Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-07

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| against its will. We are to accept. not
what the democratic party las it used to
| be) thinks on any issue, but what Mr..
| Bryan thinks on every issue, as the real
| basis for the national campaign to be
ended by the election in November next.
Because Mr.. Bryan still keeps alive con-
| troversies which many democrats are
| content to regard as settled, we have to
go back and rediscuss matters which the
verdict Of history properly interpreted
! ought long ago to have ended.
1t Is true that free silver and 80 per
| cent reputation for the time have been
| lost sight of. though 1 do not understand
Mr.. Bryan to have said anything which
| that as a panacea should continued finan-
| Gal depression suggest to him its neces-
| sity. But. passing that over. we come
| to the thing which distinguishes Mckin-
| leys administration from every other
national expansion. l verify believe that
| four-fifths of the people Of the United
| States are entirely content with the way
| in which Mr.. Mckinley and Mr.. Roose-
welt have worked out the problems pre-
sented to US by the Spanish war: but this
| does not prevent fierce assault by Mr..
Bryan upon republican administrations
| for what they have done In this regard.
Called a Turncoat.
| We shall continue to hear during the
next campaign that We have departed
| from every constitutional principle and
| all the maxims Of the Declaration of In
dependence in carrying out what has
truly been the greatest atruistic policy
| ever attempted and executed by civil
| lized nation.
Mr.. Mckinley and the republican ad-
| ministration were forced into the war
with Spain against their will. Without
premonition we were carried into search
| for our enemy ten thousand miles away
| % o.. ~ o@o
could not get away. Thus it happened
that when the treaty of peace was signed
| we had presented to us a problem the
settlement of which has greatly affected
| our national policy.
| It was then. II at all. that those who
| were opposed to expansion should have
| made themselves heard. Where did Mr..
Bryan stand at that time? He used every
effort to bring about a ratification OF the
| treaty of Paris. Without him it could not
| have been ratified. With his support 1t
was ratified. And then. after we had
| taken over the sovereignty of Porto Rico
| and the Philippines and Cuba and assum-
| ed our position as guardian Of the peoples
Of those islands, and had taken the only
| course possible for the benefit of those
people as our wards. we find him con-
| demning the administration with I'M
| stinted abuse as guilty of a departure
| from the principles at the foundation OF
| our government.
Bryan in Denver.
DENVER, April LATTER attending
several receptions and making several
, speeches. following his arrival here yes
| terday, William J. Bryan made his chief
| platform effort last night at a banquet
| in Ell Jebel Temple. An incident of the
banquet was strike by 200 walters, who
| re fused to work for 81 for the night. Mr..
Bryan said in part:
Secretary Taft started out to make
| his campaign on a platform which de-
| clared for tariff revision-the revision to
| be postponed until after the election AS
| he travelled over the country he found
| the tariff reform sentiment so strong that
| he finally reached the conclusion. in the
platform of his state convention. that
tariff reform is so urgent that a special
session of Congress should be held imme-
diately after the 4th of March. But even
| more significant is the surrender made
by Vice President Fairbanks. for his
| state convention declares In favor of a
| special session of Congress to be called
| Immediately after the election - four
months earlier than Secretary Taft's spe-
| cial session.
| Candidates Switching.
"And we have two candidates to hear
| from yet. 1t remains to be seen wShe Their
Candidate Knox and Candidate Hughes
| will attempt to make a better bid than
| those already submitted by Candidates
Taft and Fairbanks. 1t is gratifying to
| see republicans vying with each other in
| their advocacy of tariff reforms. But
| the people are not likely to intrust the
reduction of the tariff to the men who
are not willing TO have tariff reform at
| once and who have not discussed the
| tariff until the exigences of the cam
paign made 1t necessary.
| The democrats have been asking for
railroad regulation for twelve years. and
| when at last the President, taking his in
| asked for an enlargement of the scope of
the interstate commerce law he received
more loyal support from the democrats
than from the republicans
Secretary Taft seems to be regarded as
| the representative of the reform element
| and yet he has so little of the reform
| spirit and his record Is SO barren of any
| work in behalf of reform that he will
| hardly satisfy the expectations raised
among republicans by some Of the Presi-
dents regulations. His advocacy of per-
petual franchises in the Philippine Islands.
| coupled with a perpetual guarantee Of in
| come, shows that he looks at the cor
poration question from the standpoint of
the corporation rather than from the
standpoint of the public.
Good Out Of Nazareth.
Secretary Taft testified before Con-
| gress that wei never could hope to have
more than 2OOO0 or 10000 Americans in
the Philippines. We have not anything
| like that number there. but even il we
| had ii would cost us more than 81, OUt a
| year for each one of the $1,000 to make
up the hundred million year of addi-
tional expense. We could better afford
to pick out the 10000 who want to 60 to
the Philippines and support them at good