Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-17

out loud-the people have known where
he stood.
Mr. Bryan's ideas are visionary and
impracticable.
"The real work which the Republi-
cans have in view for the next ad-
ministration is turif revision The
tariff was introduced by Republicans
and is therefore looked upon as
purely Republican measure, but since
the days of it's inception 1t has grown
to be a national question, past party
lines and party interests, yet IL there
is revision and readJustment 1t must
come from Republican sources. And 1t
will come-already committees are In.
vestigating operations and effect OF
existing schedules.
1.-THE Democratic issues Of past cam
patgns are all gone, and the present
issue, bank guarantee, Is already
failure, as shown in Oklahoma, where
1t had it's tryout.
"I wish 1 could give you the best l
have gotten from this Investigation
how 1t seems that the great moral,
economic, sincere questions are not
confined to party, are not party issues
| but are national; that the heart OF our
government is sound, our ideals high
and the general trend of our ambitions
courageous and wholesome.
1--WE have two parties with their char
acteristics, capacity and incapacity.
works or words. redemption of pledges
or makers of promises. Two candi-
dates-Mr. Bryan, picturesque, force
full, versatile and dominant, agitatins
If not an agitator, who would rather ce
president than be right; Mr. Taft, able,
judicial, diplomatic, as strict as Purl-
tan, as jolly as monk, accustomed 10
being held responsible"
Mrs Robertson had understood that
the speaking was to be extempore ana
had no paper, while in addition she
has been for weeks in constant attend
ance upon her mother, who is seriously
i'll, so that she has had little time TO
give to preparation for the discussion
of the morning. From the first how
ever, she carried her hearers with her,
and, brilliant, witty and incisive, thrust
again and again at weak points IN her
opponents argument.
"As Mrs Clark has told the story of
the Republican party so would l relate
that of the Democratic party II time
permitted, but it's history goes back too
far-back to the time when the Demo-
cratic party formed this young re-
public, years before the Democratic
south gave Lincoln to the nation" was
Mrs. Robertson's opening.
Taking up the claim Of the first
speaker concerning the Republican
PLATFORM, Ino IOllOWll5 Wh"o HuO1SN
from that document:
Notwithstanding the indefensible
f1libustering of the Democratic minor
ity in the house of representatives
during the last session many whole
some, laws were enacted.
1--WE call the attention f the Amer
lean people to the fact that none OF
the great measures here advocated oy
the Republican party could be in
augurated and none of the forward
steps proposed could be taken under
Democratic administration. Present
policies absolutely require the con-
tinuance in power of that party which
believes in them and which possesses
the capacity to put them into opera
ton.
"The Republican party declares un-
equivocally for a revision of the tariff
by a special session of congress inn
mediately following the inauguration
of the president
"The Democrats are a strong con-
servative people, the Democratic plat
form is American and finds its echo
in the hearts of the American people.
'The Republicans have declared for
a special session in which to consider
the revision of the tariff-that party
has been in power continuously for
eleven years, why hasn't the tariff
been revised during all these years?
Was 1t because of the presence or
'filibistering Democratic minorityT
We have been told this morning that
Democratic issues of past presidential
issues are dead The free silver issue
is dead because kindly Mother Nature
opened her storehouse opportunely and
discovered gold in the Klondyke--
otherwise the question of free silver,
or more money in circulation, would
still be a live issue.
I'VE have been told this morning
that Bryan is visionary. This quality
is a gift of God with which leaders
are endowed, artists. poets, inventors
and statesmen all being dreamers.
"Was the bank guarantee law
failure in Oklahoma? That must be
the reason why bank guarantee has
been Incorporated in the state consti-
tuition of Kansas, Oklahoma's nearest
neighbor to the north"
In closing Mrs. Robertson said, IT
believe in the higher ideals Of Democ-
racy and in closing will quote the
words of that great apostle of the gem
tiles, who stood the most dramatic