The Alaska daily empire., 1914-10-26
BRYAN URGES
 FOR DEMOCRATS

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 administration policies by electing Democrats. He appeals particularly for votes for Democratic Senators and Representatives in Congress.
 Bryan's appeal follows:
 To the Readers of the commOner;
 At the comming election one.thlrd of the Senate will be chosen, and the political complexion of the third thus chosen will determine whether the Senate will be friendly or unfriendly to the President,
 An entire House of Representatives will be chosen, and the political com plexion of that body will determine whether the President is to be per mltted to carry out his program of reform or have his hands tied by a hostile majority. It is q critical mo ment; the crisis is here.
 In 1912 the voters selected Wood row Wilson President, and gave him a Democratic Senate and House to second his efforts. He immediately called Congress together and has kept these two bodies in continuous ses- sion ever since, laying before them from time to time recommendations carrying out the promises made dur ing the campaign. The record which he has made is without parallel in the political annals of our country At no former period have so many problems of such size and of so var jed character confronted a Presi. dent during two years. He has met each one without hesitation, and solved them successfully by the sim pie process of applying Democratic principles to them.
 His success has been phenomenal and the approval which he has won is we'll nigh universal. His time has been divided between gigantic domes- tic questions, and titanic international diaiculties-and he has proven equal to every emergency.
 The Cabinet which he summoned to his council table has been more than successful in meeting public ex- pectations, while the Senate and House have won the confidence and praise of the Democratic party, and of large percentage of the members of other parties.
 Surely the President will not be asked to pause in his labors; surely the country will not be guilty of the dangerous experiment of changing the leadership of the Senate and the House. To what opposition would the Nation entrust the government? To the Roosevelt wing of the party? That wing included more than half of the voting Republicans at the last election, but every election since has shown a loss in numbers and disinte- grafton in organization. EX-Presi- dent Roosevelt realizes this as well as anyone, and is centering his ef- forts upon few of his particular friends whom he is trying to save from defeat. There is no possibility of the progressives securing control of either the Senate or the House, To what opposition, then, will the coun. try turn? To the stand.pat Republi- cans? What have they done to earn a return to power? They have, to be sure, drawn back some of those Re publicans who called themselves pro gressive; but has the leopard changed it's spots? Has the Republican party reformed? Has stand.pattism become less odious to the American people? If reactionary Republicanism was stench in the nostrils of the people in 1912, is the odor less offensive now when the whole country is keeping step with Wilson?
 The President has not only been able to summon the Democrats of the Senate and House to the support of the measures recommended by him, but in nearly every case he has had the pleasure of seeing Repub- licans vote with the Democrats. So habitual has become the tendency of some of the Republicans (not always the same ones) to join in the support of Democratic bills that one of the Democrats has w.ttily suggested that 'The Republicans ought either to quit criticising the Democrats or else quit voting for Democratic meas ures."
 It is only a few weeks more until election; let every reader of The Commoner busy hismelf with cam paign work from now until the polls are closed. He should be sure to vote himself, and to keep the matter before his neighbors. It is easier to bring Democratic voter to the polls than it is to convert Republican therefore, get the vote out.
 But this is not enough-the vic tory this fall ought to be overwhelm- ing. Let every Democrat pledge him self to bring at least one Republican to the support of the administration candidates. It is not likely that the majority in the Senate or House will turn on one vote, but it may. Take no chances. A Democrat would nev- CT forgive himself if as a result of his negligence the majority in either Senate or House should be lost.
 The people have been relieved of the burdens of a high tariff; they have seen a part of the load lifted from the backs of the masses and placed upon large incomes; they have wit messed change in the currency laws which makes Washington and not Wall Street the financial center of the country; they have seen trust