Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-17
NAME CHANLER
FOR GOVERNOR
NEW YORK CONVENTION OF
DEMOCRATS CLOSED
FULL TICKET NOMINATED BY
AccLAMATloN
w. ]. Bryan and Judge Alton 5. Parker
Address Great Gathering-Nebras-
kan Accorded a Wonderful
Demonstration
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its congressional committee in lsVo
called for dollar contributions from in
dividuals to aid in the election of the
Republican members of congress.
And Roosevelt Subscribed
"The president himself subscribed
a dollar and few others whose names
were advertised. and then, the publi-
cation of subscriptions ceased ana
the chairman of the congressional COM
mittee. now the Republican candidate
for vice president, went down, as hau
his predecessors of old, into Wall street
to get the money with which to 'influ-
ence' the doubtful districts.
Judge Taft in his letter of accept.
ance admits that the great majority OF
the combinations in the restraint OF
trade. the formation of which the high
tariff especially invites, have arisen
within the last ten years. During all
that time sthe Republican party mas
controlled both the federal government
and the government of substantially all
those states which have created or toll
Grated them, for we have yet to hear OF
their creation or liberation In the
southern states which are under DEM
ocratic control.
Essential to Liberty
''It is not only the highest desire of
all good citizens of all parties whatso-
ever that our political life should be
clean, but it is essential to the liberties
of the people. That result will not be
accomplished until business and poll
tics are disyoked by statutes the vio-
lation of which will result in imprison-
ment. We can never hope for that re-
suit while the Republican party is in
power" :.
1t was at this point that Judge Par
lSer made his attack on Sherman, and
then turned to President Roosevelt and
Mr.. Hartman, saying;
Here we see a man of great ambi-
ton, as we are told of lofty ideals. be-
come so accustomed to this party Gus
tom that he does not hesitate to invite
Mr.. Hartman to washington to secure
his good offices for money raising pur-
poses, taking indeed the precaution alb
solutely to assure his coming by sug-
gesting in letter that after the cleo
ton he desired to consult him about
the railroad feature of his message.
What may have occurred at that
meeting we do not know, but that it
was sufficiently agreeable to Mr.. Har-
riman to lead to his contribution and
raising Immediately upon his return to
New York the sum of s265,000 we do
know, as also that a quarter of a mil
lion OF that money was scattered over
this state of New York for practical
uses by practical men,"
Arrival of Leader
A speech by w. ]. Bryan, Demo-
cratic candidate for president, in this
city tonight on MIR. Taft and his
scares" and two overflow talks formed
the climax of an eventful day in the
present campaign.
Arriving shortly after o'clock and
met by thousands of persons, Demo-
cracy's leader was accorded an ova;-
tion. Along with him from Syracuse
came the new Democratic nominee for
governor of New York, Lewis StuyEes-
ant Chanler.
Among those at the station here to
Mack, William j. Conners chairman OF
the Democratic state committees:
Charles F. Murphy, the Tammany'
chief, and Daniel r, Cohalan.
The principal speech tonight was in
the convention hall, which was packed
to the doors tonight. with several
thousand on the outside unable to gain
admittance.
Mr.. Bryan was accorded a great
demonstration.
MIR. Bryan's Speech
Reverting to his prepared speech
upon the topic "Mr. Taft and His
Scares," Mr.. Bryan said
"Mr. Taft confesses that his argu-
ments are not convincing when he at
tempts to introduce scares and to
threaten the public with disaster If he
Is not elected. The threat is always
an admission that argument and per-
suasion have not been effective.
Measured by this test, Mr.. Taft has
already abandoned hope of convincing
the public of the righteousness of his
position Let us take up the subjects
with which he has been dealing. On
the labor question he declares that our
demands for a trial by jury in cases
of indirect contempt of court is the
most insidious attack on the judicial
system in the history of the country.
According to Mr.. Taft, it would very
much impair the administration of JUS
tice. He seems to forget that the very
reform which we indorse was indorsed
by the United States senate twelve
years ago.
Would Eliminate Jury
'EIis logic, If it were sound, in cases
of direct contempt would eliminate the
jury entirely.
"The criminal judge does not feel
that his dignity is assailed when the
accused is given a trial by jury. the
common law Judge does not feel that
1t is a reflection on him for a party to
a suit to insist upon trial by jury; why
should 1t seem such an unlawful thing
for a jury trial to be granted In a case
of indirect contempt?
"In discussing the guaranty of bank
deposits he betrays the same tendency
to substitute gloomy forebodings for
reason and argument.
"What Is this difficult thing that will
devastate the country If his aspira-
tions for the presidency are thwarted?
1t is the protection of the depositor
who is invited to intrust his savings to
the care of banks There are $4,000, 900
depositors in the United States and
they are calmly assured that the bank
ing system can only be safe when the
depositors are insecure-that to secure
the depositors would make the banking
insecure. This logic may satisfy the
big financiers from whom he has
drawn his arguments, but 1t will not
satisfy the millions whose deposits
make banking profitable.
That Trust Scare
"The third scare presented by Mr..
Taft is in the discussion of the trust
question. He says that Mr.. Roosevelt
would compel the trusts to conduct
their business in a lawful manner and
secure the benefits of their operations,
the maintaining of the prosperity of
the country of which they are an inn
portant parts while Mr.. Bryan would
destroy the entire business in order to
stamp out the evils which they have
practiced'
I'm using this emphatic language
Mr.. Taft has rendered us a service be-
cause he admits that the Republican