The Alaska daily empire., 1915-06-11
W. ]. BRYAN ON
 REPUBLICAN,
CANDIDATE

The Republican papers arc giving an increasing amount Of space to the
 discussion of the availability of Re.
 publican candidates It is difficult
 situation which the G. o. P leaders
 have to meet and 1t Is interesting to
 note the diligence with which they
 seek someone who can promise sue
 cess They wouid gladly give large
 reward for an fin hoe signo vinces. D
 Just now they are carefully weighing
 the relative popularity of candidates
 but 30 far they have found apoth-
 ecary scales sufficient The trouble
 with the Republican party is that 1t
 Is divided-not in the middle as it
 was in 1912, but still didided Go such an extent that agreement upon sat.
 isfactory candidate is Q matter Of great difficulty Among those who stll call themselves Republicans there
 are two elements~the stondpatters and the progressives. The progress slves might be stlll further divided into NOMINAL and real progressives. A nominal progressive may be defin- ed as a Republican who is in favor of any progressive policy that the Re. publican party will stand for. but is for the Republican party whether it stands for any progressive policies or not. The standpatters have taken the measure of the progressiyes and will make little effort to sugarcoat the pill which is to be administered. Tho real progressives-those who put the first principle first and refuse to fol. low any party that is not progressive can not take kindly-in fact can not take at all-to the plan which the Re- publican leaders are formulating. The real progressive is pleased with Presi- dent Wilson, and prefers his kind oil democracy to standpat Republican, Ism.
 No one who is half awake can bel ignorant of the fact that the Repubu. can party as an organization, is still the party of plutocracy If it is sue. cessful in regaining control of the it will so back to a tar iff higher than the one which exist ed before the Democratic party came in; if entrusted with power it win, at the earliest opportunity, turn thel entire federal reserve system over to the Wall street magnates-a very easy matter for Q president elected by Wall street and obedient to Wall street If the Republican party is re. turned to power the trusts will again be invited to spread a Belshazzar's feast at the expense of the public. l The leaders of the Republican party are Bourbon to the backbone-they never learn. They have neither the iesire nor the capacity for reform; 1 hey are chained to their idols.
 Already the old slogans are being 'epeated chief among which is "busi- | ness While this is the intoxicatlon hat brought the Republican party to he verge Of delerlum tremense the iold of the habit is still unbroken. As n 1896. it win be necessary for the Democratic party to call attention to 70 the gross misconceptlon the Repub- | lean leaders have of the definition of business man. It will be neces- iary to appeal agRin to the pride Of he producers of the country and to all upon them to assert their right o be counted among the business nen of the land A Business mans according to standpat Re- publican leaders, is a man whose sym 'athies are with the whales and .gainst the rest of the fish, who, as president would run the government wide open, that is. for the benefit
 fl big exploiters. None other need pply at the Root-Penrose- Cannon .eadquarters-(W J. Bryan in Com noner)