly brave man
know, and because he will carry the
spirit of the Constitution of the uni
ted States In his very blood'-Taft,
10 statesman, held in esteem
throughout the civilized world; the
just Judge and modest, sincere gen
GIeman, full" as one writer de-
GTfbes him, ''of the knighthood I'M
der which the honor and strength of
= great nation must be shielded in
Insidious peace as in omen war" No
body suggests that William n. TAFT
would need Congress to watch him,
N that any act of his would be
Wrong or a menace to the business
interests of law abiding citizens. No
body has any doubt that Taft as Pres
3denE would be guided solely by his
6ense OF duty, without regard to the
bearing OF his acts on his political or
T1eTson9l fortunes In brief, nobody
IOu4d dare to present in behalf Of
Taft the plea which Is at once an
apology for and an indictment of
Bryan