Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-08-15
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
TESTED AND UNLISTED.


Mr.. Taft mas been variously tried
in the public service. Mr.. Bryan is
untried. Mr.. Taft has been doing.
while Mr.. Bryan has been talking
One is man of known performance
the other is man of promises only.
Mr.. Taft has identified himself with
no issues that he hides; Mr.. Bryan
conceals several that he once advocat-
ed without the geatest energy. Mr..
Taft has no record of defeat or fail
-ure; Mr.. Bryan has been twice defeat
ed in a national election by a large
electoral majority and a margin of
from 600, 600 to 800, 900 in the popular
vote. Mr.. Taft has had long ex-
,perience in high judicial positions; as
cabinet officer, governor In the Philip
pines pacifcator In Cuba and organi-
zer in the great work at Panama. Mr..
Bryan has no such credit mark. For
the last twelve years his business has
been that of presidential candidate
and antiadministration politician.
While Taft has been busy in con-
sructive craftsmanship Bryan has
been radical agitator, seeking to
pull down what has been done so that
he can shape national affairs after his
own rash1y experimental fashion. Taft
points to his record in carrying i'm
pOrtant response bilities. Bryan has
never borne any. As a worker in
large sense Taft is known and Bryan
unknown.
Men can be judged by. their as
sOciates as we'll as by their records.
Mr.. Taft had the active approval Of
Mckinley and as that of Roosevelt
He is in accord politically with Root,
Hughes. Fairbanks, Cannon, Knox
and other men of distinction who are
sustaining, and have long sustained,
the heat and burden of the day Bryan
mas had for his political partners
Weaver, Altgeld, Tom johnson, Tom
Watson, James Z. Jones, William
J. Stone, George Fred Williams and
men OF this stamp. He has fused
with various parties. including Green
back, Silver and Populist He would
be delighted if ne could now arrange
an alliance with Hearst, and Hearst is
by no means backward about claiming
lions share for his help. In a
general way the composition of Taft
cabinet can be foreseen. What con-
!. sE-vative citizen can guess, without
: s.snase of alarm. who wuold be select
. ed, by.s8ryan as his nearest advisers?
The, quality of his past and present
associatesei is the best indication as to
what his cabinet would be. His free
silver crusade and his unexpected
jump into the championship of the
public ownership of RAILROADS are
fair specimens of his intrinsicalIy
!. 1nsound5 Judgment.
ldftBryan were elected he could
NOT SAsOze tluring his term a Congress
in political harmony with himself.
,an6 legislation would accordingly
he tied nd for the next four years.
y perioa that would be wasted in |
a discordant deadlock when the need
of the country is unquestionbly an
administration with power to act.
THE election of "a president implies
the exercise of a sober judgment
based on definite knowledge and &C
acomplished facts. A vote for Bryan
denotes a willingness to take a man
on blind faith, beyond the known
points that are plainly adverse to him
The election Of Bryan is not probable.
Under the circumstances it seems
scarcely possible. 1t is, in truth, i'm
possible if men will think over the
matter with clam deliberation, weigh
ing the two men fairly in the light OF
reason and experience, putting aide
the clamor Of sham popularity. Taft
aneans a steady forward march. Bryan
means doubt, dread, a general pause
until a strange situation could be
cleared up.-St. Louis Globe Demo |
crat.