Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-03-20

that was that delegates should go in
structed to the convention. Not only
that, but they should be delegates in
harmony with the will Of the people
supposedly the Bryan idea-and the
campaign should be led by those who
wanted to see the party win.
Carter II. Harrison, president Of the
Bryan league, which managed the rally.
introduced Mr. Bryan. Mr.. Harrison
expressed the utmost confidence that
Mr.. Bryan would lead the party to final
victory.
said:
Let us take another party man
Governor Hughes. If you will read his
speeches you will find that they are
general when they come to the discus
sion of remedial legislation and earnest
when they refer to possible injustice
to the corporations. He is just now
finding fault with fines-whether he
has in mind the $290OOOo0 fine or 9TH
er fines. l don't know. He speaks Of
the injustice to the stockholders: and
yet what has he said about the injus-
tice that the stockholders have permit
ted the corporation to work against
the general public for a generation?
the Standard Oil trust, and the Steel
trust, and the other trusts? The fact
that Governor Hughes seems more
anxious to prevent injustice to few
stockholders than to a much larger
number of consumers indicates the
point of view from which he looks at
public questions.
His veto of the Q cent fare bill Is
another illustration. He gave the bene-
fit of the doubt to the railroad instead
of giving 1t to the people, altho he
knew that the railroads could protect
themselves from injustice in the courts,
even after he signed the bill. whereas
the people had no recourse to courts
when he vetoed the bill.
Let me give you third illustration.
Take the attitude of Secretary Taft
on the subject of corporations. What
has he done or is he doing to protect
the public from the misuse of corpor-
ate power? What specific legislation
does he demand for the determination
of the trusts? None. On the contrary,
he found fault with my statement that
the private monopolies should be
He insisted that 1t should
not be eliminated. but simply con-
trol1ed, and yet he must know that
there are several trusts any one Of
which could afford to contribute ten
times as large a campaign fund as
could be collected from all individual
to campaign fund.
"GHv, t,<&
the tariff question he is much more
concerned about a republican victory
than he is about tariff reform. Not
the gross injustice which
ne must know to exist. he is not will
ng that single schedule shall be dis
.urbed at present. and he knows that
he republicans have promised before
zach election to make whatever re-
'orm was necessary only to say after
election that no reform was necessary
Sees Hope in Democracy.
Mr. Bryan then quoted from govern
nent reports to show that Mr.. Taft, A.,
when he was governor of the Philip |,
pine islands, was willing to grant a
perpetual franchise to railroad, and
vas willing after he became secretary
If war to authorize the commission to
make a perpetual guarantee of income
% railroad.
IF he would be willing" asked Mr.
Bryan, Ito bind the Filipinos forever
o fixed profit on railway enter
Prise, how would he be willing to bind
he American people in corporate mat
ers? I
The trouble is that Secretary Taft
ooks at public questions from the
standpoint of the men who own and
perate the corporations which need