The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-08

thhs prOpO0itiOn. l would quote Mayor David & Rose. of Milwaukee:
 The determination of the Roosevelt family" says Mir. Rose. "and their so- cfal associates to control the govern ment for an indefinite period is anus ing because it cannot be carried into effect. The greater part of MT. Roose- velt's last administration has been de- voted to an effort to elect his own suc- cessor. Mr. Taft is announced as the inheritor Of the Roosevelt strength.
 Now comes the presidential son-in- law to inform an interested public that the proposition is for Mir. Taft to serve two terms and then for Mir. Roosevelt to return in grandeur from long tour of foreign lands and be the candidate in 1916. If the plan thus outlined by Mir. Longworth be. car ried into effect why. after Mir. Roose- welt has served his two terms after 1s1s. should he not put his son-in-law in as his sucessor2"
 Judge Charles B. Waite of Illinois sends me summary in which he points out that of twenty-two Republican National delegates from Alabama. fff- teen were Federal office holders; of ten from Florida. seven were Federal office holders; of twenty-six from Geor- gia, thirteen were Federal office hold CTS. of six from Delaware three were Federal office holders. And the fol- lowing table sheds further light. Delegates. State officeholders. 20...... Mississippi -. ..... .....7 IS. ..... Arkansas =. =. ........S 24....... North Carolina. =. .. 10 24..- Tennessee =. ........ 8 S6. .-..... Texas. ..... .......... .12 24 s..}., Virginia ...... ... .....S
 Does not this seem something like pernicious activityeon the part of the oficeholding body of the nation? The presence of so many men owing their jobs to a president who had selected his own successor certainly did not add deliberative character to a conven- ton gathered nominally to choose that successor.
 After eleven years the. Globe Saw ings Bank of Chicago has been wound up by the receiver. The depositors get 53 Ia cents on the dollar How many depositors who had their money in the bank when 1t failed are dead? The receivers report does not specify.
 There were $500 depositors. There were $400.00 of deposit liabilities. II cost to wind up the banks affairs .$S3,- 7S6. But this expense does snot com pare to the expense and suffering to which the depositors were put in wait ing eleven years for little over halt their money. If the Oklahoma plan lHe pAdH pIcSSSQ Uy NIDs DEy van, i1au been in effect, the depositors would have been paid as rapid as they pre- scented their checks.
 The bank carried down another with it. and the depositors in each have waited long years for their money and have received only a part of 1t. ofi- cers of the wrecked banks have been sent to the penitentiary when they did not evade that fate by committing suicide. Stockholders have suffered enormous losses. Now. had the State banks of Illinois been under law com pelled to maintain safety fund or a guaranty fund to protect the deposi- tors, Is 1t not altogether probable the distress, criminality and suffering would have been averted?
 Judge W. J. Thomas. of Colorado an active worker in politics. called on Saturday at the Democratic National headquarters and said Colorado would give not less than 15t000 plurality for Bryan and Kern. He declared the whole State was wild with enthusiasm over Bryan. the man and the candt- date.
 eve Democrats offer Bryan as the type for which the manhood of Colo rado should stand" he asserted. "and present Guggenheim as the boss and leader of the Republican Party"