Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-30

HE WENT AFTER Mr.. BRYAN.
says Diiticnlty WIFI Him is That He is
IS Trying to Dodge His Own
Record.

Record.
Sioux City Ia. Sept %. Tariff re-
Vision mostly downward, but in some
Instances upwartss notably on pot
4 tery--was the keynote of Candidate
4 Tafts 10 speeches today. In none OF
4 them did he forget to go after his
| Nebraska opponent.
The Ohoan's campaign through
South Dakota terminated here to-
4 night where he addressed a tres
mendous audience from the four states
of Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and
\ Minnesota. The meeting was held In
1 the immense train she'd Of the Union
passenger station, and WAS rivaled. III
the days trip from Aberdeen, only by
4 Two meetings held at Mitchell
Senator N,lttrcdge met the Taft
! train at Mitchell and made public ass
surances OF his continued support OF
4 the. ticket. Senator Gamble, his fac
| tonal opponent, and congressman
Rnrke and Martin Joined the train at
\ Aberdeen, as did other state politi-
\ clans. leaving no Republican factionFin
| South Dakota unrepresented in the
demonstration of approval of the ma
tional ticket These incidents and the
i assurances the candidate from those
| in touch with the South Dakota sitna-
4 ton, Mr.. Taft said today We're most
| satisfactory evidences of the value of
| his trip. Besides Mitchell and Sioux
4 City. the largest crowds of the day
\ were at Aberdeen and Yankton, the
4 latter the home of Senator Gamble.
1 Other stops of the special where cheer
ing audiences were Whiting We're at
Parkston. baskerville, Scotland and
! Vermilion.
Judge Taft's voice permitted him to
be heard fairly well. His speaking
4 assistaDt8durinE today IVES Representa-
/ tive Adam Bede of Minnesota. who
/ jokingly referred to the candidate as
4 the upholstered statesman" He said
! the great distinction between Taft and
Bryan was that you could see Taft
1 much further than you could hear him,
! and you could hear Bryan much fur
| Their than you could see him. or ought
to follow him.
The manner of speech Mr.. Taft de-
4 liyerad during the day may be learned
i from the following extracts of remarks
/ made at different places along the road.
4 His speeches at Mitchell and at Sioux
\ City We're along the same linesi Is
MR.. TAFTss SPEECH
The difficulty with Mr.. Bryan. my
distinguished opponent is that he Is
engaged in trying to avoid his record.
and the Republican party and it's can
lSdidate are trying to- stand by It's !
record Mr.. Bryan, / believe, yester-
i day invited my consideration to a
i number Of issues but + don't think
i that he dwelt. with that intense en-
phasls Of which he Is capable, on the
condition the farmers We're inSw henS he
Il was, SO to speak, at the helm. j don't
4 think he called your attention to the ef-S
4 feet on the market price of farmers
4 produce under, the Gorman-Wilson
tariff bill of which he was one of the
4 chief advocates. He did not refer!sto
1 the fact, with any degree of signiti-
canoe, that wheat. under the Influence
Il of that great tariff niea sure went down
below 80 cents. He did not call your
4 attention to the fact that corn WAS at
4 p cents; that oats was ut 10 cents: nor
did he dwell on the fact that after the
Il Democratic party. under hiA leadership.
4 had brought about such q condition of
affairs. that then. In order to help us
all&out of difficulty, he proposed
method byswhich we should repudiate
half our debts, and in that way stagger
back to prosperity.
Il don't think he called your atten-s
a ton to the fact that within two years
Il after the gold standard was adopted
"A ain 500 every one of the prophecies
which he made as to what would hap
pen unless you adopted free silver was
refuted by the event. don't think
i
II paramount issue. which, together with
free silver, was brought to your at
tenton in 1900 ] don't think he in-4
vited your consideration tos$the fact.
that on the 4th day of July when he.
was notified in Lincoln Of his second
nomination, helsaid that unless we got
out OF the Philippine islands, unless
u we abandoned that awful issue, that
q awful policy of imperialism, by elect
ing him. we should not celebrate with
q true patriotism.
II am interrogated as to whether the
tariff should be revised down or up
wards. My own impression is, with
4 out being familiar with the schedules
81 as an expert, that in most cases the
operation of the protective tariff has
been normal. the cost of production has
been reduced, and therefore the revis--
4 ion with respect TO those schedules
should be downward. There are a few.
pottery is one-in which no such.
4 change has taken place Indeed the
4 change has been the other way and
in that respect probably the tariff
4 ought to be raised.
'.Mr.5 BRYAN says that we may not
& expect anything from the Republican
8 party, that it is governed by the pro-
A tected interests and that they contrib
ute to the campaign fund. Ii they do,
I am glad to advise YOU that the cam
\ paign fund this year9is not 1latterings
4
4 ried on more economically than this
campaign Secondly, I want to call
a YOUR attention to the fact that when
Ilhe Republican party rises to bring
about trusted promise, 1t enforces
that promise against any corporate in
nuence. us it has done during the adj
ministration OF Theodore Roosevelt
Il and, following the example of Theo-3
dore Roosevelt, 1t Will be my pleasure
and my duty to insist. SO far as the
executive head of the nation and the
Republican party can gather such IN
guence. to bring about an honest aud
thorough revision of the tariff OH thu
& one hand protecting the Industries by
the method $of protection explained,
and on the other seeing that that
measure is not too great. in the lis
ii terest in the consumer.
Il Judge Taft slept in his private car
on a quiet siding at South Sioux City.
With nine or ten speeches in Nebraska,
he. will reach Lincoln the home of MIR
Bryan, at 3 O'Clock tomorrow after
noon, where he spends the night.