The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-22
SECRETARY TAFT SPEAKS FOR RE-
 ELECTION or HERRICK.
Railroad Issue Meets With Coolness, But Repudiatisn of the Cox Ma chine ls Cheered ny the
 Crowd.

Akron, O., Oct. 21.--An audience to hear Secretary Taft's speech on the railroad discrimination question and state issues was large. Railroad ques- ton was not received with great en- thusiasm.b but hls rcpudiation of Cox and his machiney and especially hts efi- dorsement of Iserrick was frequently applauded. The Secretary's throat was affected. causing him to speak with difficulty.
 He spoke as follows:
 In beginning Secretary Taft indicated the national as well as the State. i'm portance of the pending campaign In Ohio. He pointed out that the defeat Of Governor Herrick would be herald %d as the dawn of new democracy significant of what was to happen in ne next Congressional and Presidential elections.
 Brynn Assuming Control.
 The truth is," said he. perfectly ap- parent that MT. Bryan is gradually re- suming control over the Democratic party and proposes to assume the az gressive in a controversy in which he hopes to array the poor against the rich, to shake the present system of private property and freedom of con tract. to cripple the federal courts that are now such bulwark in the defense Of the constitutional rights of indi- vfduals to substitute for our present system Of railways. privately owned and maintained. government railways and in every way to introduce a system of paternaiism leaning toward socialism which in the end would certainly para lyze the industrial and social progress of this country. This movement in favor of government ownership of public utilities to include the commer- ciaf railroads Is not mere chimera, 1t finds its beginning in the proposition for municipal ownership of street raii- ways by Mayor Dunne of Chicago; by Mayor Mcclellan of New York. and even still more in the attitude of Mir Hearst in running against Mir. McClei- lan."
 Secretary Taft said that Tom l.. Johnson, of Cleveland. known as an ad- vocate of the single tax system and of government ownership of public utili- ties. was an earnest supporter of the ticket in Ohio, and, in his behalf, the triumph of that ticket would bring ''Bryanfsm and Johnsonism to the front as the issues upon which we are to fight the next Presidential 
 Discrimination iu Railroad Rates.
 Tt is the purpose and always has been of President Roosevelt in the policies which he has recommended for adOptfOn Dy congress, to meet these attacks upon our present economic. social and political condi- tions by remedying the actual evils which everyone must recognize, and thus entrenching ourselves against the assaults of socialism, the suppression of individuaiism and the instigation of class hatred based on alleged injustice and abuses that do not exist. He has therefore been most active in the pro- motion of prosecutions under tine anti-7 trust law, and in the securing of legis- lation to aid in it's enforcement He as everyone must who knows anything about the subject, that per haps the most serious abuse of the last two decades has been the unjust dis in railway rates as between individual shippers and between diff ferent localities, and. indeed. in some instances, by rates in excess of that which would be reasonable for the ser vice itself
 In an exhaustive discussion of the present law under which the Interstate Commerce Commission operates. Secre- tary Taft explained how railroad rate questions were brought before the com mission and through the commission before tho courts. He indicated many of the difficulties under which the com operates. some of which lead to reversal of the commissions order by the courts.