The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-09-04
OF POLITICAL INTEREST

to the doubtful states. ..4.w
1T puts premium on reckless
banking and is an inducemeut to
reckless banking" Thus said Mr.. Taft
In response to direct question, state
what, in his opinion, is the vital oh
Election Ito the proposed plan to guar
anty deposits in national banks.
Eugne w. Chain, prohibitionist
candidate for president, in q speech
at Minneapolis, Mimi, said: IF ] am
elected president Of the United States
and inaugurated on the 18th day of
next March, | will cal aspeclal ses-
sion of the congress of the United
States the next day and, ask the MEM
bers to legislate the liquor traffic out
OF existence" :,
The prediction Of increased strength
| in the national prohibition movement
this year is based on the remarkable
gains that local prohibition has made
| in large number of states. At the
beginning of the year there were SIX
prohibition states in the uniont
Maine, Georgia, North Dakota Kan
fsas, Oklahoma and Alabama.
A monument, in the Bethel ceme-
| terry, near Montgomery; NO.. has this
memorable appeal for.s Mr.. Bryan. as
an epitah fer the late B. H, Norris
Kind friends. I've left behind, 80 I"
Castsyour vote for w. J.. Bryan. "*a, :
Sacred to the memory of B. III. Nor
ris, died April 9, 1900. Age SO years.
Arrangements for William H.sTafts
-4,,iv1 ~ oh
the G. A. R. reunion, have been conn
pleted. A special car will carry Mr..
Taft, correspondents and secretaries
and speeches will be made from the
car. platform.
On occasion to his visit to his
birthplace at Salem, ILL.,, w. j. Bryan
| was greeted by an immense crowd.
Mr.. Bryan inspected the Bryan-Ben-
fnett library given by himself and Phil
fC. S. Bennett, to the city Of Salem.
The library is built on the spot on
which was located the house in which
Mr.. Bryan was born.
William Randolph Hearst on being
asked to resign from the Iroquois club
democratic organization of San
Francisco, sent in his resignation, to-
/
ed that he was no, longer democrat
and asked the club members: Are
you 1902 democrats; OF: 1906 demo-
Ecrats, or 1900 democrats, or 1904 dem
ocrats, or are you 1908 democfatsg
Are you Cleveland democrats? Are
you Parker democrats or are you Bry-
an democrats? =" ef
A statement has, been issued by
Treasurer Haskell of the democratic
campaign committee acknowledging
S19,458 turned in to the campaign
fund by five daily newspapers and
The Commoner, Mr. Bryan's paper.
! Union labor's equation in the dem
ocratic national campaign and the
plans that have been formulated by
officers of the American Federation of
Labor to swing the labor vote to Will
| liam ! Bryan, were subject matters
of a series of conferences in Wash
ington. D. c.. between National Chair
man Norman E. Mack and Samuel
Gompers, president OF the American
Federation of Labor, Secretary Nor
rison, of the Federation, and Presi-
dent Mcconnell, Of the Machinists'
union.
Mr.. Taft is spending the week on
Middle Bass island in Lake Erie fish
ing and resting before starting on a
speech-making trip in Maryland.
A large bale of hay reached Lin
coin, Neb., from the Bryan-Bailey
club Of Forney, Texas, addressed to
the man who keeps the democratic
mule. Lincoln, Neb. 1t was delivered
to the mule who seemed to appreciate
! it.
The officials of the Georgia State
fair have written Mr.. Bryan offering
to contribute $50 week to the dem
acratic campaign fund for the privi-
lege of exhibiting the famous demo
cratic trick mule at the state falr IN
Georgia.
1t is said that in the event. of Sam
uel Gompers, president of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, making
speeches during the campaign favor
ing Mr.. Bryan, Secretary Strauss, Of
the department of commerce and Ia
Dor would answer thet arguments for
the republicans.
"If elected shall call the Sixty.
first congress together in extraordi-
nary session to revise the tariff at the
very earliest moment l have authority
to do so. / consider such action to
be my obligation under the tariff
plank of the republican platform. "
The foregoing is William H. Taft's
statement made in expressing his
views regarding the revision of the
tariff.
Mr.. Bryan will make a determined
effort to place New York state in the
democratic column. He will speak
in New York tgityI Syracuse and Ro-
chester, between September Is and
20, and early in October will. again
speak in New York city and in Buff
falo.