The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-07
HAS OUTLINED REPUB ATTACK Bryan Speaks With
 Much Vigor. TRIUMPHANT IOWA TRIP Candidate Pours Hot Shot Into
 Taft. Says His Party Claims to Be . Panacea For All Ills, and
 still the Country Is

sent myself as an example of one who has outllved the venomous attacks or his opponents. You heard me called demagogue twelve years ago. You saw them bury me and you heard them chant their songs over by grave, ana now they have to explain why It nap" pened that was not dead"
 With all the fervor that he could muster William J. Bryan facing . vast assemblage in the Chautauqua Auditorium between Tama and Toledo, Iowa. to-day delivered himself of this utterance. At no time during the present campaign has he spoken so earnestly or with such vigor. Ills re- marks followed & bitter denuncIation publication of campaign contributions before election.
 No honest man and no political party conducting an honest campaign" he declared. need be afraid of the iight."'
 At woodward he heaped ridicuIe on the Republicans by charging them with credit for the growth of crops, the shining of the sun and the bring ing of rain.
 Tn fact" he said. they seize upon anything that they think gives a plausible excuse for voting the Repub- llcan ticket"
 At Maxwell. he compared the grant, ing of special privileges to case of poison in the human system.
 There has been a poison at work in our politics" he declared, and to-day it's manifestations are such that I be- lieve the American people are ready to apply the remedy, and that poison is the poison of privilege, the poison of favoritism. Our government has been run too largely in the interest of the favored"
 Draws Cheering Crowds.
 Drawing large, cheering crowds all day in the course of his travels through the State, the Democratic can didate never in better form. hurled de- tiance at his opponents and challenged them to meet his arguments.
 Fifteen speeches and handshaking with thousands constituted his days work the concluding speech being made here tonight in the auditorium, which was filled to oyerfiowlng. Pre- viously to going to tue hall. he was serenad ed at the hotel, and he address e n immensA throng from the ball cony. The Keynote Of his remarks here tonight was that Republican pol icies meant disaster while Democratic policies meant prosperity. On this subject he said:
 ''The Democratic party is absolutely necessarily to restore prosperity. The Republican party has had It's chance and 1t has failed. We are now in the midst of depression for which na- tural conditions furnish no excuse. Ar tihcial conditions are responsible for the present business prostration, and those artificial conditions originated in Republican policies. The business fail- ures for the nine months ended on September 30 were 1l.943 in number. and the liabilities amounted to $l79,- 100000. It means that If the assets are worth in fact the amount at which they are placed. there will still be a loss of $56.000.000 to account for"
 This tremendous loss comes at a time when crops are reasonably good and when nature has not withheld her bounty. It comes when the Re- publlcans are in complete control. They have a President whom they eu- loglze In their platform, a Senate com pletely in the hands of the Republi- can party and Q Republican House of Representatives dominated by des- potlc Speaker. We can assume there fore that they have done everything they could do consistently under their policies to prevent a panic, and yet the panic Is here. It comes too, when we have a tarlff so high that even the Republicans promise unequivocally to revise 1t immediately and Mir Taft has Ventured the opinion that the revision will probably be downward. What does 1t promise to do for the protec. ton of the public? What policies ha. 1t that look to restoration of pros. perlty?
 Tn fact, the failures of the last nine months exceed in number inc faiImras of the corresponding nine months of 1885 and the difference between a par ana liabilities Is greater this year than 1t was in 1893, although the total amount of the liabilities was greater in 1893 than this year. But 1t must be remembered that the Mckinley law was still in force In 1893 It was in force until the summer of 1894. The Wilson bill was not passed until the summer of 1894. The failures of that year were not as great. either in num- Der or in the amount of liabilities as they are this year. The failures of 1896 were not equal to the failures of this year in number or in amount of liabilities, and yet in 1896 the Repub- licans were talking about a Democratic panic and promising prosperity.
 A member of the British Cabinet said recently in a speech that the ex. ports of cotton goods from Lanca. shire had increased II per cent over last year. and he declared that the cotton exports of the United States 1 had fallen off 45 per cent. in the same period. If this is true. how will the | protectionists explain it?
 Can't Escape Record.
 The Republican Party cannot escape from It's record. Ii IS important to protect the public. because its policies have for theIr object. not the advance ment of the general welfare but tho enrichment of relatively small mum. Der of the people at the expense of the rest of the people. If we are to have prosperity, we must restore independ' ence in industry. The Republican Par. ty does not promise this. On the con | trary 1t pledges itself to a continua. | ton of the policies under which trust' have grown and fattened at the ex' | pense of the public
 'The Democratic Party does promis, to prevent the creation of private mo nopolies. To have prosperity we mus 1 have harmonious cooperation between labor and capital. The Republican Party does not promise this, On tho contrary it promises to continue the 1 asfraupPd lahOT and can,