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'"""'" ' -T " SEBTEMBBR ,11, 190$ The Commoner. 7. MR. TAFT TAKES THE STUMP Newspaper dispatches announce that Mr. Taft, the republican nominee for president, has decided after consultation with his associates to take the stump. He will make a campaign tour through various states, Including, it Is said, Nebraska, The newspapers of Monday, Sep tember 7 printed from the Associated Press the following Interview with Mr. Bryan: "Well, I am getting a great deal of con solation out of the way the president and Mr. Taft have been, doing. I used to bo called hard names, because I advocated an income tax, and now the income tax has been endorsed by the president and Mr. Taft. I used to be bitterly denounced because I favored railroad regulation. Now the president and Mr. Taft have brought that reform into good society, and r am no longer considered dangerous. I used to get a good deal of criticism because I favored tariff reform, but now tariff reform has become so urgent that Mr. Taft is. willing to have a special session called immediately after Inauguration to act on the subject. It used to be that when I talked about independence for the Filipinos I was told that the American flag never came down when it once went up, Now we have a republican con didate for president who believes that the Fili pinos must ultimately have independence. "But I have reason to rejoice over the fact that some of the things I have done are now viewed in a more favorable light. When I made some phonograph records in order that I might discuss politfcal questions before more people, the republican papers ridiculed ma and called it undgnified, but Mr. Taft has lifted the phono graph to an eminence by talking into it himself. "And now my greatest sin is to be made a virtue by Imitation. Surely 'Imtatlon is the sin cerest. form of flattery.' When I went out com palgnjng In 18QG and 1900 they said it was demagogic to 'run around over the country hunting for votes Now it is eminently proper since Mr. Taft is going to do it, and I hope the republican papers will make due apologies. They said in 189G and 1900 that I was scared when 1 made speeches from the rear end of a train, and I was,' and the results showed that I .had reason to be. I have been wondering whether the result will be the same with him that it was with me. -tf "It is hard for us to keep .our patents from beiftg-)nf ringed on this year. I am. afraW, they will try o raise a campaign fund 'by., popular contributions next.", V f&fc 1&V Jw DEMOCRATIC TEXT BOOK The democratic campaign text book pre pared, by the committee designated by the dem ocratic, national, cmmittee Is now ready ior dis tribution. The committee which prepared this vaiupio .comprised John E. Lamb of Indiana, Josephus "Daniels of North Carolina, and Richard ii. Metcalfe of, Nebraska. While the .campaign text book is usually intended for campaign speakers, the democratic text book fpr 1908 has been so arranged as to make, it interesting to the public generally. It is not' only a reference book, but it will make good reading from beginning to end. The na tional committee desires to give this book the widest possible circulation, and in order to do so has fixed the price to the general public at twenty-five cents per copy, postage prepaid. At least one copy of this book should be in every town in the United States. Referring to this volume the Omaha World-Herald says: "The democratic text book, for 1908 is at hand. It Is a neat and handy little volume of 300 pages, and every page counts. It is by all odds the most clear, con cise and effective campaign text book that has been put put by either party In this country for many a campaign, and it is hard to see how, for its purpose, it could be improved upn. One of its mst telling effects Is gained from the fact that hardly a point is advanced that is not proved by republican authority. Republican leaders of high rank, the principal republican newspapers, are summoned as witnesses, and out of their own. mouths the republican party is impeached, and Its position in the present campaign is shown to be untenable. This book Is a veritable mine of information, and should be in the hands of every citizen, republican or democrat, who takes the slightest interest in the issues which are involved. "The democratic text book may be pro cured, postage prepaid, by remitting twenty-five cents to ttie 'text book department' of the dem ocratic national committee. Auditorium Annex, Chicago." yr .?H$:V tyfth t ft .- rAT.EAEV, WE WANT fMff'-i J? MR. -TAFT O N TIIE STUMP ALEXANDER TROUP Alexander Troup, of Now Haven, Conn., is dead, his, summons coming to him sud denly in Now York fust as ' he ws starting home from a meeting of the democratic national committee. For twelve years ho had been one of Mr. Bryan's most intimate, personal and -political' friends, and his demise brings sorrow to the Bryanhousehold. Mr. Troup was a rare combination of tender sympathy and rugged strength. His heart was as gentle as a woman's and as Innocent of guile as a child's, and yet no Roman was ever sterner in the denuncia tion of a wrong or more unyielding in his' devotin to the right. Among the millions who have supported Mr. Bryan In his campaigns, no one has done so more unselfishly or with greater loyalty to the principles for which Mr. Bryan 'contends. The good Alexander Troup did. will live after him, and those who labored with him will cherish his memory. Peace to his ashes, and sympathy to his stricken family. JUDGE SEABURY WITHDRAWS FROM THE INDEPENDENCE PARTY Judge Samuel Seabury of the supreme court of New York, who has been regarded, accord ing to the Chicago Inter Ocean's dispatch, "as the strongest single figure in the political move ment headed by William R. Hearst," and "whose forceful efforts contributed materially to the large vote polled by tha Municipal Ownership league and the Independence league i 1905 and 1906," has withdrawn from tho Independence party. Judge Seabury summarizes, tho reasons for his action as follows: That thero has never been a national con vention so completely dominated by one man as tho independence convention. That regularly elected delegates were de nied admission and other delegates prevented from expressing viows by threats -of -violence. That a dolegato who attempted to present Bryan's name was grossly insulted and ejected from the hall. That Hearst considers the vote polled by the Independence league as a personal asset. That Bryan's failure to support Hearst for president at St. Louis four years ago docs not justify Hearst in using tho independence party to Injure Bryan. That the purpose of Hearst in nominating a ticket is to divide tho opposition to Taft. From Tho Public Chicago. W 4V v lV AN ALLEGORY When Eve had led her lord astray, . And Cain had killed his brother, , The stars and flowers, the poets say, ' Agreed with one another. To cheat tho cunning tempter's art, And teach the world its duty, By keeping on Its wicked heart Their eyes of light and beauty. "A million sleepless lids," said they, "Will bo at least a warning The flowers can keep watch by day, Tho stars from eve till morning." O'er hill and prairie, field and lawn, Their dewy eyes upturning, The flowers keep watch from redd'nlng dawn Till western skies are burning, Alas! each hour of daylight tells A tale of shame so crushing, x Some turn as white as sea-bleached shells, And some are always blushing. And when the patient stars look down. Their light on all discovers. The traitor's smile, the murderer's frown, And lips of lying lovers, They try to shut their saddening eyes, And in the vain endeavor Wb see them twinkling In the skies, And so they wink forever. ., . . . i Buffalo Times, June 23. l. ii ' '$ ,')