New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-06-24
W. ]. Bryan Calls It
4tStand Pat Convention.
Nebraska Connoner Charges that the Party Went Back
on the Roosevelt Policies and Enters the Coming
Contest Heavily Handicapped.

In his editorial review of the work
of the Chicago convention William
Jennings Bryan, who in all probablll-
ty will be Taft's opponent, proclalms
that there has been executed a retro
grade movement on all policies OF re-
form. Says the Commoner:
saThe republicans who attended the
national convention as spectators and
Joined in the demonstration in favor
of President Roosevelt and Senator La
Toilette must have felt indignant as
they watched the panic-stricken dele
gates running over each other in their
effort to get away from the La Toilette
reforms, some OF which had been in
dorsed by the president himself. Con-
gresham Cooper of Wisconsin, repre-
senting the La Toilette men, brought
E in minority report and one signed by
himself alone. Fifty-two members OF
the committee signed the majority re-
port and one signed the minority re-
port. The republican party will find
the ratio of 81 to l a very embarras-
sing one to deal with in the coming
campaign. Mr.. Cooper's report con-
tanned declaration in favor of pub
licity as to campaign funds. 1t was
lost by vote of $50 to "a, more than
nine to one. and yet the president has
been advocating legislation in favor
of publicity as to campaign contribu-
tions, and Secretary Taft wrote let
ter to Mr.. Burrows advocating the
passage of publicity bill. How for
tunate it was that Secretary Taft's let
ter was finally discovered and pub
lished
ssSenator Burrows, the man to whom
the Taft letter was addressed, was the
temporary chairman of the conven-
ton, and the convention over which he
presided turned down the publicity
plank by vote Of 9 to l.
"Who will deny that, on this sub
ject, the republican party is retreat
ing?
"Another plank of the La Toilette
platform authorized the ascertaining
of the value of the railroads. This
plank was lost by a vote of Gil to 63-
nearly Is to land yet President
Roosevelt has advocated this very
proposition. Here is a retreat on the
railroad question.
'tThe injunction plank adopted by
the republican convention is retreat
from the position taken by Mr.. Taft in
his speeches, although neither Of them
went as far as they ought to have gone
in their effort to prevent what is known
as government by Injunction. Here is
the third retreat.
ssThe president has advocated the
income tax as means of preventing
swollen fortunes and of equalizing the
burdens of government. The republi-
can platform is silent on the subject.
Was the president right in the posi-
ton he took? If so, then the conven-
ton was wrong in not ihdorsing him.
Will the republican voters follow the
president III this just demand, Or will
they follow the republican orgaDiza-
! ton in retreating from it?
s'The president advocated an inheri-
| lance tax, but the republican conven-
ton is silent on that subject. Was the
president ahead Of the republican par.
ty in advocating this reform, or has
the republican party receded from the
presidents position?
"Did the president give a false
alarm on. this question, Or has the
party sounded a retreat?
In the presidents message to con
gress last spring he presented an in
dictment against the conspiracy
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