The Sauk Centre herald., 1908-10-29
allowed to talk.

allowed 10 Idlk.
He said that, in discussing nation
al politics, the witnesses he would
call would be from the ranks of the
republican party. He referred to the
Interests" as baneful. East of the
Alleghenies, they were in the saddle;
west of that line the agricultural dis
tlicts were powerful. The interests
represented by wall street, were in
control of one of the six political par
ties. He then named in turn five OF
the presidential candidates, asking ii
Wall street favored any one of them,
and answering in the negative. He
enumerated Watson, Debs, Hisgen
Chafin and Bryan. For any or all OF
these, the speaker averred, the I'm
terests" have no use. Having adyanc-
ed thus far, the speaker shouted:
There is only one more left. don't
have to tell you who that is. / can
spell his name with four letters"
Then a little further on he called
Tafts name. This was all put in a
humorous way that elected laughter
and applause from even those was
differed with him, showing the low
ans ability as a campaign orator.
Gen. Weaver then addressed himself
to proving his proposition that Taft
is the candidate of the Interests >
He said the executive committee OF
the republican national committee is
composed of trust magnates, and nam
ed some of them, including Du Pont
Of the powder trust. He said the
president has pending against Du Pom
proceedings of investigation. He want
ed to know if Du Points appointment
on the executive committee was a
decent appointment. Considerable
time was spent on this point.
Gen. Weaver then took up the mat
ter of the publicity of campaign con-
tribunons and claimed that the demo
cratic platform requiring the publi-
cation of the names of contributors
with the amounts given is right. He
said the democratic national conven-
tion was unanimous in favor of this
plank. Taft, he said, replied to Bry-
ans letter on the subject to the effect
that he favored the plan. An effort,
said Gen. Weaver, was made by La
Toilette to have congress legislate on
this subject, but it was unsuccessful.
The national republican convention,
said the speaker, voted down a propo-
sition to publish the list of campaign
contributions before election. ~
The speaker went at some length
irto the subject of campaign. contri-
buttons, reading what he said was an
extract from letter from President
Roosevelt to Mr.. Bryan, in which he
referred to Hartman contribution to
the 1904 campaign fund, and saying
further that in that year when Parker
made the charge that Hartman had
contributed and Mr.. Roosevelt had
called him liar. The speaker said
that Hartman had been summoned
to the White House by the president
and that in short time a big fund
had been arranged for. He enumer-
ated some of the men who, he said,
had contributed to this fund, among
them being Chauncey M. DePew.
He asserted that by receiving contri7
buttons from these men, the republic
can party was obligating itself to the
trusts. Gen. Weaver went farther and
charged that ]. ]. Hill has raised a
large fund to use in buying the presi-
dency for Taft in the present cam
paign.
The vigorous veteran then took up
the question of government bank
guarantee, which idea is incorporated
in a plank in the democratic platform.