The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-06-06
Harmon Replies to Bryan
The Nebraskan Not Qualified to Pick
A Winner.
ADDRESS OF JUDSON HARMON.
AT WOOSTER, O., MONDAY
EVENING, MAY Is, 1912.
Concluded from Page Eleven. J

than nine hundred million, and
seven million dollars in taxes was.
shifted from the farms and homes of
the State to these corporations and
taXdodgerS? The Cincinnati Gas
COmpany's appraisement went from
less than two million to fifteen mil
lion dollars. And [ was myself one
of the stockholders.
The best legacy I shall leave my
family is my record Of public service
and the confidence and esteem of the
people to whom it was rendered.
Does Mr.. Bryan believe anything
could induce me to destroy this
hard-earned possession and leave
disgrace behind me instead? He
said in Columbus recently that he is
an elder in the Presbyterian church
and the high priest of the Demo-
cratic party. In both capacities he
owes higher regard than others
for the rights of his fellow men.
And one Of the dearest of those
rights is freedom from accusation
without just grounds
He twits me with alleged disap-
pointments in the selection of dele
gates in various States Well,
would rather take a disappointment
from my party in its nominations
than infict disappointments on it in
the elections, for l am only one
while it is millions. l shall pass
away while it will endure so long as
men love liberty and demand equal
rights and opportunities. But
though I have five times been it's
candidate, l have never disappointed
it yet.
He says failure is certain if I am
nominated. If the party thinks so,
I shall be content. 1t would sadden
my life to lead the party to another
defeat. Five defeats in succession
would seriously cripple it. But / do
not think Mr.. Bryan, great as his
abilities are in many directions, has
shown himself qualified to pick
winner. It requires the combined
judgment of the representatives
chosen by the Democracy of the Ma
ton to do that, and he is the only
one of them.
Has it come to pass in the Demo-
cratic party that winning repeated
defeats gives another the right to
dictate it's course or limit it's choice
to list of eligibles prepared by
himself? Have the tests of trial
and experience lost their value? Do
proposals and promises now out
weigh performance?
The best asset we have this year
is the work of our Democratic
House. Much of this we owe to it's
most capable and worthy leader, Mr..
Underwood. Yet Mr. Bryan has time
and again by interference and abuse
imperiled the harmony and good
feeling which are so necessary in
that body and to party success. 1t
was certainly not a step toward vic
tory for Mr. Bryan wrongfully to
accuse him of misconduct about the
steel schedule and force him to an
open rebuke on the floor of the
House.
Mr.. Underwood truly denies Mr..
Bryan's charge that his candidacy is
in any other behalf than his own
The only relation Mr.. Underwood
and myself have in the pending con-
test is that Mr.. Bryan has put us
both on his list of impossibles.
1t will never be forgotten that it
was Mr.. Bryan's influence with some
Democratic Senators that put upon
the country the burden and peril of
n owning the Philippines.
And his persistence in advocating
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