The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-10-07
Iowa Congressman Speaks
At Gary Last Night and
Shows How Republican
Party Is the One For Gary
To Adopt.
.FLAYS BRYAN
BANK DEPOSIT PLAN
Speaker Shows Up the Inconsistency
Of Democratic Demands as Shown
By Their Work in the House of
Representatives as to Bank Guar
anty.

Congressman Walter l. Smith made
big hit at the republican meeting
which was held in the Binzenhof hall
in Gary yesterday evening. In the
course of his remarks Congressman
Smith told how the democratic party
has had the faculty of coming around
and endorsing the republican policies
four years after they had been adopted
by that party. He said the democratic
party was like the lightning bug:
The lightning bug Is brilliant
thing;
1t hasn't any mind;
1t wanders through this world OF
ours.
With its headlight on behind"
Mr.. Smith spoke to good-sized
crowd. considering the fact that the
meeting had not been advertised ex-
tensively. There were in the neigh
borhood of 500 people in the hall when
Judge Virgil S. Reiter introduced the
speaker
The Iowan was in.s Happy frame of
mind. kept his audience in good humor
during the WHOLE evening. Speaking
of TIE tariff policy of the republican
Party. he said that he admired the pa
triotism of German. who said: AIer-
many shall make goods for everybody
but nobody shall make goods for the
Germans
He impressed his hearers with the
| fact that the protective policy is es-
pecially important to the people of
Gary, where the steel industry is to be
protected.
Speaking about the recent financial
troubles. he said that panics, all of
them, were due to the American tend
ency to speculate. He spoke of the
panics of 81, 81, '73, SO and 'OS
He showed conclusively that panics
will come no matter what administra-
ton is in power. but the difference is
that republican panics are never as pro-
! longed and never cause as much suffer
ing as those in democratic administra-
tions. for the reason that the republi-
can party has never adopted any ruin
Gus policies to destroy confidence. AS
| an example of the destructive demo
cratic panics which were not ended un-
til the republicans got back in power
he pointed to the one in 10 and the
one in '0S.
He said that the people grew rest
less and wanted a democratic admin
istration and so they elected Cleve-
land. He said that before they got
through with him they were a weary
chastened. repentant" people.
Mr.. Smith showed up the false posi-
ton of the democratic party on the
guarantee of national bank deposit!
better than any speaker that has Wis
tied this region.
He said that during the last congress.
the republicans introduced a currenc!
bill which was to correct certain de
fects in our currency system and make
it more elastic. John Sharp Williams
representing the democratic minorit.
in the house. prepared a bill with thu
advice of the leading democrats of thu
country and William Jennings Bryan
himself.
The democratic measure containe'
the very provisions for the guarante
of national bank deposits which the.
now have incorporated in their plat
form. But when the republicans CAV
them a chance to substitute their bill
for the one which the republicans ha
prepared, six democrats voted to sub
stitute, twenty-nine voted against tn
Williams Bryan measure. and ninety
two voted present. Which meant tina
! they did not have an opinion in tn
matter.
Two of these democrats came fror
Indiana. Mr.. Smith then f1ayed a part
which had ninety-two members in tn
house which did not have an opinio
on as important a measure as the on
which had bee recommended by vii
] liams and Bryan. Ninety-two demo
7 Gratis in congress who simply vote
5 PRESENT Such men will be absent i
l the next session of the legislature
r the people know what they are abou
( He said the democrats in the last ses
: sion of congress wanted a campaig
/ publicity bill. but when it was propose
to attach a rider bill to it. deprivIn
the southern democrats of fifty seat
/, in the house, which represented dis
: franchised negroes, they refused
vote for it.
Mr.. Smith said the democratic In
!, clination to try everything i'm the wa
of an issue that might elect william
Jennings Bryan to the presidency, we
0 like the young man who spent til
e whole of his grandfather's estate tr,
8 ing to discover some brand of whisk
e that would taste good coming U
n as it did in going down.
il ARE YOUR STORING A LOT O
e UNUSED THINGS ABOUT you
s HOUSE OR oFFICE-THINGS THAT
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