The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-20
WILL BUYXECTIoN MT. By n Makes Open LCharges. PUbllCITY OF CONTRIBUTIONS Repubs Are After Money from the
 Trusts. Mir. Bryan says Tide is stnI Running Towards Democrats and This Has Greatly scared Taft and Followers.
 

Alton. Ill.,, Oct. 19-Standing on the 1 exact spot where Lincoln and Doug las concluded their debate in 1858, William J. Bryan, Democratic candl- date for President. in a thirty minute l speech here today to an immense l crowd. openly charged that the Repub- | liean Party was preparing to purchase l the election and dare not tell In ad- vance how much money they are ask | ing to have on hand on election day MT. Bryan told his auditors that the l tide was running toward the Demo- | catic Party and referred to the straw | vote taken in different parts of the | country to substantiate his statement 1 He sai6:
 What does MT. Taft's position mean | In regard to the campaign contrfbu- tions: It means if know before the l election what contributions they are 1 getting, you might not vote the Ra- | publican ticket. and what does thar 'nean2 Why it means that If you vote the Republican ticket and lind after the election what they would not all low YOU to know before. vou will be sorry that you voted the Republican ticket ' am going to draw the only conclusion that can be drawn here ano 1 that is that they are doing today and knowingly doing today, what they arc not willing for you to know they arc doing.
 we have opened our books: we l have given names and the amounts and you can therefore judge of the in- fuence at work. We have not only given you the amounts contributed to l the National Committee but we have l given you the amounts contributed 10 I the Congressional fund. They prom l fse to give you, after the election. the 1 amounts contributed to the National Committee but they have never prom l ised to let you know even after the | election what contributions they ave receiving and we have well grounded suspicious that they are using their 1 Congressional Committee to cover the funds that they do not intend to tell 1 you about at all, I demand now. as l i have before. that they shall tell you ] now whether. they are going to an | nounce after the election the contribH- 1 tions to their Congressional campaign l fund and if they are going to an- nounce after the elections the eontrl- buttons to their Congressional funds what explanation will they give ano what inference will you draw7
 My friends. within the last few
 days the money has commenced to pour into the Republican committee. They
 told you in August that I always car
 rIed the country in August, but to wait tember and I carried the country iH September. Then they said wait until October and we waited until October and they had not opened their cam paign and the tide has been running ever since the convention in favor oF the Democratic ticket and continues to run.
 What do the straw votes that are
 being taken say?: They say that not in August not in September not in the first of October alone. but fin the middle of October. the tide is running our way and that W ether they take the poll in New York City or In Iowa, the poll ta- ken by Republican papers show enor- nous gains fc the Democratic ticket. Now what? Now come out the contri-
 buttons from e great corporations that are interested fin legislation.
 To Purchase Election.
 What can they do with this money
 now? There are only two weeks more.
 The literature is out and paid for.
 They can not circulate literature any
 more to amount to anything. for the
 time has virtually passed They can't
 have many more meetings; only two
 weeks more-what do they need money
 for now? They need 1t to use on cleo
 tion day as they have used 1t year
 after year and I charge that they are
 now preparing to purchase this elec-
 tion and dare not tell you in advance
 how much money they are going to have on hand with which to purchase the election. want to ask whether you are willing that this shall go on2
 Is 1t not time to demand that these
 Republicans take you into more con hdence and let you know what their
 plans are? Public elections are pub
 lie affairs. The elections are held. not
 for the benefit of the Republican trad CTS, nor for the benefit of those who
 have been getting favoritism from the Republican Party; these elections are held that he people of this country .tt Ia, 4,,l ha nIu Inns l of the different parties and intelligent iy select the officials who are to con duct the Government. We ask for only | a hundred thousand dollars to finish | the campaign. They ask for million And I repeat that honesty demands that the voter shall know what is at
 work. what is going on and what tn- 1 huences are dominating politics. why is it that the Republican lead CTS want to control? It is merely that | they may protect the country from | harm? Are they more interested than
 the voters themselves in protectine i this country from harm? Why Is 1t | that they don't go to the laboring
 man and the farmer and the merchant | for contributions? Why Is 1t that they l go to the trust magnate and to the
 man who gets the benefit of special 1 legislation. Is 1t because they put | these men under obligations to the
 
 meet now to put the Republican Party | under obligations to them bv supply
 ing the sinews of war. What will
 they do if they win by the aid of these cornorations? They will proceed to
 nav these men back out of the pock- cts of the people and they have laid 1 inc foundation for 1t in their plat | form?
 DO they promise the laboring man
 the remedies that he believes he needs?
 No. Do they give him a platform that
 suits him? No. What elements dom- mated at Chicago in the writing of the
 labor plank? A few large corporate
 en,niovers controlled. The laborinR
 man was not heard; his petition was
 not needed
 Ovation to Bryan in VhicagO.
 Chicago. Ill. Oct, 19-William Jen- | ninEs Bryan arrived in Chicago to- l night at 8 o'clock in blaze of glory
 after an all day trip through Illinois z1aA