Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-03
BRYAN ATTACKS pENROSE
SAYS SENATOR Is NOT FIT TO
AID IN TRUST REGULATION.
Democratic Candidate Also De-
nounces Coleman Dupont of Della
ware in Sioux City Speech.

| SIOUX CITY. Iowa. September 3.-Ad-
| dressing a democratic rally here last night
| William j. Bryan. democratic candidate
| for the presidency. denounced Coleman
| DUPONT of Delaware and Senator Boies
| Penrose of Pennsylvania. members of the
| republican executive committee not
| being expected to become reformers be-
| cause, as he charged. all of their affilia-
! ton was with the trusts.
Having travelled the entire night and
day through Minnesota and part of
Iowa. where he received enthusiastic re-
| ceptions. Mr. Bryan arrived here shortly
before pm. From the rear platform of
the train at various points he shook
hands with hundreds of persons and made
several talks. At Alton. Iowa, junction
point. he discussed at, length the tariff
and the subject of guaranty of bank de-
posts. He again charged Mr.. Taft with
not being satisfied with the republican
platform and with being forced to con-
tinually amend 1t.
During a two-hour stay in ST. Paul be-
tween trains Mr.. Bryan took breakfast
in an uptown cafe, which he reached after
brisk walk, On the way back he OBJ
served in a music store window an an
nouncement that the stock included pno-
nographic records of his speech on guar
anty of bank deposits and of Mr.. Taft on
iniunctions in labor disputes. He entered
the place and at his request both records
were reproduced. His own remarks We're
heard first. and as the last word DIED
away he smilingly remarked, Il am now
convinced.
At the station-here to meet the Ne
braskan were Mayor Sears. State Com
mitteeman Beck. former Mayor QUICK,
Judge Van Wagonen and many other
leading democrats No sooner did the
crowd catch glimpse of him as ne
alighted from the train than he was lusti-
ly cheered by several thousand people.
The cheering continued as he rode to the
hotel.
Not Able to Reform.
Discussing the question of reforms Mr..
Bryan declared that the republican party
was not in a position to reform any
thing.
'Why?" he asked. Because its con-
spicuOus members are connected with the
very things that need reform. and the
republican party cannot prosecute the
guilty without disgracing its most prom
inent members"
AS an illustration he cited the fact that
the republican, national committee had
selected chairman and that chairman
had selected his executive committee.
If" he said. you read the names of
the members of the executive committee
that are now carrying on this campaign.
you will find that majority of them are
very corporations that need regulation.
One of them. Mr.. Dupont. of Delaware,
is today the defendant in a suit for con-
spiracy in violation of the antitrust law
brought by the United States government.
and which is still pending. Mr. Dupont
is defendant in the action. and yet he Is
on the executive committee to carry on
the republican campaign and the chair
man of the speakers bureau Of that com
mittee
Now he said. Il want to ask you:
Do you think that Mr.. DUPONT is in
good position to pick out speakers and
train them as to what they shall say?
Do you expect any speakers to mention
the government suit against the powder
trust if the speaker Is picked out and
instructed by one of the defendants in
the case? Do you expect Mr.. Penrose of
Pennsylvania. who has been intimately
connected with all the great corporations
of his state to become a reformer? And
yet he is one of the executive committee
to carry OH the republican campaign"
Mr.. Taft. he said. was not as strenu-
guage." he said. land compare it with
the fiery denunciatiOn made in the Presi-
dents message of last January"
"No Hope From Taft"
on the trust question. said the demo-
cratic candidate. the people have no hope
of relief with Mr. Taft as President
for" he said. he not only does not
promise you relief. but criticizes me Sc
verely because / do promise you relief"
He declared that every private monopoly
ought to be dissolved and that compe-
tition ought to he restored in order that
the people may have the benefit of that
competition.
Continuing, Mr. Bryan said that Mr..
Taft not only does not say that his party
will destroy the private monopoly but
he does say that to destroy it would de-
stroy and eXtirpate business He SAYS
that what the country needs is not eX-
termination of trusts. but regulation He
has tried regulation in his party for
twelve years and the result is that the
trusts have regulated the republican
party. but the party has failed to regu-
late the trusts