Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-14
CONVERT PRICKS
TAFT BUBBLES
PROF. HANDLEY TELLS WHY
HE'S FOR BRYAN
SAYS McLACHLAN OUGHT TO
LOSE HIS JOB
Bank Guarantee and Other Planks
Appeal to Intelligent Voters
and Will Win the
Election

Prof. Loren Handley of the chair Of
philosophy at Occidental college, a con-
yerted Republican, talked to a large
audience last night at the Bryan wig
wan on Hill street.
Prof Handley comes from Indiana
and Iowa, and many Republicans from
those states heard him last night.
Joseph Simons introduced the
speaker, first calling attention to the
insult offered the machine by Herrin-
Parker in the plan of sending Governor
Gillett down here to tell men how to
vote.
The tell-tale photograph of Gillett
and Ruef at the banquet where Harri-
man nominated Gillett for governor q
year before the convention was still
| fresh in the peoples mind, he said.
The other point Mr.. Simons made was
that the Democrats stand ready, should
they win only a minority in the legis-
lature, to aid the Republicans if they
nominate a clean, machine-free candi-
date for senator to run against Per-
kins.
Takes Taft to Task
Prof. Handley plunged into his talk
as soon as he had been presented.
"Mr. Taft showed the least mental
acumen when he said that the bank
guarantee plank would increase reck-
less speculation.
"Mr. Fowler of New Jersey, a Repub-
| lican, met many objections when the
| guarantee plan first came up. He said
that occasionally in some places reck-
| lessness may be increased, but, he
added, does it sound reasonable that a
banker would go before his directors
and say: Now our deposits are insured;
let's make some rotten DEAL
Let the government guarantee the
deposits and Uncle Sam will have a
watchdog over the banks.
"Mr. Taft says the plank will drive
every honest banker out of business.
| The presumption is it won't make any
| difference to him whether you people
who have money on deposit are driven
out of business or not.
'Mr. Taft has not yet persuaded me
| that bankers as a class are all robbers
and thieves. 1t is true they are obliged
to connive at gambling in Wall street,
but that is the fault of the banking
system, not the men. The Democratic
| platform suggests the remedy.
81 think Mr.. Bryan is right. The
banking system is not the end, but the
means to an end. If the means are not
right they must be changed.
$50" for Perkins
81 guarantee that if California had q
direct voice in the matter Senator Per-
kins would not be reelected.
| when Abe Ruef was charged with
paying port inspector $4,000 to SNUG
| gle 1000 Chinese female slaves 1 think
Senator Perkins said he knew Mr.. Rue1
to be a man of such high character
that he could not be guilty of such {
thing. wonder if Mr.. Perkins still hai
dust in his eyes.
1--WE come to the tariff question now
81 confess that the Republican pre-.
sentation has been shrewd enough tC
| deceive the ordinary voter. 1t no long
| er comprises the thinkers.
| political economists pronounce
against it. There was but one argu-
ment in its favor, the infant industry
Yet you don't hear much on that line
any more. The steel trust, for instance,
is not so much of an infant any more.
"They said Democrats were about to
bring, destruction on the fruit industry,
| but we have shown the reverse is true.
Why Not Tax Bananas?
"I was almost moved to tears as Sem
| ator> Dolliver of Iowa last night painted
how the California congressman spent
their nights studying how to save that
industry. Why, my friends, California
| is in no danger from the Democrats
But do you know that last year the
Republicans allowed $11,000,0e0. almost
half the value of our orange crop, to
come into the United States free OF
duty? Then they talk about saving
our fruit industry.
Gov. Cummins of Iowa said that
all of the robberies of all the insurance
companies put together in all the his
! tory of the business do not equal the
robberies in a single year under the
| Dingley law.
iowa is an agricultural state
grew up on farm, and it is a grand
place for any young man.
'"They told us that crops grew better
| because of that Dingley bill.
''They told us that because crops
were piled along the tracks owing to a
lack of cars that it was merely Repub-
lican prosperity.
/ "I have heard the argument repeat
| edly that because of the protective
| tariff our wheat has been given a great
place in the markets of the world. The
| tariff merely makes us pay more for
what we buy, hence I fail to see the
connection.
Everything, they say, rests on the
tariff. Everything I could ever earn
is resting in somebody's hands.
"My friends, the industries that have