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POLITICAL
Bryan on Republican Platform.

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| What the leading candidate of the
Democratic party for the presidency
has to say about the Republican do
| ings at Chicago last week is of inter-
est to people of all parties. In signed
statement for the Commoner he di-
reefs attention to the way in which the
convention turned down the Cooper
/ minority report and the La Toilette
programme containing several Of the
! policies advocated by the president.
Referring to the fact that fifty-two
members of the committee were
! against the report to one for it. he
/, adds that "the Republicans will find
the ratio of fifty-two to one very
! embarrassing one to deal with in the
F, coming campaign" He also points out
that the vote in the convention was
calling the fact that Taft had sent
letter to Burrows urging campaign
publicity, Bryan asks, "Who will deny
that on this subject the Republican
party is retreating?" Again recalling
that the La Toilette plank for the
physical valuation Of railroads was
voted down in the convention, OF to
GO, he remarks, Here is retreat on
the railroad question" The injunction
plank adopted by the Republicans Bry-
an calls third retreat from the posi-
ton taken by Roosevelt and Taft. He
goes on to say that the Chicago plat
form is silent on the income tax which
the president had advocated as cure
for swollen fortunes and similarly as
to the inheritance tax. He says the
platform is silent on corporate con-
spiracies, which the president sent
message about and that the conven-
ton defeated-S66 to 114-the plank for
the popular election of senators which
the national house had Endorsed five
times, twice when Republican.
| La Toilette and Foraker Too.
Both Senator La Toilette and Sena-
tor Foraker have now sent messages
Of loyalty to Candidate Taft. The
Ohioan expressed congratulations and
wish for success, though fearing his
action would be "unwelcome or mis-
understood" Taft in reply assured
him that the note gave great pleasure.
What the Wisconsin radical said is
worth quoting in full. as follows:
"While the platform is disappointing
In some fundamental provisions and
omissions and / shall claim the right
to say so, congratulate you most sim
cerely, and in the faith that you are
more nearly in accord with the great
body Of Republican voters than the
| platform / shall do all in my power to
insure your election"
Taft DiscIaims Originality.
That Candidate Taft is still welded
to the Roosevelt policies may be judg-
ed from the article he has written in
the current Golfers. In it he says it
remained for Roosevelt "to prove how
the people will respond to strong and
true leadership when the hour has
come for great reforms" and that ''the
policies Which he inaugurated must be
continued and developed" Later, re-
ferring to this, Taft adds: 'They are
right, and they are the policies of the
people. For that reason his successor
may well disregard any charge of lack
entirely new programme of his own"
A Socialist Prophecy.
Gaylord Wiltshire in a leading edito-
rial for the July issue of Wilshire's
Magazine makes the following predic-
ton: wiltshire is not afraid of being
Oh the record Of predicting that moth
| ing but great war coming within the
next five years can save the present
capitalist system. It's matter Of no
particular economic Importance as to
which nations fight or what they fight
about or who wins. The main thing is
that they spend money enough to Gre
ate demand enough to set the wheels
OF industry spinning and relieve the
world from the menace Of bankrupt
capitalists and unemployed working
men. 1t may be up to him (Taft)
as president to decide whether Ameri-
ca shall employ itself by fighting Japan
or by organizing the cooperative COM
monwealth."
RooseveIt's Holiday Message.
Just before leaving Washington for
his summer vacation at Oyster Bay
President Roosevelt was quoted as say.
ing to friend who suggested that he
had earned vacation: do not waste
any sympathy on me. have enjoyed
every minute of my stay here, and my
thanks are due to the American people,
and not theirs to me, for the oppor-
tunity have had to serve them. l
have had perfectly corking- time"
Accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt and the
rest Of the family, the president re-
turned to his summer home on the Goth.
Gompers Not Satisfied.
| In an editorial for the July Fedora
Zionist President Gompers of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor condemns
the injunction plank adopted by the
Chicago convention, saying "labor can
not be satisfied with any makeshift or
halfway promise. The moment has ar
rived for total change of government
policy toward the workers. Candidates
for positions must be clear upon their
attitude toward the demands which la
Dor makes for justice and right, not for
some indefinite time in the future, but
now. Property rights must be main
tanned, but prior to this and far beyond
the rights of property must come the
rights of men. The workers have
pleaded, appealed and besought the
powers responsible, but all in vain.
Labor will take no fair weather prom
Use as substitute for performance"