The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-07-23
NEW YORK, July Is. 19t

surance is the latest Wall street
scheme for frightening the business in
terests of the United States to oppose
the democratic candidate. The Lloyds
Of London, famous as insurers of ship
ping, are taking this new kind Of in
surance at a rate Of Is per cent. The
plan was originated by a Wall street
broker in a wager, and now it has been
seized upon by ''the interests as a
splendid plan of creating a score that
it is confidently expected will result
in the defeat of Bryan. Wall street and
"the System are just as much opposed
to Bryan as they were in 1896 and just
as much in favor of the election Of Taft
as they were for Mckinley. The great
combinations of capital denounced by
six or seven years as predatory and
criminal have been conciliated by
the conservatives platform drawn up
by the adherents of Fairbanks, Cannon,
Knox and Hughes at Chicago and COM
mended by the president in a letter to
Senator Hopkins of Illinois as an ex-
cellent declaration Of republican doc
trine.
Candidate Taft's letter of acceptance
will be as tame as the platform, al
though he will add a little about pub
licity of campaign contributions and
the issuance of injunctiens against la
Dor organizations, such as he issued
judge at Cincinnati.
Treasurer Sheldon Of the republican
national committee has started out to
raise as big a campaign fund as was
handled by the late lamented Mark
Hanna. He says that after the election
he will make a detailed statement OF
all contributions as required by a New
York statute. That is, after Taft has
been elected by the lavish use of
money, the republican campaign COM
mittee Will tell where the corruption
fund comes from.
Every effort is to be made to induce
the business interests to pour out mill
I'LL D10 TOE
and to force all workingmen employed
by the industrial enterprises controlled
b ythe system to vote for Taft as a
condition of their holding their jobs
That was the plan that defeated
| Bryan in 1896. The Nebraskan would
have won that campaign if the election
had been held early in October, but
Mark Hanna saw the danger and fried
| the fat out of the protected corpora
tions to the amount Of about $1,000,
| 900 and with that turned the tide
! against Bryan. In the manufacturing
districts the workingmen received no.
tice with their pay envelopes that their
! Bryan were elected, and in some in
stances employees were paid in Next
can dollars as an object lesson of what
would follow the adoption of the six
teen to one financial policy.
| Mark Hanna by his great victory in
that memorable campaign won the
reputation Of being the most skillfu
political manager America had ever
known. His tactics are to be repeated
this year by Chairman Hitchcock. Will
the result be the same? That depends
/ upon whether or not the lessons ham
! hered into the republican masses by
| Theodore Roosevelt during the last
seven years have taken deep root.
Certainly no man who believes sincere
| ly in the Roosevelt policies can con-
| scientously vote with Wall street tC
have those policies reversed.
But the example of President Roose-
welt himself accepting and approving
platform which ignores nearly all the
reforms for which he has contended-
the Inheritance tax, the income tax
! the physical valuation of railroads, the
limitation of injunctions against labor
organizations-will no doubt give thou
sands of his enthusiastic followers an
excuse for voting with the interests
which the president has baited so un-
mercifully in his messages to con-
gress and his public speeches.
The United States Steel corporation
| the greatest trust in this country, has
never wavered in it's support of Presi-
don't Roosevelt Its president, Judge E.
H Gary, was at Chicago fighting for
the nomination of Taft, and since the
| convention he has expressed himself
as delighted with the platform and
| the candidate. He declares that this