The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-05

even more Lnan or platform. Inc QUeS-
ton is not which candidate is most up
right, patriotic, brave, for both are
equally so. Both mean equally Wen
toward their country. The real ques-
ton is which candidate will make the
best president? Which is the Wlsest
and steadiest? Which man would you
choose as administrator of your es-
tate? Which would you select to man
age your business? Which mas the DeSe
training and the most experience!
Mr.. Bryan never has hanoleu d siI "a
gle foreign problem. He has governed
no Philippines, regenerated no Cupa'
built no canal, avoided no alien GAN
ger, saved US from no threatened peru
Mr.. Taft has done ALL 1t was ms
genius for the practical and deVotloh
to humanity that took Philippine chaos
and made Philippine order; took HhlI-
ippine hate, and changed 1t, by the al
chemy of his tact. to Ph1npplne IoFe;
1t was his craftsmanship that achieved
people into a voting citizenship, ana
laid the foundations for future Wnlcn,
as God wills, may become separate
nation or a glad and patriotic part OF
this great republic.
1t was William H. Taft who set CUBA
in order. established her feet in civlllza-
TONS upward path; and it was he VINO
when so directed by President Roose-
welt, who first advised with Mr. IaIt,
when these children of liberty tore nus
blessed rule of order and liberty anu
law with a fathers patience ana a
statesman's wisdom. 1t is ne VINO Is
commanding the practical work OF tna1
greatest enterprise of human history
the building of the Panama canal
Taft the Experienced.
IT was he whose counsel President
Roosevelt sought at every crisis OF his
historic administration; he was helpeo
avert war when little politicians and
narrow minds would have plunged Us
into conflict 1t was William h IalI
with foreign perplexities and with the
awful weight of our 80 millions WEI
fare on his heart, sought for strength
and wisdom; and it is William n. IaIC
more than any man ever caIled TO Che
leadership of the American people VINO
has had the best training, the widest
experience and the wisest teaching 10
fit him for that glorious but serious
task.
In domestic affairs Mr.. Bryan has
written not one law, administered not
a single department, advised no pres
ident-while lecturing all. He is a
preacher of righteousness, but not an
administrator of affairs. He never
the government of city, a
county, a state or nation. Wllllam
H. Taft has been judge on the oench,
governor of people, administrator OF
a
to shape most of the progressive laws
we have passed in the last seven years
and his great heart and splendid nina
are behind every law we propose To-
day. The sought for counselor OF three
different yet as wise as
Harrison. Mckinley and Roosevelt
fate has equipped him to be the trust
ed leader of the people who loved and
honored these three chief magistrates.
Almost it seems that here is man
prepared by Providence to be the cap
tain of this chosen people
Bryan's RightfuI Place.
Let no man denounce Mr.. Bryan
Such men are necessary 10 human
progress. Always such men have been
the voice of a protest, but never the
statesman of cause. Always tney
have been the urgers of reform, but
never the doors of the work
Mr.. Bryan is an Aaron, but not
Moses; a Henry. but not a Wasnlng-
ton. a wendell Phillips, but not an
Abra ham Lincoln. He is the storm of
unrest which clears the atmosphere,
b1It not the trade winds that carry TO
mort the freighted ships of people
hope.
Four wears ago, in his own nome
having tribute to his character and
1o;nd I called him a dreamer who be-
holds haDpv visions but achieves no
useful deed. His is the mind that
thinks of the barren field bending with
grain; but his is not the ploWnhan
hand. the sewers craft or the gleah.
ar's husbandry. The poets dream or
an undiscovered Utopia has cheereo
us all: but the Pilgrims, actually lano-
ing on Plymouth Rock. planted tne
real tree of liberty, beneath whose real
shade we rest and by whose real fruits
we live.
No AstrOlOger.
William H. Taft is of the Pllgrlm
stuff-his is the wisdom that makes the
ideal vision a living fact. Tried IN eV-
erv realm of government, tested IN eV-
erv department of craftsmanship, ne
never vet has failed. He is a skilled
seaman of craftsmanship who taxes
his reckoning by the fixed stars OF nu-
man nature and experience-not an
uncertain astrologer casting ABSURD
horoscopes from imaginery signs ana
eIJmboIs And not once on all his voy-
ages has the reckoning he has made
been wrong; not once has single
horoscope that Mr.. Bryan has cast
been right.
When the great commander VINO
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
liberties. voluntarily steps from the
bridge and delivers to US MS hlgh
commission. let us hand it to the aol-
est officer aboard and safely make the
harbor of our hearts desire.