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

The One Issue.
In critical and studious review
Of the national 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 It:
Has the battle of 1896, won SO
brilliantly that year by William Nc
kdnley and so well sustained by
Roosevelt and Taft in succession,
finally been lost?
j 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
4 titude toward men ana measures
that stand for progress and prosper
ldty throughout the land?
Is the policy that has aided and
abetted 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 oyer 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.
4 Look the national capital oyer and
you find hopeless chaos in every
branch of government.
! At home and abroad the foreign
policies Of the administration are
universally condemned as cheap,
purposeless and visionary.
/ One humilfating surrender after
another marks our course in
diplomacy, with not an effort made
to uphold American dignity or
American interests.
I Mexico, with it's dreadful conse-
qpences, Colombia, with its coward
ly apology for the nations act, not
to speak of our costly laundering in
China make up an indictment which
the country hesitates to bring against
man of the presumed caltber of
/ President Wilson.
! IN the record of domestic policies
1t is impossible to point to an admin
istration measure, aside from the
currency bill, that has in 1t the nroga-
Use 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 a de-
preston equaling that of 1898, not
a 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
lof the country shall not reduce in
wages and numbers to an appalling
tqy 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 plank lh2S
startled people at that time. That
theory stood for more than a pro-
iposal for a debased currency. 1t
carried with it all the dreamy ana
lsocialistic 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
Iings or invested 1T in enterprise. HIS
motives were assailed and his patrt-
iotism brazenly challenged by the
Idemagogue of the Platte, since be-
coming the acknowledged president
maker OF the Democratic party, a1a;
! as the country now has sad reason
ito assume, the accepted policy-make r
lof Democratic national admInfstra-
ltion.
Organism made a 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-
ton in a whirlwind Of frenzy at Chi
cago in 1895, 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 a triumph at
the polls so overwhelming that every
branch of the national Rovernmant