The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-13
ARGUMENT OF
HUGHES TORN
INTO SHREDS
Mr.. Bryan Answers New York
Governor in Address to Uni
verSity Students.
EPIGRAMS WHICH KEPT
AUDIENCE CHEERING
ISSUES OF THE CAMPAIGN RE-
VIEWED AND PLATFORMS OF
PARTIES COMPARED.

Lincoln. Neb., Oct. I'm an address at
the state university this afternoon. w. j.
Bryan attacked the arguments of Gov
ernor Hughes of New York in defense of
the Republican platform. dweit on the diff
ference in the two platforms relating to
publicity of campaign contributions. and
discussed the propriety of President
Roosevelts supporting Mr.. Taft.
Delivered forcibly and in Mr.. Bryan's
best style. his speech was repeatedly
cheered by the university students. In
attacking the position Of the Republicans
the tariff situation, he delivered cpl
grams which kept the students cheering.
During the speech he took vote of the
students who were for and against election
OF senators by a direct vote.
The principal part of the speech of the
candidate was occupied by an answer of
the arguments of Hughes. who spoke to
the university students a short time ago.
Mr.. Bryan said:
Hughes and the Tariff.
Governor Hughes of New York has
been put forward as the champion Of the
Republican party to attack the Demo-
cratic remedy for the trusts and the pres
ident seems 10 prefer the argument advO-
Gated by Mr.. Hughes than the argument
advocated by Mr.. Taft. | fairly as
sumo. therefore that the argument pre-
scented by Mr.. Hughes is not only the
strongest argument that has been pre-
SenLeQ, Out the STRONGEST argument ILdI
can be presented, because MIR. Roosevelt
would not pit him against our platform If
he were not the strongest opponent He
has been sent through the west to
strengthen the Republican lines | desire
10 remind YOU in the first place, that Mr..
Hug les represents the eastern Repub-'
Hcans, not the western Republicans. He
was one of the candidates against Mr..
Taft when Mr.. Taft was being urged as
the representative of the administration.
Mr.. Hughes friends Joined with the
friends of Mr.. Cannon, Mr.. Knox and Mr..
Fairbanks in the effort to prevent the
nomination of Mr. Taft 1t is only fair
to assume. therefore. that Mr.. Hughes is
not a reformer in the sense in which that
term is used by the Republicans of the
west.
Not a Reformer.
"As an evidence that Mr. Hughes is
not IN sympathy with western reforms.
you Will recall that he vetoed a two-cent
passenger rate bill. and he did this in
spite of the fact that a Republican legis-
lature of New York passed the bill. Gov
ernors in the western states signed this
bill. and we are now enjoying the benefits
of the twO-cent fare New York is more
thickly settled than the western states,
and yet he gave the benefit of the doubt
to the railroads in their contest with the
patrons l will not say that he did this
because OF the contributions made to his
campaign fund 10y Morgan, Depew, the
Vanderbilts and one of the Goulds. 1t is
not necessary TO assume that these con-
trlDutlOnS had any effect upon ms action
II IS enough 10 know that he did not act
upon this subject as Republican governors
in the west acted, and l care not what eX-
PLANTATION his friends may make. If they
say that he decided in favor of the rail
roads, without any reference to the con-
tributions made by the railroads. it sim
ply shows that he looks at questions from
the standpoint of the railroad rather than
from the standpoint of the patrons If he
had signed tie bill. the railroads could
have protected themselves by recourse TO
the courts, but when he vetoed the bill,
the people had 40 recourse.
Lack of Sympathy With the People.
1T is not strange that he should oppose
the Democratic remedy on the trust ques-
ton, for he has never shown any interest
in the correction of the evils that the
trusts have brought upon the country. L
will not say that this Partially for the
trusts is due TO the contributions made to
his campaign fund by Carnegie, Schwab.
Gates. Havemeyer. Duke and others. 1t
IS not necessary to assume that these con-
tributions influenced him at all. 1t may
be his natural disposition to take the side
of the trusts as against the people His
speech presents all the evidence necessary
to convince him of lack of sympathy with
the general public.
Does he manifest any concern about
the wrong done to the people by the
trusts? Not the least. Has he any rem
edy? None whatever. With him it is a
subject of amusement: ii is really too
funny for anything to think that ANYBODY
should try TO do anything II YOU will
agree with me when l liken the case TO a
sick man who is about TO try a remedy
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