Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-09-23
WILLIAM ]. BRYAN
DENOUNCES T.R.
Says Roosevelt Is Playing
With and Into the Hands
of the Trusts
DAMNED BY HIS RECORD
Declares Third-Termer Would
Stop Legislation to Con-
troll Monopolies

BUTTE. Mont, Sept. 2O.-William
j. Bryan closed tonight his campaign
trip through Montana at monster
meeting in local theater. The trip
from B0zeman, where he spoke this
afternoon, to Butte was interrupted
by platform speeches at every stop.
Mr.. Bryan will leave tomorrow for a
visit to Idaho.
An enthusiastic crowd heard Mr..
Bryan tonight plead for the election
Of a democratic senate as we'll as
for the national ticket of that party
SO that democratic policies and
pledges might be given force.
Wanted Some Excitement
He hayed the republican national
convention and that of the progress
ives. One reason why he attended
the Chicago republican convention
Mr. Bryan said was that he had be-
come accustomed to one exciting con-
vention every four years, that fear
ing our convention might be tame
and knowing that the republican
would not be, l went with an abun-
dance of caution rather than risk the
loss Of my quadrennial stimulus
In his speech at Bozeman, Mr.. Bry-
an delivered a scathing denunciation
Of Col. Roosevelt, saying that the
latter had come into the vineyard of
progressiveism at quarter to twelve"
He declared that more trusts had
come into being in the Roosevelt ad-
minstration when he had a chance
to control them, than ever before
He denounced the proposed trust
control by bureau as a method ad
vised by George w. Perkins.
Referring to Col. Roosevelt, he said
ri say to you with deliberation and
with emphasis that no man in the
history of this nation has ever taken
q position on the trust question SO
hostile to the safety and welfare of
the American people.
Controlled by Trusts.
HE says in his platform and in
his speeches that we ought not to
try to prevent monopolies, but we
should just control them. l remind
you that for seven and one-half years
he was president, and he not only
did not control the trusts, but the
trusts controlled him. l remind you
that while he was president. the
steel trust went to him and while
panic was on, threatened and ter
orized him into consenting to the alb
sorption of it's largest rival.
when he went out of Office, there
were vastly more trusts than when
he went in. The steel trust that was
organized in 1901 with $7OO,OOO,OOO of
water in it's stock, has stayed there
and he never has raised his hand to
squeeze the water out, nor said one
word to protect the people from the
exactions of that great monster. Now
he is in favor of the national incor-
poration Of these great industries, the
very thing that Mr.. Perkins has been
advocating for many years, and that
Mr.. Archbold has been advocating for
many years.
Would Tie Hands Of Congress.
"Mr. Roosevelt stands today for
the very doctrines that the trusts
have been demanding viZ.-that they
shall be rid of the state regulations
and relieved from the embarrassment
of legislative action. Mr.. Roosevelt
wants to center the power at Wash.
ington, D. c. After admitting that
the trust is mere to stay, he will al
low It to 60 on, to spread and grow
and he would strike down the power
Of the state to control it, and he
would take from congress and the
courts the power and put it in a
bureau to be appointed by the presi-
dent.
Il challenge you to find anywhere
a program which has so much of con-
centration, SO much of Capitalization,
so much of the magnifying of the
power of the chief executive of the
nation.
II cannot understand how honest
and well-meaning men, who have no
interest whatever in these private
monOpOlies; l cannot understand how
they can see Mr.. Perkins, a director
of the steel trust, and manager of the
Harvester trust, the chief contributor
to Mr.. ROOsevelt's campaign and the
adviser he most relies upon-how
you can see him direct this campaign
and not understand that he would
not be there if Mr.. Roosevelt were
taking the peoples side on this trust
question"
Ridlcules Third Term Evasion.
Mr.. Bryan took issue with Col
Roosevelts reply at Denver to his
statements regarding third term by
saying that If no limit were placed
on the holding of non-consecutive
terms a president easily could elect
his successor. He said that this had
been the implied agreement between
Mr.. and Taft and Col. Roosevelt at
the time Of Presidents Taft's elec-
ton. He declared that the steam
roller" that had run over Col. Roose-
velt at Chicago had been construct
ed in 1908 and stated that Wall street
had failed to carry out the program
at Baltimore that they had put through
at Chicago.
Mr.. Bryan attacked President
Taft's tariff board policy and said the
United States had President who
did not trust the people who had
elected him. Mr. Bryan praised Gov
ernor Wilson as the peoples candidate
vvhO had into11igence moral cOura oe