Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-08-25
.APPR|SE KERN
Of NOMINATION
Indianapolis Scene
of Formal Noti-
fication
ACCEPTS WITH THANKS
Bryan Also Takes Occasion
to Deliver an Address
on the Trusts.

indianapolis, Ind, Aug. 25.--John
Worth Kern, the Democratic can.
didate for vice president of the Unit,
ed States, was notified formally today
of his nomination. The ceremonies
We're held in the deliberately decorat.
ed coliseum at the State Fair grounds
and were attended by many thousands
|of people, regardless of party affiia,
tions. The weather was ideal. The
traction lines and fourteen railroads
brought visitors on regular and spec
ial trains. Five hundred, street cars
transported the crowds from the city
to the fair grounds and back. W. j
Bryan, the democratic candidate fol
president and other speakers. mem
bers of the notification committee and
members of the Democratic national
committee, headed by Chairman Nor
man e. Mack, arrived last night and
on the early morning trains today.
"shaIl the People RuIe?'
Thomas Taggart. national commit
lteeman from Indiana. had been select
led to call today's meeting to order
Thereafter he Immediately handed the
gavel to National Chairman Mack
who introduced Theodore A. Bell. OF
california. who formally notified Mr.
Kern of his nomination Kern in his
speech of acceptance devoted some
| time to the question: "Shall the Peo
pie Rule?" He depicted what he
claimed Is excessive power in the
hands of the speaker of the House
lof Representatives and denied that
the people have ruled because he SAID
their will had not been given any no
Itice. He cited their demand for a re
duction in the tariff on white paper
and wood pulp and the failure of the
Babcock bill of 1902.
Kern charged that there is power
within the Republican party which has
determined that the people shall not
rule, which power has manifested it
self whenever an effort has been made
to check the destructive work of ln
lawful combinations, reduce the tariff
or equal the burdens by legislation
The Democratic party he said, would
| draw sharp line between lawful bus
mess lawfully conducted, and unlaw
full business, unlawfully conducted
Shows Up Other Alleged Evils.
"The President rails against swol
len fortunes continued Kern, "as 6
menace to the public welfare and as
|promOtive of evils which eat at the
heart of society. AS remedies he sug
gests an income tax and inheritance
tax. The national convention of hi:
party was silent upon this question
while the possessors of swollen for
tunes, allied as they are with the dom
inant workers of the Republican par
lty, are giving generous support to the
Republican ticket. The Democratic
party, while favoring reform measures
repudiated by the Republican nation
al convention, has another remedy. Il
would, by legislation, in a large degree
cut off the streams of money which
under the present system are flowing
from every home in the land ant
emptying into the Golfers of the
trusts. | will not at this time discuss
the several planks of the nationa
platform. indorse the platform in al
it's parts and pledge my best endeav
ors towards securing the reforms tt
which the party is by its terms com
mitted."
Thos. Marshall, Democratic candi
date for governor of Indiana, followed
Mr.. Kern and Mr.. Bryan's speech or
the trusts, followed that of Marshall