Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-22
c. D. ?. IN RETREAT !?
Bryan Declares Convention
Went Back OH Roosevelt
Policies
THINKS PARTY is HANDICAPPED
commoner to Review Platform of Re-
publicans as Adopted in Chicago -
Seven Steps Backward Alleged by
Bryan = Calls it standpat conven
ton.

Lincoln, Neb., June 22 In an
vention, William j. Bryan will pro-
claim in the Commoner that Roosevelt
on reform. Under the caption In Full
Retreat he will say:
The republicans who attended the
national convention as spectators and
joined in the demonstration in favor
of President Roosevelt and Senator La
Toilette must have felt indignant as
they watched the panic stricken dele
gates running over each other In their
effort to get away from the La Toilette
reforms, some Of which had been In
dorsed by the president himself. Con-
gresham Cooper of Wisconsin, repre-
senting the La Toilette men, brought in
a minority report and one signed by
himself alone. Fifty two members Of
the committee signed the majority re-
port and one signed the minority re-
port. The republican party will find
the ratio of % to l a very embarrass-
ing one to deal with in the coming
ampaign Mr. Cooper's report con-
tanned a declaration in favor of pub
licity as to campaign funds 1t was
lost by a vote of $50 to "a, more than
advocating legislation in favor of
publicity as to campaign contributions,
and Secretary Taft wrote letter to
Mr.. Burrows advocating the passage
of publicity bill. How fortunate it
was that Secretary Taft's letter was
finally discovered and published
Publicity, Railroads and Injunction.
Senator Burrows, the man to whom
the Taft letter was addressed was the
temporary chairman of the convention,
and the convention over which he pre-
sided turned down the publicity plank
by a vote of 8 to 1.
who will deny that on this sub
ject. the republican party Is retreat
ing?
another plank of the La Toilette
platform authorized the ascertaining Of
the value of the railroads. This plank
was lost by vote of 917 to 63--nearly
Is to land yet President Roosevelt
has advocated this very proposition.
Here is a retreat on the railroad ques-
ton.
The injunction plank adopted by
the republican convention is a retreat
from the position taken by Mr.. Taft in
his speeches, altho neither of them
went as far as they ought to have gone
in their effort to preventd what is
known as government by injunction.
Here is the third retreat.
How About Income Tax?
1.-The president has advocated the In
come tax as means of preventing
swollen fortunes and of equalizing the
burdens of government. The republic
can platform is silent on the subject.
Was the president right in the position
he took? If so, then the convention
was wrong in not indorsing him. Will
the republican voters follow the presi-
dent in this just demand, or will they
follow the republican organization in
retreating from it?
"The president advocated an inherit
lance tax, but the republican conven-
ton is silent on that subject. Was the
president ahead of the republican
party in advocating this reform or has
the republican party receded from the
presidents position?
did the president give a false alarm
on this question, or has the party
sounded retreat?
TN the presidents message to con-
gress last spring, he presented an in
dictment against the conspiracy formed
among the great lawbreakers to pre-
vent the enforcement of the law and to
evade the punishment provided by law.
The platform adopted by the repub-
lican convention contains no intimation
of danger. If there are any conspira-
cies, the convention did not see them;
If there are any combinations It had
not heard of them; if there are any
dangers ahead it was unconscious of
them Was the president mistaken
when he issued his defiance, or are the
republican managers deceived when
they think that an aroused public will