Williams news., 1908-10-10
THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

1 ne present poliIlcai caH aH'Pais' is not like any other in history. Never before have party ties beer relaxed never before have mer seemed waiting so patiently for sign of promise. They see our country so rich in developed and undeveloped resources; they see SC much accumulated wealth, and yet there are idle men, and men who are at work are ready to strike or the smallest irritsnt. They look 70 the newspapers; there IS not much light They turn to the plat forms of the parties; there IS not much comfort in them. even if all that is promised could be delivered.
 They turn to the candidates and try to single out from the bunch one that by his prescience seems to be fitted for the great office of chiei magistrate of hundred million people, and turn back dlsappolnt- .d. The Prohihitiouist Is to re-
 leem the world from a great vice. | No more are poor men to spend their means and undermine tlelI health through strong drink. And still where this compulsion has been tried for years, the good re- suits have not followed; and tht truth is made clear that the hearts ! of men cannot be changed by a statute, nor their appetites az peased.
 They turn 10 the Socialists al d read the promise that society is to he leveled. the wealth gradually
 divided. and it does not require
 much clear reasoning to see that
 with this done, the incentive to ex
 eel would disappear, and with II the degeneration of the races ot
 nen would begin. It would be as
 it is with a young man in Utah
 who does not bow down to the
 lominent church; he knows that
 no matter what his natural abili-
 ties may be, or how he m '
 struggle to be worthy of politlca
 honors, none await him here. Ap-
 ply this conviction to all the oc
 equations which honest men engage
 in and we at a glance see wha
 Socialism, if successful, would
 swiftly lead to. Men turn to th' Hearst platform, and while it hal many good features, there is nc backing to it but single man s rike him and his newspa per town, and his platform would fad from view in a month.
 In the South, Tom Watson stil
 bears the banner of Populism, ant it reminds one instinctively of tn
 position of those English soldier
 who paused for moment on tn : shore to bury their late chieftain Sir John Moore, and then saile' away. There is something grotes
 1ue in his claim that the thini needed is to restore the policies
 all save those pertaining to slayer. U that prevailed until they wen
 out forever under the flames of tn , great Civil war.
 , Then men turn to Mir. Bryar
 He had a vital principle to fgh tor in 1886. Since then he ha wa abbled, and men ask, "Is h q great enough on t he platforr a which was constructed under hi . eyes, to, if elected, give the peopl the peace and cOutentment whic they covet, and steady the -grea f ship of state as it plunges on wit it's freight of care and responsibili
 among the nations?"
 t Then turning to MT. Taft, me { note the great lawyer, the super r judge, the vast experience whie l. has been his. but listening while h C speaks, To! there is but a promis l to follow in the footsteps an T. ella borate the policies of another 5 and that other, one who has Tt < peatsdly established that so 1T [ tense an ambition drives him O ( and so sublime egotism possesse