Valdez Daily Prospector
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One Dollar ix>r Month: Twoi™ Dollars ver Year
WEDNESDAY, .FEB. .7, .1912.
THE BRYAN BURDEN.
Wood row Wilson never penned
a sentence more creditable to his
political judgment, or one that re
flected a spirit of higher loyalty
lo the Democratic party, than
that contained in his letter to Mr.
Joline: "Would that we could
do something, at once dignified
and effective, lo knock Mr. Bryan
once and for all into a cocked
hat." Proof of the soundness of
Mr. Wilson's political judgment
at the time this letter was writ
ten, in August, 1907, is put. dis
tinctly before the eyes of all men
by Mr. Bryan's fussy and harm
ful activities at the meeting of
the Democratic national commit
tee in Washington. Mr. Bryan is
not a member of that committee;
be obtained admission to its ses
sions by virtue of a proxy. But
i' was impossible for him to keep
away. Perhaps it would not. be
right to say that lie ought to have
kept away, since undoubtedly be
still represents the views of some
part, of the Democracy. But the
very fael that be could not keep
away and that he is a represen
tative of a faction of the Democ
racy is today the chief source of
weakness of the Democratic party
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Mulliludes of Democrats who
would rejoice I" see Hi'* Dfinoc
raoy in power ajrain. who boliovo
thai. there* should ho a transfer
of executive authority and who
would valiantly and confidently
support a Democratic candidate
this year, an* disheai loned and
turned away hv the continued
prominence of llryan and the, ev
orlaslinK shadow thai ftryanism
casts upon tin* parly. The com
mitter by a most omphalic major
ity voted down lh»' molion Mr.
llryan mad*' hash* to make at its
meeting. Tim members whoso
rernjrn il ion lie opposed were re
cognized. We have no donht that
a very jrreal majority of the men
of sense and sound judgment who
may he railed leaders of Hie parly
dislike Hie perpetual intrusion of
Mr. llryan. resent if. and in their
hearts devoutly wish Iha^ he
would betake himself to Nebras
ka and slay there. They know
that, so lonjf as Mr. llryan is
prominent in the parly councils,
Ihe I leiiioerals who left the parly
in I SIX) cannot lie persuaded to
jrive it full allegiance, that they
can have but small confidence in
it. or its leadership.
(iov. Wilson's wish that Mr.
llryan 111 iffhI once for all bo
knocked into a cocked hat is one
4«» be echoed by every man of true
]>muorralic faith, but there is tan
obstacle. Mr. llryan is a man of
astounding resiliency. The de
feat of IHJ)(» would have knocked
any ordinary man into a rucked
hat. and have made an end of
him. hut Mr. llryan came up smil
iiiK and unabashed, just as the
circus clown recovers from I ho
mimic disasters of the riiiK- And
two subsequent defeats made so
little impression upon him that
he still bestirs himself in Dem
ocratic councils as though he
were a power for ffood, and not
one of unmixed evil.
Ill' flJIS IHMH'lllMl III ><»II t II I* I >(*1)1 —
ocrafic parly 1 ik<> a disease. The
chief (rouble with (he parly U»
day is thai so many men who are
Democrats al heart and would he
vlad I«» give thai, parly (heir loy
al support believe the disease to
In' mil1 I hat Democracy cannot
throw off, that it has mien into
its vitals, and is ineradicable.
Voting down Mr. Bryan in com
mittee meeting is not enough.
') he absolute rejection of the man
and < ( his counsels could alone
Miflire I.» restore tin* parly lo its
chl-lim* strength. It is only the
tin id ' ho shrink from the con
vi-rpe.'peoM of knocking Bryan inlo
a cocked hat once and for all.
They point out that he does rep
resent the progressive element of
the Democracy, and that if a
Democrat of the old faith were lo
he nominated for the presidency,
the story of 190 4 would be re
told. Mr. Bryan might, makj a
few .languid speeches for the can
didate, but the' Bryati' following
would vote for somebody* el'se, as
they voted for Mr. Roosevelt in
100Defeat in such conditions
'would be better for Democratic
principles, however, than a vic
tory won for a candidate com
mitted to the shallow and shifty
articles of tha Bryan crecd.—Now
York Times.
OLD HOME PAPER
18 APPRECIATE!
"Sport, would you mind lcttiiu
me look over lhat newspaper wIh-i
you're through? I wouldn't ask
you, only 1 was raised on that
paper in my old home town and
the sight of it makes me home
sick as the devil. I remember
how I used to go out in front of
the house before breakfast and
fetch it in for the folks when 1
was a little shaver. That was my
first chore. I recollect how the
newsboy would roll it up and put
a twist in it to keep it tigh{. and
give it a fling over the fence,
along about daybreak; and some
times you could hear it go bump
on the front door, and then you
could be sure of finding it all
right, if the dog didn't lind it first
and chaw the ends off.
"But sometimes the boy would
n't aim so straight and the paper
would light in the flower bed, or
get hung up in the honeysuckle
vin»», or buried in a snowdrift. I
recall one lime when I looked and
looked, and father and mother
came out and looked, and the
whole neighborhood came over
and looked, and we didn't find it
until (lie next rainstorm, when
the oaves trough overflowed, and
we goL a ladder and climbed up l<\
see what was the matter.
** 11I'll i .^«iw >m11 iijit.-ii iiiis pa
!>•*i* jusl, mow it was like stepping
Imck thiry years. They haven't
changed |h<* lype or anything—
flii' ink oven has Ihe same old
homey smell it used lo have. I
helieve if I was blindfolded and
you held llial paper under my
nose I could lei I you Ihe name of
il iu one guess. Same old head
lines, 1 see, same old personal col
umn, same old police notes, same
old ladies advertising for hired
girls, same old .jokers' corner I hat.
we turned to first when wo were
kids--same old jokes, too, I reck
on. It's like an old friend from
home, that when you see him you
think Time must have overlooked
him, somehow, and left him with
tin* same kindly face he had in
the old days.
"You're through with il, you
say? Then I'll lake it along and
when I get down to read tonight
il will he like I liming Ihe clock
j ack I liirly years."—Newark News.
TAFT DOES NOT
FEAR SOCIALISM
President Taft's recent utter
ances on the growlh of Socialism
in Ihe United Slates were prompt-j
ed in reply to a pessimistic speech
made by Senator Hailev of Texas, j
•The senator warned his hearers
that the adoption of Socialism |
meant trouble for the future }ren- ;
eral ions.
To this warning President Tafl
look exception and said: "I do,
no! think that we are as near that
which he fears and which I should
fear if I thought, we were near il
—Socialism. I have abiding failh
in Ihe American people. I have
abiding faith after a time—for
I hey will conic back and discrimi
nate between what is good cloth
and what is fustian. Whal we
need is prosperity. A lack of
prosperity does not make Ihe rich
uncomfortable1, it is lack of pros
perity that makes the poor un
comfortable. What I hope.is thai
we'll all gel together in good t.'ani
work lo bring about prosperity."
WORKMEN PAY DEARLY,
FOR FOOLI8H DEED
Six employes of (ho Lynn Wil
son road building camp, near
Newark, O., blow np a dog willi
dynainilo Iho othor day and in do
ing so nearly lost thoir own Hvoh
according to Iho story told by a
witness In Iho affair. Ono of 111*
parly tied (ho dynamite lo Iho
dog's tail, lighted Iho fuse and all
ran away. The dog did tlie un
expected hy running after them.
They entered a cabin and slam
med Iho »Ioor shut, hut Iho dog
rrawled under I he door. The ter
rilled men made their exit and
none loo quirk, for Just as the
last of Iho parly emerged from
the house the dynamite let go.
The shanly was demolished, Iho
dog reduced to fragments and I he
entire party knocked down and
stunned. All received cuts and
bruises.
Orpheum.
"Don Jtian," Byron's great trag
edy, at the Orpheum tonight. Tin
night And extra vaudeville tomor
row evening with change of pro
gram.. TiOts of fun, so don't miss
it. The Orpheum for surprises.
Weather Report.
Maximum tompcraturo.... 37
Minimum temperature... .2fl
Mean temperature ,> .31.5
Tompcraturo at fl p. m...27
(,loudy, calm.
E. M. BLADE, Observer.
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Complete change of. program:
Sundays, Tuesdays, Thursday
and Saturday.
Saturday Matinee at 2:30 p. m.
Children under 14, 10 c.
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Regular Communications tirst Wednesday in
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