Evening journal., 1908-09-18


On our national committee we have
a Salisbury, at the head of the county
ticket you have a Bayard and on the
State ticket you have Gray. and since
coming here ! have learned to know
young man whom you have nominat-
ed for governor. l have come to feel
more than a general interest in his sue
cess. John Allen, of Mississippi was
once defeated for Office and one friend
asked him how he was defeated. "Well,
we did not elect the best men to Office
this year." he said, ! simply want to
remind you that we are in various
states nominating our best men for
Office this year. You have an excellent
card for the State ticket and i might
go all over this State and tell you how
Dem ocrats have been picking out their
strongest men everywhere
While I'm going to speak to you of
national issues, / want you TO under
stand that the triumphs of these men
in the various States help up to make
our fight. l insist also in the election
Of a Democratic Congress. If / am
elected shall want a Democratic Con-
gress. I should feel lonesome If the Re
publicans should control the House. But
II you elect a Democratic House the
Senate shall feel lonesome for a while.
urge upon you, therefore, the import
aroa - electing a Democratic Congress
to carry out the reforms for which you
stand. And I want to point out the
advantage you have over the Republi-
cans. Mr.. Tafts platform has not sat
isfied him. He has been amending it
since the convention and is amending
It yet. His amendments viii not be
binding TO anyone but himself, and
don't know how binding they will be on
him.
Our platform appeals to the rank and
file of the Republicans as well as TO the
Democrats. When you come to the
masses Of the people you find that their
interests are Jumped together and that
they really agree on most questions.
The trouble is that prejudice leads men
to voting contrary TO all their interests.
want TO give YOU some illustrations
Of the manner in which the Republi-
can leaders have repudiated the ideals
of Republican voters. want to show
you that Republican voters are far
nearer the leaders of The Democratic
partv in their ideals. that the rank and
| file Of the Republican party have prac-
| tically no influence in controlling their
| own party. And ] want to give you
some reasons why they have so little
influence on the politics of the nation
Twelve years ago we found out this
great contributions that were beina
made by corporations to the Republi-
can campaign fund. Many did mol
believe us in our accusations and
feel charitable to those who were moi
able to believe US. We found that in
surance companies were taking tn,
money belonging to widows and orph-
ans and were putting it into the Re
/ publican campaign fund. that emin-
emily respectable Republicans were
taking it and using II when thoy abso
lutely had no right TO use it. 1t was n
this manner that they collected inor'
than VIC coll -cted from six III aioI
Dem0crats in all our campaigns. TheI
don't forget that a Republican conven
ton by a vote OF nine 10 one rejected ;
plank for campaign fund publicity.
believe that nine-tenths of the Republi
can voters believe in publicity, yet 81
little influence had they upon the lead
ers that the leaders rejected that plank
No wonder that when Mr.. Taft rea,
our platform he tried 10 get from hi
TO ours, but got only half way. ID
you know why the Republican leader
are opposed to light in campaign mat
ters, why they prefer secrecy ant
darkness? II you want 10 know, reai
the Bible where II is said, "They low
darkness rather than light, for thei
deeds are evil" We can see that
large majority Of Republicans are witt
us on this question.
But. my friends. I want to take Vi
various other issues because we hnl
/, that the parties are at issue on sew
eral oFner important questions. Take
for instance. the question of the Re
publican party's opportunity TO liste
10 labor. You know row the Re
publican leaders and the House an
, Senate have refused. to listen. Whe
the convention met at Chicago the Re
I publican committee rejected the iabo
/ plank that had been offered as
remedy TO certain evils and the
: nominated the man most offensive {
labor men. Ii has been denied tina
. : the Republican candidate is the "fathe
Of government by injunction" II h
is not the father of government by in
junction I'll try 10 find what relatlo
he is. for he is a blood relation-I kno'
; that.
call your attention to four ques
tions on which the Democrats and Re
publicans are at ISSUE
The Democrats and the Republican
demand in their national platforms a.
employers liability act. All / care 1
saw on that is that labor men have tn
right 70 determine to which party is I
be entrusted the carrying out Of sucl
measure
But take I'D four points on whicl
the parties differ. The Democrats