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Show CORRECTS MISTAKE; MAKES A REQUEST AKRON. 0., Oct. 21. Speaking in Grace park to a multitude of people in this, one of Ohio's greatest manufacturing manufac-turing cities, William J. Bryan today auswered certain criticisms and questions ques-tions put to him by an Akron nowspa-pcr nowspa-pcr through special delivery letters received re-ceived all along tho line before he reached here, Aceeptiug as true the statement of the newspaper that. James S. Sherman, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, was not introduced, as has been stated, by the president of tho mutch trust, Mr. Bryan openly corrected cor-rected his mistake, into which, lie said, ho fell by inadvertence, doclaring that ho never intentionally misrepresented an opponent. "Now, however, " he said, amid great cheering, "having done what 1 believe to be the honorable tiling, I ask the paper that was kind enough to lead me out of my mistake to npplv the same standard to the president tliat it applies to mo. The president stated that wo had received 1100,000 cither from the committee of four yours ago or from soiup unknown sourc'o. T cor-rooted cor-rooted tho misstatement tho first time it wna brought lo my attention. Mr. Mack corrected it, and later he brought it to the attention of the president, and yet the president lias not admitted that he mndo a mistake. Wy received no money from the committee of four years ago, and wo have given a statement state-ment of tho money wo have received smco this campaign began. Our books aro open and the statement issued on the 15th of this month shows that we havo received about $-12,000 as the balance bal-ance left over from tho $100,000 offered of-fered to either party by tho city of Denver nnd nccepted bv our party, jt cost about .$00,000 to p'av the expenses of the convention and tho preparations tor it, and it left us about $-12,000, and that wotit into our campaign fund, and according to the stntemeut made by-Mr. by-Mr. Mack and Mr. Ridder on the 15th wo had received about $220,000 or $2:10.000 from other sources. Sinco that time wc have published daily the J Continued on Pago Thirteen. BRYAN TAKES WAR INTO TAFT'S STATE Continued from Page One. "amounts we havo received and the j names of tho persons contributing. Now, my friends, it iff known to the presi- , dent that we did not receive the money he charged us with receiving, and I want this papor, that is so anxious ,to have me speak accurately, to call its own president to time and ask him to correct tho misstatement. "But, my friends, I. am not yet through with the incident. I believe tho editor of this paper doos not deny that the president of the match trust did preside at a Ttenublican meeting. MY. Roosevelt said that the law-defying corporations hud no reason to fear my election, and when I challenged him to give the name of ono trust official of-ficial in the United States who was supporting me he scanned the country and found not a one. He found a luw- ycr in St. Louis who, in a caso, was the personal attorney of the presidout of a subordinate branch of a trust, and within twentv-four hours it developed that the Republican national committeeman commit-teeman from the state of Missouri was tho attorney for tho trust, while the Democrat was the attornej' for the president of the trust company. It developed de-veloped that Mr. Taft himself had. about three years ago. recommended an attorney of the Standard Oil company to be a United States judge and to hold a life office in a territory where he might be expected to prosido in cases where the Standard Oil company was interested. Trust Heads Not Wanted. ''Now, here j'ou havo in this city the president of tho match trust presiding presid-ing at a Republican meeting. No president presi-dent oT a trust has presided so fnr at any meeting where I have spoken. Nor is "it denied that the president of the match trust took ocension in that speeoh to utter a slander aguinst the labor organizations. (Applause.) Nor is it disputed that tho Republicans sat upon the platform and did not, resent the slander. "Now. my friends," snid Mr. Bryan, turning his "attention to remedial legislation, legis-lation, "we ask for the establishment of a department of labor, with a cabi net officer at its head, and .fudge Tntt is opposing it. Tf he is in favor of a labor man in the cabinet, why has ho not said so in all of the speeches he has made? I believe that labor is entitled to a labor department, and 1 do not have to read Judge Taft. 's opinions to make my mind up that thore ought to be a department of labor and a secretary secre-tary of labor. Our platform saj's that the anti-trust law should be so amended amend-ed as to exclude the labor organizations. I did not have to read Mr. Taft's opinion opin-ion in order to decide whether wo ought to amend tho anti-trust laws or not. .It is enough for mo to know that there is n difference so wide between a man in the image of hi3 creator and the product prod-uct of human hands that one law cannot can-not justly cover both man and matter." |