The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-14

revision of the tariff shall be by the
friends of the tariff and the bencfic,-
aries of the system or shall be by the
people and the victims of the system.
The answer to this question will not
be greatly in doubt when we call the
country's attention to the recent spec
tacle in congress of the president in
good faith recommending the removal
of the duty from the single article of
wood pulp and the refusal of his party
to acquiesce i'm that needed reform, al
though urged to do so by all the Demo-
cratic members of the house
The answer to the question will be
still less in doubt if we can convince
the people that the Democratic party.
If entrusted with that duty of revision,
will approach its task i'm a spirit of
conservatism and not one of demolition
that the revision will be tonic and
not punitive; that it will be a work of
economic reorganization and not one
of reprisal.
'The party will be entrusted with
this work If it can convince the people
that the tariff will be revised with
just consideration of all interests in
volved and with "A temperate progress
sion that will permit a proper read
justment of business to the new con-
ditions that shall be created
Why Bryan Should Be Nominated.
In our opinion the surest way to
convince the people of this fact viii be
by the nomination of a man i'm whose
conservatism and in whose integrity Of
purpose and i'm whose incorruptibility
the voters will have faith. 1t is our
belief that no man in the party pos
sesses these various attributes to so
eminent degree as Mr.. Bryan.
THE league calls your attention to
the fact that nearly ali of the policies
recently advocated by Mr.. Roosevelt,
and which increased his popularity
with the common people, were policies
first enunciated and clearly written
into the Democratic platforms by Mr.
Bryan himself.
THE league calls your attention to
the fact that the proposed enlargement
of the powers of the interstate COM
merce commission has been a plank in
the last three Democratic national
platforms, and that the Republican ma
tional platforms Of the same cam
paigns have been silent upon the same
subject
Some Figures Presented.
I'VE call your attention to the fact
that Mr.. Bryan's vote in the state of
New York in 1900 was $4,000 greater
than the states vote for Grover CIeve-
land in his last election.
We call your attention to the fact
that I'm the popular vote in that year of
1900, Mr.. Bryan, whom the country had
come to know, reduced McKinley's ma
jority of the preceding election in the
state of New YOrk $4,000
I'VE call your attention to the fur
| ther fact that when the party at St
Louis in 1904 chose Judge Parker as its
standard bearer, Judge Parker's op-
ponent, Mr.. Roosevelt, increased Me-
/ Kinley's popular vote of the entire
country less than 400, 900 votes, while
! Parkers popular vote fell behind that
\ of Mr.. Bryan 100000
Time to Advance.
I'VE respectfully submit that the flu
/ ture of the party lies in its advance
and not i'm marking time or in retreat
I'VE submit that since the election
of 1900, Mr.. Bryan has constantly
gained in personal popularity; that he
makes an especial appeal to the enthu-
siasm of the new and youthful voters
whose ideals are high, and also while
not disparaging the claim of the ia
vorite son of any locality, that he more
than any other man whose name is be-
fore the people, can unite all elements
of the party in a courageous and mill
| tant campaign" ~