Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-02

party dIlu UllilS till us SlSIAlCAIS i1llo
harmony. Mr.. Taft was forced upon
the leaders of his party by President
Roosevelt. There has not been so
hearty and sincere an acceptance of
him by those who opposed his nomin-
alton, as has been given to Mr.. Bryan
by the antiBryan politicians. With the
democrats it has been matter of life
or death. They must pull the party
together and make the best fight pos
sible, or else accept that the party
was hopelessly disintegrated. With
them, it was a fight for life: with the
republicans. on the contrary, the ques-
ton of controlling the party organiza-
lions has frequently seemed even more
important than that of electing a pres
ident and a congress.
PreposterousIy Prosperous.
The republican party has been SO
preposterously prosperous that it has
come to be regarded as about the only
while. Consequently control of a ma
jority of it's stock was looked upon as
control Of the nation. Everything
worth while seemed to be inside the
republican party; and when lit sudden
ly burst upon the country within the
first month after the Denver conven-
ton that there were distinct evidences
of solvency about the democratic es-
tablisl1ment, it brought decided shock
to large number of people who had
been assuming that this was to be a
political procession rather than a race.
1t became apparent presently that Mr..
Bryan was playing the fastest sort of
practical politics. He brought all his
old enemies into line; he reunited the
party: he dropped extremism; he sue
ceeded in making most people forget
free silver and government ownership
and other vagaries of his earlier cam
paigns. He pulled his party together
for a real effort.
No Big Issue.
There isn't real issue i'm the CAM
paign. Government guarantee OF bank
deposits comes nearest to it; but 1T
isn't big and engrossing enough TO
dominate a national. campaign. The re-
publicans haven't taken hold of their
end of it with the vigor which, in 1896,
they displayed in dealing with free Sill
yer. They deserved to win, ON talat Is
sue. because they had the courage to be
right This year they have been right,
but they have not had the courage OF
the conviction. They have lodged ana
hedged and divided altogether too
much on this issue.
Bryan comes nearer to commanding
confidence than he ever did before.
The question is whether he has so far
restored himself as to be q possible Win
ner. Analysis of all the elements in
the situation may be said fairly to
Justify the voting odds of four to one
against his election. But when one
has said that much, he always wants
to hedge. He has heard about the
revolution which all travellers from the
west report. He has seen the evidence
that the labor movement OF Gonpers
is really going to help Bryan and be
the most effective piece of political
management on either side in the
whole campaign. He knows something
about the numbers of unemployed and
their determination to register some
sort of protest.
Hearst Draws From Bryan.
But Mr. Bryan cannot be elected
with out New York. Practically all the
commentators agree to that. And he is
seemingly weaker in New York than
anywhere else He will have strength
to spare in states which mean little or
nothing; but in New York he is not
strong. He is stronger than ever be-
fore indeed; he has long been growing
on New York; but to carry f-that is
different.
Hearst will draw 4 large vote from
Bryan-they say probably $1,000; To