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Show BRYAN'S ATTACK ON ROOSEVELT. Champ Clark, speaker of the House of Representatives and one of the most prominent Democrats of the nation, says Bryan is extremely ex-tremely selfish and wholly devoted to his own advancement. Wc hold Bryan in high esteem, but his speech in Salt Laho forces us to accept, in part at least. Speaker Clark's statement. Bryan had much praise for Taft but none for Roosevelt, and the reason for his aversion as exhibited against the Progressive leader was disclosed when he charged that the Progressives had stolen some of his thunder and placed it in their platform. If Bryan is laboring for the g6od of the people as a whole and not purely for his own advantage and his party's success at the polls, why should he regret to see the spread of the gOBpel of righteousness? Jf Bryan has advocated any great principles that others see fit to join in preaching, he should be the last to seek to discredit the new evangelists of good government. He should be the first to offer words of encouragement. No man should put his personal success above the welfare of the people. The statesman who gains most is the one who writes into in-to the laws of his country the most beneficial legislation and inspires in-spires the people with the loftiest ambitions. If Roosevelt has borrowed or otherwise appropriated some of the good things which Bryan has stood for and which Bryan in turn obtained ob-tained from the Populists, the great Democratic leader should be generous enough to share with Roosevelt the reform measures and bid him success in the missionary field of political reform. Instead, Bryan is inclined to resent the intrusion on what he considers his private preserves in politics and to assail those who dare encroach. |