The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-07
REPUBLICANS
 ARE SCORED MT. Bryan Speaks at
 Denver. SHOWS UP SECRETARY TAFT Says Democrats Will Enter Cam 9 paign With Confidence. Says Taft Is Antagoristic To Labor weak On Trust Question And Lacking Tn Po.itiveness On
 Tariff Question.

Denver. Colo, April Civilian J.
 Bryan closed day of activity by ad-
 dressing $50 persons tonight in the
 spacious Fl Jebel Temple banquet hall.
 in addition to hundreds of others who
 flied every seat in the galleries.
 The banquet had been arranged by
 the Bryan Democratic Club of Colorado
 and it's president, former Congressman
 John S. Shaffroth presided. Every
 thing was in readiness to serve the
 banquet when the half hundred or
 more walters who had been engaged became involved in dispute with the
 caterer and went on strike. After par leying for an hour or more this portion of the affair was abandoned and witn- out the guests having eaten. the speechmaking began.
 | Mfr. Bryan said: The quantitive theory of money has been proven to be correct. for we have fifty per cent
 per capita more money in circulation now than we had in 1898. and with that increase we have had higher
 prices and better times. The silver question is no longer an issue but It's elimination Is due to the fact that we have secured from another source the increase in currency which was expect ed from the restoration of bimetallfsm' But the money question is not the
  has been proven correct by the course of events. Our protest against the trusts has been shown to. be well founded. and the whole country now understands that private monopoly is indefensible and uncomfortable Tariff Question.
 "On the tariff question also the
 Democrats position Is being strength ened by the demands of Republicans. Secretary Taft started out to make his campaign on a platform which de- clared for. tariff revision, the revision to be postponed until after the eIec- tion. As he travelled oyer the coun- try he found the tariff reform sentf- ment so strong that he finally reached the conclusion that tariff reform Is SO argent that a special session of | Congress slsA Aealxs- he held 1pamadiatelY | after the fourth of March. But even | more significant is the surrender made | hy Vice President Fairbanks, for his | State coilNehtion declares in favor of l d special session of Congress to be | called immediately after the election | four months earlier than Secretary | Taft special session. And we have | two candidates to hear from yet. It Is gratifying to see Republicans vieing | with each other in their advocacy of l tariff reforms. But the people are not | likely to entrust the reduction of the | tariff to the men who are not willing | to hayestariff reform at once and who havAsanet discussed the tariff until the exigencies of the campaign made | 1t necessary.
 "on the question of railroad regula- tions we have another democratic vim dications The democrats have been asking for. twelve years and when at | last the president, taking his inspira- ton from the democratic platform asked for an enlargement of the scope of the interstate commerce law. he re- ceived more loyal support from tne democrats than the republicans put railroad regulation Is not yet effected | We must know how much the railroads are worth and we must prevent the | future of watered stocks. But since 1 the states began to legislate on the subject of railroad regulation the railroad managers began to demand the surrender by the states Of power
 to legislate in regard to railroads,
 and insist that congress shall exercise exclusive control.
 Incorporation of Railroads.
 ''The president has yielded to this demand and recommended the national | incorporation of railroads and as sec- | retary Taft is endorsing the presi- dents policies, he is supposed to favor | this The national incorporation of
  than forward and it must be resisted | by the democrats.
 ''Secretary Taft seems to be regard ed as the representative of the re- | form element and yet he has so little of the reform spirit and his record is
 so barren of any work on behalf of re- form that he will hardly satisfy the 1 expectations raised among republi- cans by some of the presidents regu- lations His advocacy of perpetual franchises in the Philippine islands, coupled with a perpetual guarantee ot income shows that he looks at the corporation question from the stand
 point of the corporation rather than | from the standpoint of the public.
 "On the subject of imperialism the last nine years have shown the folly of a colonial policy. We are paying
 at least one hundred million a year for