The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-15
BRYAN HANDS
OUT HOT ONES
At BALTIMORE
Says If Taft's Reform Record
Were Good Endorsement
Would Be Unnecessary.
JUDGE GETS WARM AND
ATTEMPTS TO ANSWER
RAKES UP FREE SILVER AND I'M
PERIALisM AND MAKES USUAL
PROSPERITY" PLEA.

Baltimore, Md, Sept. IA few
plain, simple sentences from Mr.. Taft
will be worth more than the eulogy
that the president pronounces. The
presidents Endorsement is of no value
unless the president will agree to stay
in Washington and see that Mr.. Taft
makes good"
In these words William ]. Bryan
summed up his opinion of the letter of
President Roosevelt commendatory of
Mr.. Taft, soon after the Democratic
candidate arrived in this city.
1T was expected of course" said Mr..
Bryan, that President Roosevelt would
support Mr. Taft He could hardly do
less in view of the fact that he selected
him as the administration candidate
and supported him with all the influ-
ence that the administration could
bring 10 bear The presidents letter.
however, may be objected TO as ir-
relevant. immaterial and not the best
evidence. II Mr.. Taft were dead 1t
would be interesting to know from Mr.
Roosevelt what he knew of Mr.. Tafts
opinions and work. but as Mr.. Taft is
alive and able TO speak for himself 1t
is hardly necessary for Mr.. Roosevelt
to tell us what Mr.. Taft will do.
Taft and His Platform.
Mr. Taft is running upon platform
which is so unsatisfactory that he had
TO amend II in several important par
ticulars. and yet. even as amended. it
gives the public no definite idea as to
what Mr.. Taft stands for. Mr.. Taft
also has made some speeches and prom
Uses to make many more. The ones he
has already made have not thrown any
light upon the political situation. but II
is to be hoped that he will yet conclude
TO define his position with sufficient
clearness TO enable the public 10 know
what he stands for. II is not suf-
ficient for the president to say that Mr..
Taft is a friend of labor. That is a
subject upon which the Iaboring man
Is entitled to an opinion and Mr.. Taft's
friendship is to be determined not by
the presidents Endorsement. but by the
measures which Mr.. Taft advocates.
Mr.. Taft believes that the labor organ
ization should come under the opera
ton of the antitrust law. thus deal
ing with the men who belong to the
labor organization as if they were mer-
chandise. for the antitrust law deals
with the monopoly of the products of
labor
Taft Opposed to Jury Trial.
Mr.. Taft is opposed TO trial by jury
In cases of indirect contempt, thus de-
nying to the laboring man a safeguard
which is guaranteed 10 every man tried
in a criminal court Mr.. Taft does not
agree with the laboring man in regard
to the use of the injunction in labor
disputes. No words of praise from the
president can change Mr.. Taft's atti-
tude on this question or make that at
titude more acceptable TO the wage
earners.
Mr.. Taft's position on the trust Ques-
ton is not changed by the presidents
Endorsement The president himself
has not succeeded in putting any trust
magnates in the penitentiary. and only
n few of the trusts have been disturbed.
II Mr. Taft is no more successful than
the president in his attack on the
trusts he will not satisfy the eXpecta-
tions of the public. There are more
trusts in the country today than there
were when Mr. Roosevelt was inaug-
urated, and Mr.. Taft favors a weak
ening rather than a strengthening OF
an amendment that will limit the OPP
Grafton Of the law to unreasonable re-
straint OF trade.
Taft and the Tariff.
7 "On the tariff question, Mr.. Taft has
failed TO express hlmseIr with clear
ness. The Republican platform does
not use the word reduction II only
promises revision and Mr.. Taft has
construed that to mean that some
schedules will be lowered and some
raised. but there is no intimation that
the average will be lower or higher
than IL Is now.
"And so in regard to all the questions
which are at issue. Mr.. Taft mus
make his position known. He cannon
rely upon the presidents Endorsement
An Endorsement on a note is not neces
sary If the maker of the note is gooC
and the Endorsement is only good wheT
suit can be brought against the indorsel
10 enforce II.
Endorsement of No Value.
IF Mr.. Taft I'D reform record o.
his own he would not need to be in
dorsed by the president and the presi
dents Endorsement is of no value unles:
the president will agree TO stay il