The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-17

DaQ CIc- ne memory Ol JuulCldA td-
reer rests with his glory as the father
of the Injunction, the man who sus-
pended the rights of a man to a trial By
jury only in the case Of a trades union
ist- A murderer, = thief or Z pickpock et
cannot be denied a trial by jury, but a
laboring man is subject only TO the viii
of an arbitrary judge from whose deci-
sion there is no appeal
But We are told he has gone on i'm
portant errands for the president. We
know that every three or four months
there has been an activity in the navy
yards and a big battleship or big cruiser
large enough to hold him and party of
gay friends is dispatched with the Taft
party on Junket. En- route the party
is wined and dined at government eX-
pense- Taft is the greatest picEnicker
the country ever had And he looks the
part
He is credited with the settlement of
important claims in the Philippines, Cuba
and Porto Rico. / think / could have
made as good settlements myself With
a half-starved. half-saVage native on one
side Ond a representative of the govern
ment with the United States treasury and
the United States army behind him, set
Element Of the claims should be easy for
anyone-that is anyone save William
Howard Taft We have his record He
advocated the settlement of claim in
Manila Fortunately no one was foolish
enough to accept the Taft proposition,
but il does not absOlve him from making
the proposition. The government owed
the Manila street railway SJtJVvu ana art
proposed to adjust the claim by giving
the Manila street railway a perpetual
franchise of all the streets of Manila.
And today Mr.. Taft occupies the unique
advocated the issuance of a franchise, the
time limit of which was the day of judg-
ment. And that is the way he settles
claims. a sehoolboy could do better.
Mr.. Taft was the governor of the Phil
ippines. But sitting as dictator, as king,
over miserable brown people, conquered
and under the sword, is not particularly
good training for president of the
United States. Should Mr.. Roosevelt for
get his big stick at the White House when
he goes to South Africa seeking other
beasts to conquer, might we not be with
in reason TO suppose that Mr.. Taft would
take it and use it as he used his sceptre
in the Philippines.
THE New York platform calls atten-
ton TO the fact that during the next
four years there will probably be four va
cancies on the supreme court bench and
urges Taft's election that the nation may
have the benefit of his Judgment in the
appointment of these pudges. Mr.. Taft
endeavored to give President Roosevelt
the benefit of his judgment when he
urged the appointment of John H. Doyle,
attorney for the Standard Oil trust.
circuit judge in Ohio. II he were presi-
dent might we not suppose that to fill
those vacancies he would appoint attor-
neys for the steel trust the sugar trust,
the meat trust and the rest.
Have 1 omitted airy of his accom-
plishments? II | have l wish that some
of his supporters in the audience would
call my attention to my omissions"
voice cried, He was in Oklahoma"
Yes, he was in Oklahoma to fight the
adoption of a constitution that gave to
the citizens of the new state the right of
trial by jury. And that constitution was
adopted in spite of Mr. Taft by proper
tionateIy as large a vote that by which
We shall make of Mr.. Bryan our next
president"
When the cheering subsided the speaker
passed to Mr.. Bryan:
Il shall not deign TO discuss Mr.. Bry-
ans qualifications with such a man as
Senator Beveridge. Beverage says that
Bryan does not think l would prefer
the opinion of an expert on that point.
as there any one of you who is afraid
of anything that Mr.. Bryan may say or
do? Do you not trust him? Is he not the
that comprises good government. Com
pare his utterances with those pitted
against him. Every time Roosevelt opens
his mouth his party trembles. Every time
BeVeridge speaks he surprises everyone
except himself
p without politics and without personal
prejudice / ask you who is the greatest
American citiZen2 You have answered for
me. Answer at the polls as you have here
tonight"
Following the meeting Mr. Williams
held an informal reception in the hall.
During the day Mr.. Williams spoke at
two enthusiastic meetings in Utah county,
one at Spanish Fork and one at Spring
vile. He was accompanied on his trip
by MILFORD Giles and T. n. Taylor of
Provo, and t II. Fitzgerald of Salt Lake.