The Elbert County tribune., 1907-09-12

rarty is a deep-rooted one and is to
determine whether the party is to be
controlled by the reform element or
the standpatters.
When the name of Taft was men
toned the genial. big-hearted man laid
back in his chair and laughed the laugh
OF contentment. When he recovered
he recalled how he had started few
days ago a name for the Secretary of
War as the Great Postponer," remark
ing: "A man deserves what he earns,
doesn't he?"
Mr. Taft objects to the name gave
him." he began. But see II you don't
agree with me that he earned 1t. In
his Columbus speech he presented an
argument in favor of an income tax,
but stated that he was not in favor of
1t at this time.
The secretary believes in an inheri-
tance tax, but thinks-and he says so
that We don't need it just now.
"As he told you people here in Den
yer week ago, he favors a revision
OF the tariff, but ne says Don't touch
1t now; wait till after awhile
And in Oklahoma a short time ago
he advised the citizens to reject the
constitution and postpone statehood
until another enabling act IL passed.
And now he is on his way to the
Philippines to address the new assem-
bly,, yet he has said on various occa-
sions that the Filipinos should post
pone for generation or two the adop-
tion of home government and their as
pirations for independence. His dis
cussion on this matter shows that he
believes in colonial policy and that
he disputes the doctrines set forth in
the Declaration of Independence
While he himself seems disposed to
aequiesce in the suffrage amendments
adopted in the South, he overlooks the
fcct that the black man of the South
is better treated than the brown man
of the Philippines. The black man of
the South in our own country has the
protection of the constitutions, state
and national, while the constitution is
denied the Filipino.
Backward on Trusts.
He favors the construction put on
the antitrust law by the minority of
the Supreme Court on the merger ques-
ton, thus taking a backward step on
this most important subject of the
trusts. The law is against any merger
oil combination in restraint of trade,
but Mr.. Taft does not go as far into
the subject of the trusts as the country
did seventeen years ago. when the
Sherman act was passed.
There is only one thing he does not
want postponed, that is government by
Injunction" And here is where Mr.
Bryan replies to the attack on him by
Secretary Taft in his speech here,
when he said that Bryan did not want
to trust the laws of the country in the
hands of the people.
Referring to the objections of Secre-
tary Taft to the Oklahoma charter, he
said that Taft thinks the Judge should
be supreme, and that he regarded in
| junction superior to the jury system.
Mr.. Bryan declined to discuss at any
length the possible candidates of the
Republican party for President, and
made a sarcastic thrust, although in n
pleasant way, at the history of the Re.
publican conventions.
Is Not Prophet.
II wouldn't attempt to say what the
Republican convention will do or who
it will name for its candidates." he
said. anyone who has any regard for
his own reputation as a prophet would
not attempt to guess what a Repub-
lican convention would do. 1t is too
early to predict who will be the Re-
publican candidate for the presidency"
Mr.. Bryan took occasion to again at
tack the public utterances of the big
man of the Cabinet
In support of his optimism for the
victory of the Democratic party, he re-
ferred to three issues. the trusts. the
tariff and railroad legislation. and de-
clared that the promises of success
were greater this year than ever be-
fore and constantly improving, due, he
declared. to two causes: First, to the
growth in popularity Of Democratic
ideas. as shown by the fact that Presi-
dent Roosevelt himself has gained pop
ularity by indorsing them, and, second,
from the fact that the Democratic party
is growing more united and the Re-
publican party more divided.