Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-11-01

The Associated Press report Of the
speech delivered by w. j.. Bryan at
jamestown, Va, quoted him as saying
that the great metropolitan dailies are
controlled by the trusts and their col
umns are open to the highest bidder. Mr..
Bryan later denied that this was a cor
rect report, asserting that he made the
qualified statement that man. Of the met
ropolitan dailics were so controlled.
In a leading editorial for the current
F~ederationist, President Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor describes
Secretary Taft as "the Injunction stand
ard bearer" INT takes the position that
NO one can compel a laboring man to buy
where he does not want to buy. He says
that Tafts contention in regard to the
boycott would lead to the dispersion and
forcible breaking up by court orders of
every assemblage of w~orkingmen, however
innocent or lawful their purpose, and to
the notification Of all their agreements.
Editor Watterson OF the Louisville
COurier-Journal, in a New York inter-
view, said that old party lines had ceased
to exist and that we must now nave a
new party. He asserted that Roosevelt
had destroyed what was left of the Re
publican party, n that Rooseveltism
was like Organism in 1896. Bryan would
have Mexicanized our currency, but
Roosevelt's reelection would Mexicanize
the nation. Bryan he characterized as a
destroyer of plans and a breaker of inn
ages. Watterson says he is out of poll
tics for good.
Before the American Bankers Asso-
citation at Atlantic City, Charles Emory
Smith, former Postmaster General, COM
mended the efforts of President Roose-
welt to put the big combinations Of CAPT.
tai under control of the laws, but said
that some OF the so-called awakening Of
the public and the anti-corporation agita-
ton was "a wild and hysterical crusade
against all colossal enterprises and all
corporate activity" He thought there
was a call for sober Judgment and that
it was senseless to decry all combina-
lions. He concluded that regulation it.
self might need to be regulated and that
the craze for fantastic interference in
some States would in due time run its
course.
From his prison cell former Mayor
SSchgaitz of San Francisco has directed
the movements of the Union Labor party
and controlled its convention so as to
prevent a fusion with the reform elements
favorable to the election Of the present
Mayor, DR.. Taylor. The Republicans
have nominated a machine man named
Ryan, thus further splitting up the city
vote, but the Democrats have renominat-
ed Mayor Taylor, and they have been
joined by the independent reform organ
izatiens III factions except the Labor
party have renominated District Attor-
ney Langdon.
The Republican State convention at
Lincoln, Neb., formally recognized Secre-
tary Taft as the logical candidate to per
petuate the policies of President Roose-
welt. On the same day the Democratic,
State convention Endorsed Bryan for Pres
ident and johnson for Vice President.
Judge x. NJ. Lsndis, when told that
there was a movement on foot to secure
for him the Democratic presidential nom
~ination, said ITO assume tha yrnnld
accept political preferment as d reward
for anything | might do on the bench is
to impeach my integrity ms a man and
my honor as a judge. No, sir; 1 won't
dignity the rumor BY Disgusting tn
go