Show REPUBLICAN PLATFORM AS SEEN UI BY DRY BRYAN AN Party in Full Retreat From the Position Taken by President President President dent Roosevelt DELEGATES FAILED TO VOTE AS THEY SHOUTED PEOPLE AWAKENED TO IMPORT IMPORTANCE IMPORTANCE IMPORTANCE ANCE OF REFORM RECEIVE A RUDE SHOCK Lincoln Neb June 29 GUnder Under the caption In Full R tr ot at William Wllliam J 1 Bryan In the next issue of the Com Corn Commoner Commoner moner noner will discuss the Republican na national national convention as fellows fallows Tho The Republicans who attended tho national convention as spectators and joined in the demonstration In favor tavor of or President Roosevelt and Senator La Lt LaFollette LaFollette Follette must have hae felt indignant as they watched the tho pa delo dele delegates gates running over eaCh ea h other in their effort to get away from rom the La Follette reforms some of or which had been en endorsed endorsed endorsed by the president himself Con Congressman Congressman Congressman gressman Coop r of ot Wisconsin representing representing the La Follette platform brought In a minority report signed by b himself alone members of committee signed the majority re ro pi rt and one sned s ed the minority re report report report port The Republican party will find the ratio of ot to one a R very em embarrassing embarrassing embarrassing one to deal with In the com corn coming coming ing campaign Nine to One Against Mr Coopers report contained a de dei i caratian n in i favor of publicity as ati to campaign funds which was lost by b a ote vote of or SO to 94 M more than nine to one and yet the president has been ado advocating eating cating legislation m tn favor of publicity as ns to campaign contributions and Sec See Secretary Secretary Taft wrote a letter to Mr Bur Burrows Burrows Burrows rows advocating the he passage of such auch a abill abill abill bill How fortunate it was that Secre Seere Secretary Secretary tary Tafts letter was wati finally disco discovered ered Ted and published Senator S Burrows the man to whom the Taft letter was I addressed was the temporary chair chairman chairman chairman I man of the convention and the con convention over which he presided turned down dow n the publicity plank by a vote of nine to one Who will deny that on this subject the Republican Republica party is retreating Did Not Follow Roosevelt Another plank of the La Follette platform authorized authorised the tha ascertaining rf vf f The th value alue of oC the railroads This plank was lost by a vote of 11 to 63 62 nearly fifteen n to one and yet Pros President President dent Roosevelt had advocated this tery ery proposition Here Is la a ret t on the railroad question que In another column reference is made madet t b the th Injunction plank The Th injunction plank adopted by the republican convention is la t c retreat from the position taken by the pros president dent and from the position taken by b I Taft Tatt In 10 his speeches al although though neither of ot them went as u far as they ought to have hae gone cone In their ef efforts efforts efforts forts to prevent what Is known knon as government by b Injunction Here Is i ithE the third retreat Silent on Income Tax The president hae hu ha advocated the In Income I come tax as IU a means of oC preventing swollen fortunes and of equalizing the I burdens of government The li han Jian an platform is silent anent on the subject Was the president right in the position ho h took If It so then the convention was n as wrong wrong in not endorsing him Will III the Republican voters follow Callow the president lent dent In this Just demand or will they flow fallow the Republican organization In retreating from It The president advocated an inherit inheritance inheritance ance arce tax but the Republican conven tl tn tin n Is silent on that subject Was Vu the president the head of the Republican party right in advocating this reform or has the Republican party receded from the presidents pre posItIons position Did Ule tue president give a false alarm on this question n or has the party sounded a retreat In the presidents message to Ogress congress last lut spring he presented an against the conspiracy formed farmed among the great lawbreakers to prevent the enforcement of the law md to evade the punishments provided by law The platform adopted by the Republican convention contains no In Intimation Intimation of danger If It there are aft any dangers ahead it was aM unconscious of them Was the president nt mistaken ml taken when he issued his defiance or nr are the Republican managers deceived when they think that an aroused public will wIn calmly contemplate the encroachment cf ef predatory wealth This ThU te Is retreat nimer six lx Election of Senator The Tha convention by a vote to more titan seven to one voted Sown own the plank in favor of the popular elections of Jt United States senators It ItIs ItIs ItIs Is true that the th president and Secre Secretary Secretary Secretary tary Taft Tart have hae never nf er advocated the Continued on Page 2 REPUBLICAN PLATFORM AS SEEN BY BRYAN Continued From Page 1 popular election of senators They seem to take the rather than the Jeffersonian view but the most popular reform in the United States to today today today day 1 is the reform that has for or its ob object object object the election of United States sen Ien senators senators by direct t vote ote It has five times Uhles been endorsed by b the national house or of ori i three times when the house of or representatives r was Republican HeaD lican It has bas been endorsed by b nearly nearl of the states of the Union and nd there is Iii probably not a state in the Union In which it would not be en endorsed ent endorsed orfed t at a 8 popular election and yet in spite of the recd made In the house of or representatives and by the various states this reform la is rejected by b a seven to one vote ote in a 8 Republican convention Here are seven een propositions upon which the Republican party in national convention assembled a has retreated from rout the position taken by that party part partIn in congress or from front the position taken by b the president What have Roose Roo e elt Republicans ans to say The preel president presIdent dent has hag awakened a spirit of oL reform within his party part he has at least re revealed revealed to the world that there are re reformers reformers reformers formers in the Republican party part Can that spirit now be quelled queUed by a stand pat put convention Millions of Republicans Republicans have ha enlisted at the presidents call rail to arms and are ready fo to march forward will they furl their bannera banners and anti turn back merely because the president in the sounding of oC ofa oCa a retreat |