The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-02-04

said that when the people found the
thieves as he called them, were in
control of the banks the depositors
naturally withdrew their money.
This started the stringency.
"Was 1t wonder that the people
would not trust their money to men
who had plundered their stockhold-
ers?" he cried
"Not bank failed through an er-
ror of Judgment on the part of its
officers." he continued. Every one
that failed was ruined through crime.
The business houses of the country
were embarrassed in order that the
gambling houses might be sustained,
held up at your expense and mine,
and launched on a new career of spec
ulation-yes, and pecnlation. The
policy OF the president is to create
a condition where this cannot recur.'
If you treat business conditions as
mystery you provide a veil to cover
fresh atrocities. The men who ask
why the president does not put the
criminals In Jail are those who would
be buying steamship tickets to for
,eign lands, II there was any prospect
of this" n lfs
Cochran stated his oRlifion. chat any
man with $4,000, ,O0ee was, beyond the
ireach of the law, tt7
THE value of this message" Cock
ran shouted in closing, sis that both
parties will square their platforms
with 1t. 1t is declaration of justice
that neither will deny, the Repub-
licaii.s because they dare not, the
Democrats because they don't want
to.
IT Is a crusade te- which the pres
lident has invited us and there is but
one crusader on the Republican side.
lie has voluntarily disqualified him
self. don't think that, even the
most enthusiastic of his friends would
call Speaker Cannon a crusader, Sem
ator Knox of Pennsylvania is no
Godfrey of Bouillon. Even the dis
tinguished gentleman picked for a
success or to the president himself is
a judge, and 1t is not the judicial
temperament which is demanded I'm
this crisis, a,rs
But we. the Democrats. have a
icrusader. have opposed him before
ana may oppose him again, but 7
Deheve condition has arisen which
makes him now the foreordained
champion of law and order"
Cochran then proceeded TO nav, an
eoquent tribute to Bryan. His
speech was cheered continually ON
ooth sides OF the house while he dis
Ioussed President Roosevelt and the
Democratic side went wild over his
.uiscussion OF Bryan. Cochran con-
ciudeu by quoting Pope JIpban,s mot
10 ior The first crusade:an"G Wills
'Hhe political debate was opened bv
Mr. townsend of Michigan who. in
prepared speech claimed for the
Ihepubiican party credit for all ma
tional legislftion N the last f,Stv
years OF vital interest To the publIc
fie was not, he said, defending the
present administration
ut needs no defense with Amar,-
can people," he said. ats records
WAN illumine the pages of United
states history and mark an epoch In
popular government" He declared
that the students of the future would
point 70 1t "as the period when the
people came into possession of their
own by establishing facts TIE thereto
Tore theories of republic whereby
federal law Is enactSd for no class
or .,s financial conditi9n. bBAfor all THO
uoESDry siittle wliiIeodiRe csafdl Id
heasti efosead N so,hs tyQnRaAAks kyl
ting. that the rate bin tii1 nantfu.tfngt
law and the enforcement 1iof them
were OF Democratic origin; that Re-
lpublicans had stolen Democratic
Ithunder; that President Roosevelt,
ITO use classical expression OF
lSir. Bryan," had been wearing Bry-
JAMS $3.50 clothes Ordinarily he said
lbe had not thought It Wise to notice
lthese things, but the statements had
been made SO loud and 90 long that
|some OF the younger generation might
believe them "and the Democrats