Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-23

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 Nominee Reviews Career of His op- ponent and States Why He Thinks lt
 Would Not Do to Put tho Nsbraskan
 In the Presidential Chair.
 Cincinnati, Sept. 23.-The real activ. tiles of the campaign have begun for | William II. Taft. Three political ad- ! dresses were the demands made on him during his last day in Cincinnati before starting on his western trip. He was the principal feature of the | rally of the National League of Re 1 publican Clubs at Music hall. The at- tendance at Music hall equaled the capacity, and 1t is the largest assem- bly hall in the city. Those who spoke besides Mr. Taft were President John Hays Hammond of the League of Re publican Clubs, Rev. John Wesley Hill, pastor of the Metropolitan temple, New York, and Job Hedges, an attor- ney of New York.
 Hammond Reelected.
 John Hays Hammond was reelected as president of the Republican Ma tional league. Harry H. Myers of Lit tie Rock, Ark; w. w. Heffenfinger of Minneapolis, Minn.; Winston Churchill of New Hampshire and John Albus of St. Joseph, Mo-, were made vice presi- dents.
 Mir. Taft said in part:
 What is the history of MT. Bryanf It is from beginning to end record of failures on public questions. We find him first in congress in the second ad- ministration of Mir. Cleveland, mem Der of the ways and means committee and most active in formulating the provisions of the German Wilson tariff bill. After five months debate 1t passed both houses and came to Mir. Cleveland in such shape that he de- nounced 1t as piece of perfdy. It leyeled the industries of this country to the ground It threw out of employ ment millions of wage earners. It de stroyed all business profit. Farm prod ucts for lack of a market fell to point never so low in forty years. Coxey's army marched from the west to Washington to protest against a government under which such things were possible.
 Refers to Cleveland.
 After having assisted in this sui cidal policy, after the country was nearly dead, after the farmers and the wage earners were staggering under debt and mortgage, penury and almost starvation, Mir. Bryan defeats the ef- forts of the only great Democrat they have had in the party for many years, Grover Cleveland, and hurls at him Billingsgate and denunciation for what reason? Because he opposes MT. Bry- ans pet hobby, that of the free coinage of silver without the consent of any other nation.
 Tn that campaign Mir. Bryan proph- esied that the continuation of the gold standard meant uncertainty in employ ment of labor and hardship to the wage earner; that it would send down the price of farm products-wheatb be- low 30 cents, corn below 30 cents and oats to 5 cents He did not have to live two years to see every prophecy that he made in that campaign refuted by facts.
 ''Then there came on the campaign of 1900 In that campaign he still ad- hered to his free silver fallacy and still went about the country trying to ex- plain why it was that the continuation of the gold standard had not. resulted in the disasters which he had prophe- sled. But, lest the issue of free silver had become a little shopworn, he brought out as a paramount issue that of anti-imperialism. He announced that if he were not elected in the next election patriotism would have ceased to be In this country, the celebration of the Fourth of July would become a memory and that liberty would die.
 Lauds the President.
 'At the end of the next four yeare Mir. Parker was nominated. Mir. Bry- an still insisted on inserting in the platform clause in favor of free sil- yer. but 1t was left out. He then join ed with Mir Parker in making the par amount issue the tyranny of Theodore Roosevelt, executive usurpation and militarism.
 ''The prophecies which Mir. 3ryan made with reference to the warlike tendencies of MT. Roosevelt and to his subjection to corporate influence he had only to wait, as he had to wait in