Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-13
CALLS GILLETT'S
VISIT AN INSULT
JUDGE M'NUTT SCORES RUFF
REPUBLICANS
HARRiMAN'S NOMINEE Is NOT
WELCOME
Speaker at Wigwam Exposes Incon-
sistencies of Opponents on Bank
Guarantee and Injunction
Planks

coming visit of Governor James Gfllett
and his words of censure brought
cheers from the big audience assembled
in the open air.
The speaker touched on the political
! storm that has arisen in some quarters
of the state where objections to machine
| domination are so well grounded even
among Republicans that Gilletts entry
| into the campaign is regarded as an
affront from the state committee.
Were going to have visit from our
| governor-Gillett, believe Is his name
"a man noted because he was NOM
mated by Hartman a year before he
was nominated by Abe Ruef at Santa
| Cruz.
1--WE all recall the picture of the ban
quet scene, where Gillett leans on the
shoulder of Ruef. He ought to be oc-
cupying that position toward Ruef now.
GilIett Not Wanted
although half the Republicans of
| Southern California do not want Glllett
| to come down the machine that has
dominated the Republican politics down
here is determined that he shall.
"They are going to ram him down the
| throat of the malcontents on the 23d
| to tell you how to vote-mind you, to
| tell you how to vote. He, Gillett!!
rs Ruef coming down, too?" asked
an auditor.
mo" said Judge McNutt, "he has
engagements elsewhere"
Then the speaker paid tribute to
| Bryan, saying In part:
"There is not a live doctrine in the
Democratic party that Bryan does not
stand for. He is heart and soul for
the platform.
'gFhe convention met at Denver.
Bryan was the only man thought about
That is the strongest thing in our MS
tory Here was a private citizen, q
farmer, man who tolls with his hands
as well as his brain. He had no single
agency to promote his candidacy.
Few Newspapers Aided
HE had few newspapers to help him,
the Republican party having bought up
most of the newspapers.
There were no postmasters or other
officials whose fealty he could COM
mand.
ut seems, as Governor Adams of
Colorado said on this platform few
nights ago, that everybody but the peo-
pie oppose Bryan.
| yer convention gave out the new decla-
ration of independence no one but
| Bryan was thought of.
HE was nominated on the best plat
form ever written. 1t touches a. HVe
| issue at ever contact. 1t is a living,
| throbbing pulsating platform. And Mr.
| Bryan is on that platform.
ST happened to be with him In the
campaign in Indiana. I happened to
hear him once make forty-eight
speeches in two days, no two alike IN
phraseology, and all star performances.
'I said then there was no man, living
or dead, who ever performed such a
feat.
"I venture to say that he has talked
to 80 1-3 per cent of the voters of the
middle west, New England and the
south.
mo man has approached him in the
effectiveness of his work.
TT seemed as if nature and the forces
had combined to make this Democrat
its leader"
Why a Bank Guarantee?
Judge McNutt referred to the bank
guarantee act briefly:
Generally speaking he said "the
banks use our deposits, paying us lit
tie or nothing.
'They loan it, sometimes down to the
waters edge. Sometimes they loan it,
at and 6 per cent. They get interest
for it.
TT has been demonstrated that tax
far less than 1 per cent viii pay back
all losses from bad banking.
"Such law would be not only just
to the people but to the bank. And
yet they oppose it.
"It will make mobocrat out of any
man in minute If his savings have
been lost in a night Old and staid as
I am I'd feel like using a croWbar or
shotgun myself in such a case.
But we would not get our money
even then. We'd tramp on each others
toes, crush a woman or two and go
with rtC
ut is not only good for you and me,
but it saves the bank. If now bank
here were closed there would be run
ON every bank.
"Why is it, then, that the banks are
against this plank?
1.-THE president and his candidate for
president are necessarily against the
plank, though why they hardly know"
Injunction Judge
Discussing Judge Taft's issuance of
injunctions against laboring men the
speaker said:
Judge Taft in issuing what he did
assumed autocratic powers such as
the czar only assumes.
IF he thought he did right, why
doesn't he tell us what his reason
was? The reason is, he's trying to
get out of the responsibility.
mo wonder that union laborites are
working for Bryan. He has declared
against the author, the instigator of
the infamous injunction order.
There are 287 organized trusts in
the United States. Their capital
amounts to shade under seven bill
lions of dollars. Yet the Republicans
are not gripping them.
''These trusts have been charging
the people here one price and for
eigners much less. They have con-
tributed lavishly to the campaign fund
and are collecting their reward.
IF you know any better way of
knocking the pegs from under these
trusts than publicity, Mr.. Bryan will
adopt it.
what he proposes to do is to revise
the tariff in favor of the people. If
the people of the United States can't
lift this burden off their necks, let
them bear itl If we can't drive out
these overgrown corporations, then we
ought to be slaves.
''Yet Mr. Roosevelt talks about pun
ishing corporations. Corporations can't
suffer. You can fine it, but the fine
is paid by the people.
"The Sherman law provides that you |
can punish men, living, Sentient men. |
Let him punish the officials.
"The only men punished, unfortu- |
nately, were those whom the law did |
not intend to punish-the laboring |
men,"