Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-31
REPUBLICANS OUT IN FORCE
Washington Hall Again Crowded by
an Enthusiastic Audience.
POINTERS ON BANK GUARANTY
senator Brown, General Henderson,
A. w. Jeneris and others speak
Governor Challenges
the Democrats.

An even rarger audience than that OF
Tuesday evening in the same place last
night cheered Governor Sheldon, Senator
Norris Brown and former Senator Mander-
son at Washington hall with an even
greater enthusiasm than at the previous
meeting, which up till last night held the
record for the present campaign. A similar
enthusiasm was manifested toward A. W.
Jefferis, who spoke briefly and whose
entrance into the hall broke up the meeting
for a time, the cheering being so pro-
longed.
Senator Brown devoted the major portion
of his address to shattering the bank
guaranty vagary.
Look at It from the deposltors' stand
point" said he. You put your money in
a bank in your home town, where you
may learn Of the condition Of the bank,
where you know the men with whom you
are dealing. You rest confident in the
ability and honesty of this banker. But
trouble comes-not to your bank, but to
the bank in another city. And in still
another district a bank or banks is in
trouble. Then what happens? Is the gov
eminent. according to the democratic pro-
posal, behind you. behind your bank? Not
at all.
1T is not the government, but the banks,
and your bank, that must be mulcted to
pay for the mismanagement; your own de-
posits endangered Cor the dishonesty Of
banks In another part of the country. But
this is not the whole, nor the worst. What
feeling OF security will there ever be when
such conditions exist, when the banking
system of the whole country is liable to be
thrown into confusion at any time, when
all the depositors may become uncertain
at once as to the possibility Of their de-
posits being taken to pay for those Of
others?
Contrast this with what the republican
party offers. That party favors the estab-
lishment of postal savings banks, so that
every postmaster may become a bank CASH
Ter for the people and with the govern
ment, not a bank, behind your deposit and
paying interest on that deposit"
MandersOn Warmly Greeted.
Senator Brown was followed by General
Henderson, whose address was one of the
most forceful of the campaign. Al the end
of the generals remarks the audience rose
spontaneously and gave the former senator
three rousing cheers.
General Henderson paid considerable at
tention to Bryan in his remarks, saying
that he had generally respected and some
times admired the democratic candidate,
particularly for his matchless gift of maxi
ing pleasing. plausible arguments in behalf
of wild vagaries. He then contrasted Mr..
Bryan's championship Of the widest
economic and financial heresies, his advo-
cacy of free silver, Of government owner
ship of railroads, of bank guaranty, with
the solid attachments, achievements and
intellect ''of the best candidate for presl-
dent any party has had in the history of
the United States. William H. Taft"
The speaker then reviewed the career of
Mr.. Taft and spoke with a LAWYERS ap-
probation and feeling of Taft's declination
of a position in the supreme court of the
United States, "the ambition in the heart
of every lawyer, because Of a sense of
duty to assume other and less agreeable
tasks .
Following General Henderson. s. C.
Barnes and Harry A. Foster, candidates
for the legislature from Douglas county,
spoke briefly and then A. w. Jefferis
took the stage for a short address.
Challenge to Democrats.
Governor Sheldon was the last speaker
Of the evening and he devoted most of his
speech to an excoriation of the maliciously
unfair charges and Misrepresentation of
his administration by his opponent and
on the land tax question challenged 'Shal-
lenberger or any Other democrat speaking
for him TO meet me in debate at any time
or at any place"
With respect to national issues he spoke
at length on the tariff and the question OF
its revision. Suppose said he, that Mr..
Bryan should be elected, which will not
happen. Suppose, If you can again stretch
your inauguration such a distance, that a
democratic lower house should be chosen.
Shall we then have tariff revision even
along the destructive lines which the de-
mocracy favors?
Not at all. The senate contains too
many men, both republican and democratic.
who are opposed to Bryan's kind of re-
vision. Two years go by of uncertainty
and agitation in the business and manu-
featuring world.
Mr.. Bryan cried for more senators and
a new house favorable to his scheme. Still
more agitation and uncertainty. And again
when he is pleading for a reelection. The
business world is still waiting for an end
Of agitation and IN end Of uncertainty.
but elect Taft and what will happen?
The job will be over by next summer"
John l.. Kennedy was the principal
last night at the North Omaha Baptist
church, Sixteenth and Ogden streets. The
hall was crowded to the doors and the
addresses of Mr.. Kennedy, Hugh A. Myers,
t. A. HOLSTER and others caused the great
est enthusiasm