Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-08-25
BRYAN GIVES PROMISE
OF WAR AGAINST
THE TRU.,
Says Democracy viii E W.
late Them to Dim and Q
tdnt Past If Given
a Chance.
KERN IS NOTIFIED
OF HIS NOMINATION
Large Crowds Throng lndidndp-
oils and Witness Ceremonies
Incident to Telling ViCe-PreSi-
Dental Nominee of the Hon.
or Thrust Upon Him.

Indianapolis, Aug. 25.-John Worth
Kern, Democratic nominee for the
notified of his nomination. The GER
emonies were held in the elaborateH
decorated coliseum at the fair
grounds and were attended by many
thousands of people, regardless Of
party. The weather was ideal ana
the program took place as scheduled.
Traction lines and fourteen rail-
roads brought people on the regular
and special trains. Five hundred
cars transported the people from the
city to the fair grounds and back
again.
Bryan and other speakers and the
members of the notification commit
tee and the national committee,
headed by Chairman Mack, arrived
last night and this morning.
Thomas Taggart, national commit
teeman from Indiana, had been Sc
lected to call the meeting to order.
He imme lately handed the gavel 20
Chairman Mack, who introduced The
odore A. Bell, of California, VINO
formally notified Kern of his nomi-
nation.
Kern, in his speech of acceptance.
devoted some time to the question,
7sShall the people rule?' He depre-
catee what he claimed Is the excess
i've power in the hands OF the speak
er of the House of Representatives
and denied that the people have
ruled, because, he said, their will had
not been given any consideration
He cited the demand for a reduction
in the tariff on white paper and wood
pulp and the failure of the Babcock
tariff bill of 1902.
"The president rails against swollen
fortunes" he said las a menace to
the public welfare and as evils which
eat at the heart of society. AS rem
edies he suggests an income tax and
inheritance tax. The national conven-
ton of his party is silent upon this
question while possessors of swollen
fortunes allied as they are with the
dominant force of the Republican
party are giving generous support to
the Republican ticket. The Demo-
cratic party, while favoring the re-
form measures repudiated by the Re-
publican national convention has an
other remedy. 1t will by legislation
in a large degree cut off the streams
of money which under the present
system are flowing from every home
In the land and emptying into the cof-
fers of trusts / will not at this time
discuss the several planks of the ma
tional platform. l endorse the plat
form in all its parts and pledge my
best endeavors towards securing the
reforms to which the party is, by its
terms committed"
Kern charged that there is a pow
er within the Republican party which
is determined that the people shall
not rule This power, he said, had
manifested itself whenever any effo-t
had been made to check the destruc-
tive work of unlawul combinations,
to reduce the tariff or equal.ze bur-
dens by the legislatures. The Demo-
cratic party, he said, would draw a
line between lawful business. lawfully
conducted. and unlawful business.
Thomas Marshall, Democratic caI-
didate for governor of Indiana, fol-
lowed Kern and made a short talk.
Bryan then delivered his speech on
the trusts. He said in part:
Now, let me contrast the Democrat
&c platform with the Republican plat
form. Nowhere is the difference in
the temper of the parties more no
ticeable; nowhere is the difference In
the method of dealing with questions
more manifest. Our platform says:
"A private monopoly is indefensiole
and intolerable. We therefore favor
the vigorous enforcement Of the Grim
inal law against guilty trust magnates
and officials and demand the enact
ment of such additional legislation as
may be necessary to make it impossi-
BILE for a private monopoly to exist
In the United States. among the ad-
ditional remedies We specify three:
First, a law preventing a duplication
of directors among competing corpl-
rations; second a license system
which will, without abridging the
right of each state 20 create corpora
tions, or its right to regulate as 1t
will foreign corporations doing busi-
ness within its limits, make II neces-
sary for a manufacturing or trading
corporation engaged In interstate
commerce to take out a federal IL
cense before It shall be permitted TO
control as much as twenty-five per
cent OF the product in which 1t deals,
the license TO protect the public from
watered stock and to prohibit the