The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-07
Have Row With Caterer and
the Expected Dinner
is Not Served.
DEMOCRATS UNITED;
OUTLOOK is BRIGHT
Nebraskan, Addressing Notable
Audience in Denver, Scores
Taft, and Points Out That
Every Reform Of Republi-
cans Has Been Forced
by Democrats.
by Democrats.

ENVER, COL, April Nv Imam
j. Bryan closed Il day OF ac-
tivity By addressing ESQ per-
- sons tonight in the spacious
Ell Jebel Temple banquet hail.
in addition to hundreds of others who
filled every seat in the galleries. The
banquet had been arranged by the
Bryan Democratic Club of Colorado, and
its president, former Congressman John
S. Shaffrbth, presided. Everything was
in readinesslto serve the banquet when
the hundred or more walters who had
been engaged became involved In a
dispute with the caterer and went on
strike.
Speaks without EntinE.
After parleying for an hour or more,
this portion OF the affair was aban-
doned. and without tho guests having
eaten, the speech making began. Mr..
Bryan said in part:
The quantltive theory Of money has
been proved to be correct. for we nave
50 per cent. per capita more money in
circulation now than we had in 1896.
and with that increase we have had
higher prices and better times. The
silver question Is no longer an issue.
but its elimination Is due to the fact
that we have procured from another
source the increase in currency which
was expected from the restoration of
lbimetallism.
But the money question is not the
only question upon which our position
has been proved correct by the course
OF events. Our protest against the
| trusts has been shown to be we'll
founded, and the whole country now
understands that a private monopoly
| is indefensible and uncomfortable.
The Tariff Question.
"On the tariff question also the
Democratic position is being strength
ened by the demands of Republicans.
Secretary Taft started out to make his
campaign on platform which declared
for tariff revision-the revision to be
postponed until after the election.
AS lie travelled over the country he
I T6Iind the tariff reform sentiment so
4 strong that he finally reached the con-
clusion in the platform Of his State
convention that tariff reform is SO ur-
gent that special session Of Congress
should be held Immediately after the
4th of March. But even more signiti-
cant Is the surrender made by Vice
President Fairbanks for his State con
vention declaring in favor OF special
session of Congress to be called imme-
diately after the election-four months
earlier than Secretary Taft's special
session.
i And we have two candidates to
hear from yet. 1t is gratifying to see
Republicans vieing with each other In
their advocacy OF tariff reform. But
the people are not likely to entrust the
reduction OF the tariff to the men who
are not willing to have tariff reform
at once. and who have not discussed
the tariff until the eXigencles of the
campaign made it necessary.
Railroad Regulation.
ION the question OF railroad regula-
ton we have, another Democratic Vim
1 dication. The Democrats have been
asking for regulation for twelve years.
and when at last the President, taking
his inspiration from the Democratic
PLATFORM, asked for an enlargement of
the scope of the interstate commerce
law. he received more loyal support
from the Democratics than from the
Republicans. But railroad regulation
lis not yet effective. We must know
how much the railroads are worth. and
! we must prevent the future issue OF
watered stocks. But since the states
began to legislate on the subject OF
railroad regulation. the railroad man
layers began to demand the surrender
by the States of power to legislate in
. regard to railroads and in insist that
No1'
troll.
"The President has yielded to this
demand and recommended the national
incorporation of railroads. and as Sec
retary Taft Is indorsing the Presidents
policies, he Is supposed to favor this
But the national incorporation OF rail
roads Is step backward rather thar
forward and it must be resisted by the
Democrats. and it will be resisted by
I. .1&1 fA4V
party. for those who have had taste
!, of state regulation will not be will
ing to surrender the power that the
!, state now has. National remedies
ought to be added to State remedies
, not substituted for them. Congress
I has ample power to regulate interstate
J commerce without Interfering with the
, ,, right of the States to regulate intra,
state commerce.
: TAFT Poor Rcformcr.
$ Secretary Taft seems to be regard
: ed as the representative of the reform
element and yet he has so little u
barren OF any work in behalf of re
form that he Will hardly satisfy TIL,
expectations raised among Republicans
by some OF the Presidents relations
His advocacy of perpetual franchises
ir the Philippine Islands. coupled with
r a perpetual guarantee of income, show!
: that he looks at the corporation qucs
ton from the standpoint of the corpo
ration rather than from the standpoln
!, Of the public,
J "On the subject OF imperialism tn
! last nine years have shown the foil
of colonial policy. We are payin
at least sl0O00o,000 year for tn
' privilege of following at the tail O
the European procession, for our arm
, and navy alone costs us more tina
o o0.Oo0,O00 a year in excess of thei
1 cost ten years ago. Secretary Tai
testified before Congress that we neve
: could hope to have more than twen
I ty or thirty thousand Americans in tn
Philippines. We have not anythin
like that number there, but even
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