The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-28
Campaign of Protest.

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 Walter Wellman in Chicago Record Herald says the present campaign is a "campaign of protest" Summarizing the points of protest he says:
 The clerks and salaried employees, gener- ally speaking, in all parts of the country, in some places markedly and in others only to a small extent are Tn protest, too. The hard times and the cost of living are causes. Among all this class, extending down to the working people, too, and to some slight extent to the farmers, also, there is a feeling that in some way the republican party is too closely connected with the trusts and the big banks and financiers.
 This springs largely from the rule of AL drch in the Senate and Cannon in the House. In some of these things the pub lie instinct is unerring. It may run too strong, but it runs in the right direc- tion. There is no doubt whatever that the bosses Of Congress, in deciding what to do about new policy, almost invari- ably ask, What will New York think of it? and not, What will the people of the whole country say?
 Added to this is some resentment at the attitude of the big bankers in opposing both deposit guarantee and postal sav- ings. People say that is piggish, that they want evrything kept in their own hands. This may do justice to the bank CTS, who have good arguments in favor of their contention-so many good ones. in fact, that 1t is unfortunate they should have thought it necessary to use some bad onse, like the contention that in case of a panic there wouldn't be enough money in the country to pay the guaranteed deposits. Everyone knows that no one has proposed to pay deposits till after a. bank has actually failed, and guarantee is supposed to stop runs and prevent failures.
 The bourbonism of the republican man. agement at Washington under Cannon, standpatism and opposition to Roosevelt policies have hurt the party in the west, while Roosevelt himself has hurt it in the east, just as republican radicalism has alienated votes among business men and republican conservatism has alienated votes among farmers, salaried people, small tradesmen and workmen. It Is one of the misfortunes of the party in power that it is hurt by almost every form of complaint and protest, and this year the republicans appear to be more unfortunate in this respect than they have been at any time since 1892.
 There is the protest of the negroes grow ing primarily out of the Brownsville affair. later magnified into a movement to en- nance the dignity of the colored race by assertion of its power at the ballot box, and aggravated to some small extent by what colored men, and some white men, regard as Roosevelt's and Taft's unjust treatment of Foraker. Party habit is strong with the colored man, and not more than 10 or 15 per cent of his vote in the north will go to Bryan, but there are states where other troubles multiply in which this protest may be a serious item.
 In Ohio there is the distinct Foraker re- volt, a burrowing. half-secret, energetic treachery to the republican ticket because the followers of the defeated senator know only in the downfall of Taft is there any chance for them to get back into the party organization
 All over the country there Is protest, silent but not unimportant, among repub- lican organization men over the part played by MT. Roosevelt in the selection