Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-09-13
William Jennings Bryan.

(WeSterner Magazine.)
Two movements, one we'll advised,
one i'll advised. are now on foot in the
country, the purpose of which is the
advertised intention of Kidding the
country of the bosses and turning it
over to the people. Let us mention
here the nomination of Woodrow Will
son. The bosses of New York under
took to control the Baltimore conven-
ton: to nominate a candidate whom
they hoped to make subservient to the
machine. They failed. AS far as the
country is concerned there was but one
man In the Baltimore convention, and
his name was William Jennings
Bryan. The country watched with in
terest the masterful work of Mr.
Bryan in the conventionJ In
doubtedly he arrived at Baltimore
with hope in his heart of securing
the nomination himself. But with a
courage scarcely ever before equalled
in American politics. he sacrificed his
personal ambition for an ideal. When
he openly branded the New York
bosses on the floor of the convention.
and threw them out, he killed himself
with New York, and he killed the only
chance left him for the nomination.
This was heroic act. Mr.. Bryan
purged the convention and nominated
a clean, strong, trustworthy man for
president, unhampered even by the
distant support of the special priv
ilege boss. AS consequence he main
tains. in the mind of the people today.
larger place than any other man who
attended the convention: position
larger perhaps than that held by any
other present-day American.
The Bull Moose.
(Westerner Magazine)
Just how long a time it will take
the people to see through the thin
veneer of Mr. Roosevelt to the real
facts in the case is difficult to deter
mine. When the three-ring circus
comes to town, we all go and take the
children because we all love buster.
noise and color. And if buster, noise
and color were the solution to our
social problems, then in truth we
would have a magnificent leader in the
person of the Bull Moose
This writer questions the sincerity
Of Mr.. Roosevelt, and likewise, and
even more seriously, his methods. All
of his words deny, and all of his acts
admit, his classification with the least
desirable political bosses of the
country. We do not believe that the
world had to be turned over to per-
suade him to enter the presidential
race; we think he could not have been
lyn,. Sc t,o H. ,Dt
ton his right to bolt the Chicago con-
ventiOn: but if the best interests of all
the people were his uppermOst
thought. then his methods of showing
1t at the convention were peculiar.
For there came day at the conven-
ton when Progressive could have
been nominated. The Progressive was
Governor Hadley of Missouri. He was
Mr.. Roosevelt's leader on the floor of
the convention, the man whom he had
chosen from among all Progressivees
as his mouth-piece. His nomination
would have left both Mr.. Taft and Mr..
Roosevelt on the "bleachers," and the
Taft men agreed to the compromise
What did Mr.. Roosevelt do? He not
only bolted the convention, but he
publicly displayed a peevish front
toward Mr.. Hadley. who had failed
to efface himself at the critical
moment in the interest of his more
ambitious chief.
Mr. Roosevelts bolt from the con-
vention and consequent split in the
Republican vote, in the face of Dem
ocratic year, could mean to a man of
Mr.. Roosevelt's sagacity, nothing less
than Democratic victory. Yet, after
applying the epithets of thief, thug,
and crook to all those who dared to
differ with him, and consigning them
to perdiction, he bolted the convention.
split his party, and organized ON his
own account.