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Show BRYAN NOT THE MAN TO DO IT. In his speech at Des Moines, Mr. Bryan treated the subject of the tariff tar-iff with his usual fluency but also with his usual lack of profundity and (repressiveness. (repres-siveness. He Is evidently making frantic fran-tic efforts to win over to his side the Cleveland democrats whose esteem he has not enjoyed since 1891. Ills usual form of argument Is as follows. The republican party has been long In power. During Its rule many anuses have arisen which It has not corrected. correct-ed. Therefore It is Incapable of correcting cor-recting them and should not be Allowed Al-lowed to try to do so. His loslc Is , marvellous for Its fallacies. We agree I with him that the reform of the tariff Is the most Important question of the campaign. The work will have to be done in the next administration but we are confident that the Job will not be entrusted to the democrats. We admit that the den ocratlc party )ai stood traditionally for tariff reform, but since the days or Cleveland It has been very far from their thoughts. They have been absolutely Indifferent to It In the last three elections. Tariff reformers wero bitterly disappointed at the negligent attitude of both Mr. Bryan and Mr, Parker toward the question. They thought they were being betrayed by their strongest supporters. sup-porters. It is today a totally new is-suo is-suo with Mr. Bryan. Talk as he may there are few whom he can convince that he Is the man to bring about the desired reforms. As a New York edit-or edit-or aptly puts lt,"We are not yet ready to acccept as our savior, Mr. Bryan, who Is the very Image of Inconsistency, Inconsisten-cy, who has never cared about tariff reform, and who has never used his enormous Inlluence with the democratic demo-cratic patty to make that a dominant ijsue." |