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Show BBJ THE PEOPLE HAVE RULED. M ' "The people have ruled through the M republican part" Is Mr. Taft's as- M sertlon in reply to Mr. Bryan's chall- M , enge "Shall the people rule?" And he M backs up his statement by many facts m , - in his speech which ho recently dc- M llvered at Hot Springs before several m ?' thousand Virginians who had asscm- m bled there to see and hear him and Si i T celebrate Virginia Day. According to m Mr. Taft the will of the people was M ' made plainly manifest by the large M majority it gave McKlnley at his first Bfl election, by tho still larger otfo at his M second election, and the even larger m one for Roosevelt in 1004. Uy these B . enormous majorities the people wish M cd to show that it wanted to maintain K a gold standard and a protection tariff. H ' It Is today the popular wish that the S prosperity which has come through the republican party should go on, H that the high wages, increased com- H -1 forts of life and high standard. of llv- H-" log should not be Intel rupted by any U hazardous changes to another regime. H .' Mr. Roosevelt's policies have turned H out to be the people's policies. The H people evidently want pure food, meat H ; inspection and the abolition of rebates H and unlawful discriminations or they B '' would not have closen Roosevelt a M I; second time to carry out measures Hj of this nature H In developing further these policies H andlncorrectlng the abuses which have H grown out of the alshsnesty of some H prominent men and the greed of fin- H ' anclal power the republican" party can H better carry out the will of the people H ! than the Inexperienced democrats. Mr. H I Taft shows them clearly and for H (, " ' elbly how prominent a place the re- B ' publican party has won In the minds H and hearts of tho American people. Hi But where he scored most heavilv in H'i his speech was when ho charged the Hi- democratic party with never having H ft oeen the champion of a popular Issue. H j Here are his words: Br "In 1800 the democratic party made Hfr tl)0 chief issue a disastrous financial H ' cxperjment which woula have retarded H the progress of this country a quarter H of a century and sullied Its financial H honor. In 1000 the party reiterated H ' its adherence to this suicidal policy of H' repudiation of national and private H:; debts and obligations and then ad- Ht vapccdastho paramount Issue of the H' campaign not the trusis, not corporate Hi wealth and abuses, but rather the H repudiation of all our International re l sponslbllitlcs growing out or the If Spanish war and tho destruction of K"' what they call the growing cancer of flnpcrlallsra In the policy of this coun-try. coun-try. Again In IfXM, Instead of select- & ng tho abuses and evi's for which l hey H( now seek to make the republican pirty m:- responsible as the main Issue of the rf campaign, tho burden of their con- Jjj1 tentlon was the usurpation of the jjp' power of the executive oillcc by Presl- HirH 'lent Roosevelt, Including the settle- H W? ment ot the anthracite coal strike and H.V- tlle federal constitutional limitations BF' ' by the republican party while the ex- Hk' tent of the trust evil was minimized Hi&t; by l,1 statement of their party can. Fr dldate that the common law furnished Hf suttlcient remedy to suppress it and by the general party ' declaration that H.,N nothing butsafcand sane policies were to be adopted under the administration administrat-ion which should follow Its success In the election." |