The Greeley tribune., 1912-09-19

many Of his speeches shorter than
he should like to make them.
II am fortunate in being able to
speak Of the candidates In this CAM
Pnign without attacking the per-
sOnal integrity of any one Of them.
Personally have nothing to say
against either MIR. Taft or MIR.
Roosevelt Personally MIR. Taft IL
worthy Of public confidence; 70 we
must consider the policies which
they represent. believe that MIR.
Taft Is AN honest man and has done
what he thought was best, and IL
elected would do so again. But
when say this l do not say that he
ought to he elected.
ut Is not always IL matter of good
intent. 1 had good intentiOns;: and
yet the people of Wall street were
not willing to trust me. was,
however. no more willing to trust
them than they were to trust me.
PRAISES INITIATIVE
1.-THE initiative and referendum
was, l understand, secured by u vote
OF three to one, and THOSE who did
OllOse 1t were those who did not un-
derstand 1t. These are state issues.
Twelve states now have adopted
them. Ohio recently adopted them,
despite the fact that Taft opposes
them. When any man understands
these two issues and opposes them 1t
Is evident that he is not willing to
let the people control. He is not
willing to trust the average man.
This Is one Of the fundamental fail
ings Of President Taft. He does not
know the average man, therefore,
does not trust him. His environ
ment has been such that he has
never been in close touch with the
average man. He has been too
closely associated with the people OF
Wall street and the big interests to
become well acquainted with the
average man."
TAKES VOTE OF CROWD
The election of senators by tE-
rict vote Of the people was put to q
vote by Colonel Bryan for the pur-
pose of learning how the people Of
his audience felt upon the question.
Nearly every hand went up in favor
of the amendment, while there were
no hands in evidence against it.
"Twenty years ago the demo-
cratic party started fight for the
adoption Of this amendment. 1t was
in four platforms. We declare that
this is a power with which the paO-
pie may he trusted. but evidently
MIR. Taft does not think so. After
his election ! wrote him an open let
ter urging him to recommend the
amendment. He wrote back that
there was division and that he
thought II should he left to con-
:sress. Why do they call MIR. Taft a
stand patter: Because lie stands
still while the rest of the live ones
move ON past him in the march Of
progress. Is he the kind Of man to
put into office again? One who. in
stead Of helping the people in their
fight will retard them in every way.
He is lacking In devotion to the in
terests Of the people.
CAMPAIGN FUNDS
Not long ago the people were
ignorant as to the source OF CAM
paiRn funds. The democrats have
ln<.n fighting to force the making
public OF names who subscribed tn
cau,ssien funds before election.
Taft opposed publication Of names
Of contributors until after election.
Colonel Bryan asked the crowd to
vote, how many thought 1t absurd
for Taft to advocate waiting until
after election to publish the names.
The vote was strongly indicative
that the crowd thought it was alb
sursi. I'VE now have y law which
forces the publication Of names be-
fore election" said MIR. Bryan.
NEWSPAPER REGULATION
"Anoti,er thing for which we have
fought. and have finally won Is the
law by which Ownerships OF news
pap<,rs must he made public. The
newspapers must now deal honestly
with the people. They are forced
now to put the poison label on arti-
cles that are rum by politicians OF
otfsers a. paid matter 80 that the
people may know what Is news ana
what is run for some special object
or to create sOn,e special impression
without tise aid OF MIR. Taft the
pe,O,ae have walked past him In the
line of progress and secured these
amendments. Another important
amendment IL coming. 1t is the i'll
come tax. The idea was first intro
ducs,d in the Denver platform. TAFT
said we didn't need II. i believe
IDS reason for opposing 80 many oi
these measures that are t'eyon''
question in favor Of the average man
is lack Of sympathy for the people
Now the time has arrived when we
need a man who has faith in the
people and who sympatfiizt,s with