The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-25

rally the progressives to his standard
in opposition to Judge Parker.
Mr. Bryan announced that if no
other good progressive could he pre-
vailed up to make the race. he would
enter the field himself as the oppon-
ent of Judge Parker.
The Nebraskan. three times the
candidate of his party for the presi-
dency. stands out as the dominant fig
ure in the convention. All contin-
gencies of the future. including the
date. seemed to hinge upon what he
would do. The impression continued
to be more marked that Mr.. BRYAN
might himself he the presidential
nominee. Some of his friends last
night declared that he would he voted
for in the convention whether formal
~ placed in nomination or not. and
they expressed the belief he would
win if the voting should go to a fourth
or fifth ballot.
In furtherance of their hope of
nominating Mr. Bryan. some of his
friends. it ia said. are bending their
energies to preventing coalition of
the Clark and Wilson forces. They are
talking of Bryan and Wilson as pos
sible ticket. and the suggestion is re-
ceiving attention in many quarters.
History had warned them of the
coming OF the man whose insatible
lust of power would be as consuming
as Caesars. towering high above his
love of country. The man who split
mis- party at Chicago once recognized
the third term tradition and acknowl-
edged its application to his situation.
On the eve Of his triumph in 1901 he
said: This wise custom which limits
the president to two terms regards
the substance and not the form and
under no circumstances will / be a
candidate for or accept another NOM
nation
Wrong in this year of grace. he
was right in that peradventure he was
honest with his soul, and he may have
confessed to it that even a president
may be tempted to resort to soroiid
devices and shameless importunities
20 gain his ambition. If so he was
| in mental condition to realize to the
full the danger of the republic in
VOWED in setting aside custom CON
stituting the only bulwark against the
chokes their patriotism and whose
selfish desire for personal victory and
power throttle those moral scrupl.s
With which they may once have been
endowed
would the man who threw his hat
In the ring and who sought to slug his
opponents over the ropes in the hight
tor third term rest satisfied with its
achievement clearly his lust of POW
Ell would have hrooked no such lnlita-
ton, The third term would have
Whetted his desire for more and as
the terms slipped away each renewal
would discover greater injury to the
constitution and the form nf govern
ment established under ii and To every
curb on his imperious Will This is he
man who menaced us with tho in
crease of federal power by the l;surpa-
ton of states right This is the man
who advocated federal ncoi poration
or the increase Of power AZ NaShing-
ton and the lightning of the legal bur
dens Of the corporations, the man who
authorized the absorption of the Ten
nessee Coal and Iron company by the
Steel trust.
He who runs may read the dam
ger that threatens th" country ruled
by such man. Do We envy Mexico
in its thirty wears of welded life or
the war the divorce from Diaz precipi-
tated. the end Of which no man may
prophesv? The way tn a life series; of
terms is to prevent the present at
tempt to capture the office for a third
term"
Referring to the partvs stand on
prosressivism. Judge Parker said:
There is not a reactionary among
us. All democrats are progressive.
But at times human inability is such
that we cannot all agree that in a
single highway may be found the only
road to progress or that each may
make some of all our worthy candi-
dates his first choice. II Is possible.
however. and its our duty to lay aside
all selfishness. to consent cheerfully
that the majority shall speak for the
acts Of us. and to march out of this
convention shoulder to shoulder inton-
ming the praise of our chosen leader
and that should be his duty whichever
of the honorable and able men now
claiming our attention shall be
chosen