The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-03
Same OId Attack Made on
 Bryan and GoInpers
APPEAL 10 TIE LABOR VOTE
Taft Claims That He Is the Man Who Is In Favor of Labor and Should Have the Votes In Spite
 of Gompers.

Denver. October 2-In the same build ing-the Denver auditorium--in which w. J. Bryan was nominated last June William H. Taft tonight addressed tremendous throng, setting forth reasons and inducemnts why the Nebraskan should not be elected.
 MT. Taft's entrance into Denver was under inspiring political conditions. His stay in the city was but for three hours and every preliminary to the big street parade and its attending spectacular fea- lures, had been carefully arranged so that when the Taft special pulled into the union station, the town had on par ticular bright red glare. The streets were profusely illuminated and had not been so densely populated since the democratic convention departed.
 The candidate was at once made a part of the festivities. In an automo- bile he was given the place of honor in the parade and bowed his acknowledge ments to shouts and plaudits along the line of march, which included the prin- cipal streets and ending at the splendid auditorium, whose entire seating capacity had been thrown open.
 MT. Taft delivered the principal speech of the evening His subjects ranged wide- ly over the various issues of the cam- paign. He paid his respects to Bryan many times and received encouragement from the audience in so doing. One new feature of his adasess was in handling the subject of the beet sugar industry, which he took as an illustration of dem- ocratic proposals toward the trusts. Beet sugar, he said, was a trust made article. The democrats proposed to put all such articles on the free list, just to punish the trusts. This would, he maintained, not only punish the trusts, but would also punish many innocent farmers and producers as well. Judge Taft has said things in the west today. His language particularly on the labor question has been decidedly vigorous and positive.
 This thing of MT. Gompers having the labor vote in his power and laborng men believing the lies is something that I com- plain of
 r 'I appeal to the clear-headed, intelli- gent and independent working men of this country to look into the facts and the law and if they can find there that I am an enemy of labor to vote against me.
 But what I complain of is this wind jamming and misrepresentation of a man who claims to control labor, in order to defeat a man who is in favor of la bor."
 The foregoing quotations are excerpts from the newspaper speeches MT. Taft made today on his trip from Omaha to Denver, by way of Cheyenne, Wyo, and his general topic included talks to farm CTS about the tariff and the necessity for maintaining the protective principle He made his views on the labor question known at nearly every stop But 1t was at North Platt, Cheyenne and Denver that this subject received the most ex- tended consideration.
 During his speech at Cheyenne, speak ing of the labor plank in the democratic platform. in his argument against inter- vening jury trials, MT. Taft paid his re- spect to Governor Haskell. He said:
 ''The man who penned that very resolu- tion in the platform at Denver, Governor Haskell of Oklahoma has been 10 or 12 times defendant in prosecutions of that sort with reference to the violations of or ders of the court, and he had to pay $22,- 900 to the state of New York in the fed eral court to purge himself of that very contempt, and if you are going to intro duce jury trial every time you will weaken the power of the courts so that they will be a laughing stock. I appeal to intelligent workingmen to know whether they desire that the courts, upon which our whole civilization rests shall be weakened merely in order that a trial by jury shall be introduced in a certain class of cases, when we have gotten along thus far for 300 years without such an intervention between a lawful order of the court and its enforcement"
 After the Denver meeting tonight MT. Taft immediately took up his journey eastward. With an all-night run he will be able to keep an engagement at George City, Kan, tomorrow morning and carry out an itinerary of speech-malxing throughout that state tomorrow, reach ing Topeka tomorrow night