Show MR SHERMANS SPEECH More Interest attaches to the speech of oC Mr Sherman nominee for vice president president president dent than usually pertains to a minor candidate because of ot Mr Ir Sherman Shermana record and personality He is a con congressman congressman gressman from Prom New York Tork a banker and corporation man and he has been one of oC Speaker CannonS most efficient I aides alder In the prevention of oC legislation recommended by b President re Roosevelt and demanded by b popular opinion In view of these facts it Is If worth noting that Mr Ir Sherman derides Mr lr Bryans Brans declaration that the Issue this year ar Is Shall the people rule It was to be expected that Sherman would say sa sale Me le too to every phrase of Mr Ir Tafts speech of or acceptance It must have been a little difficult for him to subscribe to the supplementary planks to the Chicago platform which were written Into It by b Mr 11 Taft Tatt but the New ew Yorker took his medicine like a aman aman aman man and Indorsed Taft in everything he ho said Mr lr Sherman says sas the people do rule and he says It without blinking He reaffirms his belief bellet In the Republican tariff and Insists that the country count owes Its prosperity to the Dingley Dingle law Jaw though he overlooks any reference to tho kind of ot prosperity the tariff tar brought last fall all With sardonic humor hu humor humor mor he declares the tho tariff revision pledge of or the Chicago platform will be fulfilled in an adjustment based In every eor particular upon the broad prin principles principles of ot protection for tor all aU American Interests alike aUke for labor for capital for tor producers and consumers How does docs he expect anybody to be believe believe believe lieve that What has the Republican party done during the past twelve years to fulfill any such pledge Who but the trusts and their progeny have been considered In any nn adjustment of or orthe the tariff since the Dingley bill blU was conceived by the trusts and enacted as they the directed What trust has given Its labor any equitable share of the enormous profits accruing from Its mo monopoly monopoly monopoly under the tariff What hope can there be that the Republican party will reform the tariff In the tho Interest of or Labor la labor a abor bor or or the the farmer or anybody but the trusts that maintain the party In power and furnish turn Ish It most of the money for its campaign expenses In his very associations and record Mr Sherman furnishes the most moRt complete com complete compete pete answer to to these questions qu lie He naturally believes In the Republican doctrine that the tariff should be framed for tor the benefit of or the trusts most interested In its workings He personally person IlY has shown In congress his unwillingness to permit the represent representatives representatives representatives of ot the people to enact legisla legislation legislation tion demanded deman by tho the people He Ho was wag one of or the tho little coterie of Republican leaders that t at prevented the removal of the duty on wood and pulp and paper at tho last session although a ma majority majority jorl of ih the house of f representatives i was was as Ale pledged 1 In in writing tinS tto to cote vote for tor the removal it could be brought before 1 Tho ho house for tor Cora a a vote He Is the perfect representative nt of a monopolistic mo pluto plutocracy plutocracy cracy crac profiting by y government favor at atthe atthe the expanse of the he producer and coh surri r oY the of to today dayas day as from the th Republicans Republicans of nt Incont day who fought and anddie died die that the equality of oC opportunity In the form for Cor men nen en might n be bo preserved intended Int by the founders of f the re republic republic public Whatever Mr Sherman may say sa of It public effect tre t he lie himself t Js ls a 8 living Ing ex exemplar exemplar of or the fact t that the people do donot not rule under Republican domination o D and a that Mr Dir Bryan Is right when ho he her r Y great issue Js u Is Shall the peo pea tL D e c i 1 r k O |