The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-01
So Declares William
 Jennings Bryan.
HELPED TO EDUCATE HIM
Converted Taft From Error of His
 Ways.
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his arrival here late to-day. William T. Bryan received rousing rsceptior, it being homecoming week. large crowd was on hand to greet him. He was provided with special cowooy escort, headed by band ano was driven through the streets to the hotei amid deafening cheers. His speech delivered from the court house steps. was devoted mainly to castigation of MT. raft whom MT. Bryan charged with having borrowed ideas from him.
 '.I can say without immodesty," he declared ..that have had part In his education. have helped to con- vert him from the error of his ways. helped to lead him out into the light on several questions."
 1lr. Taft. however. he said haa not ben an apt pupil, but had been behind his class on several of those questiohs. The remarks were called forth by a recent uttsrance on the part of Mr., Taft that the Democratic candidate had done aothing but talk.
 In part. MT. Bryan spoke as fol-. lowu: s.<
 .:Mr. Taft says that I.haye not done anything but talk. while he has been putting his ideas Into practice in an Administrative way. While 1t ts true that he has held once more than have and therefore, has had more ops portunity to, put Ideas Into pracrfce. have had moro opportunity to sec my ideas borrowed than he has had to see ehis borstwed. K, Ne Ideaa ef Own.
 .What idea Aok his own has he put into practice with success? He was . judge upon the bench. Was the in- Junction idea his7 Or did he get it. practice. but he put it into practice in such . way that he has alionated the wage earners of the country. He has put coloniaiism into practice. Was that his idea? No. he got it from Europe. and initiated in the Philip pines what Great Britain did In this country before the war for independ- ence. Now, let me show what ideas he has borrowed. He has abandoned the idea of a permanent colonial sys- tenn and advocates the ultimate in- dependence of the Filipinos. Where did he get that idea? It Is not orig ina1 with him. He did not get 1t from the Republicans, for they have never put it in their platform. Where did he get 1t? He got 1t fBom the Dem ocratic platform. and have nss1 as much to do with the presentation of the ideas as any one else. He says he is in favor of an income tax. Where did he get tho idea? It Is not his own. It was in the T. V, cratic plat
 
 year. It is not Y his platform. He cannot claim orig lity in the rre -n- tation of this idea. I have spoken =, the subject earlier Han he las ana oftensr than he has and more earnest ly that hs has.
 He says that he Is personally in olined to favor the election of Senators by direct vote of the people. That is not on original Idea with him. It is not with his party It was with the Democratic party, which first se- cured an endorsement of that idea by the House of Representatives in Washington. It is in three Democratic platform and l helped to put 1t there. It was in my first congressional plat form eighteen years ago. and I wrote the platform myself. Publicity as to campaign contributions is another idea that he has borrowed and if he has not borrowed 1t from me. he has bor- rowed 1t from the Democratic plat form and not from his Republican as- sociaaes. for his own party repudated the idea by vote of nine to one. went to Washington and made an ar gument before the committee of the House having this bill in charge some time before his letter to Burrows and the letter to Burrows was not a pub lie one. His convention turned down publicity plank. his associates are not willing to have any publicity at all. He comes half way toward our platform. but he does not come far enough. for we want publicity before the election and he wants 1t after the election. But what is his reason for postponing publication until after the election7 Is 1t the reason that Presi- dent Roosevelt gives that publication before the election would lead to un- just suspicions7
 Challenges Taft.
 'I challenge him to endorse MT. Roosevelt's proposition that the vot- CTS have 80 little sense that they must not be allowed to know who are con- tributing to campaign funds for fear they will draw wrong conclusions. He claims to be in favor of prosecuting the trusts. Where does he get that idea? He cannot get 1t from former Republican platforms. but he can get it from Democratic platforms and from Democratic speeches. Lot him tell of his first utterauce against the trusts and l will promise to find an earlier Democratic. utterance. He is in favor of tarin revision, and he says the revision will probably be down ward If he is in favor of reducing tho tariff, where did he get the idea Not from the Republicans for they have raised the tarin and opposed re. duction. In this reduction he has borrowed another Democratic idea. I will give him credit for being entire ly Republican on the labor question for he has not only refused to borrow Democratic ideas on that subject hut has shown himself to be hostile to nearly every request that the laboring men have made. I will also give him the credit of being Republican on the question of the guaranty of bank de- posits. He stands with the big bank ars auN awainaf the dApoSIforS m tho