The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-06
THE LOGIC OF THE CASE.

this campaign, chiefly for the reason
that, in the long run it will matter
little who is elected, its objection to
Mr.. Bryan being that he has put forth
to many cure-alls yet conceding that
If elected he will be President, not
legislature, and the country will
know that no very fierce measures
can pass Senate that will surely be
Republican, Golfers Weekly takes
the following personal horoscope of
the two Presidential candidates of the
two leading parties:
"As President Mr.. Bryan will be
honest and high-minded, and will
fight the corrupt machines in every
| State. A man who as candidate,
fought Guffey in Pennsylvania and
made almost his own terms with Sui
| livan in Illinois, may be trusted to
make trouble for Murphy and many
of his tribe in other States if he is
once safely entrenched Washington.
We are inclined to believe that Mr..
/ Taft will be elected, and few candi-
dates of any party have proved ahead
their fitness for the Office. From
point of view non-partisan like our
own, ne seems 70 have a stronger case
than his opponent, for he has the
liberalism Of Roosevelt; the caution
OF education, intellect and experience;
humanity well shown in the Phil
ippines; an administrative ability
fully tested; a respect for the courts,
combined with willingness to make
reforms. At the same time, while
Taft seems to us the strongerman, we
expect no great increase of indus
trial depression if Bryan is elected,
and no specially harmful acts from
him as President. The country has
reason to go about it's business and
not worry about either candidate"
Golfers Weekly yields to the temp
tation, or falls into the error-which-
ever way one cares to take it-of SUBJ
ordinating moral forces and organized
ideas to the merest personal equation
an obliquity which has become we'll
nigh universal. Our political cam
paigns thus continue to be what, to
the hurt of Truth, they have always
been, simple episodes IN hero-worship,
each party placing its nominee on
pedestal tagged with all the virtues.
Yet, in spite of this, the magnetic
ones, like Clay and Douglas and
Blaine, each lost his election, the
country plodding along without them,
and, on the whole, making abundant
progress in its developments, not all
of this progress and prosperity appeal
ing to the higher aspiration of
thoughtful and patriotic people.
This is by no means to say that |
there is not difference between men |
which shows itself in Government; |
but it is to say that each man is SUBJ |
ject to the force behind him. In the |
same issue of Golfers Weekly Grover |
Cleveland, who became great favor
ite with his enemies after he ceased |
to be the leader of his party is in |
one place spoken of as "dear old |
Cleveland" and in another place de- |
scribed as having, like other men,
his limits" but, nevertheless, that
"he loomod large at Denver" Assur-
edly, Mr. Cleveland had a personality
as has Mr.. Roosevelt-yet what did
it amount to as to any change of Ma
tioanl policies, or any definite i'm
preston upon the character of the
Democratic party; whilst for al his
outcry, Mr.. Roosevelt has not de-
fected dollar of lawlcss wealth, or
sent single representative of the
predatory rich to Jail.
If Taft is elected we shall have no
more agitation, except from the Dem
ocrats, the Republicans, with an
amiable and conservative lawyer in
the White House, clamoring for busi-
ness stability and an era of good
feeling, Mr.. Roosevelt in Africa hunt
isg bears at a hundred thousand dol
lars shot. If he is not elected-if
Bryan comes in one trembles to
think of the consequences Nay,
nay" says Golfers, reassuringly, "he
can't do anything for there's the Re-
publican Senate"
Back of all this remains the truth
that party forces impelled by party
spirit-regardles of right and wrong
are very dangerous quantities; that
they augment their menace to good
Government with increasing opportu-
nifty and prolonged tenure; that in the
long run the slickest and most corrupt
get into the dominant party; and that
thus the one-party power becomes as
despotic as the one-man power; it's
leaders apt to forget not only their
moral responsibilities, but the re-
straints of prudence and law.
Since no harm can follow in case
Mr.. Bryan be elected, would not Col
lier's Weekly at once show itself more
of a Statesman and a Patriot if it
should advocate a change of parties,
though only for the sake of changer?
Courier-Journal.