The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-08-05
Mr.. BRYAN'S
POLICIES
THE OMAHA WORLD-hERALD
Editorial Gives a Fair lIIustra.
ton of How Bryan's Policies
Are Used by Republicans

Won can not blame the esteemed
New York Times tor feeling a bit
discouraged. Ii has been fighting
Mr.. BRYAN and his IDEAS. tooth and
toenail. for these many wears Aud
the harder it fights the oitcucr
Rryan loses. the more triumphant
do his ideas prove He has NOT
had the pleasure of fighting for
them in official position But he
has had the rare satisfaction of
forcing them upon his s>tul
opponents, OF seeing those who
have lampooncd and beratrd his
polcie. take them up one after the
other, driven by the stern logic of
events.
1t is this that leads the Times 10
comment dolefullv ON Mr. BRYAN $
suggestion that Mr. Taft and The
congress give the people a chance
10 vote on the direct election of
senator's at the same time thc' are
voting on the income tax WHY
mott" asks the Times, and it goes
on TO saw
That seems to be the fate Of
Mr.. Bryan 5 principles-the repuA-
licans take them for their own.
He once sad that. although the
people had not burdeued him with
the cares OF office. his life vas not
without its anxietles He could
not leave his principles over night
without losing some OF them and
the missing ones he generally
found at the White House. SO, I'm
succession, have gone his ISSUES
Of railroad regulation 81 the Fed
eral license for corporations, OF
reduction Of import duties. OF pos
tai savings banks, OF limiting the
power OF issue iujuuotione. and
now his tax on Individual and cor
porate incomes has been snatChoi
from him by a republican president
and republican congress.
Not one OF these IS Of republi-
can orgnation. Not one IS rooted
in old-fashioued republican belief
They are all alien 70 the policies
and the professions Of the republl-
can party from Lincoln to Mckln-
ley. Had they not been exploited
and made widely popular by NJ.
Bryan not one OF them would have
been appropriated by the republl-
cans.
The Times goes on lugubrlou-lv
to suggest that Mr.. BRYAN still has
a few policies left among them
Is to l." the guarautee OF bank
deposits and the Independence of
the Philippines Shall the repub.
leans take these also' II we mig t
venture to answer. the probabilities
are strong that Philippine indepcnd
ence and guaranteed deposits VIII
either have to be taken up bH the
republican party or that party VIII
lose power And sooner than do
that it will adopt these, too. and
Mr.. Bryan wudication Will be
complete-thc most remarkable IN
the history of American politics.
But when all Of Mr.. Bryan 5 pol
'cles have been appropriated by the
republicans what then, The Times
answer is worth bordering over. 1t
says:
Would that leave Nj Bryan
Without an issue stripped bare Of
principles, without a platform,
10 stand on, without consideration,
anlshed, done for, Hardly. It
"auld make him very safe and &C
sptable candidate for men Of all
parties who are. or soon Will be-
u''gusted with the republican party
oecause Of the ehamclcss breaking
" It's pledge to reduce the tariff du
aes. The argument that Bryan
ambitious, unsteady, unsafe,
would fall fiat, since the adoption