The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-22
Prosperity, Rcform-and Taft.

There is a threat Of grave peril to
the nation in the present pose of in
difference assumed by many so-called
independent newspapers in the pres
ent campaign. These journals, too
cowardly to oppose Taft and the Roose-
welt policies, too faint-hearted to adyo-
cate the Bryan cause openly, are de-
claring that Bryan's election can cause
no uneasiness In the industrial world
because a Republican senate will tie his
hands.
The nonsense of the plea is obvious.
What earthly reason can there be for
electing President of so uncertain q
brand that i; is necessary TO tie his
hands? If Bryan is entitled on his rec
ord and the promise of his platform to
election to the chief executiveship of
the United States, then he is entitled to
the absolute trust and confidence of the
Irtple. He should be given full faith
and full power if he is to be given any
power at all. II he should be elected.
he should be elected a President, not
figurehead.
AS q matter of cold fact and hard
headed reason, William Jennings Bryan
is no more fitted for or entitled to the
Presidency to-day than he was In 1896
or 1900. His record makes him Presi-
DENTAL impossibility. The measures he
advocated in his former campaigns
have proved impossible If the Bryan
theories Of 1896 and 1900 had been en-
acted into enforced laws black dis
aster would have overtaken the nation.
HIS present adherents admit as much !;
practically he admits the fact himself
III his complete abandonment of the
theories he advocated so hotly in his
first two campaigns.
And the disaster that would have fol-
lowed his election then would as surely
follow his victory now The recent
panic has left Industrial America on the
tenterllooks. The business of the coun-
try is II. no condition for experiments
Consider the effect on the industrial
anu commercial world If 1t were %
awaken the day after election to the
fact that the country has named a Pres
idcht whose only guarantee of safety
lies in the knowledge that his hands aie
tied by a Republican senate.
The argument won't answer. 1t
won't win. The man who must make a
living can't afford to take such
chances. With the grocery bills and the
butcher bills of 3G5 days a year to
face he can't risk government changes
and government experiments that
threaten to close the avenues of labor
to him. Nor can he risk the block to
Roosevelt reforms that would follow n
deadlock between a Democratic Presi.
dent and Republican Congress.
There has been more reform i'm the
affairs of the nation, more unearthing
Of iniquity in high places. more real
progress toward better things in the
last years of Republican rule than ever
before In the history of the country.
And the man who wants these reforms
continued must and will vote for the
Republican candidate.
There has heen more prosperity in
America, more smoking chimneys and
busy mills and full dinner pals and ma
terial progress rnder Republican admin
istrations u.an the Democratic party
has even been able to promise, much
less TO give. And the man who wants
an honest living and good one must
and will cast his ballot for William
Howard Taft.
This country is not going to turn its
back on Theodore Roosevelt. 1t Is not
going to shut up its shops and mort
gage its farms. 1t is going to elect
Taft.-Toledo Blade.