Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-14
BRYAN TO TAFT
Says a Few Words From Him. sell Will Be Worth More
 Than Rooseyell's Eulogy
TUE TAFT PLATFORM

Baltimore, Sept 14.-"A few plain, simple sentences from MT Taft
 will be worth more than the ulogy that the president pronounced. The
 presidents endorsement is of no val
 ue unless the president will agree to
 stay in Washington and see that MT Taft makes good"
 In these words William J. Bryan
 summoned up his opinion of the let
 ter of President Roosevelt commend atory of MT Taft soon after the dem
 ocratic candidate arrived in this city.
 Tt was expected of course" said
 MT Bryan, that President Roosevelt
 would support MT Taft. He could
 hardly do less in view of the fact
 that he selected him as the adminis-
 tration candidate. and supported him
 with all the influence that the ad-
 ministration could bring to bear.
 The presidents letter, however, may
 be objected to as irrelevant, imma-
 terial and not the best evidence. If
 MT Taft were dead it would be in
 teresting to know from MT Roose-
 welt what he knew of MT Taft's opin.l
 ions and work, but as MT Taft is
 alive and able to speak for himself 1t
 is hardly necessary for MT Roosevelt
 to tell us what MT Taft will do.
 MT Taft is running upon plat form which was so unsatisfactory that he had to amend it in several important particulars, and even as amended it gives the public no defi- nite idea as to what Mir Taft stands for. MT Taft also has made some speeches and promises to make some
 more. The ones he has already made
 have not thrown any light upon the
 political situation but 1t is to be
 hoped that he will yet conclude to define his position with sufficient clearness to enable the public to
 know what he stands for. It is not sufficient for the president to say that MT Taft is a friend of labor. That is a subject upon which the la boring man is entitled to an opinion
 and MT Taft's friendship is to be de- termined not by the presidents en- l dorsements but by the measures which Mir Taft advocates Mir Taft believes that the labor organization should come under the operation of 1 the anti-trust law, thus dealing with the men who belong to the labor or ganization as if they were merchan- disc for the anti-trust law deals with the monopoly of the products of la l bor. Mr Taft is opposed to trial by jury in cases of indirect contempt, thus denying to the laboring man a safeguard which is guaranteed to ev- cry man tried in a criminal court.
 MT Taft does not agree with the la
 boring man in regard to the use of l the injunction in labor disputes. Nc words of praise from the president can change MT Taft's attitude on this question, or make that attitude more acceptable to the wage earners.
 MT Taft's position on the trust
 question is not changed by the presi- dents endorsement The president himself has not succeeded in putting any trust magnates in the peniten tiary and only few of the trusts have been disturbed. If MT Taft is no more successful than the presi- dent in his attack on the trusts he | will not satisfy the expectations of the public. There are more trusts in the country to-day than there were when Mir Roosevelt was inaugurated. and MT Taft favors weakening rather than strength ening of the antitrust low, for he has advocated an amendment that | will limit the operation of the law to unreasonable restraint of trade. "On the tariff question Mir Taft has failed to express himself with clearness. The republican platform does not use the word reduction.
 It only promises revision. and MT Taft has construed that to mean that some schedules will be lowered and some raised. but there is no intima- | ton that the average will be lower
 or higher than it is now.
 And so in regard to all the ques- tions which are at issue, MT Taft ! must make his position known. He | cannot rely upon the presidents en- dorsement. An endorsement on a note is not necessary if the maker | of the note is good, and the endorse.
 ment is only good when suit can be brought against the endorser to en- I force it. If Mir Taft had reform record of his own he would not need I to be endorsed by the president, and l the presidents endorsement is of nc value unless the president will agree | to stay in Washington and see that
 Mir Taft makes good. We ought to have some definite statement as to | what the public is to expect from NIT Taft No such definite statement ap- pears in the platform and no definite | conclusion can be drawn from NIT Taft's speeches, and it does not an-
 swer the purpose for the president | to say that he feels sure that NIT Taft will do what is right or what is | just. for there is wide difference oi opinion as to what is right and as to
 what is just. A few plain. simple
 sentences from MT Taft will be worth
 more than the eulogy that the presi-
 dent pronounces."
 Rrxan Marching fln