Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-23
1AF1 Turns ON BRYAN
Depicts Nebraskan as Hopping
From One Issue to Another
in Quest of Votes
HIS RECORD ONE OF FAILURE

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Hi. Predictions Have Failsd-6ryar
a Sophist.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 2S.-Willlan
Howard Taft last might turned aside
from the discussion of the issues o.
the campaign and made William len.
nings Bryan, his democratic opponent
the object of verbal onslaught.
Mr.. Taft's attack on Bryan's pas
record and his views in the presen
campaign was made to the delegates O.
the National League of Republican
clubs just before Mr.. Taft prepared
for his "trip to Chicago and the swing
about the middle western states.
Bryan's record, his advocacy of fret
silver, Of imperialism, and of the gov
eminent ownership Of railroads, hi:
record In congress, his trip aroune
the world; all these things were
grouped together by Mr. TAFT in reply
ito his self propounded question, VIVA
do think Of Bryant"
The answer to the question was un-
rntstabable. According to the repub.
.lican candidate his opponent is g
dreamer, a man Of promises but not
OF fulfillment; candidate whose
..,- a Jn%S re he
republicans should win, were discount
ed by years Of prosperity under repub-
lican rule.
4 In 10000 word speech Mr.. Taft
discussed Bryan and the leading is
sues. The discussion of the issues
lasted about half an hour. Mr.. Bryan
was the topic of discussion the rest OF
the time.
Wide Open Campaign Promised.
With William r. Hearst reading Let
tiers that have caused Senator Foraker
and Governor stell to hurry out EN- :
phatic replies, With Mr.. Bryan and
President Roosevelt challenging each
other, Mr. Taft's efforts to enliven the
campaign suffered not i'm comparison
with the strenuous efforts of the 9TH
ers to wake things up"
His address was the third one of the
day and was made at the meeting Of
the National League of Republican
clubs.
Before his evening address Mr. Taft
had made a short address to the dele
gates In the morning urging upon them
the need Of club organi zatdon in
campaign. Then later he spoke to the
delegates Of the negro matt onal Baptist
convention, in session ait Lexington,
KY, THE members of which came to
Cincinnati to see the republican can
didates.
Both these speeches were very short
Mr.. Taft had reserved his full fire for
the evening and then he turned it to-
ward the Nebnaskan.
Discusses Bryan by Contrast.
The Bryan feature of Mr.. Taft's
speech came ais the conclusion of a
10000 word address, in which the re-
publican party were contrasted witt
what the speaker termed the demo
cratic record Of Opposition, and prom
Use.
Turning now to the other picture
said Mr.. Taft, after his review Of the
issues, what is it that we have TO ex-
pect from Mr.. Bryan? Have we any
thing to expect but what he promises
Have we anything to expect but what
is based upon his eloquence and his
adroitness as a public critic? Has he
ever given any practical demonstration
Of his ability to meet problems and
solve them?
'sHas he ever done anything but
formulate propositions in his closet OF
an utterly impracticable character
largely with a view to attracting votes
by their plausibility, and very little
with view to their operation? By
their fruits We shall know them
Calls Opponents Record Failure.
what is the history Of Mr.. Bryan
1T is, from beginning to end, a record
of failures on public, questions. We
find him first in congress, in the sec
ond administration Of Mr.. Cleveland, q
member of the ways and means COM
mittee, and most active in formula ting
the provisions Of the German Wilson
tariff bill. After five months debate
it passed both houses and came to
Mr.. cleveland in such a shape that
he denounced it as piece Of perfdy
"It leveled the industries of this
country to the ground. It threw out
of employment millions of wage-earn-
ers. It destroyed all business profit
Farm products, for lack of market, fell
to a point never so low in forty years
iCoxey's army marched from the west
to Washington to protest against a
government under which such things
were possible.
Defeated "only Great Democrat"
after having assisted in this sui
cidal policy, after the country was
nearly dead, after the farmers and the
wage-earners were staggering under
debt and mortgage, penury and almost
starvation, Mr.. Bryan defeats the eff
forts Of the only great democrat they
have had in the party for many years
Grover Cleveland, and hurls at him
billingsgate and denunciation, for what
reason?
Because he opposes Mr.. Bryan's pet
hobby, that of the free coinage Of sill
yer, without the consent of any other
nation.
''Mr. Bryan announced that the gold
standard had slain its tens of shous-
ands where protection had slain its
thousands, and he abandoned the issue
of protection and free trade, of tariff
for revenue, which now so attracts
him, and he went into the business OF
trying to persuade the people of this