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Show PANIC OF 1907 IS BASIS OF SPEECHES. MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., Oct. 24. Beginning Be-ginning today, the first day of a five days' campaign in New York state, which is asserted to bo the real political politi-cal batleground. W. J. Bryan is devoting de-voting nearly all his time io a discussion discus-sion of the panic of 190.7, basing his ; arguments on the statement by Mr. 'Taft yesterday that tho panic was a Rpniib''"m one, and was duo to over prosperitj'. "Every person who feels that he has had too much prosperity and deserved the punishment of. a panic," he is telling tell-ing tho people, "should voto the Republican Re-publican ticket. The rest can voto for us." Tho Democratic candidate madb his first reference to Gov. Hughes, when at Goshen, he spoke of the visit of the governor out West, and of his attacks on the Democratic policy of dealing with the trusts. "It is interesting to know," Mr. Bryan declared, "that in this state and at the governor's suggestion you have a law that limits the amounts of insurance in-surance an insurance company can do, and T don't' see why wo cannot limit the amount of business corporations corpora-tions cau do. I believe that according to your law, measured upou what they are doing now, the limitation is fixed at 7V per cent of the total. Now if it is proper to fix an arbitrary limitation upon an insurance company of 1A per cent., it would not be cruel to limit a trust or corporation to 50 per cent of the total product in which it is on-gaged." |