The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-27

played America" the crowd sang the
national air
Mr.. Bryan stepped to the platform
ran without Introduction and waited
Tor the demonstration to cease. When
quiet was restored Mr.. Bryan began
speaking.
Notwithstanding the strain of the
campaign his voice was in good con-
dition and he was heard in all parts
of the immense hall.
Il expect to be in Washington after
March 4" he said. 81 am glad to be
encouraged by the reports that come
from your city and your state"
He pleaded for Democrat congress
to help frame the remedial legislation
which the Denver platform demanded
and said it would be possible TO send
to the senate measure after measure
land with a majority of the American
people behind us we can demand that
the senate submit to the will of the
people expressed at the polls" Mr..
Bryan once again took occasion to
urge the election of Mr.. Chanler and
the entire Democrat state ticket.
Continuing Mr.. Bryan said
81 have watched the progress of this
campaign. / want now as the cam
paign is drawing to a close TO Leave
with you some thoughts 1 believe
worthy of your consideration before
you vote charge that the Republic
can leaders no longer lead the Repub-
lcan voters. I believe that our plat
form better EXPIRE sses the real desire
of a majority of the Republicans of
the United States than their desire is
expressed in the Republican plat
FORM
He called attention to what he said
was the departure of the Repuplcan
leaders from the ideals of the early
Republicans. 1.-THE Republican party
has claimed to be the party of moral
ity." he declared; sit has claimed TO
express the conscience of the nation.
= ,fcTa, ,1~fac-e re
the moral sentiment of the country and
betrays the conscience of the Ameri-
can people. There is a great question
of conscience before the American
people. It is honesty in politics. You
can not have honest government with
out honest politics and the Democratic
party is inaugurating a new era in
American politics. The investigation.
the disclosures, the revelations have
shown what enormous campaign funds
have been secretly collected and cor
ruptly used and an awakened people
demanded tha- that should stop"
Taking up the presidents letter re-
gardtng labor Mr.. Bryan said the
president criticised Mr.. Gompers the
other day for criticising the court 81
submit" he declared chat Mr.. Com
pers has never criticised the courts
more severely than President Roose-
Welt himslf has criticised the courts"
The Democratic candidate charged
that the president was now issuing
daily bulletin assuring the people that
Mr. Taft was the friend of labor.
Cites Taft Labor Decision.
Here is something that I hope will
engage his attention for the rest of
the campaign. 1t is a decision rem
dered by him in the case of Thomas
VS. the Cincinnati, New Orleans &
Texas Pacific railroad. In that case
Mr. Taft rendered a decision authoriz-
ing the receiver to make a cut of ten
In, Of the rai1vVa U
employees and he rendered that de-
cision in 1894. when the same ques-
ton came before other judges. The
same question came before Judge
Callwell and he refused to authorize
a cut of ten per cent in the wages of
the employees and when these en-
ployes who were affected by Judge
Taft's decision made application to
have wages restored to their former
amount. Mr.. Taft, in rejecting their
application used this language:
Their appeal is exactly like that
of an appeal from an employe to an
employer. except that while the en-
ployer may be moved by considera-
ton of charity. court is limited in the
exercise of its discretion to such ac-
ton as may be consistent with the
preservation of the property and its
due administration in the interest of
those who own it,.
"He denied these men any legal
right to appeal. and merely without
setting a precedent permitted them to
state their case and then informed
them that an ordinary employer
might as a matter of charity hear
them and heed them. but that in his
court he had to consider the questions
of property"
The candidate elected wild enthus-
iasm when he said that in the west
Mr.. Taft was running on his amend
ments to the Chicago platform while
in the east he was running on the
original platform.
''In the east" he said. che is a mar
cotic; in the west he is a stimulant.
In the west he is pledged to reform
in the east it is such-such-such? %
Mr.. Bryan closed with a bitter
denunciation of the president for as
he said making himself a dictator"
II aspire to the presidency" he said,
"the Office was held by Washington
and by Jefferson. by Jackson and
Lincoln and if 1 take it I want to take
It with those sacred traditions still
clinging to it.
II do not want it thrown into the
arena of politics and made a football
between the parties"
Bryan Is Pleased
Mr. Bryan said that to him the
meeting was one of the most interest
ing of the campaign.
There is not only necessity for la
bor," he declared "Dut there is
dignity in labor. l believe that the
time will come when public sentiment
will put the badge of disgrace not
upon the man who with brains or
muscle contribute to their nation S
welfare. but upon the man who is
willing to spend in idleness the money
that some of them have made"
He maintained that the government
that rested upon the convictions OF
the people was the strongest possible
government. The people, he said
could govern themselves and he as
serted that the progress was con-
stantly toward a larger participation
by the people in their own govern
mont
IF" he said amid great cheering
81 have gained a place in your con-
fidence. it is simply because 1 have
taken you into my confidence. If you
are willing to trust me. it is only be-
cause l have shown my Willingness tC
trust you. 1 do not say that the peo-
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