Eastern Colorado times., 1913-03-14
MR.. BRYAN AND THE CAB
INET

/ Will William J. Bryan be q mem
ber of>President Woodrow Wilson's 8
cabinetp
j We believe he will, and that he will
fill the position recognized as "the
head of the cabinet"-that of secre-
tary of state.
Mr.. Bryan will be in the cabinet be-
cause the country and the democratic
party want him there, and because the
new president wants him there, and
because Mr.. Bryan himself wants to
be in the cabinet.
1t is natural that Mr.. Bryan should
desire to fill position in the admin
istration which he will have been so
potential in creating-that he may
help to make it what the people ex-
pect and require, and what he having
in mind his own future, wishes it to
| be.
The country wants Mr.. Bryan in the
cabinet because it has confidence in
him. 1t believes in his great ability;
in the uprigntness and patriotism of
his ambitions for his country. and
that he would guide it throug h the
stormy seas of International politics
with dignity and power, and that the
world would hold the United States in
both higher love and fear at the close
OF his administration than ever be-
fore.
Woodrow Wilson wants Mr.. Bryan
in the cabinet because he knows no
man could give his administration
greater strength and influence with the
people than he; and because to tender
and urge upon him the position of
secretary of state would be what the
country logically and heartily expects
Mr.. Bryan made the nomination of
Mr.. Wilson possible. Without him
in the national convention another
than Mr.. Wilson would be the presi-
dent elect today.
Mr.. Bryan desires to go into the
cabinet because he wishes to serve
both his country and his party to the
fullest of his powers, and they can he
best exerted, insuring the largest re-
suits with him ut the head of the coun-
try's foreign affairs.
In saying that Mr.. Bryan desires to
enter the cabinet it is not upon tho
authority of Mr.. Bryan or of any
other person. Probably Mr.. Bryan
would resent the statement, but the
News makes it because it is the logic
of the events with which Mr.. Bryan
has been SO commandingly connected
for the past year, and of the results
he has so deeply at heart.
AS secretary of state, Mr.. Bryan
would have at his command the power
and influence of this great country to
advance the cause of the worlds
peace. AS a private citizen he has
visited every great country of the
world; been brought in close associa-
tion with the worlds greatest philoso-
piers and statesmen; has studied
world politics with the breadth of WIS.,
ion and earnestness that has made
him an authority and guide for the
statesman whose ambition<is the per-
manent peace of the world.
But the United States,l as we'll as
Mr.. Bryan individually, is intensely
interested in the healing of q sore that
afiicts the American body polite. 1t
is the elimination Of Imperialism and
colonial exploition from the American
system. Every since the treaty of
Paris, by which the United States
took over the Philippines as part of
the spoils of the war with Spain, and
the ratification of the treaty, he has
insisted at every moment of time and
upon every proper occasion that it
was the duty of the United States to
give the Philippines their indepen-
dence under the guidance and protec-
ton of the American nation, until
they could. safely, as an Independent
people, care for their own destinies as
does any other people.
1t will undoubtedly be among the
earliest tasks that the new admins
tration will assume, that of carrying
out in good faith the declaration of
the Baltimore platform rs to the Phil
ippines.
"We favor" says the platform, ian
immediate declaration of the nations