The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-01-02


July g, AZ Cincinnati. Taft delivered
his speech Of acceptance. He frankly
accepted the role Of me too" by de-
Tending the Roosevelt policies in their
entirety and explaining that his work.
If elected. would be to carry on those
reforms in detail.
Aug. II. at lincoln. Neb.. Bryan was
notified Of his nomination ard sounded
the keynote Of his campaign in the
question, shall the people ruleg" In
subsequent speeches he gave great
prominence to the bank guaranty plan.
TO the popular election Of senators and
TO campaign publicity before election.
He made n special bid for the labor
vote on the injunction plank. He
would destroy all trusts controlling
over 80 per cent of an industry.
Regarding the depression as the be
ginning of the breakdown of the cap
italist system and claiming the army
of idle workers as their asset. the So
cialists of America went into the cam
paign with better weapons than ever
before. ON May 10 the Socialist con
vention met at Chicago. For the hrst
time the Socialists of America af-
tirmed their position on specific ques-
lions of policy. The convention NOM
mated on the first ballot unanimously
Eugene V. Debs for president and Ben
jamin Hanford for vice president, the
same ticket put up by the Socialists In
1904.
The Prohibit lists, conscious of the
great strides their cause had made on
the local option issue in many states,
nominated Eugene W. Chain Of iii
nois and Aaron S. Watkins Of Ohio
July 10 at Columbus, O., on a plat
form containing many radical propos-
ais besides that against the sale or
manufacture Of intoxicants.
On July 2S at Chicago the first ma
tional convention of the independence
party, outgrowth of the league organ
lied by Editor Hearst, named Thomas
L. Hisgen Of Massachusetts, ana John
Temple Graves of Georgia on a plat
form containing most of the radical
ideas of the Democrats and some more
radical. Opposition to Bryan was its
keynote.
The Peoples party April 3 at st.
Louis again named Thomas q. Watson
Of Georgia as its standard bearer along
with s. W. Williams of Indiana, al
though 1t did not put a ticket up in
all of the states. .
On Sept. 10, at Columbus, O., Hearst
stirred up the hitherto calm current Of
the campaign by reading into his
speech the first batch of n series OF
letters which had been stolen from the
files of the Standard OIL company and
which threw a sinister light on the ac-
tivities Of various public men, notably
Foraker, Bailey, MacLaurin, Sibley,
certain Pennsylvania judges and ex.
Governor Stone, who was urged to ap.
point them. Most Of the letters were
written by Vice President Archbold OF
the trust and contained divers certif.
Gates Of deposit for large sums OF
money. At the same time Hearst re.
peated the story Of the alleged attempt
to bride former Attorney General Mon.
nett of Ohio wherein Haskell, the Dem.
ocratic treasurer, was made to figure
As governor Of Oklahoma Haskell alsC
was accused Of protecting a Legal
branch Of the Standard. Foraker al
once withdrew from the campaign, and
the president issued a hot statement
condemning the Ohioan and gave out
an old letter showing how Taft had re.
fused to deal with Foraker; then com
pared this course to that Of Bryan and
Haskell. Bryan replied, demanding a
hearing for Haskell, and then ensued a
bitter verbal duel on personal and
party issues. Haskell resigned. but
protesting innocence. as did also Du
Pont, the powder trust head, from the
Craftsmanship Of the Republican speak.
ers' bureau. Both the president and
Taft took the ground that publishing
names OF contributors before election
would be. to invite unfair and partisan
NAANA~A1AA VI NdhulQdltS.
Gompers appealed to all unions In
the A. f. Of L. to give moral and finan-
cial support TO Bryan. Speaker Cannon
was the special target Of the Gompers
battery. and "Cannonism" became q
national issue, many candidates foI
congress being pledged against Cannon
as the next speaker.
On Nov. 3 the voters OF the nation
had their say. The extent Of the Re.
publican victory Fan be best remem.
bered by the statement that Taft car,
ried every state that Roosevelt did in
1904 except Nebraska, Colorado and
Nevada. Furthermore, TAFT invaded
the solid south with small pluralitles
In Maryland and Missouri and large
gains in other southern states. The
popular vote stood: Taft, 7,637,676,
Bryan, 6,395,1s2; Debs. 47.G51: Chain.
241,252; Hisgen, s3,1S6; Watson. 1851,
Gilhaus (Socialist-L Labor, 1921; total
~15,s52239. The total vote In 1904 was
1850. TOS. Several states In the Taft
column elected Democratic governors
Harmon I'm Ohio. Marshall in In.
diana and johnson In Minnesota. Taft
captured the Democratic stronghold OF
New York city. The Republican major
ity in congress was reduced to AZ.
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