The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-05-05
The One Issue.

" IhS uduOual POLITICAL situation,
the New York Evening Mail declares
there is but one issue before the
people Of the country today and that
issue Is Organism. Says 1t:
] Has the battle of 1895, won so
brilliantly that year by William NC
kAnley and so well sustained by
Roosevelt and Taft in succession,
finally been lost?
4 Is William Jennings BRYAN at last
In control of our national govern
ment, the moving spirit in all its
activities at nome AMI abroad, the
determining factor In fixing its at
tltude toward men ana measures
that stand for progress and prosper
lily throughout the land?
Is the policy that has aided and
taDettei the bloody strife that has
torn Mexico to shreds, and that now
involves our nation in armed conflict
with those distracted people, being
applied to american business men
and American business interests.
/ Is the prosperity of this great ma
ton penned up in slaughter house
with Bryan as the chief butcher,
gloating over the heads that fall as
ne swings the axe of '96, end real
ICES that 1t is not now his gore but
that of his old enemy, the American
business man, that is being spilled?
Look the country over from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, from the gulf
to the lakes, and you find develop
ment stopped, prosperity gone.
/ Look the national capital over and
you find hopeless chaos in every
branch of government.
| At home and abroad the foreign
ipohc!es of the administration are
universally condemned as cheap,
purposeless and visionary.
| One humilfating surrender after
another y marks cur course in
diplomacy, with not an effort made
to uphold American dignity or
American interests.
Mexico, with its dreadful conse-
quences, Colombia, with its coward
ly apology for the nations act, not
TO speak OF our costly blundering in
China make up an indictment which
/ the country hesitates to bring against
man of the presumed caliber OF
President Wilson.
In the record of domestic policies
1t is impossible to point to an admin
lstration measure, aside from the
currency bill, that has in 1t the nrot0-
ise OF being a constructive, reassur-
ing influence in business. Even the
promise in that law is fading away.
| At time when the country is
struggling desperately against de-
preston equaling that OF 1898, not
suggestion comes from the govern
ment that helps, or is intended to
help, the thousands of business men
who are today making heavy sacri-
fees in order that the working forces
iof the country shall not reduce in
wages and numbers to an appalling
ny low basis.
These conditions are typical of
Organism. 1t will be recalled that
they are precisely what the country
feared in 1895 should Bryan obtain
control of the government. 1t was
not alone the 16 to 1 plank IfieS
startled people at that time. That
theory stood for more than pro-
posal for a debased currency. 1t
carried with 1t all the dreamy ana
isocialisttc views which bryan pro-
claimed and has never disavowed.
| The man who had won his way to
! the front was then the object OF
Bryan's scorn and contempt. He
was under suspicion if he had by
thrift banked dollar of mis- earn
ings or invested it in enterprise. HIS
motives were assailed and his patri-
otism brazenly challenged by the
demagogue Of the Platte, since be-
coming the acknowledged president
maker Of the Democratic party, ara;
as the country now, has sad reason
! to assume, the accepted policy-maker
of Democratic national administra-
tion.
Organism made wreck of the
Cleveland administration, ana prac-
tically drove the leader OF the De-
mocracy out of mis- party. When
Bryan was nominated for president
by the Democratic national conven-
tion in whirlwind Of frenzy at Chi
cago in 1896, there was no name
more frequently Kissed by the Bryan
majority, or spoken with more in
tense hatred, than that of Grover
Cleveland, then in the White
House.
Yet in 1892. only four years be-
fore, Grover Cleveland mad led the
Democratic party to triumph at
the polls so Overwhelming that every