Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-05
1T rs UP TO BRYAN.

IT rs UP TO BRYAN.
Since Mr.. Bryan discovered
that his paramount bugabeo of
"iinperialism" was frightening
more voters away from him than
it was attracting to him, he has
fought as shy of it as he has of
Gree silver" since the Kansas
City convention. ''Did I say
imperialism" he asks. Pardon
me, l meant trusts. But no
sooner does he change weapons
than the republicans accept the
challenge, and they find him at
all times unskilled in defense
and weak in attack. He threw
down the gauntlet to Roosevelt
recently, and Teddy Immediate
ly took it up. At Lexington,
Nebraska, Tuesday, he said:
81 have but a moment in
which to speak to you; want
to take advantage OF this first
opportunity of arguing a criti.
cism Of Mr.. Bryan and putting
a question to him in return. No
question can be asked me either
about my past record as governor
or concerning any present issues
that / am not ready to answer,
and would like to have similar
frankness from cur opponents.
Last week, at Blair, in this state,
Mr.. Bryan spoke of what he said
was the ice trnst. His speech
was reported as follows: That
If Governor Roosevelt was all
right in this matter, the remedy
lies with himself as governor of
the state in which the trust was
supposed to exist, as he pos
ssssed the power TO destroy IT.
'That is hardly correct as a
matter of governmental sknowl-
edge. I cannet call out the
militia to destroy a trust. What
can be done is to have the legisr
lature pass and the governo.
sign q law to do away with the
trust, and then have the attor-
ney-general proceed under that
law to enforce it, according to
tho best Of his capacity.
"Now, are net these the only
things that can be done? Well,
I have done them both. In the
first year Of my term as governor
we passed a very severe anti.
trust law, and now the attorney
general is proceeding under the
law against the ioe trust. The
difficulty comes in the delay
caused by the trust counsel, as
they are appealing as they have
a right to appeal, to every legal
technicality, and are making
every effort to stop a decision ON
the merits of tho case. The
people who are responsible for
the action Of the trusts counsel
are the stockholders of the trust,
who are, among oilers, Mr..
Richard Croker, the leader of
the democratic party in New
York, and MI. Van Wyck, who
was my opponent for governor
Of New York, two years ago,
running on an antitrust plat
form, and who is now one of the
biggest stockholders in the ice
trust. .
"Mr. Van Wyok was the New
York member Of the committee
on resolutions which drew up
the trust platform. Messrs. Cro-
ker and Van Wyck, and their
party associates, like Mr.. Gug.
genheimer, president of the
board Of aldermen. and Corpora
ton Counsel Whalen, Of New
York, ara very severe on trusts
in theory; in practice, they are
members of the worst trust in
the country. The attorney-gen-
eral is NOW proceeding against
the ice trust, and if Mr.. Croker,
Mr.. Van Wyok and the asso-
ciates who are members of the
trust were net employing the
best counsel in the state to delay
action, we should have had a
decision of the court long ago.
The republican attorney-general
Is pressing that action under the
law, introduced by democrat,