The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-01

tour of the East today. made public | the following.
 Appeal to the Public:
 'As the campaign draws to a close, certain issues stand out clearly. The Democratic party attempts to inaugu- rate an era of honesty in politics by compelling the publication of campaign contributions before the election. It seeks to bring the Government nearer to the people by securing the election of United States Senators by direct vote. It seeks to restore competition through Legislation which will make private monopoly impossible. IL seeks to reconcile labor and capitol by leg islatiou which will bring employer and employe together in friendly co-opera- tion, and to this end 1t proposes the creation of a Department of Labor with Secretary of Labor In the Cabi- net; an amendment to the antitrust law which will exclude the labor organiza- ton from the operation of that law. the limitation of the writ of injunction so that it will not be issued in a labor dispute unless conditions are such as would justify an injunction even If there were no labor dispute, and trial by jury in cases Of indirect contempt. It seeks to secure legislation which will create a guarantee fund sufficient to insure all depositors against loss. It seeks to secure a reduction of the tariff by gradual steps until the tariff laws will no longer be made in the in- terest of the few and at the expense of the rest of the people.
 The Democratic party in other words, seeks to secure honesty in gov- ernment through honest politics and popular government through direct elections. IL desires to secure peace in industry, competition in trade. security to despositors and justice to taxpay- CTS. G
 "The Democratic party appeals to the awakened conscience of the nation. and to the sense of justice in the human heart and to the growing desire for brotherhood.
 With a Democratic victory for the National ticket, with Democratic Congress, and with the moral force of popular verdict, I believe we can compel the Senate to yield to the ex- pressed will of the people and the passage of more urgent of the reforms.
 The Democratic party offers the only prospect of remedial legislation, and, while 1t does not go as far as some reformers would like to go, Demo- cratic victory will secure as much as is now attainable; in fact, the only reform that is within reach. We have right to expect, therefore, the CO.,
  forms set forth in our platform. 'The attempt to terrorixe the Ameri- can voter by the threat of a panic will not succeed. We have had three panics in forty-eight years the panic of 1873, the panic of 1S96, and the panic of 1907, and two of these panics came under a high tariff and each of them came under Republican Presi- dents.
 MT. Taft says that q panic will come If I am elected, Let him give bond that this panic will so h he is elected. When he says that a Demos cratic victory will bring panic he expresses an opinion. When I say that a disastrous panic came last Fall with out waiting for a Democratic victory, I state a fact that cannot be disputed. "our platform presents q plan for the restoration of prosperity upon a tpermanent basis--a prosperity in which all will share. The Republican party has no plan that contemplates eth CT the present relief or continued welfare of the people.
 "The Republican candidate has the prestige that comes from the fact that his party is in power, He has the aid of an army of officeh oiders; he has the | support jof all the monopolies and law defyihg trusts; he has a large cam paign fund the source of which his committee refuseS to disclose and most Of the leading newspapers are allied with: him and the interests which he repf6sentss
 "I insist that 1t is not fair for the President to use his ofIice--an office that belongs to all the peopIe--as if it were q party akget or Q personal asset and enter actively Into the campaign; It onfends the sense of justice, and ought to arouse a protest from those who believe that in the selection of