The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-22
BEN PULLMAN IS. BACK LIME AGAIN vitio!le 5 {l-.s.; sslI :lI Says Bryan Is
 7 ss'Of Election SPICY COMMENT IS MADE TilInan scoffs at Plan of Republicans to Announce Contributors to Cam
 paian Fund After the Eee-
 ton In November,
SPICY COMMENT IS MADE

Washington, October 1.--(Special )--Sen- ator Tillman arrived here today from New York. having yesterday returned from Europe. From what he has heard and read he is certain Bryan will be elect ed. The South Carolinian indulged in some spicy comments when asked for his views regarding the political contest. Someone remarked that the republicans were collecting a great deal of money and that it had been charged they would try to buy the election.
 "Whered they get it?" fiercely demand ed the senator, quoting famous phrase. My boy, that is question that will never be answered by the republican party. They can't answer 1t and they will not try"
 'They say they are going to make the list of contributors and the amounts pub lie after election" suggested the inter- viewer.
 Don't you fool yourself into believing it will be an honest list" said he. Such list as that made public by the republic an party will never be an honest list un- til dishonesty in connection with it is
 
 Publicity Bill. My bill for the publicity of campaign contributions passed the Senate last ses- sion and went over to the House. And look what happened to it there. They hitched it to the Crumpacker provision for an investigation of election methods in the south. In the south, mind you. the only place at the present time where elections are clean and honest. ''But it strikes me that the most ter l rible thing about this proposition is not that an attempt will be made to buy the election, but that there is Qlse zappositicp that the people can be bought. "Is it not difficult to Imagine that the people will tanely submit to the Mexican izing of the government by President I Roosevelt? And yet that is what they will help to do if they elect Taft, for Roose- welt nominated him and Is managing his campaign.
 President Diaz always names himself as his own successor. Roosevelt named Taft. There is mighty little difference in the manner of procedure. We have had big dose of imperial ism,' he added and for one don't want any more."
 Senator Tillman suggested that there was something else folks should not be fooled about
 Papers Criticised
 Most of the newspapers" he declared,
 say that Taft is certain to be elected Whether or not he will be elected, I don t want to forget that the newspapers are not saying 1t because they think it is true They are saying it in the hope of making 1t true.
 "The republican press is amusing. Look at the way all the papers went after Bryan in previous years, roasting him for campaigning and speech-makng, and generally on account of what they termed
 lack of dignity You don't hear anything like that this year, do you?
 Then, why? Just because MT. Taft is trying to do MT. Bryan one better and has talked himself into such shape that he has to travel with a medical specialist and have his throat sprayed every couple of hours.
 'I don't wonder, a the senator continued, that MT. Bryan has been making a hit with his utterances on the subject of gov ernment guaranty of bank deposits. 1 can imagine that people who just recent ly were squeezed to death in & republic an panic and couldn't even draw their own money out of the banks are in some- thing of receptive mood for any good remedy that is proposed by the democratic candidate for the presidency"
 Although greatly improved in health, Senator Tillman does not expect to do any campaign work. He left for his home this evening. w. s.