New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-09-30
Bryan's Dignified Reply
to President Roosevelt
Democratic Chiean Hesates not Take up the Gaunt
let Thrown Down BY the Distinguished Meddler.


antitrust remedies which I favor,
permit me to suggest that your testi-
mony on this subject is not concln-
sive.
You are witness, to be sure, but
your interest in the election must be
taken into consideration in weighing
your testimony. There is better evil
dence.
The trust magnates know their own
interests and they are supporting
Judge Taft. Not one of the trust
magnates helped to secure my nomi-
nation, while it is matter of s'com-
mon notoriety" that they were conspi-
cuous in the Republican convention,
and it is equally a matter of common
notoriety they are supporting your
party in this campaign. If you will
name a single official connected with
"a law-defying corporation, mono
poly or trust, who has declared or
will declare that he is supporting me,
I will publicly warn him that I will
enforce against him the present Grim
inal law and will enforce against him
also the laws demanded in the Demo-
cratic platform as soon as those laws
can be enacted.
Butthere is anotherfact which raises
a presumption in favor of our par
ty and against your'party. referred
to it In my former letter to- you, but
you inadvertently overlooked it in
your reply, and the members of your
cabinet, called in for consultation,
evidently did not notice it. I stated
that we had not knowingly received a
dollar from any official connected
with corporation known as a trust,
and that any money SO received
would be returned as soon as we re-
ceived knowledge of the fact. I now
remind you that your convention de-
liberatelv rejected, by vote of nine to
one, the plank favoring publicity as
to campaign contributions.
Mr.. Taft has repudiated the action
of the convention and rebuked the
members of the convention by declar-
ing himself in favor of a publicity law,
but he favors publicity after the cleo
ton while we favor publicity before the
election. Which do you regard as
the better plan-to let the people
knew before the election what infuen-
ces are at work, or to let them know
after the election?
| insist that our willingness to
let the public know the sources
from which we receive contributions
raises a presumption in our favor
that must be overcome before you can
ask the people to accept your state
ment that the law-defying corpora
tions have more to fear from Republi-
can success than from a Democratic
victory.
IN conclusion you say that you ask
support for Mr.. Taft 'sbecause he
stands for the moral uplift of the ma
ton, because his deeds have made
good his words, and the policies to
which he is committed are of i'm
measurable consequence alike to the
honor and the interests of the whole
American people. - [ dare to compare
my efforts for the moral uplift of the
nation with his efforts, my deeds with
his deeds, and the policies to which I
am committed with the policies to
which he is committed; and more than
that, If may assume that he will
follow in your footsteps, I dare to
compare my ideal of the presidency
with his.
l do not regard it as proper for the
president to use his prestige, his In
fuence or his patronage to aid one
member OF his party as against
another who aspires to Office, and
regard it as a violation of the. obIiga-
ton that the president owes to the
whole people to use an Office that be-
longs to the whole people as a party
asset Tor the advancement of per-
sonal friend and a political protege.