The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-31
Bryan Closes His Campaign in
the Eastern States
with a Final Appeal TO Voters
for Support.
HE GIVES A SUMMARY
Of All the Arguments Used on
the Stump.
Closes With Protest Against
ROOsevelt's Course of Action.

Winchester. Ind, Oct. 31.-W. ].
Bryan, the Democratic candidate In
winding up his tour of the east. made
public the following appeal to the pub
lie:
As the campaign draws to a close
certain issues stand out clearly. The
Democratic party attempts to in
augurate an era of honesty in politics
by compelling the publication of cam
paign contributions before the election.
1t seeks to bring the government near
er to the people by securing the cleo
ton of United States senators by di-
rect vote. 1t seeks to restore competi-
ton through legislation which will
make private monopoly impossible. 1t
seeks to reconcile labor and capital by
legislation which will bring employer
and employe together in cooperation,
and to this end it proposes the creation
of department of labor with a secre-
tary Of labor in the cabinet; an
amendment to the antitrust law,
which will exclude the labor organiza-
ton from the operation of that law;
the limitation of the writ of injunction
so that it will not be issued in labor
dispute unless conditions are such as
would justify an injunction even If
there were no labor disputes, and trial
by jury in cases of indirect contempt.
II seeks 10 secure leSlSldllOH UlCA
will create a guarantee fund sufficient
to insure all depoSitorS against loss. 1t
seeks to secure a reduction Of the tariff
by gradual steps until the tariff laws
will no longer be made in the interest
of the few and at the expense of the
rest of the people.
The Democratic party in other
words. seeks to secure honesty in gov
ernment through honest policy and
popular government through direct
elections. 1t desires to secure peace in
industry. competition in trade, security
to depositors, and justice to taxpayers.
The Democratic party appeals to the
awakened conscience of the nation and
the sense of justice in the human heart
and to the growing desire for brother
hood.
with Democratic victory for the
national ticket, with Democratic
congress and with the moral force of
popular verdict I believe we can COM
pei the senate to yield to the ex-
pressed will Of the people and permit
the passage of the more urgent of the
reforms.
The Democratic party offers the only
prospect of remedial legislation and
while it does not go as far as some re-
formers would like to go Democratic
victory will secure as much of reform
as is now attainable-in fact the only
reform that is within reach. We have
a right to expect, therefore the CO.
operation of those who favor the re-
forms set forth in our platform.
The attempt to terroriZe the Ameri-
can voter by the threat of a panic will
not succeed. We have had three panics
in 4S years, the panic of 1873, the panic
of 1893 and the panic of 1907, and two
of these panics came under a high
tariff and each of them came under
Republican president. Mr.. Taft says
that a panic will come if 1 am elected.
Let him give bond that this panic will |
go if he is elected. When he says that
a Democratic victory will bring a panic
he expresses an opinion. When I say
that disastrous panic came last fail
without waiting for a Democratic vic
tory I state a fact that can not be dis
puted. Our platform presents a plan |
for the restoration of prosperity upon a
permanent basis-a prosperity in which |
all will share. The Republican party |
has no plan that contemplates either |
the present relief or the continued well |
fare of the people.
The Republican candidate has the !
prestige that comes from the fact that |
his party is in power. He has the aid |
of an army of office holders. He has |
the support of all the monopolies and |
law-destroying trusts, he has a large |
campaign fund the source of which his |
committee refuses to disclose, and most |
of the leading newspapers are with him |
and the interests which he represents |
insist that II Is not fair for the presi- !
dent to use his off1ce-an office that be-
longs to all the people, as If it were a |
party asset or a personal asset and |
enter actively into the campaign. 1t |
offends the sense of justice and ought |
to arouse protest from those who be- |
lieve that in the selection of the chief !,
executive the people should be abso-
lutely free to choose whom they please |
WILLIAM J. BRYAN.