Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-15
URGES OPPONENT TO TALK
''Let Him Take the People Into His
Confidence.
INTERPRET HIS PLATFORM"
Democratic Standardbearer Denies
Abandonment of Issues, Makes
Comparison and Asks Questions.

will not be permitted to run away
from them. He has accepted the
nomination of his party. Now let
him take the people into his con-
dence and interpret his platform
so that the public will know where
he stands and what he intends to
do.-WILLIAM J. BRYAN.
PHILADELPHIA, September 15.-In a
long interview given out on the train be-
tween Baltimore and Philadelphia today
w. J.. Bryan made a hot retort to Tafts
statement of yesterday.
He accuses Taft of lodging and says
that Taft knows as little about my rec
ord as he does about the public questions
which he is attempting to discuss" He
read Tafts utterances printed this morn
ing and dictated retort which is in part
as follows:
Taft is lodging. Instead of defining
his position on public questions he is in
quiring about my record. and in his in
quiry he shows that he knows as little
about my record as he does about the
public questions which he has attempted
to discuss He accuses me of being
changea BILE and of abandoning issues"
Bryan Defends Record.
Bryan said he has been a tariff re-
former for twenty-eight years, has advo-
Gated the election Of senators by the peo-
ple for twelve years and has been favor
ing an income tax for fourteen years. and
Taft Is only now coming around 10 MS
position on these questions.
Continuing, he said: II said in 1893 that
the Filipinos ought to have their indie
pendence. Taft has this year admitted
that the people must ultimately have IN
dependence. 1 have maintaneo my po-
sition.
IL have also discussed the Philippine
question in this campaign and called at
tention to the fact that Taft made mis-
take of s114.OO0,OOO IN his estimate OF the
cost of imperialism.
..On the railroad question he has ex-
messed himself az strongly as l have
He has said. and the President also mas
said, that government ownership Will
follow If the railroads prevent resuia-
ton. have said the same thing.
IT do not desire government ownership
I hope that the railroads will permit
regulation Our position only diners In
that ne has more faith than l have In
the willingness OF the railroads 10 DC
regulated.
Conditions ARE Cnangeo.
He spends some time on the money
question The money question has
been taken out Of politics because the
unexpected discoveries Of gold have
given the increase which was demanded
by the republican party as we'll as by
the democratic party.
Taft cannot escape from the issues:
Will he define his position on the tarin
question, on the labor question. on the
trust question and on the other issues
that are presented in this campaign?
He will not be permitted to run away
from them.
III he prefers to delve into the past.
emit. will he explain the Benguet rail-
road in the Philippines and the =. per- r.
fasten upon the FiIipinos with a per-
petual guarantee Of income to the cor cor,
he explain his record on the labor ques-
ton and his silence on the tariff aues-
ton and the trust question during his
oASc}a1 service a WaShin 0tOn2"