The Washington times., 1908-10-31
Calls President Unfair for
Using Office to Help in
Electing Taft.
ASSERTS HIS PARTY
STANDS FOR PURITY
Candidate Winds Up His Cam
paign in Indiana With State
ment TO Voters.

WINCHESTER, Ind, Oct. 3l-Wil-
liam J. Bryan. the Democratic candi-
date. in winding up his tour of the
East today, made public the follow
ing:
AS the campaign draws 10 a close.
certain issues stand out clearly. The
Democratic party attempts to inaugu-
rate an era OF honesty in politics by
completing 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.
1t seeks to restore competition through
legislation which will make a private
monopoly impossible It seeks TO recon-
Gle labor and capital by legislation
which viii bring the employer and
employe together in friendly co-opera-
ton, and 10 this end it proposes the
creation OF a department of labor with
a secretary OF labor in the Cabinet: an
amendment 10 the antitrust law which
will exclude the labor organization from
the operation of that law; the lfmita-
tion OF the writ of injunction so that
it will not be issued in labor dis
pute 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.
On Bank Guaranty.
1T seeks to secure legislation which
VIII create a guaranty fund sufficient 10
insure all depositors against loss. It
seeks TO secure a reduction OF the tariff
by gradual steps until the tarim laws
viii no longer be made in the interest
Of the few and at the expense Of the
rest Of the people.
The Democratic party. I'm other
words seeks 10 secure honesty in gov
ernment through honest politics and
popular government through direct cleo
tOns- Il desires 10 secure peace in
industry, competition in trade, security
To depositors, and justice TO taxpayers.
The Democratic party appeals 10 the
awakened conscience Of the nation and
the sense OF justice in the human heart
and 10 brotherhood.
With a Democratic victory for the
national ticket, with a Democratic Con
gTess. and with the moral force Of a
popular verdict, I believe we can com.
pei the Senate to yield TO the expressed
VIII Of the people and permit the pas
sage OF more reforms.
Is the Only Hope.
The Democratic platform offers the
only prospects Of remedial LEGISLATION,
and while it does not 90 as far as some
reformers would like to go. a Demo
cratic victory will secure as much OF
reforms as is now attainabIe-in fact.
the only reform that is within reach.
We have a right to expect therefore,
the cooperation Of those who favor the
reforms set forth in our platform.
The attempt to terrorize the Ameri-
can voter by the threat of a panic will
not succeed We have had three pan
lcs IN forty eight years, the panic OF
1913, the panic OF 1898, and the panic
of 1907. Each one OF these panics came
under a high tariff, and two of them
came under Republican Presidents. Mr
Tam says that q panic will come if I
this panic viii 90 II he is elected When (
he says that a Democratic victory. will |
bring panic. he expresses an opinion. /
when l say that disastrous panic !
came last fall without waiting for a 1
Democratic victory, state a fact that /
cannot be disputed.
What Platform Means.
Our platform presents q plan for the 1
restoration of prosperity upon a perma- |
nent basis-a prosperity in which all /
VIII share. The Republican party has /
10 plan that contemplates either pres
ent relief or welfare of the people.
The Republican candidate has the
prestige that comes from the fact that I
his party is in power He has the aid |
CT an army OF OfnCehOlders. he has the !
support of all the mOnOpOlieS and law
defying trusts; he has a large campaign
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 represents
I insist shet 1t is not fair for the Presf-
dent 10 use his Ofdce-an office that be-
longs to all the pcOple-aS If il were a
laTty asset or a personal asset, aud en-
ter actively into the campaign. 1t Of
fends the sense of justice and ought
10 arouse a protest from those who be
lieve that in the selection of the chief
executive, the peOnle should be absO-
lutely free to choose whom they please.
''W J. BRYAN"