The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-10-30
BRYAN S|DEsTEPPED.
Seven Pointed Queries Propounded
the Democratic Candidate.
Failed to Answer Any of the
Questions.


Omaha Bee. Mr.. Bryan did not see
fit to attempt to answer any Of them.
~ The Questions.
1. You, Mr.. Bryan, are making much
of Democratic friendship for labor.
Why is it that practically no legislation
to protect labor has been enacted in
the southern States in which Demo
Gratis have absolute control? Why are
there no child labor laws in the south?
Why are there no laws to protect wom-
en- wage earners in the south? You
and your fusion friends had absolute
executive and legislative control of
Nebraska for several years. Why was
no legislation to protect labor passed
then? Why did the wage workers of
Nebraska have to wait for succeeding
Republican legislatures to remove the
$1,000 death damage limit, to get an
equitable employers liability act and
to get a child labor law?
2. You, Mr.. Bryan, are trying to
make your paramount issue, Shall the
people ruler? The most advanced
step toward popular rule has been
through the direct primary. Why is
it, Mr.. Bryan, that your fusion friends
when in complete control did not give
Nebraska a direct primary law? Why
is it that the Republicans of Nebraska
had to secure the direct primary law
over the opposition of the Democrats?
Why is it that the progressive Repub-
lican States have enacted direct pri-
mary laws to bring the filling of offices
closer to the people, while the Demo
cratic States of the south direct pri-
mary laws have been enacted avowedly
to disfranchise the people?
8. You, Mr.. Bryan, are bidding for
office on your antitrust remedies.
Why is it that all the effective legisla-
ton against illegal combinations have
been enacted by Republican congresses
and for the most part by Republican
State legislatures, while the Democratic
States have no effective antitrust leg
islation?
f. You. Mr.. Bryan. are bidding for
labor votes by promising to abolish
the writ Of injunction in labor dis
putes. Do you not know that injunc-
ton abuses have been chargeable as
much to State courts as to federal
courts? Can you name single Demo
cratic State which has passed lew
to prevent the abuse Of injunction by
State courts? Why was no such law
passed in Nebraska when your fusion
friends were in complete control?
5. You, Mr.. Bryan, are bidding for
votes on your scheme of bank deposit
guaranty Oklahoma is the only State
that has put such a law on it's statute
books. Why have none Of the other
Democratic States enacted deposit guar
anty laws? You, especially, intro
duced such a bill into congress in the
early COS. Why did you not get your
fusion friends to enact the bill as a
state law when they were in complete
control of Nebraska? A deposit guar
anty bill, which you endorsed, was
offered in congress last winter as a
substitute for the Vreeland bill, but
only a handful of the Democratic con-
gressmen voted for it, the remaining
others voting against it or refusing to
vote. The only Democratic congress
man from Nebraska was one of those
who refused to vote. If your endorse
ment of that bill was unable to make
these Democratic congressman vote for
it last winter, how will you be able
to make them vote for it next winter?
g. You, Mr.. Bryan, are trying to
make much of the popular election of
United States senator's. We have the
statement of Mr.. Tibbles made three
years ago, that a large sum of money,
said to be $4,000 or $4,000, was con-
tributed by Ryan, Belmont & Co." in
1904, through your brother-in-law to-
ward your campaign for United States
senator in Nebraska. Is Mr.. TibbleS
mistaken in his assertions? If so, why
did you not correct them long ago? If
not, why did you not put your name
on the ballot as candidate for senator
and ask a vote of popular preference
under the Nebraska law which gives
you that right? Why did the Demo-
Gratis refuse to submit candidates for
United States senator to popular vote
in Nebraska in 1898, in 1900 and 1904?
Z. You, Mr.. Bryan, are making
much of publicity of campaign contri-
buttons Nebraska has campaign pub
licity law, but it was enacted, as you
know, by Republican legislature after
your fusion state administration had
failed to pass such law. Why is it,
Mr.. Bryan, that your brother-in-law
and Democratic campaign managers
have persistently and wilfully violated
the Nebraska campaign publicity law?
Why, if you are so devoted to campaign
fund publicity, were you so insistent
that the $4,000 contribution to your
campaign made by the Bennett will
should be kept secret?
8. Finally, Mr.. Bryan, will you
please tell us why you keep up the dis
honest fusion masquerade in Nebraska
Why do you permit your Democratic
presidential electors to be misbranded
on the official ballot as populists? Are
they not trying to get votes by false
pretenses? Is it not for the purpose
of fooling populists into voting for you,
who would otherwise vote for the pop
ulist candidate for president? If this
fusion trick as played in Nebraska is
defended by you as legitimate, why do
you not try to play it on other states?
"The Democratic party is absolutely