The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-07-10

commonplace. No fair minded Anne
lican could read the daily account {
the recent political doings. at Oh
eago without feeling modification an
l lregret: modification that the pres
1 dent should have so abused his powe
indicating to great party his choic
as successor and regret that the part
should have submitted to a coward.
Ito a humiliation that was as mani
: fest as it was degrading.
What are the policies that consti
tute the capital of the Republican
party in this campaign and that arr
relied upon to support the candidac!
of Mr.. Taft?
To recall Democratic platforms
ispeeches aud measures is to convince
lany man that many of the presidents
public utterances were derived from
and avowed Familiarity with the teach.
ing of our party His utterances that
are Democratic have given him his
only claim to be a retormer and have
contributed more than all else to the
popularity he has enjoyed, The her
and the party are committed to "un.
IfaItering adherence to the policies Of
THE president What are those policies
and what are the achievements OF
president and party?
| Mr.. Clayton then reviewed unfavor
ably the administration of Presiden;
Roosevelt. and continued
lnJ ancton and Contempts of Court.
Let me go on. There has been and
is now public demand for legislation
regulating, not aholishing. the process
of injunction and the power of punish
for alleged indirect or constructive con.
tempts Of courts. Ever since 1896 the
Democratic party have protested
against hasty and ill-considered use oil
injunctions and has been insisting on
the right of fair trial in all cases OF
constructive contempts. The Rephb-
lican party have been avoiding this
question So the president, in taking
il up. and Mr. TAFT in his letter To
the labor unions advocated measure
that the Democratic party. acting in
behalf Of the correct administration Of
public Justice, has becn demanding fer
twelve years, If the president was in
earnest when he sent his message 70
congress he was to that extent Demo
cratic
There has not been a session Of cor 1,
gross in twelve years at which the Re (
publican party could not have passed +,
a law prescribing, refining and regula- /
ting the issuance Of injunctions and
providing for fair trials in contempt /
cases. Yet nothing has been
done to give the wage |
Garner fair treatment and less
than nothing is offered to him in the
Chicago deliverance The meaning.
less gcneralties of its injunction plank
are an insult to the intelligence of
those who demand reasonable and
substantial legislation to prevent the
admitted abuse Of this judicial pro
cess.
CAMPAIGN Contributions.
1t must be admitted that the Repub- !
lie can not long survive if fraud and
corruption become material factors in
ar elections No man has said more
than the president "Qout the corrup 7
ton of elections. You recall his mes !
sage to congress In December, 1905. !
where Il said:
1T has been only too dearly shown |
that certain men at the head of these |
,arge corporations take but small note /
of the ethical distinction between /
honesty and dishonesty; they draw /
the line only this side of what may be
called law-honesty the kind of hon
esty necessary in order to avoid fall
ing into the clutches of the law"
We have here the condemnation Of /
the practice Has he proved his faith
by his works? Notwithstanding say
age ante-electicn denial we know that
a subsequent investigation OF certain
Insurance companies uncovered the
act that large amounts were con
tIibuted by these companies to the
Republican campaign fund-not the
money Of the men who gave it but
money coyertly taken without cons Mt
of stockholders or policy holders and
entered on the books in a way calcu-
lated to conceal the ENLIGHTENMENT.
All this was done in the interest of
the Republican candidate for presi
dent The money was rsed. the candi