Show HE iii IS RUNNING A AWAY AY Mr h Bryan Bran is trying with all the power of or his voice and his legs leg to run runaway runway way away from his new-made new Issue of or public public pUb pub pub- lic ownership The New York Times says S 'S he he lie wll will not succeed The Issue ma may say to him like Emersons Emerson's Brahma When me you ou fly I am am the wings His personal and apparently unalterable conclusion conclusion conclusion-conclusion conclusion Is the word he used and that Implies the end of a process of reasoning that that partake so much of ot the nature nature na na- na- na ture tUIe of ot a that the they must ul ultimately ultimately ultimately ul- ul become public property and be managed by public officials has become tho the greater part of ot H Ht lie ma may prot protest st as much as he pleases that he dl did not Intend to force his views upon his party part that he Intended merely to express 5 3 his own opinion end and that he ha dl did not know that Government Government Government Gov Gov- ownership will wJ be an Issue Inthe in inthe inthe the campaign n o of 1908 Tug as he will he cannot tear off ore tho the Government ownership label If he Is s nominated for the Presidency ever every Democrat who votes voles for him will have havo had due notice that the c candidate Is a public ownership man and amI that given Iven the opportunity he will naturally attempt to put his theories into practice Tho The Republican party part in 1860 protested pro pro- tested that It did not Intend to abolish slavery flavery that It sought only to prevent the extension of slavery But Abraham Lincoln had said i-ald In 1858 I believe this Government cannot endure permanently permanently per per- half slave and half halt free Cree Men everywhere felt that the election o or 0 Lincoln would deal a death-blow death to sla cl slavery He ha had reached the thc conclusion conclusion sion slon that we uc could not permanently endure as a nation half halt slave and half free Just as Mr 11 Bryan Bran has reached the conclusion that ultimately the railroads railroads rail rail- roads loads will have to o come Into the hands l' l of the Government Nobody doubted that slavery was waH the real Issue of the Lincoln campaign The southern states showed b by seceding that they knew what that the election of or Lincoln meant So If It Mr Bryan were elected the railroad Interests o of the country would understand that the people had pronounced for a Government purchase purchase pur pur- c chase or seIzure upon some terms of their lines Moreover er why should Mr Bryan run lun awa away from this Issue Mr Lincoln Lincoln Lin Un- coln coin II in Iq 1860 did not attempt to unsay what he had said in 1868 He would l ave 1 ave been everywhere ridiculed as a trimmer as a man destitute of c courage cour cour- urge ur- ur age rge g-e g and of oC convictions had he explained ex ex- that when he spoke e o of the danger of ot the tho half halt free and the half slave condition he was merely expressing expressing expressing express express- ing his private opinion Mr Bryans Bryan's sincere followers must have a far tar less respect for tor him hint now that he hc has In his Louisville speech tried to explain awa away his Madison Square Garden utterance II IL public ownership is a g good od cause he ought to support It with all his eloquence elo do- quence quenco an and with unflagging zeal A commoner and tribune of the people who shows that he is afraid of the Is Issues issues Is- Is sues he ral raises must lose the confidence 0 of the very persons to tu whom he he heap ap ap- ap- ap peals Above all things radicals desire radicalism 11 In their leader A timid mu mushy h hy paltering with great principles Cj disgusts gusts them The business s interests t of ot the countr country country coun coun- tr try will wili not think Mr Br Bryan an any safer sater because he hl has attempted to withdraw his 1 Issue of or public ownership Con Con- Con I f Democrats will trust him n no further than before On the other othe hand the Socialist semi-Socialist followInG must have havo a poorer opinion of or him bin First tho the rumor ran that thai Bryan ha has become conservative Then h he proclaimed proclaimed pro pro- claimed In n London that he was more mor radical than In 1896 and proved it t b by his hlll Madison Square Garden speech Now he again turns nuns his conservative side to the public What can a a. whole whole- radical think of or suet such a man except that thai he Is Insincere that h he lacks tacks mural moral strength that he Is all th the time studying the wind and setting hi his sails to catch the most favorable breeze that his principles are mere men professions exchangeable on demand for tor any others that will suit better |