The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-08-21

State, and justified or condemned as to
their sufficiency or insufficiency.
II says it supports Taft because his
election will advance the material and
financial interest of the country, now
surviving from great depression in
business. 1t does not tell what party,
or what policies brought on the depres-
sion, or the remedy for the evils that
affect the people We know because
it has for years been inveighing against
thems Why did it not tell us?
Instead, it tells us that Taft's calm
and judicial mind and manner will
cure the ills and restore prosperity.
Taft's judicial record, it seems 10 us,
is hardly safe ground upon which to
base a reason for his fitness for the
Presidency, for he was the father of the
discovery Of government by Injunction
which all the parties now condemn
He will be dangerous man to invest
with the power to appoint judges, if the
convictions of Mr.. Jefferson have any
weight. He said if the liberties of this
country were ever destroyed it would
be 10y and through the Courts.
We think the judgment of Mr.
Jefferson was sound then. aud that
every step in the history of the country
has demonstrated its soundness, and
the threatening danger from the ten
dency of the Federal Courts.
But the San says the material and
I financial welfare is safe if Taft is cleo
/ ted, aud at the same time says, il not in
plsiu terms, plainly intimates that Mr..
Roosevelt's big stick caused the depres.
sion, Was the San in the agonies of q
nightmare or did il forget that Taft is
! Roosevet's candidate, suggested by
him, by a convention dominated by
Roosevelt, whose platform is simply a
gloritication OF Roosevelt aud his pol
icieS whatever that may mean; and did
it foEget that Taft took his speech of &C.
ceptance 10 Roosevelt for approval be.
fore its delivery; aud did it also forget
that Taft has promised to carry out the
policies OF Roosevelt. The limelight
seems II us to be- strangely obscured
The Sun will say it is an independent
paper 1t has "A perfect right to he in.
dependent But the Sun has gone into
Dem cratic conventions and tried tC
aud has dictated nominations to crafty
its wishes, and after the ticket wa.
elected it has gone into the department:
of State Government and demanded
aud received the printing aud patron
age for its columns, and while enjoying
these benetits,it becomes the bitter 70,
Of the Democratic party.
In the election of 1905. the Sun die
all in its power 10 defeat the amend
ment of the Democratic party, to elmi
nate negro suffrage in Maryland, anC
after negro suffrage las fastened on us
it has by insinuation criticized Mr.
Bryan for expressing his willingness
TO accept negro support. WHY SHOULD
he not accept it. The Stm's course in
Dictated il was in favor of the negr,
suffrage. Ii they have the right TO vote
Mr. Bryan has the same right 10 III,
the vote as Taft. But the S,Ug by in
situation tried TO poison the Soutt
against Mr.. Bryan when they question
10 the manifest danger TO the Southern
people. The Democratic party is th,
friend Of the South, aud has Away,
been. Why should the South abandon
its best friend and vote against its can
didate, for the candidate of the party
which has always been its unrelentins
enemy.