The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-03
BELIEVES BRYAN CAN BE ELECTED.

(Henry Watterson in Louisville Courier
Journal)
Two weeks in Washington and two
weeks in New York-rather in the thick
of it-leaves among other impressions the
idea, or fancy, whichever you may care to
call it. that both parties are treading on
eggs and that some of the eggs are rotten.
You are not going to put that death
| head upon us again, are your" said dis
tinguished Democratic senator, referring
to Bryan, with something more of heat
than OF relevancy or justice. Why" l an
| swered, what are you kicking about?
Whilst there was a chance /, not you,
made an honest effort for an alternative.
/ You and the like OF you were as silent as
the tomb. You lay flat down and let him
tramp all over you. 1 got no second to
my motion. The only response that came
to me from you gentlemen in congress
was second your own motion, you son-of-
a-gun.'
Eastern Papers Unfair.
Said an eminent Democratic editor of
the South Atlantic seaboard, Wen beat
| him. meaning Bryan, for the nomina-
ton, don't you doubt it," And 1 re-
piled, Suppose you do beat him, what
will you get for your victory except "a
repetition of l9O4?'
The New York newspapers, Astounding
in conceit and ignorance, suffering from
both provincialism and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
of them. as Parnell used to say of Ire
at this time especially misleading and I'M
fair They have acquired the anti-Bryan
habit, and, seeing nothing the other side
of Jordan, or Jersey, it seems impossible
for them to adjust themselves to actual
conditions and the rest of the country.
They imagine that money will do all
things, and think that, as New York has
the money. New York should and will
dominate all things.
Truly, DR.. Eliot of Harvard hit the
nail on the head when he declared that the
need of the time is publicity. Theore teal
ly, the people rule. In practice, things
are done by a few gathered together in
side of lock and key, too often in dark
ened chamber.
Predatory wealth struggles TO keep its
footing and hold its own Aggregated
capital is confused with predatory wealth.
The three coordinate branches of our
triple scheme Of government are at log
gerheads, a pulSsant executive seeking the
power of an autocrat, the congress weak
ly rebelliOuS, the court still the Rock of
Ages Inevitably. the corrupt party man
ayers see their opportunity; inevitably the
corrupt leaders OF high finance see theirs.
Amid the chaos, socialism thinks it has
a chance, whilst the leaders of the people,
and the would-be leaders of the people
of varying degrees OF honest zeal and good
intention-truckle to every Vagrant fancy
of the hour, sure-footed stability and
clear-sighted craftsmanship for the most
part caviare to the general, isolated, seq
regate.
Conspiracy of Money.
The shocking disclosures of the last
three years made it quite certain that
there has existed for long time con.
spiracy among a few allied kings of
money, making their headquarters in and
about New York, to control the opera
tons of both parties.
Owing his election to the money devil,
whom he had surprised in his lair and
had throttled into submission, Theodore
Roosevelt was too honest and too brave
a man to become the slave of the beast
he had beaten. No sooner did he find HIM
self master of the situation than he be-
gan to assert himself. But here he went
to the other extreme, as is not uncommon
with those custOdians of power who have
within themselves the germs of abSolut-
ism.
He began the career of an autocrat-
Having taken Miles upon one knee, Schley
upon the other, and bumped their heads
together he thought that he could do
the same with Hartman and Morgan.
Then. enjoying the big stick, and maybe
a little vain of il, he took the senate and
the house by the ears and bumped their