Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1908 — DENIES THAT BRYAN “COULD DO NO HARM.” [ARTICLE]

DENIES THAT BRYAN “COULD DO NO HARM.”

Congressman Burke Says Office of President Is Infinitely More Powerful Than Congress.

Congressman James Francis Burke, of Pittsburg, in an address on "The Powers of the President,” says:

‘The American people can make nor greater mistake than to elect Mr. Bryan on the assumption that he can do no harm in the face of an adverse Senate. .As between the executive and legislative departments of the ment, the former has infinitely greater power to rule and ruin than the latter. - .

"Mr. Taft and Mr. Bryan are wholly different types of men. Each possesses a strong individual character, which would certainly assert Itself in the White House. What either of these men would do during a four years’ term In the White House is causing as much anxiety among thoughtful Americans as the mere matter of election alone.

“As a disturber of moneys the President is without a rival In the world. Through the agencies under his control he wilf this year disburse a billion dollars, showing the great things we are doing In adding to the unparalleled list of the world’s achievements.

“In, view of the fact that during the fifteen years of Bryan leadership the States controlled by his party have decreased from 23 to 12, the number of Senators from 48 to 31, the number of Representatives In Congress from 220 to 164, and In that time the Democratic party was In control of the ground, whereas it is now, as a consequence of his teachings, a hopelessly heterogeneous mass of Populistic elements, the American people can see little prospects of a constructive policy If Mr. Bryan should succeed.”