Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-30
PERFORMANCE VERSUS PROMISE
Mr.. Bryan's Predictions of Past Three
Campaigns Are Reviewed.
JUDGE TALKS TO VETERANS
Presidential Candidate Delivers Ad.
dress at Athens.
JoMMENDs THEM FOR SERVICE
Glad that Country Recognizes the
Spanish War Veterans for Their
Deeds in the shorter
War.


Deeds in the shorter
War.
ATHENS, o., Aug. 2s.-wiliam H. Taft
broke away from his schedule today and
delivered an impromptu political speech
from the back platform Of his train. with
Mrs. Taft by his side in which he pitched
the campaign on the single issue: (which
party, by its works and not by It's prom
ises, has earned the confidence not only OF
capitalists, but OF the wage earners and
farmers?'
The speech was cheered by large crowd
OF residents Of Galipolis. where the Taft
t ain stopped for five minutes shortly after
O'Clock this morning
Athens gave Mr.. Taft a rousing welcome
when he later reached that place. and sew
eral thousand of its citizens made them
selves, part of the reunion of the veter-
ans of the county. now being held, and list.
ened with interest to speech by the can
dldate in which he eschewed politics and
devoted himself to the human interest of
the life of the veterans.
The exercises at Athens were embraced
in three-hours' stay, and included a
luncheon party at the home OF General
Charles II. Grosvenor, for many years a
member of congress.
The exercises were held in the city park
and after addresses the candidate was
given an opportunity to shake hands with
his hearers. Throughout the trip to Athens
there were constant demands for the ap-
pearance of the candidate on the rear plat
form and when he compiled he was cheered
and many cordial remarks hurled at him
Because Of freight wreck near Dyers-
vile on the Ohio Central the Taft train
was detoured at Gallipclis over the Hook
ing Valley road, causing a delay Of more
than an hour
Speech at GaIIopolis.
In his special speech at Gallipons Mr..
Taft said
''The campaign as 1t is developing on the
part OF our friends, the enemy, the demo-
cratic party. seems TO involve so many
issues that 1t takes a week or month to
cover them but fancy after all that one
issue which will present itself TO the voters
of this couhtry Is the questions OF conti-
dence in the one or the other Of the two
parties as to which by its works and not
by its promises has earned the confidence
not only Of the capitalist, but of the wage
earners and of tho farmers.
For twelve years we have been enioy-
ing prosperity never before equalled in
the world, and whether or not the republic
| can party brought about that prosperity,
certainly 1t made 1t possible for us 10 en-
JOY 1t so that the farmers were never more
comfortable. the wage earners never have
had higher wages nor higher standard of
| living and the business men never entoysd
greater prosperity. In the course of that
! tremendous prosperity abuses crept in and
with knowledge of those abuses the re-
| publican party undertook. as Il always has
undertaken when obstacles presented them
selves when evidence became apparent, a
remedy for those evils.
Roosevelt at the Helm.
Under that matchless republican Theo-
| dore Roosevelt the republican party has
! gone ahead to take the steps to remedy
these evils and is now In the course of
doing so. Now at this point. we have
had let-up. so TO speak, in the prosper
ity OF the country. There had been such
an expansion of capital, so great invest
ment that the capital for the time was
| exhausted and there came a lack of
confidence on the part of the investing
public, but we hope there has not been
halt In that progress in prosperity
which has been so wonderful for the last
twelve years
THE question now for the people to set
tie is whether the remedies which the
republican party has adopted and Is carry
ing out under Theodore Roosevelt shall be
| continued. whether the confidence which
the public has in the republican party
and which the business men have In the
republican party, and those who are will
| ing to invest their capital have in the re-
publican party, shall be availed OF by the
people OF this country in order to bring
H.,oI H.. snr4t,r -
whether we shall turn the government to
a party that has been doing everything
by turns and nothing long, that in 1898
proposed not a revision OF the tariff. nor
any other remedy but 10 scale down our
debts by adopting a silver dollar that was
! worth fifty cents IN order 10 bring about
a prosperity which their leader said was
impossible. He said, you remember that
unless we took free silver, wheat would
go down, and he did not have to live two
years before he saw that prophecy repudi-
ated by the facts.
Imperialism Rs BOEey.
1--WE went on and on in the face Of their
declaration OF the necessity for such a
remedy to the greatest prosperity ever
seen. And so again In 1900 we were told
that we must do something against i'm
perialism. We must avoid that destruction
to which the country was hurryny because
we were helping poor people, 10000 miles
away to get their feet in order that
they might gain the standard OF civilza-
tion, and the again in 1904 we were treated
TO another chance TO restrain Theodore
Roosevelt, because II was feared that he
would become a tyrant In this country and
would usurp all legislative and judicial
functions
These are the remedies that we have
had proposed in the past and now We are
again threatened by this party under the
leadership OF 1895 and the leadership OF
1900 which claims that by new remedies.
by new nostrums they will carry the coun-
, try 10 prosperity.
II ask you business men, ask you
, farmers. l ask YOU wage Gamers. whether
the election OF the present democTati,
party under its present leadership is not.
and " you do not feel in your hearts that
It is. a threat against prosperity, with
such a suggestion OF new remedies that
win keep capital In the pockets of the