The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-09-19
FROM THE CENTER OF THINGS.

Lincoln. Nebr.. Sept. lI-tSpecial
Correspondencel-M Bryan's for
tune continues to work lot OF
people. County Assessor Miller of
Lancaster county is daily in receipt
OF letters asking him about Mr..
Bryan's assessment. and he has been
compelled to get out mimeographed
replies in order to keep up with the
correspondence. Chairman of repub-
lican committees are the most nu-
merous inQuirers. This years as
sessment rolls show MIR Bryan TO be
possessed OF taxable property in the
amount of $4,000. About twenty per
cenr of this is charged up to The
Commoner. The Commoner has no
printing plant. its tangible property
being confined to a couple of safes.
n dozen typewriterS, few desks and
tables and three or four rugs. The
two automatic mailing machines are
operated under lease. Something like
thirty tons of print and wrapping
paper are kept on nand. Replying to
Joe" Cannon's charge that he is a
millionaire, who made his million
selling wind and ink" Mr. Bryan at
Olney. Illinois. last week. took the
public into his confidence and told all
about his private resources. He cal
culated that he was possessed of prop
erty worth perhaps $125.000. but in
order to be well within the mark
said he would call il $l50.000. He
then told how he made it.and asked
Speaker Cannon to take the public
Into his confidence and explain how
he had become millionaire on a
salary of $4,000 year every year
will he nf fx-e
years Ii is generally admitted that
Cannon will be kept busy lodging
MIR. Bryan's speech during the rest
OF his campaign for reelection.
The fact that Mr.. Taft has decided
To take the stump-or more properly
speaking. take the rear platform of
a train-recalls some of the bitter and
sarcastic things said about Mr.. Bryan
in recent campaigns because he make
speech-making tours. In the old
days. when the railroads could haul
train loads of republicans on passes
To- the republican candidates door. il
was easy To get crowds out to cheer
Then the republican organs could
point TO these visiting delegations as
evidence of enthusiasm" That sort
OF thing is no longer possible. So II
l. that MIR. Taft has felt the neceS
:. sity of making a tour. Last Friday
Papers. noting that both Bryan and
Taft We're on the stump. intimated
that il might yet be possible to en-
gage the two candidates in joint de
bate. With unanimity that was re
marSahle the democratic campaign
mana gers and the democratic papers
welcomed the possibility. But despite
all their boasts of Mr.. Taft's remark
able and hitherto unsupported abil
lies as stump speaker. the repub
ican managers sideStepped the Sus
gestioa. The democrats of the coun
Try would like nothing better than {
see and hear Bryan ana Taft discus
sing the issues from the same plat
form.
The trickery of the republican
managers is well evidenced by theil
attempt to stem the rising tide o.
opposition to Mr.. Taft on the grounC
Of religious belief. While il is ad
mitted that n man is entitled to free
dom in his religious beliefs. it cal
not be denied that religious bias al
ways cuts more or less of a figure
in politics Mr.. Taft is a Unitarian
and the republicans are scared Il
death lest the orthodox churches
throw their influence against him o,
that ground. In order TO combat thi'
supposed danger the republican com
mittee is sending out thousands o