The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-08-25

rNDIANAPOLIS. Aug. 2S.-John w..
,-o-, Of this city, was today formally
o+i6aa or mis- nomination by the dem
aorat;c national convention for the
vice presidency.
rrbare was an entire absence OF pomp
aud ceremony, as Mr.. Kern dlsiiheS
disnlav. There was no parade ana ho
.+raa+ demonstration. kerns re-
mast the merchants and citizens dld
no+ ottempt any general decoration OF
tho citv although many flags were IN
evidence.
Tho announcement that Bryan would
.,,eak on the trusts at the fair GROUNDS,
sa,,,ad tn bring to the city the largest
Gathering il has ever known. Bryan,
Kern and Bell went to the grounds IN
an automobile followed by countless
other machines, carriages and pedes-
trans
Cheers for Johnny"
The second car carried Natlonal
Chairman Mack, Thomas Taggart'
Thomas E. Marshall, candidate for
governor Of Indiana. There We're wild
cheers for Kern, the people calling him
johnny"
In accepting the nomination Kern
said that Bryan, while foe of unlaW
full monopoly. was a friend to every
legitimate enterprise. He said Presl-
dent Roosevelt had been unable TO Sc
cure tariff revision. or to remove the
duty from wood pulp, although elgnty
millions of people We're demanding
this legislation to right an admitted
wrong.
During the last session of congress.
he said, Speaker Cannon openly op-
Dose3 remedial measures requested Dy
labor for the alienation of working
men from oppression and def1ed the
will of three fourths of the members
of the house by refusing to permit the
proposed bill to pass the committee on
rules. The only relief. proposed py
Cannon himself. is to remove hiiii
from his position"
In his speech on the trusts, MT.
Bryan said:
Nowhere does the republican party
show its real indifference to real re-
form more than in it's treatment OF the
trust question Here is the republican
Platform:
The republican party passed the
Sherman trust law over denld-
cratic opposition and enforced 1t atter
democratic dereliction. 1t has been d
wholesome instrument for good In the
hands of wise and fearless admins
tration. But experience has shown that
c-fr q
and its real objects better attained pS
such amendments as will give to the
fHderal government greater supervl-
sion and control over, and secure great
er publicity in, the management or that
class Of corporations engaged In IN
'erState commerce, having power anu
opportunity to affect monopolies.
The sherman antitrust law was
passed Is years ago; it has crimlnal
clause which provides a penitentiary
punishment for those who conspire TO-
Sether in restraint of trade. Ever since
the enactment of the law, with the eX-
ception Of four years, the republican
party has controlled the executive de-
pdftment of the government, and, dur
ing TWO years Of the four, it controlled
tne house Of representatives. Instead
of democratic dereliction, the demo-
tratc party has been urging year after
year, the strict enforcement of that law
ana the republican party has been ex-
p'ainlng year after year why it was
impossible to enforce it. Instead OIL
oelng wholesome instrument for
soOu' It has been almost useless, so
''F as the protection of the pubic
IS concerned. for the trusts have grown
~ number, in strength, and in arro-
e"nce' at the very time when the re-
Fuolcan party was boasting Of its en-
''celnent Of the law The steel trust
""S formed Immediately after the cleo
~" IN 1900, and a prominent republi-
SAID, in speech soon after. that
"'lsht have prevented a republican
.,ctory if it had been formed before
N'e election ,ksY
Law Not Enforced. y
oSt OF the trusts have never been
uFped, and those that have been
secuted have not had their business
bo 0uSiE Interrupted The president
fos qohe something toward the en-
a,o-.iIt ',ieht of the law, but not nearly
hIough' and the republican leaders
F. thWarted him at every point.
Pay the president became so exas-
me- mat he sent to congress a
leaao which shocked republican
c;as' oy the fierceness of its denun-
VI the predatory interests The