Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-03-26

l nuTClul 10 HOTTEST puSllCSS Wsi"S tSAeNA
ated time and again. He said that the
wrongs which exist must be corrected
| and we were told that it "behooVed us
| never to swerve from our resolute
purpose to cut out wrong doing and
uphold what is right.
Congress Does Nothing.
1t was a clarion call to action: an
urgent demand for immediate legisla-
| ton along a we'll defined course and
on specified subjects. 1t was written
by a republican president; it was adj
| dressed to a senate with Il republican
majority of two-thirds and house OF
representatives In which the republi-
| can majority was nearly proportionate
| to that of the senate. Yet two months
have now passed, and not sincere,
| honest response to a single recolnmen-
dation of that message has been made
| by that republican congress.
| There Is but one political organiza-
ton to which the people OF this coun-
try can look, INSPIRED by any nope OF
success, and that Is the party that has
had. and now has, as it's fundamental
| principle that of equal rights to all
and special privileges to none." the
party OIL JelleI SUI tsiiu VI oesS'NoS..f -
democratic party.
In campaign fresh in all our minds,
but unparalleled in our history. by
money. fraud and corruption. Bryan
was defeated Four years later, he
was again chosen as democracy's lead
err. and again suffered defeat. From
that day, as in times preceding, he has
continued to advocate genuine demo-
cratic principles. Day after day, and
night after night. from the lecture
platform, he has advocated those
ideas and principles that are calculated
to make men happier and the world
better.
The Peerless Leader.
Backed by no political machine. or
no special interests; without great
wealth, and occupying no high official
position, he has won place In the
hearts of the American people unriv-
aled by any other Of his day. In his
early manhood. he enlisted on the side
of those who have been styled as the
Common people," and thru all the
changing scenes of his after strenuous
life, he has never wavered in his allie
glance to their cause. Some men main
tain their position in public life by
silence on. or evasion of. all import
ant questions, especially those on
which there is a divergeney of optn-
ion With a frankness unknown to
the mere politician, and with deter
mined positiveness. he has expressed
himself on all the important issues
that confront the nation. He has lit
orally taken all the American people
into his confidence Some men ask,
will 1t be popular9" With him, there
is but one question-"Is it right?"
Maligned. ridiculed and vlified by
those possessed of great wealth and
affluence, he has never stopped to
retaliate In kind. Principles that he
advocated twelve years ago. and pro-
claimed by his opponents as being
anarchistic. and as attacks on
branches of our government. he has
lived to see become in their adop-
ton by a republican presi dent the
ularitv.. Pronounced as dead. and
buried politically by numerous polit-
ical post mortems. he vet lives as
the greatest champion of the people
in the warfare against cunning and
lawless greed Hated and loved in
times past as no other since Abra-
ham Lincoln. he is gradually winning
the admiration and esteem OF those
who have been his bitterest poiiticsl
enemies.
Won Hronie's RESPECT.
BY his loyalN 90 principle; by his
honesty and fran'Sness; bv his intense
sincerity: by his pure Christian life.
public and private; by his nobility OF
mind and soul. "he has won the hearts
of all the American people. ana theN
will this fall elect him to the highest
o,,,. nax+ nresidant william Jennings