Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-20
Attempts to Climb Aboard
Presidents Auto During
Stop in Pittsburgh.
CONDUCT OF WAR
!. NOT SATISFACTORY
Young Man Arrested and Locked Up
Carried Bag Containing Knife and
Bottle Of Liquid-NVilson and Bryan
Meet For First Time in Months -
Brief Visit in Presidents Private Car
Williams Defends Reserve Bank.

1iLtSUuE6u WI. Su."1 ASSASSAS " -.
son and w. ]. Bryan met here today
for the first time in months. The pres
.ident stopped here an hour and half
en- route to the summer capital from
Chicago. and Mr.. Bryan came here on
the way to speak at Johnstown, Pa.
AS soon as the president arrived at
the station the former secretary OF
state entered Mr. Wilson's private car
and the two men shook hands A large
crowd outside the car witnessed the
greeting. The men spoke together only
for moment or two and then left the
car.
The appearance OF Mr.. Bryan caused
five minute delay in an automobile
tour of Pittsburgh arranged for the
president. u
Crank Tries to Board Auto.
On the ride the president lost his hat
and the auto stopped while secret
service man recovered it. A man with
a bag of tools jumped on the running
board Of the automobile, but was
was arrested. He gave his name as
Richard Cullen, aged %.
On the way to the police court he
told the police he was not satisfied
with the way the president had con-
Quoted the European war. In the bag
he carried knife with a five-inch
blade and bottle of liquid, Which is
being analysed.
Comptroller Defends Reserve Law.
indianapolis, Oct. 20-John Shelton
Williams, comptroller OF the currency.
speaking here today before the Farm
ers' National Congress, described the
relation OF the federal reserve law with
the farmer and closed with personal
statement brought out by President
Wilson's recent allusion to attacks on
the comptroller. ~. Z: :. .Is
f'I see that the president said the
comptroller tells the country that the
bankers, or certain bankers, or some
special interest, are after my official
scalp, because I. as the comptroller OF
tho currency. have enforced the law.
This Is no surprise to me. ] know that
I have been held up as a kind Of agre,
a raw head and bloody bones, a terror
to the banking and financial interests
Of the country. Maybe the best answer
can be found to that in the indisputable
fact that the national banks today are
stronger and better than ever before:
that they are more numerous than when
I became comptroller: are more pros
porous and show a smaller proportion
Of failures and losses than was ever
known In their history, and my office is
receiving steady stream Of appli-
cations for charters for national banks"
New Law Curb.
Mr.. Williams said the new federal re-
serve law will forbid the "grasping
from using for their own advantages
the necessities Of their neighbors."
1.-THE farmer he said, rs enabled to
borrow accord!ns to his industry and
commercial standing because his bar
knows how and where to get tho
money. It will not be possible to have
the money supply locked In the great
centers for speculation or gambling
purposes while the real producers are
pinched or denied, perhaps, Just at the
time Of their most important need"
Cries of back to the farm, he said,
were futile without promise Of comfort
and happiness and prosperity.
Put money or, opportunity to earn
It," he said, "on the farm and the peo-
pie will 90 to the farm fast enough.
This Is precisely what the federal re-
serve system Is. doing in large meas
ure and we hope the rural credit sys-
tenn will do 1t in even larger measure"