Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1908-06-11
About Settled.

have about settled, so far as the
nominations are concerned, as
to who will be the candidates
for President of the United
States at the next national cleo
tion. That w. j. Bryan will be
the Democratic candidate, no
man who;has observed the trend
of public sentiment can doubt,
and that Gen. Taft will be the
Republican candidate is just
about as certain, and as these
1.-TWO men fully represent the
two contending parties, it will
he a fight to the finihh between
the people on the one side and
the trusts on the other, with
Bryan for the people Taft for
the trusts, and monopolists of
the country.
Already the money kings of
east are flooding the county
with Taft literature, warning
the people of the danger to the
public business of the country
should w. j. Bryan be elected
President. We have heard this
same song by this same class of
men who are now so fearful
that the dear people will suffer
if man of the peope should be
elected President, and like some
pickpocket, with his had in his
neighbor's pocket, crying:
Lookout for pickpockets!'
They sang this same song in
1896, and again in 1900 and in
1904, and are now singing this
same old song. We clip the
following from the New York
n,on1llg IusJ, an independent
| paper, that hits the mark with
great fore. 1t says:
''No one who clearly recalls
the political year 1896, and
the way in which business de-
preston was then made use of
as a partisan weapon, can fail
to notice a marked difference
now. During the past 6 months
there has been a singular lack
of that cutlery, abuse and appeal
which characterized the earlier
period. In those years the op-
position press called heaven and
earth to witness the imbecillity
Iofthe party inpower. Every fea-
|ture of the hard times was sci
zed upon and gloated over, be-
cause each one was turned into
an argument for removing the
democratic party form office.
There has been something of
this following our recent panic.
A fewspeeches in congress have
rung the changes on the dem
onstaatin of republican incapa-
city; a certain amount of news
paper attacks along the we'll
known lines has been noted; an
occasional party platform has
arraigned the republican rules
for not continuing to give eve
ry working man a pullet in the
pot; but, by comparison, there
has been a wonderful falling off
from the eagerness and ruth
lessness which the panic of fif-
teen years ago was employed in
a political way against Presi-
dent Cleveland.
"The reason for the change
are many. One OF them is that
the republicans have better drill.
ed and more remorseless news.
papers than the democrats. AT
the word of command, they all
with one accord took up the cry
in 1893, and lost no occasion te
set the political woods echoing
with it. By constant reittera-
: tion and artiful insinuation
: they got it into the heads of the
people that the bad times were
a final proof of the unfitness Of
democrats to administer the
country. The whole culmina
ted in the bitter Indictment o7
the democratic administration
by the republican platform Of
1896, which directly charged
upon the party in power the dis
tress Of the country. 1t is not
( perhaps, superior virtue, 81
much as inferior skill and NAL
5 ice, which has prevented demo
!. cratic newspapers and orator
this year from indulging in sucl
, +, TRADES. The fact, at least, i