The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-09-23
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was the topic of discussion the rest
of the time.
Wide Open Campaign Promised
With William r. Hearst reading let
ters that have caused Senator Foraker
and Governor Haskell to hurry out
emphatic replies, with Mr.. Bryan and
President Roosevelt challenging each
other, Mr.. Taft's efforts to enliven the
campaign suffered not in comparison
with the strenuous efforts of the 9TH
ers to wake things up"
His address was the third one of the
day and was made at the meeting of
the National League of Republican
clubs.
Before his evening address Mr.. Taft
had made short addresses to the dele
gates in the morning, urging upon
them the need of club organization in
campaign. Then later he spoke to
the delegates of the negro national
Baptist convention, in session at Lex
ington, KY, the members of which
came to Cincinnati to see the repub-
1ican candidates.
Both these speeches were very short.
Mr.. Taft had reserved his full fire for
lH0 evening anu IHen ne turned II To-
ward the Nebraskan.
Discusses Bryan by Contrast.
The Bryan feature of Mr.. Taft's
speech came as the conclusion of a
10000 word address, in which the ac-
complishments and purposes of the
republican party were contrasted with
what the speaker termed the demo-
cratic record of opposition and prom
Use.
Turning now to the other picture"
said Mr.. Taft after his review of the
issues, what is it that we have to ex-
pect from Mr.. Bryan? Have we any
thing to expect but what is based
upon his eloquence and his adroitness
as a public critic? Has he ever given
any practical demonstration of his
ability to meet problems and solve
them?
| Has he ever done anything but for
mulate propositions in his closet OF
an utterly impracticable character,
largely with view to attracting votes
by their plausibility, and very little
with a view to their operation? BY
| their fruits We shall know them
| Calls Opponents Record Failure.
What is the history of Mr.. Bryan
| 1t is from beginning to end, record
| find him first in congress, in the sec.
ond administration of Mr.. Cleveland
a member of the ways and means com
mittee, and most active in formulat
| ing the provisions of the German VIII
son tariff bill. After five months de
bate, it passed both houses and cam,
to Mr.. Cleveland in such a shape tina
he denounced it as a piece of perf1dy.
1T leveled the industries of thi
| country to the ground. It threw on
of employment millions of wage earn
ers. 1t destroyed all business profit
Farm products, for lack of market. fel
to a point never so low in forty years
Coxey's army marched from the ives
to Washington to protest against
government under which such thing
were possible.
Defeated AOnIy Great Democrat
After having assisted in this sui
cidaI policy after the country VIZ
nearly dead, after the farmers and tn
wage earners were staggering unde
debt and mortgage, penury and almos
starvation, Mr.. Bryan defeats the eff
: forts of the only great democrat the
have had in the party for many year.
. of failures on public questions. w
Grover Cleveland, and hurls at hir
billingsgate and denunciation, for wha
reason?
Because he opposes Mr.. Bryan's pc
hobby, that of the free coinage of sill
yer without the consent of any othe
nation"