The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1908-07-21

discussed question the responsibility Of the
newspaper for the advertisements which appeared its columns
He held then he holds now the convection that the advertising
columns OF newspaper should be kept clean OF all OF
for which the would personally stand
There nothing this attitude on the part OF Bryan From
his very earliest days public life he has insisted upon making his
private business affairs parallel with his public ueranees and
beliefs There public life who believe that they can sit
United States the House OF Representatives and rep
resent all tne people WHe a. aoiheys le4 eese Wy i0
the people whose interests necessarily opposed to those OF
the many Mr. Bryan Of this He discontinued the
practice of law when he first and has never
sumed it.
In these later days his responsibility the millions Of
people this country who have their trust IN him. and who look
him with admiration amounting almost to ldoatry mas I'M
PEELED him give up any of legal work any kind OF personal
activity which would withdraw him any degree from the fight
for the people which he has been enlisted know that MI Bryan
upon this campaign to him struggle task which
could aside he would undertake But while the Bry
of 1896 youth flushed with ambition eager to rush to the
did the Bryan not desiring
much the honors that poered to HIM but rather feeling with
responsibility his duty take up the battle Tor rs
Democratic principles and to lead party long out OF power to u
mate victory.
Tackle Years Of Literary Culture
The new Bryan is vastly intellectual than the
who stirred years ago His speeches characterized
with literary style than those of earlier days Witness the
governors Washington few weeks One phrase used
passed almost into proverb He referring somewhat
indirectly device by which who represent what has come
be called predatory wealth evade punishment by gong h from
federal the state courts or from the state courts to the
federal courts. Mr. Bryan said:
There no twilight zone between the in which
exploiting take refuge from both and observation
tween nation aceabe predatory corporations which
are trying to shield from deserved punishment
deavoring to prevent needed restraining legislation
Within hours the president had adopted the metaphor
Of the twilight zone passed equally literature and into
politics 1t restrained phrase poetic possibly than
Bryan 1896 might have used At that time he would have
been more have said that there not NO Man Land
But him advancing years and more cosmopolitan experience
have brought literary which finds expression now IN all
his platform utterances.
A Change il the Popular 14titnde
remember WELL and so will New Workers the wonder
of
1906 campaign filled Broadway from the Battery to Forty
second street and which was protest against Bryan The
new Ran has been asked within the address
many the associations which then OF oa
of publishers OF manufacturers has touna nearly We"
come and respectful hearing at all
recall oo-or in that 90 campaign was deeply interested
Of the financial community in Chicago against bryan
and all his works but pass through the city without
being invited bankers and the commercial men, WHO then e
coriaed him, o address their organizations
And finally recall the somewhat bitter speech made by heodore
Roosevelt then Police Commissioner of New York at the Coliseum
lin Chicago which he could words too harsh about tn
BRYAN of 1906 short Mr. Bryans TRENDS ioud
him selected BY President Roosevelt to be one OF the ye ua
citizens Of their eninence to advise with the govern
o of the nted States they thought that whatever Mr. Bryan %
self might think the president and the presidents advisers
and associates thought there was indeed new Bryan
The Ada county delegation to the convention represents
the Democracy county much as the Washington oun
Ity delegation. for instance represents the - hos
ton county The delegates were elected talry by
en- in accordance with every requirement OF the law ana n" pr
mares were held the delegation would be endorsed D an
vlemng majority. The proposition to ulseat TINS = q
proposon to dsranclse the Democracy OF Ada coue mos
aggressive and militant Democracy IN the state Deocray I
contends against overwhelming odds and two years ago gave se
Stoger 500 plurality governor The proposition to dstran-
~ the Democrats this cannot be seriously entertained oy
any man who believes the right Of the people to rule
The statesans slap at w F. Borah all the apprecable
because ntentiona That paper drew very vivid pen picture OF
the proser in politics which the public at once attached 70 boa
lust who the Statesman had md unknown and It Will have e
when il wishes TO score does not name Inc
c3rcfno article fits Boah like the clothes on his back
The Ada county Republicans will endorse Senator Hepburn ana
5 M 1eesatiye candidates to support him and beyond this
there is no predicting what else will be done
The a to have harmony Wallace is enforce the square