The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-27
THOUSANDS
ASSEMBLED TO HEAR
BRYAN
Formally Open Speaking
Campaign
And Discuss the Tariff.
Arrived Two Hours
Late and Put in a Busy
Day-Overfow Meet
ing Held in Auditorium.

an audience of five thousand people in
the baseball park tonight, William ]
Bryan, Democratic candidate for pres
ident, formally opened his speaking
campaign. For nearly two hours he
discussed the tariff question and was
then taken to the Des Moines Auditor
ium where two thousand people unable
to obtain seats in the park had as
sembled to listen first to local speak
ers and to await the Nebraskan's COM
ing.
The evening rally was preceded by
a parade under the auspices of the
Young Mems Bryan club in which
over one thousand participated.
Mr.. Bryan and party arrived in Des
Moines two hours late owing to a rail-
way accident which delayed traffic. He
was accompanied by Mayor Brown, of
Lincoln and a number of newspaper
correspondents. He was greeted by
several hundred enthusiastic people
who cheered the smiling candidate
with the assurance that "Bryan's the
next president"
Bryan soon discovered that he was
in for a busy day. Bustled into auto
mobiles, the party was hurried to the
Savoy Hotel for breakfast. Two hours
were devoted to seeing Des Moines in
automobiles. For thirty minutes Mr..
Bryan and Governor Cummins COM
pared notes as campaigners in the
hotel lobby. At 2 o'clock Mr. Bryan
had a conference which was attended
by National Committeeman Martin j.
Wade, Congressman Dan Hamilton,
Hon. Fred e. White, candidate for
governor, and Hon. Claude r. Porter,
candidate for United States senator,
Hon. Clint Price, chairman of the
state committee, and local leaders
from all parts of Iowa
At this conference plans were dis
cussed for the making of a thorough
poll of Iowa, which it is claimed will
be the policy of every state in the
union. Mr.. Bryan cheered the mem
bers present with the assurances
which he was receiving from all parts
of the country of the splendid pros
poets Of a national victory. The
fierce factional split in the Iowa Re-
publican party was given much at
tention and the Democrats are pre-
pairing to take every possible advan-
tage as result Of the strife
From o'clock until 6, Mr.. Bryan
held a public reception at the Savoy
Hotel. AS big crowds have been
coming on every train he was kept
shaking hands until forced to excuse
himself and prepare for the evening
meeting,
At the principal Bryan meeting to-
night Rev. DR.. E. T. Hagerman, pas
tor of the First Methodist church,
formerly of Iowa, and a personal
friend of the late President Mckinley,
presided and introduced the speaker.
Mr.. Bryan said in part:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen
In my notification speech l stated that,
as the campaign progressed. l would
Rule" as it applies to the various is
sues involved in this campaign. be-
gin with the tariff question, because it
is the most lasting of our economic
questions and the one upon which the
leading parties have most frequently
opposed each other. Other questions
many come and go, but questions which
AFFECT taxation, like Tennyson's Brook"
go on forever" AS the Government is
not a Lady Bountiful. with unlimited
means, but merely-an organization which
must collect on the one hand what it
pays out on the other, the subject of
taxation is an ever present one We may
discuss how much we should collect.
what methods we should employ in col
lecting, and how best to distribute,
through appropriations, the money COL
lected, but We are nevor far removed
from the subject Of taxation. Iowa has
been selected for the representation of
what l resire to say upon this subject
because the Iowa Republicans were pio-
neers in the effort to secure tariff re-
vision Ct the hands OF the Republican
and defend the Democratic position on
the tariff question, because | believe it
will commend itself to them. That the
issue may be clearly stated, / shall read
you the Democratic plank on this sub
Ject, and then the Republican plank
The Democratic platform says
''We welcome the belated tariff reform
now offered by the Republican party as
a tardy recognition OF the righteousness
of the Democratic position on this ques-
tion; but the people cannot safely en-
trust the execution of this important
work TO a party which is SO deeply obii-
gated to the highly protected interests
as is the Republican party. We call at
tention to the significant fact that the
promised relief was postponed until aft
er the coming election-an election to
succeed in which, the Republican party
must have the same support from the
benehciares of the high protective tar
in as II has always heretofore received
from them; and to the further fact that
during years of uninterrupted power, no
2cton whatever has been taken by the
mittedly existing tariff ieiquities.
I'VE favor immediate revision of the
tariff by the reduction Of import duties.
Articles entering into competition with
trust-controlled products should be pIac-
ed upon the free list; material reduction
should be made in the tariff upon the
necessities of life, especially upon ar
ticles competing with such American
manufactures as are sold abroad more
cheaply than at home: and gradual re-
auctions should be made in such other
schedules as may be necessary to re-
store the tariff to a revenue basis.
Existing duties have given the manu-
faGturers OF paper a shelter behind which
they have organized combinations to
raise the price of pulp and paper, thus
imposing a tax upon the spread of
knowledge
we demand the immediate repeal of
the tariff on wood pulp. print paper |
lumber, timber and logs, and that these
articles be placed upon the free list"
The Republican platform says
The Republican party declares une-
quivocally Cor revision Of the tariff By
, special session of congress immediate
ly following the Inauguration of the
next president and commends the steps |
already taken 20 this end In tile work |
assigned TO the appropriate ooT lmittees
~ Congress-. which are now invsstigat- |
ing the operation and effect OF existing
schedules. In ali tariff legislation the
true principle Of protection Is best main !
tained by the imposition of such duties 4
- win equal the difference between the
cost of production a. home and abroad
foRether with a reasonable profit to
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