The Democratic advocate., 1908-10-30
REPUBLICANS HOWL CALAMITY


Seek to Destroy Public Confidence I'm
Futile Effort to Defeat
Bryan.
Facing inevitable defeat and with q
full knowledge of the fact that Bry-
ans election is as certain as anything
reasonably can be in politics, the Re-
publicans have been forced to resort
to the last refuge of political towards
to the calamity howl. They are now
engaged in telling the country taat
panic and ruin will follow the election
of Mr.. Bryan. Instead of being paul.
otic citizens anxious to- restore busi-
ness Confidence confidence WHICH
has been lost under a Republican al
ministration-to subserve their own
political selfish purposes they are Taih4
Iy endeavoring to prolong the present
business. depression. The questssn
naturally suggests itself: Why h -
necessary to restore eonfdsHess Why
is it necessary to bring baeh business
prosperity? What has become Of esna+
denes, what has become Of presrsriUs
Both, under q AsHbliean a&Alassssa'
tisn, hsve disappSAssa. WV - n
other nspuhlieaa s4nfaistratssA Acoes-
sary 20 insure Z rs4xra Sf s014de1es
ana pTospsritye
ne very same men whs, tsesy, sse
going absut the country saH fs1thef
destroying confidence BY 18sssAtns
calamity, are SAs men, whs, t0as yesss
ago sAia that The RepHe1ieaa party
must b Successful IN eTdsT tAet sheFo
might b property. The nsYRhitsAA
party was successful, but Instead ef
bringing prosperity h brsrsAt paais,
business 6eprsssicA and esnMeTeSa4
staRnstion. Whatever may b SAID OF
the present panic. n cannot Be dsnfea
that it in q Republican pante. TAe
Republican party is in fail possession
of the government and must accept
the responsibility. Now, then, can
continuation of the Republican party in
power cure the evils from which the
business community and the labor1ns
man now suffer? Let the Republicans
howl about their own panic, and not
make false predictions about what will
happen under Democratic admins
tration They predicted prosperity
four years ago, and proven false pro-
phets. Why, then, should any sane
man accept their premonitions now
when they say that BryanS election
would bring business troubles. Busi.
ness troubles are already here. What
business men want is q cure for them,
not a prclongation Of the disease by
the same sort Of treatment which has
produced the ailnsnt.
Because business men and laboring
men both know that q Republican ad-
ministratioa has produced panic, they
will not - deceived again BY these
false cries Of 1spsblieaA salsaity
howlers. Tasg knew that William
Jenninss Dryan is q honest AaA: they
know SAas hs Will give the 1SblSc an
honest alsataistzat3en. They knew tAat
the ealanfty Aevl u for Ne aels pvr-
pose Of deception.
Against Laboring Men.
wAiis Willian H. Taft 10 travelling
absst Ohio and elsewhere making fran
tie appeals for the support Of laborins
nasn, hts running mate en- the Republi
saa ticket, James s. Sherman. is siv.
ing HE endorsement to the statement
that Tabor uniens are composed large.
~ Of a0arehists, socialists and donna
xogass" Mr.. Sherman heard the or.
ganized wage worker Of the country
thus denounced by a trust magnste
WHO presided at a meeting where he
spoke, and gave approval of the seAti-
ment expressed. When Mr.. Sherman
appeared recently at Akron, Ohio, the
meeting which he addressed was pre-
sided ever by o. c. Barber, president
of the Diamond Match Company. Mr.
Barber introduced Mr.. Sherman to the
audience. In doing SO he made use OF
the following language, as stenograph.
ically reported:
zone of the main reasons for the
success of the Diamond Match Com
pany is that its directors HAVE
NEVER TOLERATED UNION LABOR
IN IT'S SHOP. THEY HAVE AL
WAYS BEEN OPEN. We have had
no one to dictate to us what wages we
shall pay, what men we shall hire, and
what hours our employees shall work.
LABOR UNIONS TODAY ARE COM.
POSED LARGELY OF ANARCHISTS,
SOCIALISTS AND DEMAGOGUES."