The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-09-18
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Fsr President:
WILLIAM howard TAFT
"a 0hls.
For vice President:
JAMES 3. SHERMAN
81 NsW York

G7HaME4LF -
JAMES 3. SHERMAN
u NsW York.
TAFT's ANSWER 70 Mr.. BRYAN.
III his speech IN paramount issues.
Nj. TAFT took the hide on Of Bryan
and exposed it to view.
Truly, he depicted the Peerless One
as q man Of many issues-all Of them
paramount. Now, in this year OF
grace those issues return to him,
fawning and bringing for recognition.
The Nebraskan is vainly endeavoring
to shoe them back in oblivion, but
without success.
Those things which he declared we
must have IL years ago, he is now
quite willing to drop. Then It was
free silver by the ton, at any old price,
and today he ignores that issue. Yet
the miners Of Colorado, Arizona, New
Mexico, Utah and Nevada are for Bry-
an, because they believe he is the
apostle OF the standard that will en-
able them to get q higher price for
their silver than present market quo
tations.
Then there Is the reactionary crowd,
that favors letting go the Philippines.
Hawaii and Porto Rico. They are for
Bryan. Eight years ago we were
going to the demnition bow vows un-
less We cut loose from the islands.
right away. Time has demonstrated
to even Mr.. Bryan that he was wrong.
He encouraged Aguinaldo and the
Philippine rebels to resist u sol
diers two years longer than they
would ordinarily, and hundreds Of lives
Of American soldiers were sacrificed
to the mischief his fallacy worked.
Even Aguinaldo admits it, and Is now
one Of the most loyal Of citizens, an
enthusiastic supporter Of the only Tag
that has solved q perplexing problem
in those islands and given the Philip.
pine resident self government, under
the strong protecting arm of the
United States.
The socialist, who believed in grab
bling the railroads %instanter, is for
Bryan, because he advocated the pol
1nv ~ nonAcoofion S8 ~ N%#$s N g..
He decryed the larger navy Win
out which We would have been plunged
into . war with Japan over agitation
raised by followers OF Bryan in San
Francisco, who attempted to set at
variance the treaty-making power OF
the general government.
He pretends to be the friend Of the
laboring man, and yet the only measure
he voted for was one that cut their
wages almost in two, and he pro.
posed again to divide that by palm.
ing on on them q dollar worm only
nifty cents.
Truly, Mr. Tsft showed the Neoras.
kan to be . knight in motley.
Mr.. Bryan is silent on all these Is.
Sues. which he advocated 60 volubly
. few years back, and. try to avoid
them as he will, they creep out o.
the darkness Of the past and crowd OF
amain. In different sections he is sup
ported for different reasons, because
Of his past record.
just nov his slogan is free trade
He would place all raw material OF
the free list---and keep it there.
Montana has had one experience
with free trade, when wool was ad
mitted free Of duty. Mr.. Bryan wal
not only In the congress. but he wa.
. member Of the committee in tina
congress that recommended the pass
age Of the Wilson-Gorman bill, tina
sent the price of wool down to
cents per pound, and sheep to les,
than II per head, and ruined the mar
ket for hides.
The man who votes for Bryan, will
all these things staring him in tn,
face. simply goes on record as oppos
ed to the present state Of prosperit,
and In favor Of q lower standard o
wages, and q pauperized majority
such az England boasts.
The ghosts OF past issues arise I
haunt the Democratic leader.
On the other hand, Taft is til
man who aided in bringing order OF
OF chaos. He is one of those VIII
found the country, IN the slough
poverty and dispair, after the Dem,
CRATES were voted out Of power. Til
issues are we'll defined, and the roa
TO each camp is plainly marked. VI
MAJ continue the present prosperit
or We may return to q repetition I
the days Of 1893. with its panic an
its poverty-just as the voters 81 Il
country may decide.
bryan has talked glibly and rec
lse1ly Of the future Of what he 81
do. He has been silent on his pa
and what he has done.
n has attacked the work Of N
TAft Who says Ne Il prepared to /
bsaors the people on his record
md daf0a Bryan To do the came.