The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-04
v. ]. BRYAN THE
CHAMPION OF
LAW AND ORDER
Bourke Cochran ProcIaimS the
NebraSkan as Foreordained
Successor of Roosevelt.
NEW YORKER APPROVES
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
POLITICAL FIELD DAY IN HOUSE,
THE DEMOCRATS HAVING THE
BEST OF THE ARGUMENT.

Washington. Feb. 3.-Three of the giants
of the house of representatives had their
Innings today. Technically the Indian ap-
preparation bill was under discussion, but
legislation was relegated to the back
ground while national politics occupied
the stage.
The political debate was opened by Mr.
Townsend of Michigan. who in a pre-
pared speech claimed for the Republican
party credit for all national legislation
IN the last fifty years of vital interest to
!. the public.
Representative Sherwood Oem), Ohio.
In following Mr. Townsend, declared his
ideas Of the presidents message and par
ucularly addressing himself to it's labor
feature
Taft Campaign Document.
For what reason did the president ex-
press his views so fully?" asked the
speaker. WAS it in the interest of the
candidacy of the secretary of war? Is
II spectacular and sensational appeal 10
divert the attention of the country from
the secretary's record? The president
like the secretary of war, has a labor
record of his own that is in need of
patching"
Mr.. Sherwood took up the report of the
Goldfield labor commission. made to the
president in December and Just submit
ted to congress, and said that the report
itself showed that the sending of troops
utes. in that no state of Instruction eX-
listed; that the troops were placed at the
disposal of the mine owners at the be-
hest OF Senator Simon Guggenheim and
other mine owners in Nevada who wined
and dined Governor Sparks.
Speaking of the MOyer-HayWoOd-Pe Petit
bone case, Mr.. Sherwood said that when
writs of eXtradition had been un1ustly is
sued to take them from Colorado to Ida
no. the president did not interfere. He
was as silent as the oysters in Oyster
Bay"
5ourke cockran's Great Speech.
Bourke Cochran also replied to Mr.
Townsend. He denied the accuracy of
kMr Townsend's statement and said that
Eince the beginning of the republic there
had not been single policy prominently
incorporated into law that was not of
Democratic origin.
Coming to more recent issues, Mr.. Cock
ran said:
THE message which the president sent
here Friday raises "A question which goes
to the very existence and growth of civil
government The first part of the mes
sage contains complaints" he continued,
After We pass that portion We come to
the part which we all applauded, and
that was the paragraph that related to
charges that business distress was
brought on by the government and that
the knife should be used freely in cutting
out rOttenness,"
VitrioIic Words.
Mr.. Cochran grew vitriolie in his denun-
citation of bank presidents and corporation
officials who had been guilty of Illegal
action.
He first referred to the insurance in
Vestigation, and in speaking of the recent
financial crisis said it had been caused
by revelations of depravity in high places
in the financial world.
WAS the president responsible for
that?' he inquired. The whole thing, he
declared, grew out of quarrel of the
plunderers of insurance companies over
the distribution Of the spOils. So deeply
had the public conscience become dulled,
he said, by the spectacle of unpublished
crime that never did it seem TO dawn on
ecuting officers, or even politicians, that
instead of certain corporation heads being
suffered to do some house cleaning in the
corporations they had pillaged, they ought
to be sent TO do some cell cleaning in the
penitentiary."
These gentlemen" he said, when their
capacities had exhausted the supply and
there was nothing left to steal, did not
even surrender control of the corpora
tiOns they wrOnged. They do not, he
continued. flee from justice. fearing its
tice and obtain its protection to obtain
further authority over the very trusts
they had betrayed"
Crime at the Bottom.
Regarding recent bank failures in New
York Mr. Cochran said that not one of
them failed through error of Judgment.
Every one of them" he said, was ruin
ed by crime"
He charged that the officers who were
being pursued before grand juries and
criminal courts actually had set them
selves to work to raise funds to reopen
the concerns and induce depositors. to
sanction delay in the payment Of their
money, and" he said, they are treat
ed as saviors Of society because they
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