The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-27

SldLes, Tie refused lO COHnpIpIllseI although the offer was held open and renewed. The difference between a politician and a statesman is that the politician looks out for himself, while the statesman looks out for his coun- try, MT, Taft Is a statesman. In 1905, when temporary chairman of the republican convention in Ohio, with the brightest of personal polit- ical prospects, Mir. Taft did another extraordinary thing He made a speech which was, in effect an appeal to smash the republican machine of Cincinnati. l cite these two instances of fearlessness and disregard of self out of many.
 1 do not think that the American people are sufficiently alive as yet to one of the most important factors in the future of the republic, foreign commerce--and especially commerce with the Orient No one 1t seems to me, can read history without acqulr- inS q certain knowledge of the trend of things in hls own time, of what may be called destiny. Russia was fore ordained to defeat by Japan, because the world current happened 10 be set ting the other way. Last winter when the bitterest of pre-nomination fights was going on, I predicted that MT. Taft would be our next president because 1t was so written--and 1t re- quired no great astuteness to make this prophecy. We are sweeping on- ward to a destiny which the ablest of our statesmen can but dimly sec the destiny of a great world-power, perhaps the greatest of all world powers and our task shall be to make 1t the most just of all worldpowers.
 William H. Taft our next president. is the embodiment of justice. But he is more. He has been fashioned by the republics destiny for her ser vice at this time, when the gate be- tween the two oceans is soon to be unlocked at last, when the tide of commerce and of righteous dealing is beginning to set in between the orie people which he knows. his own peo- pie, and those other peoples beyond the sea which he knows of Japan, of China, and of the Philippines of which he has been the true guardian, protector, and friend.
 MT Hedges started off his talk by giving an account of his recent trip to Cincinnati, where, with MT. Churchill and MT Butterworth, he had attend- ed the meeting of the National League of Republican Clubs. He was sur prlsed. he said, to be on friendly terms with MT Butterworth after all these years. In the early ninetes when Butterworth was on.>the Yale football eleven, he had lost money betting against him.
 T have been introduced" he said, as having helped largely in electing MT. Hughes Just to relieve MT. Sherman's mind l have been spending the past two weeks with him, and am now going on a trip with Taft With his chances for success assured, we can spend the rest of the evening with reasonable complacency
 MT Hedges then spoke of the vastly improved conditions and appointments over those of century ago and said that MT Bryan should tell us of the things we have instead of the things we have not lt was thought that Washington was nutty when he said he hoped sometime that the mail would be carried from New York to Philadelphia in AS hours. Now t Is carried in 90 minutes.
 The campaign this year Is not be- tween the republicans and the demo- crats--it Is between the republicans and Bryan He has asked three times for the job of president Twice it has been refused him, the second time more emphatically than the first. This time the refusal will be so em- phatlc that he will hear the refusal Bryan is the best qualified man there Is to be q candidate He has been at 1t long enough to have acquired skill But he is the poorest qualified man In the country to be president.
 Bryan is inconsistent and Is always | looking for some new issue. First there was free silver; then the war with Spain. Bryan started for material for lecture tour and got as far as Tampa, | Tho spaniards became disheartened and surrendered Then hc let out the cry of antl-imperlalism md was op- posed to war politics. Why wc can have no trouble with war. If it wa' small country and we were busy we would buy It.; If it was a large coun- try we would shut off It's fo5 supply and starve it
 Bryan discovers all of sudden that the Standard Oil company contributed S1O0. GOO to the national republican cam
 paign fund in the last campaign Ii
 the Standard oil Co. dropped S1o0,.
 Ooo into the republican slot and drew
 out 4 s29O00Ooo fine, I don't believe
 they corrupted anyone enough to leave
 a lasting impression.
 "The man who overlooks his right oi
 franchise deserves to lose it 1 look
 forward to the time when 1t will be re.
 spectful 10 be politically active. Wher
 Roosevelt Is taken away he will be re. : membered not for any special bill ht
 advocated but for having made all tn
 people think on some or another sub
 iect, and getting them out to vote
 Bryan capitallzes human misery ant
 issues stock on the presidency H.
 says that the only solution for all the
 present difficulties is to elect him pres.
 ident Taft would rather not be pres.
 ident than to be electel by some mis.
 apprehension. Bryan would prefer any
 misapprehension rather than not bC
 eleceted"