Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-08-29
A NEW BRYAN RECRUIT.

The New York World, after conduC.- ing virulent campaign against the nomination of MT. Bryan, on grounds of principle and expediency, has with rath' CT had grace determined to give the Ne braskan a qualified support, and to ex- tend to the democratic party, under his leadership, such aid and sympathy as it may without self-stultifcation offer. The World agrees to overlook what it terms MT. Bryan's "past follies" and the "delusive issues' he has imposed on the democratic party in former cam paigns, if MT. Bryan, for his part. will adhere to his admirable speech of ac- ceptance" and bury the past.
 Why should not the World or any other democratic paper, or any demo crat support MT. Bryan and the party which has again chosen MT. Bryan as it's standard bearer? In this campaign, at any rate, the democratic candidate and platform represent principles and issues and policies for which the World and its democratic constituency have been contending many years.
 On the main issue, that of plutocracy versus popular government, MT. Bryan is as everlastingly right as he is ever lastingly democratic, as Henry Waiter son has so ably argued; and on many subsidiary issues-the tariff, forexam- ple-Mr. Bryan occupies the traditional democratic position. With much of Bryanism the World has always been in sympathy; it has steadily been con spicuous exponent of progressive democ- racyl and We should judge our contem- porary will find it much more comfort able, during the present political con hict, to emphasize its agreements, in stead of it's differences, with the demo cratic nominee. It will be more con sistent to go half way with Bryan than to part company with him wholly; to support the candidate who embodies some of the principles you profess, rather than to oppose him because he differs with you on some of the rela- lively unimportant matters. Compro- mises of this sort must frequently 1e made in political as in business life, and they afford, in many cases, the only practicable method of attaining some desired object. And it ought to be ob- vious to any democrat amenable to reason that the only practicable way of attaining the ends of his party, as matters now stand, is to support, and elect, if possible, the candidate of his party.
 Some such argument as this long ago brought over the veteran editor of the Louisville Courier Journal to the sup port of Bryan, and it is an argument that will operate, We think, with in- creasing force as the campaign pro ceeds. If there is any vitality left in democratic principles, if there is any ground of appeal for democratic poll cies, certainly Mir. Bryan sums up in his personality the vital things, the matters as to which appeal may be most confidently made to his country men for support. We'll grounded in the lasting, as opposed to the evanescent, ideas of the democratic party, he has applied these to the conditions of to- day, and so made of his party living organism, responsive to the needs of the time, with constructive program of its own. To the ordinary political ob- server, it would seem that if democ- racy means anything and is worth any. thing, its meaning and worth will be brought out most effectually by the cleo tion of Bryan. Upon the extent to which this theory is accepted by for. merly disaffected democrats, MT. Bryan must largely depend for success.