The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-10-08
| 0INMEETNG
IS BIG one
Court House Proves Entirely
Too Small for the
Crowds.
HUBBARD SPEAKS TOO.
Scholarly and Mastery Adj
dress is Made by Hon.
Seth Low.
HUBBARD SPEAKS TOO.

damned to Sunocation, almost
packed like sardines. many striving
for admission to the court room and
hundreds upon hundreds on the court
! house steps and in the front yard and
Main and Third streets constituted
the situation ut the opening of the
big Republican rally here Wednes-
day night. Men from every section of
the county and some prominent state
men were among those in attendance.
Owing to the immense numbers of
people many were deprived of the
opportunity to hear the speeches.
the regret is. An overflow meeting
had not been arranged for and the
big crowd outside left without being
addressed.
The speakers of the evening were
Hon. Seth Low, ex-mayor of New
York. and Congressman w. P. Hub
bard. of Wheeling, candidate for re-
election in this congressional district.
Senator Harvey w. Harmer was the
presiding officer and introduced Mr..
Hubbard, who in turn introduced
Mr.. Low at the conclusion of his own
speech.
Mr.. Low said he found it an inspir-
alton to speak in a room dedlcaLsd to
the administration of Justice and that
it seemed to him that every man, even
he who spoke on political subjects,
should there be just to his adversary
as well as to his friends. and he prom
Used to present the Democratic views
of the campaign as fairly as the Re-
publican views.
New idea Every Wednesday,
Mr.. Bryan. he said, seemed to him
to be like Dickens's Micawber. who
always paid his debts with I. o. US
and then thanked God the debts were
liquidated. Bryan's assertion that
the Democratic platform is binding
as to what it omfts as we'll as what 1t
contains means. likely, that the past
doesn's count. The defeat of sixteen
to-one, imperialism, government own
ershfp and other Bryan issues and
Mr.. Bryan's readiness to accept any
popular issue in the hope of person.
al success were contrasted with Gro
yer Cleveland's firm and unchanging
stand on the tariff question, in spite
OF defeat. Mr.. Bryan reminded him
very much of a sign he saw hanging
outside of vaudeville thRater: "a
New Idea Every Wednesday"
Let us take up the subject of
trusts without regard to party defin-
ition. There are three things upon
which the Americans are sensitive,
and Justly so: first. they believe that
some large corporations have taken
of their strength to obtain
better railroad rates than their small
er competitors second, that these
corporations were not content Win
fair competition and have used money
for legislation favorable to them
selves and to prevent legislation un-
favorable to themselves; third, that
they have taken advantage of their |
power to make us pay higher prices
for their products than we should
pay.
Public and Private Business.
This country is a great nation now. |
We connot operate it upon the basis
of a peanut stand. Times have
changed. The era of combination is |
here. 1t is a new force given for the !
use of society just as were steel and
electricity Having found out what
the degrees are. we are to learn what |
to do to stop them. There is a diff !
ference between ordinary business
and public business. That of a pub
lie nature should be equitable; the !
silk manufacturer who imports n |
million dollars worth OF silk should |
pay the same custom duties as he
who imports only $1,000 worth. The |
man who buys five HUNDRED thousand |
two cent postage stamps pays two
cents each for them, just the same |
price as the man who buys one pays |
and should pay. Business in the ma
ture of public service demands that |
all should pay alike. The practice of
this doctrine is what has largely
made Theodore Roosevelt the idol of
the American people," Mr.. Low re-
cited what had been done thought the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
legislation and execu-
tive action in preventing railway re-
bates, and said he believed the bad
habit of discrimination had beGn
about broken up. We have gone far
enough to see we are on the right
track, he said.
Influence ON Legislation.
AS to the improper influence on
state an national Legislation Mr.. Low
said that the Republican party. |
through the leadership of Roosevelt
had concentrated public attention !
and awakened public conscience In
regard to this evil and Is effectually |
it, Bryan admits the |
same when he claims to be Roose-
YeIt's heir; but Roosevelt wisely dis |
claims the relationship The Repub-
lican party is Roosevelt's heir, for 1t |
had Endorsed all his policies and ex-
poets to continue them. Regarding |
Rryan's continual clamor about the /,
publication of campaign contrIbu-
tions by the Republican party after |
election, Mr.. Low said it would be
done by that party under the laws of
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