Show THE CRISIS IN THE CAMPAIGN With four weeks w eks remaining for the campaign the presidential situation has begun to define Itself clearly clearl In some Rome ways was it is the most remarkable campaign n the country count has seen since that election which placed Lincoln aj as the th head of or the nation The Republican can an nominee is running on a platform distinguished more by the rejected planks than by its own construction to this tills platform he has added some of the planks repudiated by b the convention conven convention convention tion which nominated him and his chief appeal to the thc voters is based on the promise that he will clinch the tV policies of Roosevelt most of which were quietly interred by b congress at Its Hs last session under the leadership of Speaker Cannon followed by b the last sad rites at Chicago Mr 1 Tart Taft has made his campaign or orl orbis l Ills bis Is friends have made it for him largely lanel on the theory theor that his executive executive tive tin experience has fitted him to be president His appearance on the stump and the policies he has enunciated dated or approved after enunciation enu by b Roosevelt fail fall to justify the Inn Those who had expected ted evi evl 1 of initiative of large statesman statesmanship statesmanship ship have not found it and those th se who thought to see Taft abolish his op opponent in popular argument know lenow now no why Ity Chairman Hitchcock did not wish h his s candidate andl ate to make a speaking tour Mr 1 Tafts fight so far has been cen centered centered centered on Mr lr Bryans Brans personality and record on the bank hank deposit guarantee on the tariff question and on the familiar tam ilia I cry of the Republican varty art that Democratic success means mean depression It does doe not stern stem to have han occurred to Mr Ir Taft Tart that Mr 11 Bryans personality is better known to the American people and better liked than tan his own Possibly Mr lr Taft may maybe mayhe be he more nore familiarly known to of di drum dm m but the Nebraskan is Known to to the whole whale people as no other man car of cari i generation is known He is liked far or his hi clean dean morality without for tor his spotless integrity and Tl belief in the average Amer American ican f citizen Folks believe In him and tn tract ct him When hen he says say he will not nota a ar Apt r nt pt contributions from the trusts or Irv under obligations to them they be beHe bel He l ce e him When he says all alt the cam camp p jc Isn f contributions will be published before election they the know it will will be clone When Roosevelt suggests sug ests that the Standard Oil is supporting Bryan Bran Brante Vie the common American Just laughs at atthe atthe the notion If JC Mr Ir Taft Tart were wise he would not invite personal comparisons during the campaign particularly in inthe inthe the west wes ie k kAs As to the tariff tart question que t on Mr JoT Taft repeats with some emphasis l that the tariff will be revised reis d If he j is s chosen hosen president Quite so and it eft will be re reI I under the direction on of or Mr r Can Cannon Cannon Cannon non and Mr rr Dalzell and Payne Pl ne and Senator Aldrich and a few e other con conn n mrs friends of or the consumer It Il w til be r by a congress whose election hinges on contributions from the trusts and special Interests which have grown up under a Republican tariff It will be revised with the help of or Mr Mann chairman of or a special whose special duty it was to prevent the removal of orth the duty on paper and wood pulp in order that the paper trust might not be hampered in inthe the tho accumulation of profits and the contribution of ot campaign funds to the Republican party part Even the Republicans cans ans know what sort of tariff revision is ht J coming forth if it the Republicans win winAnd winAnd winAnd And they the know that Mr Bryans Brans suc success cess ISS would mean honest bonest revision with special reference to the final find destruction tion of or private monopolies and the re rc restoration restoration of ot normal conditions in the Industrial life lite of or the nation In the discussion of or the bank deposit guarantee J question Mr Taft s at something of ot a disadvantage It is II true he has the bankers with hIm hm but the number of bankers as com corn compared compared pared with the number of or depositors is very cry small and the very natural de desire desire desire sire of or the depositor to tg hiv have his hl money oney safeguarded has brought bro this 4 t lar ar plank of ot the Democratic platform Into nto great favor Moreover the Re Republicans RepUblicans Republicans publicans are handicapped In their at atack attack attack tack ack by b the tile fact tact that th t their own party has indorsed d the idea in Kansas K ns s and South Dakota ta even een If It has not adopted the precise form othe of 0 the Denver Den Denver ver Yr plank Further as the Saturday S Post points out the bill reported by bythe bythe bythe the house committee on banking and currency last February ry provided pt that the national banks should deposit with the treasury 5 per cent of their note note Issues and deposits to guarantee the payment of ot all individual deposits banknotes hank bank deposits and govern government government ment deposits without discrimination or preference That bill was introduced in the house by Chairman Fowler of the th banking committee and nd it bore the indorsement of Lyman J T Gage secretary of the the treasury treas r under y Horace White an eminent authority on on finance and others of equal standing Curious it that the president see then that a bank ti deposit guarantee was almost criminal in character Queer that such conserva conservatives conservatives tives tIes as Gage and Fowler and Horace White should commit themselves to such vicious legislation it Most extraordinary that they failed to tolee see lee yie he Invitation to speculation and bankruptcy and crooked management involved in a guarantee plan And what makes it more unusual is the fact tact that Mr Fowler defended his bill thus I assert that government super supervision supervision vision state or national should be withdrawn and the public left to the terrific school of experience or that the government should sho ld completely per perform perform perform form its work and impose such obliga obligations obligations obligations upon the banks as will truly justify the confidence the people have haye haven In n these institutions Mr Fowlers reason for this position was that the people believe bell eye the national banks are in n some way ment institutions and give them a con confidence confidence confidence that should be warranted by b a guarantee In fact as well as in theory In the face of these facts as the sub subject subject jeet is discussed and understood Mr Tafts position must be an Increasing for him and his party part and a distinct advantage for Mr lr Bryan Ban The more the question is un understood understood understood the worse for Taft Tart ok Besides all this there is a bigger and broader question The American peo people people people the masses who pay pa the bills are suffering Intolerable exaction at the hands of monopoly in every direction In spite of a Republican panic which has cut down the earnings of ot the la ha laborer laborer borer and the salaried man in spite of reductions In fixed Incomes of or every sort the price of com commodities commodities commodities has Increased until the bur burden burden burden den is unbearable There is no hope of or orr relief r from the Republican party part as has been shown by the attitude of its leaders whenever an effort has been made to secure relief by legislation The abortive efforts to destroy mo monopoly monopoly by prosecution of or the trusts has been a farce Even when convictions have been secured as In the beef trust case the punishment inflicted in the shape of fines has been a bitter Jok joke bitter for those who hoped for relief enjoyable for the trusts which added the cost of the fines to the toll exacted of the public That sort of condition cannot be tol tolerated tolerated longer lonser and the people are de determined determined determined to have a change Knowing all the conditions condition understanding fully the position of the two parties and their candidates the logic 10 lc ot of the situa situation situation situation tion points to Democratic success and the logical conclusion is sustained by bythe bythe bythe the trend of public opinion particularly particularly I in the critical states The drift to Bryan Bran In the middle west has been so plain that the Republican campaign managers have become alarmed while the united Democracy has more reason for elation than it has had since Cleve lands campaign in 1592 The people aVe ate going to rule In this election and they are going to assume the reigns of ot government when Mr Bryan Bran is in inaugurated inaugurated as president next March larch |