Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-09-28
BY WILLIS j. ABBOT.

Light on ramouS observation-disclosures
cratic Outlook In the East.
BY WILLIS j. ABBOT.
Certainly never was 4 national cam
onigu opened SO tardily or pressed so
1azily. This criticism applies equally
% the Republican and the Democratic
organizations. Two hundred yards
.fcom the room in which | am writing
ere the western headquarters of the
Hepuhlican rational committee. estab-
jshod with fine comprehension of
che fitness of things In the Harvester
building owned by the harvester
trust. \ Whole floor of this building
lis occupied 10y the "branch" headquar-
.tcTs. 1t is populated by typewriters
and clerks, who sit all day swapping
stories and smoking cigarettes. About
once In ten days the itnerant Hitch
cock drops in. looks wise, gives out
an encouraging interview and rushes
forth to Hot Springs or the Middle
Bass club. Skeptics do say that this
lethargy in the Republican headquar-
ters in Chicago is like the sleeves Of
Al Sins poker jacket planned with
intent to deceive"
Of the two rival organizations the
Democratic committee has made the
greater advance. Its press bureau has
been In active operation for q month,
though it may properly be said that the
national press bureau of Washington,
though wholly unofficial, began under
my management this same work not
iess than two years ago. The bureau
Of organization under the direction Of
Hon. John w. Tomlinson Of Alabama,
has made notable progress in the or
sanitation Of clubs throughout the
country. And apropos Of this matter Of
club organization l wish here to urge
all who desire to cooperate with the
national committee to communicate
with Mr.. Tomlinson at the headquar-
4, ers IN the Auditorium Annex, this city,
AID receive the necessary instructions
n1li blanks.
\ rinancier's View.
Don't let the big" bankers or the
great metropolitan newspapers" which
glnll chestnuts from the fire for those
BANKS delude you with the idea that
s.sN financierS are against the Demo-
a.Yatic plan for the guaranty Of bank
ssisposits. For example, the president
III the Bankers National bank of Kan
et~as City, Kan, addressed some time ago
setters to all the bankers Of Kansas.
asking their opinion of the plan. Up to
-.Ang 23 127 bankers had replied. OF
These eighty seven, or three-fourths,
rrere In favor of the plan; seventeen
were noncommittal. and only twenty
I'VE were opposed to 1t. No wonder the
Republican state convention In open
, defiance of the Republican national
, ssobvention, adopted it as its own.
But more. In statement to the
New York Times Mr.. George II. Coffin,
y former deputy comptroller Of the
tcnrrency, takes sharp issue with that
yryaper on it's attitude toward the plan
tfor protecting the peoples savings. AS
TO the authorship of the measure he
AIOle:
And Mr. Bryan IL not the only advocate.
Tor at the last session of congress Mr..
Fowler, Republican chairman of the COM
srnittee on banking and currency. intro
sllced bill 1851, which provided for the
guarantee OF all lnulVlQudl deposits, HI
bank notes, all bank deposits and all gov
.rnment deposits without discrimination
,r preference" This bill was referred to
The banking and currency committee.
with its Republican majority, and by 1t
Havorably reported to the house on Feb.
q. 1908. So Mr. Bryan is not unique in
his advocacy of this bank deposit guar
anty idea
What Mr.. Bryan, Mr.. Fowler merchants
and depositors generally want Is some
xhing which will prevent a repetition OF
1he financial catastrophe of last October
when the business Of the whole country
was Frustrated. You say that mot a sin
81 3epositor Ia any New York bank lost
9Uy tning by the "enbarra ssment" Of last
, Ca:f1ber, but how long did these depositors
sfsAre their funds tied up where they
. rGDlo not use them? And who can meas
re the suffering and hardships caused by
rhe huge bank failures in New York city
1ast fau2
Why the West RevoIts.
This issue has made its greatest adj
rance in tie great agricultural states
iof the middle west. TO one who has
studied the history of the govern
snent's action during the twelve days
bank panic Of October, 1907, the rea-
son for this western acclaim Of sys-
tenn which will enable the depositor
80 get his money when he wants 1t Is
easily explicable,
Senator Gore Of oklahoma, who, l
am told at the speakers bureau of the
prt'nnal committee IS the speaker most
in demand u.,-l .,lr. Bryan, has tray
FL : CT 80 $50 turing the course Of
Ibis political bnttle. But Gore Is not
only an orator; ne Is a very keen OBJ
server OF political conditions. This
my seem strange thing to say OF q
aDan who through accident has been
deprived of his rycslght since he was
eleven years CID. But observation does
not always proceed through the sight
In all other respects Senator Gore Is
beyond ana above the average capacity
OF men for judging Of a political sltua-
1ion. Robust and self reliant, he travels
all over the United States alone, car
Lnx for himself And so wnen hi