The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-17
Mk. BRYAN DISCUSSES
 TAF I AND HIS SCARES
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 | ----->-~'->>'----->-- -->---->y--~>----~--------- Of the great throng which had assembled to catch view of Mir Bryan. Among those at the station here to meet him was National Chairman Mack, William J. Corners, chairman of the l democratic state committees; Charles F. Murphy, the Tammany chieftain, and Daniel F. Cohalan.
 The principal speech tonight was in Convention hall, where the democratic state convention finished it's labors to- day, and which was packed to the doors tonight with several thousand on the outside unable to gain admittance MT Bryan was accorded a great demonstra- tion.
 MT. Bryan Speaks.
 Reverting to his prepared speech upon the topic, MT. Taft and His Seares. l" MT. Bryan said:
 MT. Taft confesses that his arguments ! are not convincing when he attempts to introduce scares and to threaten the pub lie with dire disaster if he is not elected A threat is always an admission that ar gument and persuasion have not been eff fective. Measured by this test, MT Taft has already abandoned hope of eonvinc- ing the public of the righteousness of his position. Let us take up the subjects with which he has been dealing
 "On the labor question he declares that our demands for a trial by jury in cases of indirect contempt Is the most insidious attack upon the judicial system in the history of the country. According to MT. Taft it would very much impair the ad- ministration of justice. He seems to for get that the very reform which we in dorse was indorsed by the United States Senate F years ago, and that it was sup ported by such republicans as Senator Sherman n fn1 of Senator Hale of Maine, Senator Hawley of Connecticut Senator Merrill of Yer mont and Senator Knute Nelson of Min nesota.
 Tt is not attacking the courts to re- move abuses that have grown up under existing methods of procedure. His logic, if 1t were sound in cases of indirect con- tempt, would eliminate the jury entirely. The criminal judge does not feel that his dignity is assailed when the accused is given trial by jury; the common law judge does not feel that it is reflection on him for party to a suit to insist upon trial by jury. Why should it seem such an unlawful thing for a jury trial to be granted in a case of indirect contempt?
 Guaranty of Deposits.
 'In discussing the guaranty of bank de- posits he betrays the same tendency to substitute gloomy forbodings for reason and argument. He says If the proposals were adopted exactly as the democratic platform suggests it would bring the whole banking system of the country down in ruin'
 What is this direful thing that will devastate the country if his aspirations for the presidency are thwarted? It Is the protection of the depositor who is invited to entrust his savings to the care of banks. There are fifteen million depositors in the United States and they are calmly assured that the banking sys tenn can only be safe when the de- positors are insecure-that to secure the depositors would make banking insecure. This logic may satisfy the big financers from whom he has drawn his arguments but it will not satisfy the millions whose deposits make banking profitable. His theory is that a guarantee fund would invite carelessness, but he overlooks the fact that mutual responsibility on the part of the banks would compel a stricter su- pervision and a better regulation.
 'In his anxiety to manufacture case