The Commoner.
OCTOBER 2, 1908
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Hereafter contributions for democratic campaign fund should be sent to Herman
Ridder, Treasurer Democratic National Committee, Auditorium Annex, Chicago
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undertake. The platform or the democratic
party is ciear and specific on this subject as on
other subjects while tlio platform of the re
publican party is uncertain and evasive.
"The democratic candidate for vice presi
dent, Mr. Kern, joined with me in requesting
the democratic national committee to nx u maxi
mum of ten thousand dollars for individual con
tributions and to publish before the election all
contributions above one hundred dollars, and
the committee acted favorably upon this re
quest. The republican candidate and the re
publican national committee proposed, not pub
lication before- election, but publication arter
election. 1 submit (hat our-committoc has given
the better evidence of its freedom from connec
tion with or obligation to, the predatory inter
ests. Our committee has not knowingly received
a dollar from any corporation known as a trust,
and it will not receive any money from such.
If anv money is contributed by such persons,
without the knowledge of the committee, it will
bo returned as soon as the fact is discovered.-
"The democratic party is making an. honest
and an honorable, fight .in defense of tho princi
ples and policies onunciated in its platform, and
if expects and will demand fair and honorable
treatment from, those who are in chargo of the
republican campaign. With great resppct, etc.,
very Iruly, .W1IMAM ,T. BRYAN."
The newspapei'3 oft Thursday, September 24,
printed Mr. Roosevelt's reply. It will be found
in full on page 12.
THE CLEVELAND LETTER A FAKE
The republican managers nrade much of a
letter which was said to have beeu written by
the late Grover Cleveland and was printed in
the Jow YoVk Times. In this letter it was made
to appear that Mr. Cleveland urged the election
of William H. Taft. Henry "tyatterson, editor
of the Louisville Courier-Journal, has from the
first contended that Mr. Cleveland never- wrote
tho letter. Mr. Watterson has made a campaign
of investigation with the result that tho .executor
of Mr. Cleveland's estate has pronounced the let
ter to be spurious-. Mr. F. S,. Hastings, who is
the executor,, wrote to the New York Times
this letters '
80 Broadway, Sept. 25, 1900..
To tho Editor of the New York Times:
Sir: Since our interview of September 22,
"which was followed on September 23 by the
publication in tho Times of a statement then
made by me relative to the article attributed to
tho authorship of the late Grover Cleveland which
wa-j published in the Times on August 30, I now
desire to say that there has since come to my
knowledge "evidence" which leaves in my mind
no doubt of the fact that the said article was
not written nor signed by Grover Cleveland and
therefore is, in my opinion, no longer entitled
to credit as his production,
Mrs. Cleveland, in my judgment, was right in
regarding it when she positively declared to us
since its publication "I do not believe it is genu
ine" I therefore hasten to inform you of my
conclusion regarding the article and beg to ex
press tho hope and belief that you will promptly
give to this communication the same degree of
prominence in tho Times that was given to the
statement made by me in your issue of September
23. Yours respectfully,
F. S. HASTINGS.
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BECAUSE 115 WAS FOUND OUT
Following is an oxtrnct from a: Columbus,
Ohio, dispatch, printed in thcNow York' Even
ing Post, a Taft organ:
"Foraker is being" roundly rebuked more
for his open admission than becauso.-1ils con
nection with tho Standard Oil company1 was
pointed out by Hearst. It is tho, confession of
Foraker confirming thoIfcarat charges thai the
'politicians' aro particularly angered about.
They insist that he might have averted the storm
until after election."
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OLD SOLDIERS BRYAN CLUB.
Tho Bryan Veteran club of 'Lincoln, Nob.,
met at 910 O street, September 18, and effected
organization by tho election of John T. Wiseman,
president; O. S. Ward, vice president; and
REPUBLICAN CHAIRMAN ON IN-
CREASED GOST OF LIVING
Frank H. Hitchcock, now chairman of
tho republican national committee, was
formerly first assistant postmaster gen-
eral. In the report of the first assistant;
postmaster general for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1906, Frank H. Hitch-
cock recommended that the salaries of
the officials and clerks in the postoffices,
and salaries of letter carriers be increas-
ed. la that report Mr. Hitchcock said:
"There has occurred also an increase
in the cost of living, rendering mor
pronounced the present inadequacy of
postoffice salaries.' Later, before the
house committee on postoffices and post
roads, Mr. Hitchcock estimated that it
would require a five million dollar in-
crease in order to raise these salaries to
S the living point,
f
.Joseph McGra'w, yecrnUiry. The following ad
visory committee wan niectid: O. V. Camp.
F. A. Korsomoyor, George V. Ueiiliiuii, 40I111 T.
Brooks. Fred Claux, William M. Thomnit, John
13. Moglonore. Tho club has a preaout enroll-,
meat of 250.
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"OOIN'O, VoiXCJ flOWK"
Tho Richmond (S'a.) TimoH-IJljpatch finyh
"Tho Now York Herald' weekly foreciMtv . &rb
cojTiinouly couuidored tho moKt trtiHtworthy now
published in tho United States; no doubt they
arc as accurate as forecast can be. They sjiow
tstendy gains for Mr. Bryan, the gain last week
."being notably largo. On Sunday, September i:i
tho Herald gave Mr. Taft 200 electoral vtiftMl,
Mr. Bryair 161 and 110 doubtful. Yesterday th'e
Herald gave Mr. Taft 16." votes, Mr. Bryan' 101
and 157 doubtful. U one wook, in abort, Mr.
Bryan removed forty-ono electoral votes from,
Mr. Taffa possession into the doubtful coluiml.
Twonty-tlireo of Ihctfo votes, incidentally, aro
attached to Mr. Taft'a native state of. Olrki,
Election day is still iAk vceks away. Tho proa
ont situation, however, and moro significantly,
the present trend, is more encouraging to tho
democratic party than anything offered to it in
i. decade."
Oklahoma's Great Banking Record Individual
Deposits in Oklahoma Banks Have Increased
the Enormous Sum of $3,644,540.56 Since the
Depositors Guaranty Law Has Been in Effect
The following statement explains Itself:
Guthrie, Oklahoma, August 27, 1908,
Tho depositors guaranty law -was passed
Decombor 1-7, 1907, and was made operativo
February 14, 190gv
Bank reports show that the. effect of tho
law began wooks beforo the-law was-in actual
operation.
There are now 556 banks under tho law in
this state, including fifty-seveir national banks.
Thero aro 251 unsecured banks (all national)
in tho state.
. The dates of statement calls wore as fol
lows: For national banks, December 3, 1907,
February 14, 1908, May 14, 1908 and July 15,
1908. For state banks, December 11, 1907,
February 29, 1908, May 14, 1908, and July 15,
1908.
From December 3, 1907, to February 14,
1908, tho "deposits in tho unsecured banks de
creased about an even half million. Tho se
cured national banks for the same period gained
in deposits about $520,000. State banks (all
secured) for tho period from December 11, 1907,
to February 29, 1908, shows an increaso in de
posits of $716,749.47.
For the period ending May 14 tho secured
national banks show an increaso in deposits of
$645,413.61.
State banks (all secured) for period ending
May 14 show an increaso in deposits of $2,355,
602.14. For the period ending May 14 tho unsecurod
banks (all national) lost in deposits $600,
807 86
Deposits of state funds for period ending
May 14 show a decrease in both classes of banks
as follows: In secured banks, $21,533.50; in
unsecured banks, $069,919.76.
Four hundred and ninety-nine atate banks
for thq period ending July 15 shows an increase
of deposits of $828,639.91.
Fifty-four secured national banks for period
ending July 15 shows a decrease in deposits of
$557,183.48. (This decrease, it is claimed, was
caused by the comptroller commanding several
national banks to stay out of the guaranty XujmI,
leading to the belief that national banks that
were under the law would bo forced out, which
has sinco proven true.)
Two hundred and fifty-one unsecured na
tional banks for the period ending July 15
show a decrease In deposits of $964,680.28.
For this same period deposits of stato
funds show a decrease in both clauses of banks
as follows: In secured banks, $257,824.69; iu
unsecured banks, $252,529.10.
Total increaso of deposits in all secured
banks December to July per' reports, $4,509,
221.65. Total decrease of deposits in all unsecured
banks, December to July per reports, $2,065;
438.14. Total decrease of deposits of state funds In
all banks, last period, $1,200,807.05.
So It Is apparent that there Is $3,044,540.56
moro individual deposits in banks In Oklahoma
than beforo the depositors guaranty law was
passed with all of this increase deposited in
banks secured by this law.
On August 14 tho depositors guaranty law
had been in effect six months without a dollar's
loss to the fund.
The above is correct. '
GEORGE W. BELLAMY,
Chairman Stato Banking Board.
ROY C. OAKES,
Secretary State Banking Board.
The Two Systems Compared
"BRYANISM" IN OPERATION IN OKLAHOMA
May 21, 1908.
Bank Commissioner to Farmer, over rural
telephone "Mr. , this bank is broke,
and I would like for you to come in and get
your money."
Mr : "Yes, I hoard tho bank was
broke, but I am busy today with my crop. I will
bo in In a day or two."
Coalgate, Oklahoma.
"ALDRICII-TAFTI8M" IN OPERATION
June 1, 1908.
"Twelve hundred infuriated Italian
stormed tho closed doors of the 'busted' bank
ing house of Costan Liopea, on Orange street,
today. The police drove the crowd back."
Cleveland, Ohio.
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