The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1916-01-27
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PRESIDENT CAN TRUST NEITHER BRYAN NnA~
PARTY.
Mr. BRYAN over his signature in the Commoner an,
the head "Why Not Trust the Deomcrats?' asks ~ 4
ton which no doubt is intended to badly Illustrate M Il
todent: IS
him to trust the Democrats in congress to share with
the responsibility of deciding for what amount of nr
edness the party shall stand? This having been ded
by the president to be the paramount ISSUE is it Gs
ignore the Democratic majority in both houses and
Republicans to help him force his views upon his own
ty9 What reason has he to question the patrioisr
Democratic senators and representatives? Were thew
elected by the voters who elected him? And If
they not stood by him in carrying out the pledges n
platform when Republicans did their best to defeat
Let's see the Democrats did have platform didn't
1t has been little used however, since the election
they got in it, that it is heard of now excep
Republicans bring of the wreckage to light
Bryan's faction of the Democracy jabs splinter of
Mr. Wilson's faction vice versa, with charge Of r.
alton Now Mr.. Bryan charges Mr. Wilson with lack d
fidence in the judgment and loyalty of his party mem
congress- and proves it him by the fact that he has
pend upon the votes of loyal and patriotic Republicans
through of preparedness, if it is put thro
ALL In other words Mr. Bryan argues in his partisan en-
asm, that majority Of congress represented by CON
ton of Democratic and Republican votes, is not major
fact and does not represent the sentiment of the coun
cause the votes not all Democratic If Mr.. wills
sincere in his declaration that preparedness is the
mount ISSUE" Mr.. Bryan puts it, he will receive suf
Republican support in congress to put it through pro
too many Democrats do not desert him.
But where will Mr.. Bryan, who is said to have bee
chief architect in the construction of the Democratic
form at Baltimore, get off, when it to the char
repudiatng the platform pledges any than Mr. VI
who accepted those platform declarations and made the
thereona Mr. Wilson says eve too proud to fight
says should be prepared to fight after have been
ed' around long enough to take that vanglorous pd
OF u.s. Mr. Bryan says "peace at any price, is cheap
ter how Illuminating the terms, how many innocent
lean lives demanded sacrifices the affairs of Thea
gods of other nations to gain the pointt is far better
up our lives than to defend ourselves.
Yet in the Democratic platform of 1912, written by
Bryan and endorsed by Mr. Wilson in the acceptance
nomination. and to the support and defense of which
pledged find the following language so strange
dsagreeng to the of doing so both repudia
spirit of the plank. 1t reads:
'The constitutional rights of American citizens sh
protect them our borders and go with them through
the world, and every American citizen residing or ha
property, in any foreign country is entitled to- and
be given the full protection of the United States COVE
ment, both for himself and property"
The sentiment is admirable the paragraph is a lit
gen. classic in patriotism. 1t sounds like Mr. Wilson
have written it HIMSELF for Mr. Wilson is a ready and
writer as he is almost daily demonstrating. He is
writer of history partitions of which now arising to
his administration steps, (for instance Mr. Borahs a.
tons last week from Mr.. Wilson's past advice about
the Philippines for DR.. Wilson has written many pres
lions for others to take Especially the Republicans
he refuses to swallow himself But the above plank
to have been made strictly for home consumption" Ia
an administration term of confession regarding porto
the correspondence with Germany and Austria and after
ing filled its mission it is dumped into the platform
heap, and Mr. Wilson and Mr. Bryan both refuse to be BE-
by it.