The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-09-05


all parts of the state participated
in the event. Governor Hughes
was the center OF interest and his
speech supporting Taft and assail-
ing Bryan was the main feature.
This was the first appearance of
Hughes in the campaign.
The parade started at ii O'Clock
and 1o.000 mill workers marched.
The city spent $4,000 for decora-
lions.
Foraker was not present. He
said the other day that the COM
mittee intentionally insulted him
by not inviting him to attend.
Hughes spoke as follows:
"The republican party makes an
appeal to public confidence as the
most important political agency for
conservation and progress. BY
virtue of its achievements, leader
ship and aims it stands forth as
an efficient instrument, strong and
capable of administration, as the
safeguard of stability and prosper
fly, which depends upon stability
and as an unrivaled power for the
correction of abuses.
civilian Jennings Bryan is an
eloquent critic, but the record OF
the republican party is known to
all and the American people will
neither be confuser nor misled by
adroit thrusts of pleaders' skill. If
ali that Bryan has favored during
the past IL years had been enacted
into law, we would have been
overwhelmed with disaster and
would regard it our chief business
in the future to find a way of es-
cape from the meshes of i'll con-
sidered legislation. Bryan says the
democratic platform lis binding as
to what it omits as we'll as to what
1t contains
'He might have added it is just
as significant in one case as in the
other. Lincoln said, In the absence
of formal written platforms, the
antecedents of candidates become
their Platforms and it may also
be said that in the presence of for
NAL written platforms. the antece-
dents cannot be forgotten. Silence
is often eloquent. In the election
this fall we choose men, not alb
stracitons. Platforms must be
read in the light of history and may
be eloquent of past mistakes and
misguided agitations which their
sponsors gladly ignore but which
the nation will do we'll to remem-
her,
"The country needs man OF
rock, based In sound conviction and
fundamental principle, in whose
good judgment in any difficulty all
may feel secure and such man
prominently Is William H. Taft
at is not improbable that the
next president will appoint at least
four judges of the supreme court
No one could command higher con
fidence than the republican candi
date for president. Himself a
Judge, learned in the wisdom of the
law, commanded the respect and
esteem of the entire bar of the
country without regard to partisan
division.
"Some questions which are dis
cussed with no little vigor can
hardly be considered campaign is.
sues. Bryan desires that United
States senators be chosen by di-
rect vote. Taft also inclines to IA
vor this course. This can be &C.
complished by constitutional
amendment and as long as there
are IL states who do not desire
the amendment, the constitutional
provision for the election by the
legislators cannot be changed.
Again Bryan objects to the pres
ent rules of the house of repre-
sentatives. How to make the pro
cedure of nearly 400 members
more fully deliberatiye and at the
same time make provision for the
proper dispatch of business is a
question which parliamentarians
may discuss to advantage
Bryan has much to say in re.
gard to corrupt practices and cam
paign expenditures, but he omits to
give due credit to the republican
party for what has been accom-
plished regarding these important
reforms.
Both parties demand revision OF
the tariff but differ in the principle
and aim of such revision. The re.
publican party stands for the policy
of protection and maintains a his.
toric position in the defense OF
American standards of living and
of American scales of wages.
"The democratic party seeks, as
Bryan CONSTITUTES the platform. to
overthrow protection and establish
a revenue tariff threatening the
disiocation of trade and the most
serious disturbance Of industry. II
seeks not tariff revision but tariff
revolution.
"Again the magician of 1896