| Show BRYAN HANDS OUT ONES AT U Says If Tafts Reform Record Were Good Endorsement Would Be Unnecessary JUDGE GETS WARM AND ATTEMPTS TS TO ANSWER RAKES UP FREE SILVER AND IM IMPERIALISM IMPERIALISM AND MAKES USUAL PROSPERITY PLEA Baltimore Md Nd Sept Sep 14 HA A few tew plain simple sentences from Mr Taft Tat will bo be worth more moro than tho the eulogy that tho the president pronounces The presidents Indorsement Is of oC no value unless tho the president will agree to stay star starIn In Washington and see that Mr Taft TaU makes good goodIn goodIn In these words J Bryan Dryan Hummed up his opinion of or the letter oft of or V t President Roosevelt commendatory of ot Mr Taft Tatt soon after atter the Democratic candidate arrived In this city c ty It was expected of ot course said Mid Mr Bryan Dryan that President Roosevelt Roo would support Mr Taft Tatt He could hardly do fi less In view of oC the fact that he selected him as the administration candidate and supported him with all an the Influence once ence that the administration could bring to bear The presidents letter however may be bo objected to as ir irrelevant irrelevant Irrelevant relevant Immaterial and not the best evidence If 1 Mr lr Taft were dead It would be Interesting to know from Mr Ir Roosevelt what he knew lenew of o Mr Tafts TaUs opinions and work but as Mr Ir Taft Tan Is alive and able to speak for himself It ItIs ItIs ItIs Is hardly necessary for Mr Ir Roosevelt to tell us what Mr Taft Tat will do Taft and His Platform Mr Taft Tatt Is running upon a platform which Is so unsatisfactory that he had to amend It In several Important par particulars particulars and yet et even as amended It gives Ives the tho public no definite Idea as to what Mr Taft TaU stands for or Mr Ir Taft also has made some speeches speech R and prom promises promIses ieee to make many more The ones he has already made have not thrown any light upon the political situation but it itIs ItIs itis Is to be hoped that he will yet et conclude to define his position with sufficient su clearness to enable the public to know what he stands for or It Is not suf sut sufficient for tor the president to say that Mr Taft Tatt Is a friend of labor That Is a subject o tho the laboring man manis manIs manis is entitled to an opinion and Mr Tafts friendship Is Js to be determined not by bythe bythe bythe the presidents Indorsement but by the measures which Mr Taft advocates Mr Ir Taft TaU believes that the labor organ organization organIzation organization should come coma under the opera operation operation tion lion of ot the antitrust law thus deal dealIng dealIng dealIng Ing with the tho men who belong to the labor organization as It if they were mer merchandise merchandise chandise for tor the antitrust law Jaw deals with the monopoly of o the products of labor lI or Taft Opposed to Jury Trial Mr Ir Taft TaCt is opposed to trial by jury in cases of ot Indirect contempt thus de denying denying nying to the laboring man man a safeguard which is in guaranteed to every man tried in a criminal court Mr Ir Taft TaU does not agree with the laboring man In regard to the use of ot the injunction in labor disputes No words of ot praise from the president can change chang Mr Tafts atti attl attitude attic c tude on this question or make that at attitude f 7 more acceptable to the wage earners Mr 11 Taffs Tafts position on the trust ques question question question tion Is not changed by the presidents Indorsement The president himself has not succeeded in putting any an trust magnates In the penitentiary and only a few tew of oC the tho trusts have been disturbed If Mr dr Taft Is no more more successful than the president In his attack on the trusts he ho will not satisfy the expectations expectations of ot the public There are more moro trusts in the country today than there were when Mr Roosevelt Ro was inaugurated inaugurated and Mr Ir Taft TaU favors a weak weakening weakening weakening ening rather than a strengthening oX oj o othe the antitrust law for ho h has advocated an amendment that will limit the op operation operation I of ot the law to unreasonable re restraint restraint restraint of or trade Taft and the Tariff s I On the tariff question Mr Taft Tan has r failed to express himself with clear cler clearness clearness ness The Republican platform does not use uno the word reduction It only promises revision and Mr Ir Taft Tart has construed that to mean that some schedules will be lowered and some I raised but there Is no intimation that the average Avill be lower or higher than It Is I now And so BO In regard to all the questions which are at Issue Mr Ir Taft Tat must make matte his position known He cannot rely upon the presidents Indorsement An Indorsement on a note Is not necessary necessary necessary sary It If the th maker of ot the note Is good and the Indorsement Is only good when suit can be he brought against the Indorser to enforce It Endorsement of No Value If Mr Jr Taft Tart a reform record of ot othis his own he ht would not need to be In Indorsed Indorsed indorsed by the president and the presidents presidents presidents dents indorsement is of no value unless the president will agree to stay In Continued on Page 2 BRYAN HANDS OUT HOT ONES AT BALTIMORE Continued from Page 1 Washington and see that Mr Taft Tact makes good We ought to have hae some somo definite statement nt as a to pub public public lic lie Is to expect from Mr Taft No such definite d statement appears In the platform and no definite conclusion can be drawn from Mr lr Tafts T speeches and It does not answer the purpose for the president to sa he h feels sure Mr Taft will do what Is right or ur what Is Just for there Is a wide difference of ot opinion opinIon ion as us to what is right tight and as ae to what Is Just A few plain simple sentences from Mr It Taft T tt will be b worth more than the eulogy that the he president pro pronounce pronounces I no nc JUDGE JUp E TAFT DODGES Attempts to Bring Dead Issue Into the Present Campaign Cincinnati Sept 14 Asserting that his official record his speech of ot accept acceptance acc pt ance and subsequent sequent utterances are ample indications of his bis own political position n William H Taft today replied to Mr Bryans BYnns comment on the Roose Roosevelt Roosevelt velt volt letter by switching the spotlight of or inquiry back to Mr Bryans own political record and making an analysts analysis thereof This Is Mr Tafts reply In my notification speech and In other speeches made since I attempted to make clear my position on all of ot the thet Issues t of ot the campaign If Mr Bryan Dryan has been unable to understand them themI I cannot make them clear I stand on my record In the past and what I have said Mr Bryan should devote a little time to his own record from which he seems to be struggling to separate him himself himself self with all aU the adroitness acquired in ina Ina ina a twelve years yea hunt for an issue on which he can be elected president The readiness with which Mr Bryan In successive presidential campaigns passes passe from one to an another another other shows that the chief consideration tion which affected his selection of ot an Issue has been its plausibility in at attracting votes otes Says ays Bryan Would Fall Fail He presents the remarkable spec spectacle spectacle I of oC one who has been seeking the presidency for tor twelve years without success and without official responsibility ity and without the opportunity to test the various propositions which he has advocated for reforms and yet of ot hav hay having havIng haying ing the th event demonstrate what a colos cobs colossal colossal sal failure he would have made In each Instance had he been permitted to carry his proposals from the policies of or the country He does docs not say sa whether ho hoIs hoIs hois Is still in favor of ot the free tree coinage of ot sliver silver He docs does not nt now answer answer the question whether if It he were president and an exigency should arise in which ho he would be called calle 1 to exercise his dis discretion discretion discretion affirmative to maintaining the parity between gold and silver sliver he would exercise that disposition He has not permitted himself discuss to In Inthis Inthis inthis this campaign the issue of ot which was the tho paramount Is Issue Issue Issue sue in 1900 as he declared and in re respect respect respect to which the policy of the Re Republican Republican Republican publican party part Iris has been heen vindicated by bythe bythe bythe the event so that tranquillity and a good government exists in the Phil Philippine PhilIppine Philippine islands and even the independents prefer Republican victory to Mr Bryans Dr ans promises Changed Since 1896 He lie now says sa S ho he favors the tho more rigid regulation re of oC the railroads In 1896 he expressed the view that the rail railroads railroads railroads roads could not be regulated because the railroads would own the regulators appointed 1 by b law and therefore he was in favor of ot government ownership We Ve hear nothing from him on this subject Instead by b describing his platform not only as an announcement of principles but as a protection against uncomfortable able abbe issues he has attempted to give bond to keep the peace with respect to government ownership which by Its mere announcement showed its lack of or orthe the quality He pro professes professes professes to have been the father and now to be he the heir of ot the Roosevelt policies and yet et In no campaign of ot three In which he has taken part and two of ot which he himself led did he make them the paramount issue Instead during the Parker campaign he took occasion to charge Mr Roosevelt with militarism and with being completely subject to the thc Influence of corporations only to toBee see Bee him win the greatest peace triumph of the world and secure such an nn effective effective tive stamping out of ot corporate abuses as to elicit the admiration of ot the en entire entire entire tire country countr More Prosperity Talk Mr Bryan Dr an professes proCesses to be the great friend of labor and yet he was one of ot the chief supporters In the the bill that made la Ia labor labor bor helpless for four tour years He then I proposed as a n remedy for the disasters to which labor was thus exposed the Issuing of a dollar which would have cut In half halt such wages as there were and would have led to the hardest kind of ot a n struggle on labors part to restore its wages to Its proper equiv equivalent equivalent equivalent alent under the gold standard The country has been most fortunate that mo no fallacy of Mr Ir Bryans railroad prop prep prepositions has been exposed expose 1 without the cost of ot putting them Into actual govern governmental govern governmental governmental mental practice and It will be fortunate Indeed if It the danger of or four years de depression depression depression to which it would be exposed In case of ot Mr Bryans election may be averted and if f by Republican success In November and subsequent prosperity and by a clinching of ot the Roosevelt policies he ho may ma be again shown to be bea a prophet without honor |
