The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-06-24
CONTEXT BETWEEN REFoRMERs
AND STAND PATTERs ENDED
FOR PRESENT.
STAND PATTERS ON TOP
Teddy's Reforms Not Endorsed, Trust
Plank is a Disappointment
and the Negro is
Given "Tatfy,"

i*hNufHq June 15-~- DetfnuuIink
Republican platform as a silent re.
pudiation OF almost every oRoseFeit
principle William ] Bryan today com
pleted his summary u the wcrk Of the
Chicago convention.
Have you read the Republican
PLATFORM" he asks IF not. you ought
to read it. The contest In the Refus-
lican party between the reformfrs
and standpatters is fer the present al
an end, with the standpatter in thu
saddle The platform Is silent RI
pudiation OF nearly every promise II
reform that the president and his fol.
lowers have given to the countfy
Reform Not Endorsed.
| Bryan cites the platforms eulf gy
of the president. and then poilts I
what he considers the failure to e.
dorse the reforms urged by the presi-
dent He claims that the Democrats
In congress did all in their power,
even resorting to a iilibuster To as
sist the president in his effort 10 get
reform measures through co1gres7,
and complains that tae platform
gives the Democrats no credit for
this. He continues:
Money Passed Currency Bill.
The writer's Of the platform .ss-
peclaliy commend the PASSAGE 81 an
emergency bilia Dill which com
bined two features. enc OF which. had
been rejected by the senate and the
otfar b.y the npuse S0 long ~ thefs
was a chance for discussion there was
sufficient Republican oppCsi n TO
condemn both features OF the b u but
under the influence OF few iina1-
eiers. the bill was husheJ through
during the closing hours with all ths
bad features restored and all the go Il
ones eliminated
Pledged to Nothing.
"The plank demanding per nanent
change in the currency system is gen
eral enough to permit the Republican
orators to advocate IN each section of
the country the syste ost popular
there, and sufficiently indenite to en-
able congress TO do whatever !,
pleases, or nothing, without violating
any pledge.
Trust Plank Disappointment.
"The trust plank must prove dis
appointment to every Republican who
has come to understand the iniqulty
of the trusts. There is no demand
for rigid enforcement of the laws;
there is no suggestion that the
criminal clause-which has not
brought the trust maiefactor within
the walls of the penltentiary-s should
be called into use. The platform says
that the law can be strengthened by
amendments which will en'a-gn tie
supervision of the general govern
ment but these amendments are not
mentioned and there Is nothing in
this plank of the platform that can he
appealed to- to secure any real I'M
provement I'm the law
If the president, with all Of his
strenuousity. has not been able - en-
force the criminal law against
single trust. what progress may be ex-
pected with such an anti trust plank
as that inserted in the Republican
platform?
No Security offered.
There is a plank IN the platform
IN favor of such legislation and supee-
vision as will prevent the future over
issue of stocks and bonds by inter
state carriers" This is good but It
is coupled with the advocacy of a
pooling arrangement with makss
large concessions to the railroad with
OFT exacting any security to the rub
lie. for the convention voted down a
proposal by Senator Ia Foi'e te's til
lowers authorizing an enlargement
of the powers Of the interstate m
merce commission.
Tsfy For Negro.
THE negro comes in for hs
auadrenniaI quota or taffy." saws
BRYAN. who then proceeds to point cut
the alleged failure OF the Republicans
TO do anything tangible to benefit the
negro. while he said the Democrats 81
the south have done well by the
colored people. even to the extent tf
furnishing a large part Of the money
for the negro's education.