The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-10

whom our president, when confronted
with foreign perplexities and with the
awful weight OF our ninety millions
welfare on his heart, sought for
strength and wisdom; and 1t is Will
liam II. TAFT more than any man ever
called to the leadership of the Ameri.
can people, who has had the best
training, the widest experience and the
wisest teaching to fit him for that
glorious but serious task
In domestic affairs Mr.. Bryan has
written not one law, administered not
single department, advised no presi-
dent-while lecturing ALL He is q
preacher of righteousness, but not an
administrator of affairs. He never
conducted the government of city, q
county, state or a nation. William
H. Taft has been Judge on the bench,
governor of people, administrator of
department. His hand has helped
to shape most Of the progressive laws
We have passed in the last seven years,
and his great heart and splendid mind
are behind every law we propose to-
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three presiderts-as different yet as
wise as Harrison, Mckinley and Roos-
evelt-Fate has equipped him to be
the trusted leader Of the people who
loved and honored these three chief
magistrates Almost II seems that
here is a man prepared by Providence
to be the captain Of this chosen people.
sryan's RishtfuI and Useful Place.
Let no man denounce Mr.. Bryan.
Such men are necessary to human
progress. Always such men have been
the voice of protest, but never the
statesmen of a cause. Always they
have been the urgers of reform, but
never the doors of the work.
Mr.. Bryan is an Aaron, but not Q
Moses Henry, but not Washing.
ton; a Wendell Phillips, but not an
Abraham Lincoln. He is the storm of
unrest which clears the atmosphere,
but not the trade winds that carry to
port the freighted ships of peoples
hope.
Four years ago, In his own home,
paying tribute to his character and
mind, called him dreamer who be-
holds happy visions but achieves no
useful deed. His is the mind that
thinks of the barren field bending with
grain; but his is not the plowman's
hand, the sewers craft or the CLEAN
er's husbandry. The poets dream of
an undiscovered Utopia has cheered
us all; but the Pilgrims. actually land
ing on Plymouth Rock, planted the real
tree of liberty, beneath whose real
shade we rest and by whose real fruits
We live.
No AstroIocer.
William H. Taft is of the Pilgrim
stuff-his is the wisdom that makes
the ideal vision living fact. Tried In
every realm of government. tested In
every department of craftsmanship.
he never yet has failed. He Ia Q
skilled seaman of statesmanship who
takes his reckoning by the hxed stars
of human nature and experience-not
an uncertain astrologer casting absurd
horoscopes from imaginary signs and
symbols. And not once on all his voy-
ages has the reckoning he has made
been wrong; not once has a single
horoscope that Mr.. Bryan has cast
been right.
When the great commander who has
guided our ship of state through
storms of opposition and amid the
rocks of hatred straight for the port
of our higher hopes and our larger lib
critics. voluntarily steps from the
bridge and delivers to us his high CON-
mission, let us hand IL to the abiest
officer aboard and safely make the hsr.
Dor of our hearts desire.