Show DARES S T TAFT TO BACK UP OP WORDS mm OF ROOSEVELT William J Bryan in Iowa on His Way Back to His Home Hohe Hohein in Nebraska GREETED BY ENORMOUS CROWDS EVERYWHERE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE AND HIS SCORED UNMERCIFULLY M U t t M tit M s f e M t A M H M H f M If Ift t la In Sept 30 Traversing 4 the southeastern and southern por portions 4 of or Iowa all alt day In an ordinary 4 coach William J 3 Bryan concluded 4 4 his whirlwind speechmaking tour of 4 more than three this place ice T 4 I f tonight where a big open air meet meetIng meeting meetIng Ct 4 Ing was held hed No greater demon demonstrations on 4 4 have havo been beon accorded any anywhere an yf I 4 where than In Iowa When ho took tooka 4 4 a late train for Lincoln Mr Bryan Bran 4 4 had bad delivered during luring the day fit If 4 I 4 teen speeches to Immense crowds a areat 4 great reat number of whom were farmers 4 who manifested the greatest interest f 4 fH 4 t H t H ft f t Itt M t M t t ft M f 4 Mt t ft t t ft t t t t MM J Knoxville la Ia Sept 30 Upon his ar arrival arrival rival rhal here late today toda W J J Bryan re received k a rousing reception It being I homecoming week a large crowd was wason wason I on hand to greet him He was provided with a special cowboy escort headed by a band and was driven through the streets to the hotel amid deafening cheers His speech delivered from the court house steps was wa devoted mainly to a n castigation of Mr Taft whom he charged with having borrowed ideas from him I 1 can say without immodesty Immodesty esty he declared that I have had a apart apart apart part In his education I have helped to convert conert him from the error of his ways helped to lead him out Into the light on several questions Mr Taft raft he said had not been an apt pupil but had been behind his class classon on several of or these there questions The re remarks remarks remarks marks were called forth by a recent utterance on the part of Mr Ir Taft that the Democratic candidate had done nothing but talk taIk Mr Bryans Speech In part Mr Bryan spoke as follows Mr Taft Tart says sas that I 1 have not done anything but talk tan while he has been lUtting his Ideas Into practice in an ad administrative administrative way While It Is true tORt hat he has ban held office more than I have and d therefore has had lad more opportunity to put ideas into practice I have had more opportunity to see flee my ideas borrowed than he has had h d to see his ideas bor borrowed borrowed V rowed What idea of his own has been put Into practice with success He was a judge judg upon the bench Was the in injunction Injunction Injunction junction Idea his or did he lie get it from somebody else He put it into practice practice practice tice but he put It into practice In such sucha a way that he has alienated the wage earners of the country countr He has put colonialism Into practice Was that his Idea Tafts Inspiration n From Europe Europeo No o he got It from Europe and im imitated imitated ImItated in the Philippines what Great Britain did In this country countr before the thear war ar for Independence What hat Idea of ot othis his own has he practically applied to government Now let Itt me show what Ideas he borrowed He has abandoned the tho Idea of oVa a permanent colonial system tern tem te and amI advocates ates ultimate independence Independence Independence dence of ot the Filipinos Where did he heget heget heget get It Is not original with him He did not nol get It from the Re Republicans Republicans publicans for they have never put it itin Itin itIn in their platforms Where did he get It He got it from the Democratic plat platform platform platform form and 1 I have had as much to do with the presentation of ot the idea as anyone He says he is in favor of an Income tax Where did he get the idea It is not his own It was In the Democratic platform of 1896 It is in our platform this year It Is not In his platform He cannot claim originally the presentation of this idea I have havel spoken l on the subject earlier carlier than he has and oftener than he has and more earnestly than he has He says sas that he Is personally Inclined to favor the election of senators by the direct vote of or the people That Is not an original idea with him It Is if not with his party part It was the Democratic party part which first secured an endorsement of or that Idea by bythe b bythe the house huse of Ot representatives at Wash Washington ington It Is in three Democratic plat platforms platforms platforms forms and I helped put it through It was in my first congressional platform eighteen years ears ago and I wrote tho the platform myself Challenge to Taft Publicity as to campaign contributions contributions contributions is another Idea that he has bor borrowed borrowed borrowed rowed and if he has hM not borrowed from me he has It from the Democrats Democrat and not from his Republican associate ate ater for his own party repudiated the Idea by a vote of nine to one I went to Washington and made an argument before the th committee of the house hay hav having ha haing ing lug this bill in charge some time be before before before fore his letter to Burrows and the let lct letter letter ter to Burrows was not a public one His flis convention turned down the public publicity publicIty publicIty ity plank His associates are not will willIng willing Ing to have any publicity at all He comes half haU way toward our platform Continued on Page 2 DARES TAFT TO BACK UP WORDS OF ROOSEVELT Continued from Page FaDe 1 but jut he docs not come far enough for forwe forwe forwe we want publicity before the election electon and ad he wants it IL after the election electon But what is his reason for postponing pub publication until after the election electon Is It I the reason that President Roosevelt Roosevel gives that publication before the eh elec electon c cion ion tion ton would lead to unjust suspicions I challenge chaU him h m to toen endorse Mr Roose Reese vels velt proposition that the voters have haves so s little itte sense that they must not pot be al allowed lowed owed to know k now who are contributing to toha ha th campaign fund for fear they the will wt draw wrong conclusions He now claims to be In i favor of prosecuting the he trusts Where does he get that idea dea He cannot get it from former Republican platforms but he can get gett It t from Democratic platforms and from Democratic speeches Let him tell tel tel of his first utterance against the trusts and I will wl promise prom se to find an an earlier earler I Democratic utterance I Tafts Tariff Views I He is in favor of tariff revision and andic lie he ic finds the revision will wl probably be downward if he i in favor tavor of ot reducing the tIle tariff Where did he get the idea Not from the Republicans for they thc have raised ried the tariff and oppose the reduction If I he Is in favor of reduction reduction tion ton he has borrowed another another Demo Democratic Democratic cratic idea I will wi give him credit credi for being beig entirely Republican on the h labor question quefton for he has not only refused to borrow borow Democratic ideas ideas on on that subject but has shown himself hostile hostle to nearly evary evry v request that the labor laborIng laboring Ing lug men have made mae I will wi also give him the credit of being bing Republican on the guaranty of bank deposits He stands with wih the big bankers and nd against the depositors on this subject subjects s nd d he he h is I welcome to the claim or originality originality If he desires d irs to lo o make It Not an Apt Pupil Pupil Now I i have mentioned a few of the the ideas that he has borrowed bO wed from the Democratic party part and as I have for many years been advocating these thes ideas which he has borrowed I can say sa without Immodesty I a apart apart apart part in his h s education ducati h I have helped to convert him from m th e ri of frs ways helped to lead him out into th the light on several questions He has ha not been an apt pupil pupi he has been behind his class classon cass casson on several of these but he still sti shows signs sigs of improvement and we must encourage where we can He cannot promise you OU a single thing in inthe inthe inthe the way of reform that has not been presented pr in hi a better beter plan by the Dem Democrats Democrats Democrats So far as a he is concerned I Ican Ican Ican can claim to be a pioneer I have been ah ad of him from one to eight years With Wih what reason car can cr he claim caim that he can put my m ideas Into operation better beter thai tha I can myself He ought not to discredit my wor for my work has to bring him from positions that he dare not defend up to positions that he h tries to defend but defends awk awkwardly awkwardly and halfheartedly |