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THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Neb.
party? For years we havo attended democratic
conventions in this stato and our chief business
has been to quarrel over this man, whoso great
sin seems to be that ho takes his politico seri
ously. We have heard mean things said about
the republican party from this platform today.
Let mo tell you that if Bryan had been a republi
can ho would have been accorded much better
treatment than you democrats havo given him in
your conventions, for republicans, with all of
their shortcomings, can give you some valuable
pointers concerning the treatment to be ac
corded tho men who serve you.
ANOTHER OMAHA INTERRUPTION
(At this point some members of the Omaha
delegation, which occupied seats at the side of
tho platform, started to heckle the speaker.)
Turning his back upon tho rest of the conven
tion, Mr. Metcalfe went to the edge of the plat
form and facing the Omaha delegation, said:
When Bryan is lying cold in death your chil
dren will givo-him the credit you are now deny
ing him. He lives and will live on in history no
matter what epithets you may heap upon him.
Year after year we have had to come to these
conventions and hear this great Nebraskan
abused and vilified and you gentlemen from
Douglas county have boon the leaders in the in
sults heaped upon him. I say it' with no bitter
ness in my heart, for many of you are my per
sonal friends, that our chief business at state
conventions has been to keep from Bryan's
throat the poisoned fangs, to protect him from
tho hatred of ignorant men who aro not worthy
to lace his shoes.
"What's the matter with the democratic
party?" I ask you is it hopelessly lost to its
proud pretensions? You are to say what your
opinion is and you aro to say it now in your
vote upon this resolution. Where does your
party stand? You, and not Bryan,' are at the
judgment bar. You, and not Bryan, are under
trial. Nothing you can say will take from or
add to the luster of his name. But what you say
and what you do will fix your own status in the
mighty contest that we are entering and in the
great crisis with which our country is con
fronted. I thank you for your kind attention
and I urge upon you the seriousness of tho
vote you are about to cast.
STANDARD OIL HITS $1,000
Stock at This FJguro Valued at $1,000,000,000
Subsidiary Shares Advanco
3,000 Per Cent
New York, July 29. (Special to Chicago
Tribune) Wall street saw tho high water mark
of $1,000 a share paid for old Standard Oil
stock today. The subsidiaries have advanced in
some cases as high as 3,000 per cent since tho
dissolution, but Standard Oil has been compara
tively slower in its boom. At $1,0Q0 a share the
market value of the old company. Including' subr
aidarles, is represented by approximately $1,
000,000,000, the capital outstanding of tho dis
integrated trust being about $100,000,000.
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I... Colonel Itaotywetti a Sw,,iniJ tury In tft
omo(!rtie pl&Mownn' SssMfe vibljiiifealoqBf
Democrats Begin the Organization of Clubs and
Send Funds for the Campaign
DEMOCRATIC CLUBS D. W. Sawyer, R. 2, Almond, Wis 2.00
,,,, u i a i C. T. Bride, 131 B. St. S. E.t Washing
Democratic clubs have been organized in ton D 'c 5 qo
response to The Commoner's appeal, as follows: l. II.' Jarvis, 239'Linden St.,' Scran ton,
Wilson and Marshall, Melrose, Minn. Wil- Pa 2. 00
Ham P. Donohoe, president; Michael Gallagher J- B. Swindlehurst, Livingston, Mont, i . . 5.00
, t 1 a mi 1 1 . 171 t Tir j S. S. Morgan, St. Charles, Iowa. ....... ' 1.00
and Joseph A. Tise, vice president; P. J. Weis- g g Gimble, 1937 State St., Salem, Ore. ' loo
ser, secretary; Dr. P. A. Hilbert, treasurer. p. d. Bergstrdm, Brady, Neb.......... 1.00
Wilson Club, Brownville, Neb. Dr. N. R. D. Downey, Fulda, Minn .. ioo
Hansen, president; II. L. Barnhart, vice presi- A- T. Lacy, Fredericktown, Mo 1.00
dent; N. Jensen, secretary; R. Smith, treasurer. g. Wolford, Tecumseh, Neb. 4. 00
Wilson and Marshall Club, Henderson, Ky. George N. Fairbanks, Box 3G3, Tipton,
J. H. Hart, president; Marvin D. Eblen, secre- , Iowj 2.00
tary, J. D. Cox, Cameron, Mo 2.50
Wilson and Marshall Club, Rock Port, Mo. Thomas Huselby, Mobeetie, Tex 2.00
H. F. Srapel, president; Temple Hamilton, vice J- B- Kaiser, Wharton, Tex 1.00
president; J. M. Sliger, secretary. Mrs- A1Ice c- Garinger, Admire, Kan. .. 1.00
Wilson and Marshall Club, Campbell Hill, T.. O. Hill, Admire, Kan. .'. 5.00
Ill.William Williamson, president; H. P. H- R- Dickinson, 420 West Pulton St.,
Dudenbostel, secretary; Herman Schatte, treas- Grand Rapids, Mich , 5.00
urer. Alice S. Mitchell, 1571 So. Grant. St,
Wilson and Marshall Club, Oklahoma City, Denver, Colo 3. 00
Okla. R. A. Rogers, president; V. V. Hard- James T. Wisdom, Baker, Ore...- 5.00
castle, secretary. James R.' Harmon, Mullen, Neb 1.00
Woodrow Wilson League, Indianapolis, Ind. G. H. Frazier, Matawan, N. J 1.00
N. Mahoney, president; John Maholm, vice Guy A- Beckwith, 265-267 So. College
president; Clifton R. Cameron, secretary; Wil- Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich 10.00
Ham Anderson, treasurer. p- J- Abler, Owen, Wis 5.00
Wilson and Marshall Club, Denver, Colo. E- L. Montgomery," Grand Rapids, Mich., 15.00
Thomas W. Duncan, president; B. J. Marlow, Don Do Witt, 1085 Neil Ave., Columbus,
vice president; H. W. Risley, secretary; J. P. Ohio 10.00
Adams, treasurer. Dr. Christopher Graham, Rochester,
Wilson Club, Agra, Okla.- J. L. Mounger, Miun 50.00
president; H. Behr, vice president; A. M. Reub, W. O. Himes, 3537 Pillsbury Ave.,
treasurer; J. L. Shepard, secretary. Minneapolis, Minn 5.00
Tho Bloomfield Wilson and Marshall Demo- J- L- O'Connor, 80 Wisconsin St., Mil-
cratic Club, Bloomfield, Neb. H. W. Phillips, waukee, Wis. 10.00
president; James Baker, vice president; Dr. W. William C. Ball, 914 Chestnut St., Terre
H. Mullen, secretary; E. H. Mason, treasurer. Haute, Ind 10.00
Wilson and Marshall Club, Verdigre, Neb. W. H. Harroun, St. Joseph, Mo 25.00
J. W. Blezek, chairman; A. V. Kouba, secretary; William Burke, County Down, Clough
Frank Brozefky, treasurer. Ireland 1 .""... 25.00
, S. L. Paymal, Lenox, Iowa. ."-. . .: . . : ?. : 5.00
CAMPAIGN FUNDS FROM THE PEOPLE S. i?.6.' . .4. S?'. ..ft -.00
Democratic national campaign contributions Bert Bruns, ' Vail'ey City, Nf! 'd! .. ,!!! '. 1 2.00
have been sent to The Commoner, as follows: Louis Noltimier, R. 2, Valley City, N. D., 5.00
R. A. White, 236 Main St., Danville,
Va $ 1.00 Total $235.50
THE ROOSEVELT TRUST POLICY
The following defense of the trusts is taken
from the editorial columns of the Chicago
Tribune:
"Standard Oil sold yesterday for $1,000 a
share.
"When Standard Oil was 'dissolved' a few
months ago it sold for $675.
"And yet the two old political parties in their
platforms solemnly repeat their twenty year old
pledges to bust trusts.
"We hope the Bull Moose party, about to
meet, will have the courage not to peddle out'
this same old buncombe of busting the trusts.
"In the first place, it isn't possible to bust
the trusts, as should be fairly evident by now;
in the second place, it isn't desirable, for the
nation wide tasks which they now perform
would be done more slowly, clumsily, and
wastefully by a return to the old method of
small competing companies.
"The thing to do with the trusts is not to
bust them but to harness them. Bring them
under national, not state, 'control. Whatever
their nominal homes, and their nominal home is
usually New Jersey, they are national institu
tions, operating throughout the nation. They
should, therefore, be supervised by national
authorities.
"In this way the whole people will share in
the benefits of the trust enterprises, and thpse
bneflts will no longer be reserved exclusively for
trust stockholders."
This is a significant statement and is in lino
with the Roosevelt-Perkins policy on tho trust
Question. The trusts are not to be "busted"
but merely "controlled," and It ought not to bo
difficult, for the average man, to guess how they
will be controlled when one of tno chief bene
ficiaries finances the campaign for control.
The Tribune, a reliabla paper on many ques
tions, has fallen into grevfous error on this sub
fe 9rrc9urse e dissolution otthe Standard
W Tobacpo.)tru8t,was,a farce but only be,
caus. .tke , BuprmcouEt ..permitted it.;... It ,i
absurd to say that trusts CAN NOT be dissolved
just because they have not been. The trouble
is that the people havo never had a fair chance
at the trusts. Thoy have had to rely on trust
controlled presidents to prosecute the trusts be
foro trust-controlled courts. Give the people
a chance and they will make it impossible for
a private monopoly to exist.
The Tribune thinks trusts can not be dis
solved simply because it thinks they ought not
to be dissolved.- The Tribune-Roosevelt-Perkins
policy of control of private monopolies
leads directly to socialism. If the people are
ever convinced that trusts are here 'to stay they
will not be long in deciding to own them and
appreciate the benefits which private individ
uals now derive from monopolies.
The democrats take the only sound position,
namely, that a private monopoly is indefensible
and intolerable. They propose legislation which
prevents the creation of monopolies.
WHAT A CHANGE, MY COUNTRYMEN!
The Saturday Eyening Post gives us this in
teresting 'reminder: "in 1908 there were seven
million and a half republican voters in tho
country. Last month Mr. Taff was, nominated
toy 66,t delegates, of whom 208 came from ten
rockribbed democratic states in the south that
contain, all told, less tlran 400,Q00 republican
voters. Ho received 132 ballots from Iowa,
Indiana, Michigan and New York, where voters
had been carefully denied a fair chance to ox
' presl heIr cholce tut where the complexion 0
republican thought must ho, on the whole, about;
like that in neighboring states that held pri
maries. In ten republican states voters were
given a chance to express their chpice. and M
these, states, Mr. Taft was rejected by two to
2n55arr?Inp only ono ot em, Massachusetts,
ana tnat by a small margin. These 'ten ste
contain three and a quarter xnitifon. republican
voters; but the issue, was settled for them by(
tno southern mercenaries and the northern
IS? A very Bma11 coterie in command ot th'
machinery outweighed miUQns. ot Wl .voters,"
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