Arizona republican., 1908-04-07
COL. BRYAN TALKED
 ON AN EMPTY STOMACH
A Banquet Stopped at the Beginning by a
 Strike of Walters
That However Did Not Prevent Him From Institutng Comparison Between Himself as Candidate and Secretary Taft.

Denver. April 6.-Wm. J. Bryan clos ed day of strenuous activity by ad- dressing $50. banquetters tonight at the spacious Fl Jebel Temple banquet hall and in addition hundrecs of others who filled every seat in the galleries overlooking the main room. The ban quet had been arranged by the Bryan Democratic club of Colorado. Bryan was the only speaker.
 Everything was in readiness to serve the banquet when half a hundred or more walters who had been engaged became involved in d dispute with the caterer and went on a strike. After parleying for an hour or more the feature of the banquet was abandoned and the speechmaking began.
 Mir. Bryan said: ''l do not come to Colorado because missionary work is necessary. but for the pleasure of coming We carried the state by a large majority in 1896 and in 1900. We ought to have a larger majority this year than in either of those years. Every one who voted with us in 1896 ought to vote with Us now and those who were against us in 1896 have had time to see the vindicatiOn that has come to democratic principles. Our quantitive theory of money has been proved correct. for we have fifty Der cent per capita more money in circu- lation now than in 1896. With the in crease we have had better prices and better times. Our protest against trusts has been shown to be well founded and the whole country now understands that private monopoly is indefensible and uncomfortable.
 -On the tariff question also the dem ocratic position is being strengthened. Taft started out to make his campaign on a platform which declared for tar iff revision-revision to be postponed until after the election. As he trav- eled over the country he found the tar if reform sentiment so strong that he reached the conclusion in the platform of his state convention that tariff re- form was so urgent that a special ses- sion of congress should be held imme- diately after the fourth of March But even more significant is the surrender of Fairbanks, for his state convention declares in favor of a special session of congress to be called immediately after the election-four months earlier than Taft's special session. We have two candidates to hear from yet It remains to be seen whether Knox and Hughes will attempt to make better bid than those already submitted
 'On the question of railroad regula- tion We have had another democratic VindicatiOn. The democrats have been asking for regulation for twelve years and when at last the president. taking an inspiration from the democratic platform. asked for an enlargement of the scope of the interstate commerce law, he received more loyal support from the democrats than from the re- publicans.
 But the railroad regulation is not yet effective. We must know how much the railroads are worth and must prevent the future issue of wa tered stock. The president recom- mended the national incorporation of the railroads and as Taft is endorsing the presidents politics, he is suppOs- ed to favor this. But the national in- corporation of railroads is a step backward rather than forward. It must be resisted by democrats. and it will be resisted by a large element of the republican party National remedies ought to be added to state not substituted for them.
 Taft seems to be regarded as the representative of the reform element,