The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-08-14
Henry Watterson Sees Victory
for Bryan.

for Bryan.
The greatest Of all editors, Henry
Wstterson Of the Louisville Courier
Journal, and manager Of the democra-
tic press bureau, talks this way for
publications:
81 never go into any enterprise to
lose. AS to political results, one
mans guess is as good as another's.
Predictions are never more than ex-
pressions of opiniOn-the wish. as a
rule, father to the thought-and, of
course, it is too early to forecast an
election three months away. Neither
campaign committee isyet unlimbered.
1t goes without saying that the Re-
publicans are far in the lead OF the
Democrats in equipment and resour-
ces. They are the professionals, the
regulars; we are the raw militia and
minute men. They have the best
horses and crack jockeys. But the
race is not always to the swift, nor
the battle to the strong, and l think
we have something better than fight
ing chance.
"The republicans are over-confdent.
They are worse divided than we are.
They face two ways, and are at cross
purposes. No party can stand the
eviscerations of surgeon like RoOse-
velt. He has done for the Republicans
worse than Cleveland did for the
Democrats.
"Too much is said about men and
too little about conditions. Mr.. Taft,
for example, is a gentleman OF noble
character, an official Of signal service
and merit, a citizen of unblemished
reputation. He was typical Republic
can of the school Of Sherman, Gar.
field and Mckinley until he began
to temporize with Roosevelt and got
the presidential bee in his bonnet.
"The platform on which they have
placed him contradicts his rulings on
the bench. His party in congress has
falsified his attitude toward our insu-
lar dependencies. He is put forward
as the star performer Of an enterpris
ing and spectacular manager who has
succeeded in adapting rag time music
TO the serious business nf the state and
in turning the government Of the
country into comic opera.
"Mr. Taft is much too good a man
to be sacrificed. Alone upon his char
acter, his service and his merit he
might have claimed the first place in
the nations gift and had his claim al
lowed; as heir dt law, no; as the benif-
icary OF the machine methods, no.
Theodore Roosevelt is "a popular
man. Even the Democrats love him
for his good intentions and for the
enemies he has made. They will fol-
low him INTO his retirement with salu
tations. They will not accept a desig-
mated successor and the dynastic prln-
ciple at his hands.
" Theodore Roosevelt has preached
socialism SO far reaching as 70 throw
Mr.. Bryan and his dream of railway
ownership quite into the shade, to
make Mr.. Bryan look like a conserva-
tive. He who would constitute either
free silver or railway ownership pre-
text for further opposing Mr.. Bryan
is not a Democrat and never was a
Democrat.
"On no public question Of the time
! is Mr. BRYAN menace to the country
On no public question Of the time is he
as radical as Mr. Roosevelt. In the
campaign the people will be asked to
revise their judgement of man and
! to choose between two men, the one
pr"scnting Democracy, unterrl!fed
undetiled- Democracy of the
people-,he other representing the
! one-man power and the one-party
power
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