The San Francisco call., 1908-08-26
Bryan Attacks Republican Party and Bel Notifies Kern

us if we briefly present the demo-
cratic cause that you purpose TO sus-
tain before the jury of your country.
PROBLEMS FOR KERN
You will be able to show that the
republican party has been unfaithful
to it's trust; that it has violated the
most solemn commandments OF the po-
litical decalogue; that its use 10 the
people has not only been impaired, but
materially destroyed by permitting It's
energies toSbecome absorbed in the ar
titicial life of the corporate creatures
of their laws, and that at this time We
must either make complete surrender
to corporate misrule or redeem, once
and for all time, the heirlooms OF our
nation from the corporation pawnsnop
in which they have been hypothecated
by the party in power
In this connection you viii be aple
to show further, from the concurrent
long continued in power becomes
honeycombed with corruption, and IL
more recent authority be demanded you
can point to the speech of TAFT IN VT
ginia q few weeks ago, when, forget
ting the national application or MS re-
marks. he pleaded with the 1noepeHu-
ent democrats of that state to vote lor
a change, because party. too long III
control becomes rotten and corrupt
PROSPERITY AND TARIFF
You will be able to show that the
boasted prosperity upon which the re-
publican party carried the country
four years ago has rested upon the un-
warrantable ASSUMPTION that the boun-
ties of nature and the demand LOT
American products abroad hSVe DeSn
originated and controlled by tffe repup-
! lican party.
You viii be able to show that the
tariff is a fair example OF repuDlcan !,
for the benefit~of the few has resuitSo
| in an unequal distribution of wealth,
and that history supplies no instance
where the unequal disposition OF
subdivision of power, which mas al
ways been used for the general oppres-
sion of the masses.
You will be able to show that the
| cry of conservatism now raised by the
republican party is counterfeit OF the
grossest character and that II the peo-
Pile accept 1T as pure gold they VIII
| awaken to find that It has turned TO
mere alloy, for it is conservatism
| that stands for retrogression and not
PROGRESS and if it were long to prevail
nation, but the hands of the clock
would be turned backward toward the
period when man stalked the earth
with bow and spear, clad in the skins
| of wild beasts, and preyed upon every
| thing that crossed his path.
REFORMS AND CANDIDATES
You will be able to show that the
democratic party is capable of bringing
about wholesale reforms without alarIh
or danger to those VINO nave DeSo.nS aS
l
securities which republican ProsPer,.y ~.
and a solemn promise to keep IL up
induced them to purchase.
Passing from a survey or condltlons
and principles to the consideration OF
candidates you will be able to snow,
that. taking the Chicago platform. the
uncertainty of Taft on great PUBIC
questions and the known corporation
bias of Sherman together, they constl-
tute the republican partys omclal
apology for the uproar that has peen
created among the big interests during
the last six years.
You will be able to show that Ia1t
is attempting to reach the White House
through a mirror maze. which is nkely
to leave him on November just where
he started on the 18th of June
After reading Taft's letter or accept
ance you will be able to show that his
candidacy is like one Of those new
tangled signs that we see so often upon
the streets-when you are approaching
1t reads one thing and when you are
leaving 1t spells something else.
OPPOSING VOICES HEARD
And also in this connection you will
be able to show that in places where
Roosevelt is supposed to enjoy great
popularity it is sung into the ears of
his admirers that If Taft is elected the
spirit of the departed Roosevelt will be
| found crouching behind the throne and
directing new onslaughts against the
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