The Colorado statesman., 1908-08-29
kern ACCEPTS
NOMINATION
FORMAL NOTIFICATION BY DEM.
ocRATIc COMMITTEE AT
INDIANAPOLIS.
BRYAN ALSO SPEAKS
POWER IN THE REPUBLICAN,
PARTY DETERMINED THAT THE
PEOPLE SHALL NOT RULE.

Indianapolis.-John Worth Kern,
Democratic candidate for vice presi-
dent, was notified formally Tuesday
of his nomination by the national con-
vention at Denver and accepted the
honor in a speech to $4,000 people.
The notification speech was made
by Theodore A. Bell of California,
chairman of the committee selected at
Denver to officially inform Mr.. Kern.
William ]. Bryan, candidate for
president, was present and spoke at
length on the subjects of trusts.
The meeting was called to order by
Thomas Taggart, member of the ma
tional committee from Indiana, who
relinquished the gavel to Norman E.
Mack of Buffalo. chairman of the ma
tional committee, who presided
throughout the meeting
Twenty members of the notification
committee represented as many states
at the meeting. Special trains on the
railroad and traction lines brought the
crowds here, and 500 street cars were
used TO transport the people to and
from the fair grounds. The day was
Ideal. Crowds lined the streets. and
Bryan was greeted with a continuous
wave Of applause as he passed.
Mr.. Kern's speech was in part re-
ply to the speech of acceptance deliv-
cred at Utica by Mr. Sherman, Re-
publican candidate for vice president.
He devoted some time to the question,
"Shall the People Ruler" deprecating
what he claims is excessive power in
the hands of the speaker of the House
of Representatives and denied that the
people have ruled, because he said
that their will had not been given eff
feet.
He charged that there is a power
within the Republican party deter
mined that the people shall not rule,
which power has manifested itself
whenever effort has been made to
check destructive work of unlawful
combinations, reduce the tariff, or
equalize burdens by exchange. The
Democratic party, he said, would draw
sharp line between lawful business
lawfully conducted and unlawful busi-
ness.
He denounced as un-American
Speaker Cannon's gag rule, and follow
ed this by the sensational charge that
the Republicans are circulating two
kinds of campaign literature-adver-
tising Taft in the East as conserva-
tive, and in the West as a true fol-
lower of Roosevelt.
Speaking of the head of the ticket,
Mr.. Kern said:
"a distinguished Republican the
other day referred to his Influence
with his party as a one-man power.
II by that he meant to say that Mr..
Bryan possessed the power, in
marked degree, to influence the
thought and arouse the conscience of
"a Of iC
time, or If he meant that by his up
right life, his consistent course, his ap-
peals for right living, and patriotic ac
tion, he has earned the confidence and
personal affection of millions of his
countrymen, and gained the respect
and admiration of all the people of the
world who love liberty and humanity
then the distinguished gentleman
was right, with respect to the one-man
power of William Jennings Bryan.
Mr.. Kern alluded to Mr.. Sherman's
attitude on the tariff question and
said:
Every legitimate business interest
in the country is demanding tariff re-
form.
1.-THE manufacturer who is not a
monopolist is demanding cheaper raw
materials and wider markets for his
products.
"The workingman understands that
a restricted market means flreless fur
naces and enforced idleness. He
knows that American workmen, with
their superior intelligence and ingen-
uity, with their improved machinery,
with cheap raw materials and earning
for their employers more than twice
as much as the laborers of any other
country, have nothing to fear from
competition with workmen anywhere.
1.-THE American working man has
had bitter experiences under the op-
GRAFTON of the Dingley bill.
Under the shelter of this tariff
wall, trusts and combines have sprung
up on every hand, and with extortion-
ate prices confront the consumer on
every occasion when he seeks to buy
the necessaries of life.
Under this system the cost Of liv-
Ing so increased as to absorb the earn
ings of the laborer, after the most
rigid economy and self-denial on his
part and that of his family And it
is noteworthy fact when, as an in
evitable result of the fiscal policy of
the Republican party, the panic of
1907 came, hundreds of thousands of
these American laborers who were
thrown out of employment, instead of
being able to draw upon the fabulous
savings bank accounts so exploited in
political literature in recent cam
in state of destitution."