The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-10-15
Things Political
sAlAiI3 rAfIr- SAME CoX--DlFF1oR-
ENT SPEECH.


ENT SPEECH.
Those who heard Mr.. Tafts speech
at Akron this year listened In vain
for one word of his celebrated
speech at Akron Monday night about
the cohesive power" of the Cox ma
CHINE in Cincinnati.
Nor was there one word about the
kind of government this machine
gives Cincinnati, which, he said at
Akron three years ago, lis constanSy
described as very corrupt one as
subsequently proven by investigat-
ing committees.
Nor did Mr.. Taft tell his audience
at Akron this year whether he will
vote against the Cox ticket Mt Gin
cinnati or for or against the state
ticket. which Cox had as much to do
with nominating from top TO bottom
as he has to do with the nomination
of candidates in Cincinnati and Ham
ilton county.
All the people of Ohio know on this
point. after Mr.. Taft's speech
where he delivered his only political
speech three years ago, Is what he
said TO conference of bosses. in
Guiding Cox. Brown, Biesor, vorys
and Others, at Cincinnati the day be.
fore he was formally notified of his
nomination for president. 81 appre-
ciate the opportunity of addressing
you, and ! wish you to understand
that every one of you is a man whom
] feel to be in common enterprise
with me-.
Same Cox! Same Taft! But not the
same speech at Akron this year.
Why?
REFORE IT BECAME AN ISSUE.
Speaking OF the proposition to
guarantee bank deposits the Buffalo
N. Y. News CRepD in an editorial
Feb. 90, 1908, said ''To work out a
plan that makes money panits inn
possible is to perform one OF the
grandest acts of statesmanship that
the history of all humanity fur
nishes." Also: 1T is not only worth
trying to do but It Is going TO be
done unless civilization itself fails"
Also; "There is no more reason to
expect period of reckless banking
under deposit insurance than of utter
neglect to guard against fires under
fire Insurance"
In an editorial April 1S, 1893, the
same Republican paper said: Guar
anty of deposits is nothing but in
surance, as the News has been, urg-
ing for months" Also: "It will
be a reproach TO our civilization If we
do not finally solve this question j."
That was before the national party
conventions. That was before the
Democratic national convention took
the same position in favor of guaran-
teed deposits being urged by this Re
publican paper to "work out a plan
that makes money panics impossible"
and TO perform one of the grand
est acts of craftsmanship that the
history of all humanity furnishes"
That was after Lyman Gage, former
secretary of treasury, and Congress
man Fowler, Chairman Of the house
committee on banking, advocated
guaranteed deposits as proposed in
the Fowler currency bill before the
committee at the last session of con-
gress.
Now this Buffalo Republican pa
per's attitude on bank guaranty is
about as ludicous as the editorials
in the Omaha Bee Portland Oregon
ian and other Republican papers crit
icising statement in one of Mr..
Bryan's speeches on the tariff which
turned out to be quotation from the
Republican platform this year that
got into print without quotation
marks.
How easily partisan prejudice warps
the judgment OF g. o. p. editors.