The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-27
TAFT A LINCOLN,
 BRYAN A WESLEY
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Continued from First Page) Merritt, Colonel Rutherford Trow- bridge, Prof. Henry c, Emery, Prof | William Lyon Phelps and several others, The platform and the boxes were decorated with American flags.
 The first speaker was Winston | Churchill. He was introduced and given d. tremendous ovation He said in part;
 We are now nearing the end of the most memorable ecampaign which this country has seen since the first 1 campaign of Abraham Lincoln. And Is there to-day as at that time, any i one issue running like a cardinal l thread through the web of political l contentious? One issue which stands ! out supreme. one issue which involves the liberty of our citizens and the fu- ture of our republic? One issue which 1 has aroused the interest of our people | irrespective of party, from the At lantic to the Pacific? The republican candidate for the vice presidency de- clares the overshadowng issue to be shall the administration of President Roosevelt be approved?" But what, above all. does the administration of l President Roosevelt stand for? It stands for the principle that corpora tions shall not control our politics and government
 That Is the paramount issue In the republic to-day. and in settling 1t we shall nave settled the evils which fol- low inevitably in the train of gov ernment by corporations-th evils of political corruption from which we suffer This issue we can maintain, like Carl Schurz, with an inspiring consciousness of being wholly right. An we have, as the nominee of our party. the embodiment of the issue, the Hon. William IT. Taft
 The growth of great corporations or trusts is the result of natural evolu- ton MT Bryan when speaking on the tariff plank of the democratic platform, declares that this growth shall cease, he sits on the strand like certain king Tn ancient Britain, and bids the incoming tide recede. He fails to perceive that corporations are an economic necessity of the times in which we live. he fails to see that they are the modern instruments for the production of the surplus capital needed for new enterprises Destroy corporations, and new enterprises cease commerce stagnates, the increase of population fails to be provided for mills shut down, and the poor are without labor and without bread We have got to recognize that corpora tions have come to stay, that they are necessary for the welfare of all classes in this twentieth century History teaches us that any policy which sets
 itself against the economic tendency of the period is a disastrous policy
 Theodore Roosevelt believes. and William II Taft believes that corpora lions can be controlled and made to obey the law And if the extraor- dinary popularity of President Roose- veh's administration means anything 1t means that the people of the coun- try are behind him in the fight which he is making on this issue.
 Mir. Bryans political career and use fitness have been that of a Wesley 0, a Moody rather than that of a Glad. !. stone or a Lincoln No one will deny in spite of his advocacy of free silver that his influence has been a mora one On the other hand no one who has seriously studied him in the light Of the measures he has advocated car declare that he is either an admins. trator or q statesman His place ir history will he that of q man who ha' stirred a great part of the public con. science against acknowledged evils and in this he has done a great ser vice
 The present contest between the re publican and democratic parties. be- tween Mir Taft and Mir Bryan, vii not be regarded as the important ant vital contest of this year II was th
 struggle which ended in making MT Taft the nominee of the republican party which was epoch-making In 1t significance and scope, Mr. Roosevelt with courage almost unnrecedcnte t amongst our politicians. threw dow ( the gauntlet to the real enemy am X proved that the republican party Is a z capable today of rising to grca moral issue as 1t was in the time ( Abraham Lincoln And the contest { make MT Taft the nominee of the pa, $ ty was In truth struggle to maintai N that issue. It was an attempt to pr the control of the party In the hand 3 of clean and dlsnterested statesme, M and 1t succeeded.
 l need not go into the bitterness that fight against Mir Taft II wa Al an attempt to put the control of tn a party in the hands of clean and disir terested statesmen, and 1t succeeded H I need not go into the bitterness ' that fight against Mir Taft It wa " characterized by no supreme enthus \ asn1 for any other one man, but was a S attempt of an opposition (now prove X to he comparatively smalD to defef = him by the old political tactics of ia,
 orite sons The real republican part,
 however did not and does not consi'
 of those who have been It's nomn;
 leaders in congress and out, but of tr
 great mass of voters who have follow
 cd Theodore Roosevelt because the
 knew he was right
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