Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-10-29
NEXT TUESDAY

Next Tuesday the presidential election OF
| 1908 will close with she verdict which more
than fifteen million ballots will render.
/ Some of the states are so strongly sure
shat the neglect OF one or of one thousand
voters will not affect the result. under orr
! Electoral system Of electing Presidents.
Here In New Jersey, however, the CEN
test is apparently so close that single bal
lot-the registered will Of single man
might possibly determine as TO the twelve
Electors whom New Jersey is to choose, and
may result in election of Bryan or of Taft
1 1t is known that those who vote for any 9TH
en- candidate than these two will be simply
! throwing away their vote.n and might as
well do 1t at home as in the ballot box
Upon New Jersey voters, therefore, we
want TO urge the importance of voting on
Tuesday next, and of helping in any other
way possible polling of the votes Of Others
who agree with them and appreciate with
them that they have interests at stake in
this election.
And who that has studied, even slightly,
the issues now on trial before the great
American Jury in court of public opinion,
or who has heard or read the arguments on
which the case has been presented to them.
if based ON truth and reason, can doubt how
deep an interest, personal to each citizen, he
and all others like him have, whose living is
earned by toll or by honest business?
And especially the citizens of agricultural
communities must feel the force of this.
They have felt burdensome wrong, they have
been made to bear for years with ever in-
creasing severity. from Tariff laws made
ever more burCienseme upon them that its
benehearies NAV wax richer and more
strongly intrenched in their power to force
tribute from the unfavored and unprotected
men, women and children of the land.
In every family, even the poorest, and in
every farm, workshop. the banded Trusts
which are bred and sheltered under these Tar
if laws are making felt their constituencies
exaetions from every purchaser Of living
needs of household or of tools for toll or
trade.
1t is not question of candidates. All the
country knows by now that Bryan Is as true
and trusty. as wise aud clear minded, and
as strong Of heart and just and incorruptible
of Judgment and OF purpose, as any man
ever in the exalted place Of the Presidency
OF this Republic.
The country all knows what Bryan stands
for He has taken all millions of countrymen
into his confidence He owes no obligation
of any sort so the powers which have prey
ed upon the people. In fact, they have al
ways fought him because he was the un-
swerving champion Of the people.
II Mr. Taft be just as good and just as wise
as Mr.. Bryan, who and what does Mr.. Taft
stand for in this conflict which will. next
Tuesday bring to the common people an
assurance of relief or an almost equal GER
taiuty of lettering them yet more heavily
and hopelessy?
Who is paying for this very Taft campain?
He and his ostensible promoter Roosevelt,
both say that the people can not safely be
told till after election? Why not open the
books Now as Mr. Bryan has required his
committee to do.
What Mr. Bryan stands for is as plain and
unmistakable as are his his speeches. alike
in East and West, while Mr. Taft does not
and dare not make in the West the argu-
mants which be uses in Eastern speeches!
There is many thoughsful Republican
of whom we have heard who is yet in doubt
as to his interest OF duty in the election.
Let him yet think well upon 1t, and we be-
Ieve he will favor at least trying the expert
ment of change, and vote for one term of
Bryan, in whose purs patriotism, honest in
dependence and wise craftsmanship they can
find at least as much assurance as in the
public record and present party environ
ments Of the Republican candidate.