FOUR GREAT- FACTS.
Justify Republican Party it Asking
Voters to Keep It in Control.
Redeemed Platform Pledges; Main-'
tained Prosperity; Developed
Commerce; Protected Labor.
"Four great facts seem to just ify the
Republican pnrty In asking the voters
of the United States to continue it In
control of the affairs of the government..
First, the promptness with which it has
fulfilled the pledges of its plntroiui
upon which It successfully appealed to
the people in 180(1; second, the pros
perity which hits come to all classes
of our citizens with, and as it result
of, the fulfillment of those pledges;
third, the evidence which thai pros
perity furnishes of the fallacy of the
principles offered by the opposing par
ties In 1890, and still sup)ortcd hy
them; and, fourth, the advantages to
our country, our commerce, and our
pcoplo in the extension of area, com
merce, and International Influence
which have unexpectedly come ns an
Incident of the fulfillment of one of
the important pledges of the platform
of 18!M1, and with it the opportunity for
benefiting the people of the territory
affected." Front the Republican Cam
paign Text-Hook of 1900.
The above quotation from the own
ing pages of the Republican Campaign
Text-Hook of 1000 applies with equal
force to conditions In the present cam
paign. The four great fnets which
justified the pnrty In asking tho sup
port of the public In J00O were: First,
that its pledges of 1S90 had been re
deemed; second, that prosperity had
come as a result; third, that develop
ments since 1890 had shown the fallacy
of the principles upon which the Dem
ocracy then appealed for public sup
port; and, fourth, the conditions which
. hud come to other parts of the world
and their people as a result of promises
fulfilled hy the Republican party In
tho United States. . These assertions
made In the Text-Rook of 1300 have
been fully justified by the added ex
Xterlences of another eight years. The
pledges of 1S'.M! and those made In 1000
and 1004 have been redeemed. The
protective tariff has been restored ;
the gold standard made permanent;
Cuba freed, given Independence, pro
tected from Internal troubles and alwut
to be again made a republic; the Pnn
uiiia Canal assured under the sole
ownership and control of the United
States ; a Department of Commerce and
Labor established; rural free delivery
given to millions of the agricultural
community; tho laws for tlje proper
regulation of trusts und great corpora
tions strengthened nnd enforced; pros
perity established : commerce devel
oped : labor protected and given ample
employment and reward ; intelligence,
prosperity und good government estab
lished in distant Islands ; and the Hag
of the United States made the emblem
of honor In every part of tho world.
Opposed hf Ueinocracy.
All of these. great accomplishments
have been the work of the Republican
party. In each of them It has met
the discouragement, the opposition, and
the hostilities of the Democracy. The
protective tariff was fought at every
step, and denounced by the platform of
the Democrats ns a "robbery." The act
establishing the gold standard was op
posed and the Democratic vote cast al
most solidly against it, and that party
in Its conventions and platforms of
1004 and 1908 deliberately refused to
retract In the slightest degree Its ad
vocacy of the free and unlimited coin
age of silver. In tho war for the free
dom of Cuba, the work of the Republi
cans was met with harsh criticism. In
the efforts to establish peace fend good
government In the newly acquired ter
ritory, each step met with opposition
and false charges and with the demand
that the territory nnd Its millions of
people be abandoned to Internal strlfo
or control by a nionarehlal government.
The acquirement of the right to con
struct the I'auauiu Canal was met with
opposition and obstruction. The en
forcement of law against trusts and
other great corporations was denounced
as ineffective and designed to deceive
the public. The establishment of rural
free delivery was discouraged. The
splendid prosperity which followed tho
restoration of the protective tariff was
decried nnd denounced as fictitious and
temporary, and an attempt made to
sow the seeds of dissatisfaction and
discord among the ieople by complaints
of the higher cost of food which etiui.-j
as tho natural results of the Increased
demand accompanying general pros
perity and high wages.
It is upon tho evidence of the past
twelve years, evidence that the Rep'i"li
can party Is a party of progress, und
the Democracy a patty of Inaction, re
tardment, and fault-finding, that the
Republican party again confidently ap
peals for public support In the Presi
dential ard Congressional elections of
1D0S. . .
it! Sentluteat That Wilt Mt.
Judge Taft's "I do not care for the
Presidency If It has to come by com
promise with Senator Fornker or any
body else in a matter of principle," Is
one of those quotable sentences that
will stick In memory and In politics and
be recalled In campaigns many yean
hence as one of the virile utterance of
American hlstorv. Topeka Capital,
From the Baltimore American.
AS B00SEVELT SEES BBYAN.
"Yon say that you have advo
cated more radical ' measures
against private monopolies than
either I or my party associates
have been willing to undertake.
You have, indeed, advocated
measures that sound more radi
cal, but they have the prime de
fect that In practice they would
not work. I should not lit this
letter to you discuss your !itti
fude on this question if you did1
not yourself bring it up, but as
you have brought It up, I answer
you that In my judgment the
- measures you advocato would be
wholly ineffective In curing a
single evil, and so far as they
had any effect at nil, would mere
ly throw tho entire business of
the country Into hopeless and uN
ter confusion. I put Mr. Taft's
deeds against your words. I ask
that you be judged both by the
words you wish remembered, nnd
by the words that seemingly you
and your party now desire to
have forgotten. ... I diold II
entirely natural for any great
law-defying corporation to wish
to see you placed In tho Presi
dency rather than Mr. Taft. Yo-ir
plans to put a stop to the abuses
of thesa corporations are wholly
chimerical. Theodore Roose
velt." BRYAN UNLIKE LINCOLN.
Attempt to Compare Continuous
Candidate to Great Statesman a
Miserable Failure. '
"The present canvass shows again
the, folly of the ass that put on a
lion's skin. The managers of Mr.
Bryan's press bureau are attempting
to conjure votes for him by the use
of the sacred name of Lincoln. Aesop
declared that when the ass lifted up
his voice nnd brayed, every one knew
him und his owner came up and gave
him a sound cudgeling. The warning
falls on deaf ears. The partisan who
tries tho same tricks Invites like shame
and punishment. The audacity of the
device may capture some of the un
wary. Insofar ns he has a party be
hind him, Mr, Itryan is tho candidate
of those who maligned nnd ridiculed
the first nnd greatest President the
Republican party has given to the na
tion. Mr. Itryan tjelles for support on
the forces which nt every step opposed
Lincoln, which obstructed the meas
ures of war and pence of that savior
of the union, and pronounced the proc
lamation of emancipation a monstrous
crime." Vice Pesldentlal Candidate
Sherman at Rock Islaud, 111.
The I'ubllo Wellar.
(From Governor Hughes' Speech at
South Bend, Ind.)
"If Bryan had been elected In lSIMi
tho disasters that would have followed
wcjttld have prevented him from ever
being a candidate again.
"We are devoted to a line of progress,
st.nightfonvard, honorable administra
tion above every selfish advantage,
against- every attempt to exploit the
ptople for private interest. We are de
voted to the public welfare in establish
ing the stability of honest enterprise.
We serve the Republican party becuuse
we believe that through it these .things
can be accomplished. In the heat and
turmoil of political campaign It Is Im
portant that we should preserve a true
and a proper sense of proportion."
STAINDIINd OIN THEIR RECORDS,
BRYAN THE FREE-TRADER
Stands To-day as He Did When in
Congress for Free Trade.
He Pronounced the Wilson-Gorman
Free Trade Bill Just and
Honorable.
In the record of Mr. Bryan's public
career he lsi officially Identified with
Just one important measure of federal
legislation, and thn the Wilson-Gorman
tariff act of 1804. As a member of the
House Committee on Ways and Means
during President Cleveland's second ad
ministration Mr. Bryan assisted in pre
paring that mrfisure, nnd ' In its com
pleted form It bore his unqualified ap
proval. Ills advocacy of tho bill drew
sharp and clear the dividing line be
tween the Democracy of Bryanlsm and
the Democracy of G rover Cleveland.
Mr. Bryan pronounced the measure just
ami honorable. President Cleveland de
nounced It as "the creature of jterfldy
and dishonor," refused to sign it, nnd it
became a law without his approval.
The distinction thus drawn between the
Bryan Democracy and the Cleveland
Iemocracy continues to this day.
Frea Trad Disastrous.
Innsmtieh as Mr. Bryan ts posing
this year as the special friend and
champion of the farmers, It is worth
while to point out how their interests
were affected "by the only important law
he over helped to create. The Wilson-
Gorman act repealed the duty on wool.
On Janunry 1, 1803, two months after
President Cleveland' second election,
the sheep In the United States, accord
ing to official statistics, numbered 47.-
273.53 nnd were valued at $125,000,254.
At tho close of Mr. Cleveland's term,
thanks to tho baleful Influence of the
free trade act which Mr. Bryan had
helped to force upon the statute book,
tho number of sheep In the country had
fallen to 30,818,013, having a value of
$00,020,012. In other words, the sheep
herds had suffered a loss of more than
10,000,000, or nearly 25 per cent, and
the Avool clip or the United States had
declined in value about $58,(MH),i00, or
nearly 50 per cent, all through the op
eration of a law which found one of
Its most ardent supporters In the perT
son of "tho farmers' friend," William
J. Bryan.
In 1S!I3, under the fostering care of
tariff protection, the wool of the coun
try amounted to 303.000,000 pounds;
in 180.1, under th,e blighting effect of
free trade, It fell to 200,000,000 pounds.
In 1801. with the tariff restored. It
rose to 302.000.000 pounds and to 310,-
000,000 pounds in 1!MJ2. During the
four years of President Cleveland's sec
ond term the measure which lie de
nounced ns "the creature of perfidy and
dishonor," but which Mr. Bryan never
theless enthusiastically endorsed, sad
dled tho American wool growers with
losses conservatively estimated at $KK),-
000.000.
But the wool growers were not the
only victims of (ho Wllson-Gorinan-Rryan
perfidy. Kvery branch of Ameri
can Industry suffered. It lowered the
duties on Imports of manufactures ami
thereby forced the closing of Important
native Industries and drove their em
ployes Into Idleness. Wages In every
branch of industrial activity. declined,
the demand for every variety of farm
products fell off, and the worklngmen
of the country were subjected to uni
versal hardship and distress. The op
eration of Mr. Bryan's pet measure
robbed the fanners, brought hunger and
misery to the wnge-earucr nnd bank
rupted the treasury. It was Indeed, as
Mr. Cleveland said, "a creature of per
fidy and dishonor."
Bryan for Free Trade.
William Jennings Bryan stands to
day ns he stood In 1804, for free trade
nnd all that it means to American la
bor and American enterprise. lie can
not get away from the record, and
there are no indications that he wants
to get away from It. He Is committed
to free trade as distinctly as he.ia to
free silver, nnd his own words allow
that he will fasten those twin deviltries
upon the country if he gets the chance.
"SHALL THE PEOPLE B.TJLEP"
une "John Brown."
We have heard the wondrous query of
Nebraska's "Peerless One,"
As It sounded out from Falrvlew and
struck the nation dumb ;
So we guess we'll keep on ruling, as for
ninny year we've done I
The people still shall rule!
Chorus:
Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory,
hallelujah! '
Glory, glory hallelujah! The People
still shall rule!
In eighteen ninety-six yon know, the
People thought they'd rule,
And give the "Peerless Orator" some
more years at school ;
But still in nlnteen hundred he could
not the People fool;
Tho Teople still, would rule!
"Shall the People rule?" asks Bryan.
Does he think the nation daft?
Is there any cause for wonder that the
People see his craft?
Of course, they'll keep on ruling, and
their Leader will be Taft !
Tho Teople still will rule!
Tnft is running on his record, while
Bryan runs away
From the "Paramount Issues" which he
held tho other day;
And what he'll hold tomorrow no mor
tal man can say,
The People still shall rule!
We believe in honest banking, but not
i - In guarantees
To secure bank deposits, that may tend
to foster thieves.
However much sueli methods some cun
ning knaves might plense,
The People still will rule!
We Intend to vote for William but not
for William B. "
Our ballots in November shall be cast
for William T.
The defeat of William Bryan will be
counted No. 3.
The People still shall rule.
' B. F. C. In Baltimore American.
For Taft and tha Big Stick.
To the Kdltor of The World:
Because of the present condition of
our government we must have a man
with the ability of Mr. Taft to keep
the wheels of progress turning, so that
more respect shall be shown on tho
part of Europe.
Our government has been progress
ing ever since its birth. The Monroe
Doctrine will be In great dauger. In
stead of Japan being our friendly
neighbor it will become our foe. Thero
fore all parties should unite In electlnf
Mr. Taft by a big majority, and with
the "Big Stick" he should carry out
Presideut Roosevelt's policies.
' LOUIS SHAPIRO.
ANSWERED "TRESSm."
When Democrats Had Chase In
Congress to Vote for Bryan Bank
Deposit Plan They Dodged.
in n recent Interview Judge Walter
I. Smith, Member of Congress, said:
' . "At the last Houston of Congress n
currency bill was Introduced by Mr.
Jno. S. Williams of Mississippi, leader
of the Democratic side of the Houne
and Democratic Senator-elect from Mis
sissippi, i
"This bill not only provided for the
cure of all the Ills of our currency sys
tem, but enntalnod provision for the
much lauded national guarantee of
bank de;oslt8. On the 0th day of last
March Mr. Williams arose in the House
and stated that he had been furnished
with ndynnce sheets of an editorial to
appear In Mr. Bryan's Commoner, com
menting tiMn this bill and asked that
these advance sheets might be printed
In the Record, and leave being granted
they were so printed.
"In the editorial slight criticism was
made upon trilling details of the hill
but upon the whole It was declared to
be an ideal measure that ought to re
ceive the support of every Democrat
It wns also stated that the bill had been
prepared after n conference of the lead
Ing Democrats of the Senate and House
at which Mr. Bryan was present.
"When the Republican currency
measure wns brought wp in the House
it was provided by the rule that It
should be In order to move to substitute
this bill of Mr. Williams, which. It
should not be forgotten, contained a
provision for the national guarantee of
bank deposits.
"As the time drew near for the. close
of the debate and for some reason no
Democrat offered the bill, Mr. Kahn ot
California moved to substitute the
Williams bill for the Republican bill
Immediately there was great confusion
on the Democratic side, of the chamber
and a hasty consultation as to what
should be done. Finally six Democrats
voted to substitute the Williams bill for
the Republican mensure, 20 Democrats
voted against It and 92 Democrats vot
ed 'present' without being paired.
"The question was not on the adop
tion of the Democratic bill, but was
whether the Democratic bill, containing
the national guarantee of bank deposits
was preferable to the Republican meas
ure, and on that question only six Dem
ocrats voted 'Yes,' 29 Democrat" voted
'No' and 92 Democrats without being
paired voted present In other words,
about three-fourths of all the Demo
crats had no opinion whatever one way
or the other ns to whether their bill
with the blessed guarantee of bank de
posits in It, was better or worse than
ours."
COUNTBY NEEDS A REPUBLICAN
( CONGBESS.
President Roosevelt Points Out Im
portance of Electing Legislators
to Support Taft.
President Roosevelt, in a letter to
William B. McKinlcy, chnlrinnn of the
Republican Congressional Committee,
appeals to disinterested citizens to join
wllh the National Republican Commit
tee nnd the Congressional Committee In
a rnovemetit to elect Willlniu II. Taft
ns President and n Republican Congress
to support him, saying, In part:
"It Is urgently necessary, from the
standpoint of the public Interest, to
elect Mr. Taft, and n Republican Con
gress which will support him; and they
seek election on a platform which spe
cifically pledges the party, alike in its
executive nnd legislative branches, to
continue nnd develop the policies which
have been not merely Introduced, but
acted upon during these Seven years.
Tin-Be policies can be successfully car
ried through only by tho henrty co-oper-ntlon
of the President and tho Congress
In hot It Its branches, and It Is therefore
licculinrly Important that there should
obtain such harmony between them. To
fall to elect Mr. Taft would be a calam
ity to the country ( and It would be
folly,' while electing him, yet nt the
same time to elect a Congress hostile
to him, n Congress which under the in
fluence of partisan leadership would be
certain to thwart and bafllo blut on
every possible occnslon. To elect Mr.
Taft, nnd nt the same time to elect a
Congress pledged to support hi in, is the
only way in which to perpetuate the
policy of the government as now car
ried on.' I feel that all the aid that can
he given to this policy by every good
citizen should bo given ; for this Is far
more than n merely partisan matter."
Big Western Bank Deposits.
The deposits In the State banks of
Kansas on Sept. 1, the-date of the last
call, were greater than ever before In
the history of the State a total of
over eighty-three million dollars, ami
this within ten months after the panic.
During the eighty days between the
last and next to last calls the deposits
Increased at tho rate of $100,000 a
day. The net Increase for this period
was eight million dollars. The na
tional banks will probably show an
equal gain for the same period. To
peka Capital.
TAFT'S PLEDGE.
Mr. Taft at St. Panl:
"If I am elected, as I expect
to be, I have the greatest pleas
ure In pledging, in the presence
of this grand audience, all the
energies and 'all the abilities of
which I am capable to continue
the Roosevelt policies, to mako
business honest and to keep every
man within the law, be ho fcombla
or rich."
Ben mm
mm t
i
The Continuous Candidate Drop
from Idealism in H.'s Frenzied
Fight for Votes.
Now Hand In Glove with Notorious
Politicians and Corruptlonlsta
Whom He Formerly Denounced.
While morality has been the keynote
of all of Mr. Bryan's lectures and ot
most of his political speeches for years,
the record shows that he has not been
assiduous In practicing what he
preaches; while his voice has been
championing the moral uplift of th
loople In both public and private life,,
personally ho has uot hesitated to form
alliances with some of the most unde
sirable citizens for the advancement of
his political hopes. The recent expo
sures of the close connection between
tfie Standard Oil trust and tho Inuer
councils of the Democratic National
Committee have served to recall other
alliances made hy Mr.- Bryan lit hit
choice of political associates and on
fldantes, says the Omaha Bee.
In the Illinois lights for the Inst eight
years, Mr. Bryan has been Identified
with the Roger Sullivan Democrats.
True, he defied nnd denounced Sullivan
nt the St. Louis convention.-In 1904,
but Sullivan was at that time working
for Judge Parker's nomination. Bryan
declared that Sullivan was a corpora
tion creature, the tool of tho big in
terests and insisted that ho could not
nnd would not accept nny endorsement
from a convention or committee that
had endorsed Sullivan. This year Sul
livan Is one of bis close political ad
visers and director of the Democratic
destinies In Illinois, with Mr. Bryan's
expressed approval nnd consent.
Money and Torrer All-Imnortaat.
In New 'ork Mr. Bryan's political
fortunes are indissoluhly linked with.
"Flngy" Connors. "Charley" Murphy,
"Pat" MeCnrren, the New York rep
resentative of the Standard Oil trust;
August Belmont, T. Fortune Ryan and
the entire clique of trust olUclnls and
lice track promoters, who huve been
waging such bitter fight on the reforms
urged by Governor Hughes and the Re
publican State administrations. Thesa
Interests, through T. Fftfie Ryan nnd
W. F. Sheehau, sent $20,000 to No-
dldncy for the United' States 8enate.
.Air. Bryan has struck hands with thoso
nnd .other devoted servants of tho
Standard Oil interests In New York and .
Das Joined Lieutenant Governor Chan
ter In nn assault mon Stnte reg'j'atioa
of railroads, although everywhere elso-
be demands more government regula
tion than ever.
In Pennsylvania, Colonel Guffcy, tho-
recognlzed lender of the Democrats and
representative, of the Standard OH In
terests und donor of tho stained glass
window In Mr. Bryan's home, wns rend
out of the Democratic party by Bryaa
nt the Denver convention, but he Is
back again and the fight against hlns
has been stopped at Mr. Bryan's direc
tion.
la Indiana and Mlssoarl.
In Indiana, Mr. Bryan places hla
trust in Tom Taggart, proprietor of'
the gambling Joint at French Lick
Springs and best client of Mr. Kern,.
the Bryan running mate. Taggart fre
quently meets Mr. Bryan at Chicago -and
other places outside of Indiana for
close political conferences und he also
figured In the transfer of that $20,009
boodle bng to the Nebraska Democrats -
in 1904. Mr. Taggart has been de
nounced by Mr. Bryan for public con
sumption only.
In Missouri, Mr. Bryan's closest poli
tical associates are Harry Ha'wcs, lid-
ward Butler nnd Moses C. Wetutoro,
and other lenders of perhaps the most
corrupt nnd notorious political machino
ever organized. Mr. Bryan has dona
nis nest to ininiinizo tno luiiuence or
Governor Folk In tho Democratic poll
tics of Missouri, where Folk has mad
some record of practicing what Mr.
Bryan preaches.
Standard Oil Mob In liiBlknlil.
In Texas, Senator hclley, wearing a
beautiful coat of whitewash, which
covers up the Standard Oil spots, Is Mr, .
Bryan's adviser and lit Oklahoma, Gov
ernor Haskell, who has not yet re
ceived his whitewash, was Mr. Bryan's
direct representative on the platform
-committee at Denver nnd his personal
choice for treasurer of the national
committee. In Kentucky, Mr. Bryaa
championed Goebellsm nnd made a de
termined effort to continue that system
by trying to force the Democrats to
elect Governor Beckham to the United
Stutes Senate.
In view of the record, it Is not sur
prising that in Nebraska Mr. Bryaa
makes Cowboy "Jim" Dahlmau hla
closest political chum. The surprise la
that ho still has the temerity to con
tinue his demands for the moral regen
eration of political parties.
Mr. Taft should bold to bis original
resolution not to answer every state
ment made by Bryan. Give Mr. Bryaa
time enough and be will deny them aJI.
himself. Philadelphia Ledger. .
Haskell in himself amounts to nota-
lng, but be is valuable as showing wita.
what kind of men Mr. Bryaa la witling ;
ta aurround himself. New York fllaaau
