The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-07-17


factional troubles and unpopular
with the people on account of its
miSgovernment, his chances of
winning the fight for the peoples
rights are the brightest.
Every Democrat must put on
his lighting clothes and get into
action promptly and battle val
lantly for the success of Demo.
cratic party aud the rest0ra-
tion of government 10 the interest
of all the people.
This is Democratic year.
Bryan will he elected. The people
will rule.-Bufalo Times, Demo
crGt
POLICIES VS.. THEORIES.
While the Leader believes that
the election of Taft aud prac-
tical continuation of the admins
tration and policies now working
out the great problems which the
country must solve will be for the
best interests of the people, still
it can find no reason in that why
it should not be fatal to Bryan
and to the masses back of him,
and who honestly believe in him.
They are not enemies of their
country, nor is he. They and he
wish it well and have lust az
much Rncern in the common
good as have those opposed to
them politically. 1t would be
putting a very low estimate upon
their intelligence to tell them
that because Bryan once favored
the free coinage of silver or gov
ernment ownership that he should
be defeated
The reason for his defeat should
be found in what he stands for
today, and not in the buried
issues of the past. Bryan is q
mau who is every whit as honest
and as honorable as Taft, and his
word to the people is worth just
as much
But Taft stands for tried poll
cies which we know to be both
safe and progressive. He is q
tried man and he has proved his
fitness for the Presidency Pitts
bury Leader, Republican.
DESIRE FOR CHANGE.
Peculiar conditions exist in the
United States at the present
party ties are loosened, and
there is spirit of unrest and a
desire for change. The begin
niug of this phenomenon ante
dated the financial panic, and
did not therefore grow out of it.
Then. again. when business il de-
pressed and industrial enterprise
is halted, the patty in power is
held responsible. That feeling
will help Mr.. Bryan. There is.
however, the instructive fear of
the consequences OF change in
the personnel aud policy of the
government to act as balance
against that feeling. 1t mag be
asked if the Roosevelt admins
tration brought about the great
reaction in business and industry,
what may not the Bryan policies
do, and shall we submit to an
other surgical operationl-New.
ark Star, Independent
BRIGHT PROSPECTS.
To the right minded citizens
the manner of Mr.. Taft's nomina-
tion, likewise some personal as
poets of his candidacy ought TO
be the source of profound regret
and considerable alarm. In the
course of human events the time
has not arrived when it becomes
necessary in the interests ct this
republic, that Chief Magis-
trate's tenure of individual power
should extend chronologically
beyond the term for which he was
chosen. .SInheritance" OF office,
dynastic succession, government
by substitute are the words that
express ideas abhorrent to most
Americans. The attempt to rule
a whole nation through the cor.
poreal person of another is an i'm
pudent undertaking on the part
of the experimenter, and humll-
iating in the extreme to the sub
ject and medium. The Demo-
cratic leader is to be congratu-
lated upon the remarkable dem
onstration of a popularity
undiminished by his two sue
cessive defeats. In this campaign
he stands for nothing but himself,
his own political following and
his own political theories and
purposes. AS regards the meth
DDS and machinery of nomina-
tions, Denver affords contrast
which sdould be contemplated by
Republicans generally, with re-
spectful aud regretful emotions.
Yet who shall say that it fol-
lows that because the process at
Chicago was detestable, while
that at Denver was admirable in