THE OKLAHOMA STATE CAPITAL, THURSDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 22 1903.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ASKS BRYAN TO BE CANDID
WANTS TO KNOW IF NEBRASKAN BACKS UP THE
. GOMPERS STATEMENTS? A REMARKABLE LETTER
Nominee of Bryan Party Has Always Evaded Expressions on the Injunction Pi an k
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M"y Dear Senator Knox: In your admirable speech of yesterday you
Ifcpeak of the aetl  n of Mr. Bryan and certain gentlemen, claiming to
be the special representatives of organized labor, foremost" among,
them Mr. Gompers. to secure the support of laboring men for Mr. Bry
an on consideration of his agreement to perform certain acts nominal-
ly In the interest of organized labor y\ hu*h would be really either whol-
ly ineffective or«el e of widespread Injury not only to organized labor
but to all ttecont citizens throughout thft country. You hav<- a peculiar
right to speak on labor questions for It was"you who. as attorney gen-
eral. first actively Invoked the great po\wr of the federaj government
on b«'half of the rights of labor when, for the first In the history of
the government you. speaking for the department of Justice, interven-
ed in a private lawsuit which had gone against a locomotive fire-
man who had lost an arm In coupling cars, and by your intervention
secured from the supreme court a construction of the safety appliance
act which mado It a vital remedial statute, and therefore has secured
to hundreds of crippled employes and. widows of crippled employes
compensation which they would not otherwise have obtained-
The dally papers of October 132. contain an open letter from Samuel
Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, appealing to
working men.to vote for Mr. Bryan.
TAKES UP GOMPERS
In that letter are certain definite statements which interest the
American public quite as much as those lo' whom Mr. Gompers
4pabetf his appeal- These statements warrant all you tytVe sni«l in
J- ^our speech and they would warrant you In asking Mr. Bryan to say
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publicly whether Mr. Gompers states correctly the attitude of his par
± ty and himself on a subject that is of vital concern t every citizen.
incluling every business man as well as every farmer and every laborer
-J-' who looks to the courts for the protection of his rights.,
T: Mr. Gompers in his letter asserts that the Judiciary of this country
+ Is destroying democratic government and substituting herefor an ir
^responsible and corrup despotism In the interest of corporate^power and
he further makes clear that the means by which he believes tills al-
leged'despotism has been set up In place of democracy is by the pro-
cess of .injunction In the courts of equity.
Mr. Gompers In hls*letter states that his appeal to the republican
convention, aa Cliicago for remedy against, th injunction was denied
gnd fie then goes on to state not only that the democratic party
promised a remedy but promised him the particular remedy that he
had already asked of congress
His words are:
"Labor's representatives then went "to the democratic party-
That party made labor's contentions Its own. It pledged Its can-
didates for e^ry office to those remedies which labor had already
submitted to congress."
The last sentence in this quotation indicates very definitely the spe-
'cltlc remedies to which Mr. Gompers states Mr. Bryan's party has
■J- pledged itself.
* IS AT LAST EXPLAINED
-T- His statement now makes perfectly clear an important plank in
f the Bryanite platform which has heretofore seemed puzzling to a vast
-f* number of earnest minded thinking people, who are sincerely interest-
T ed in the steady advance and the legitimate aspirations of labor, and
■j. who carefully read both platforms to know precisely what hopes each
•f hold out for the improvement of the conditions of wage earners.
± Tn.it* plank reads as follow-:
"Questions of Judicial practice have arisen especially in connection
-J- . with industrial disputes. We* deem that the parties to all judicial
-j- or-'eeedings should be treated with rigid impartiality, and that in-
.■r juncflons should not be issued In any eases in which injunctions
i- would not issue if no industrial dispites w- re involved.
ABSOLUTELY MEANS NOTHING
r This is the plank fhat promises, the "remedy'' against injunctions
i which Mr Gompers asked of Mr. Bryan's party.
* IN ACTUAL FACT IT MEANS ' ABSOLUTELY NOTHING; no
* change of the law coyld be based on it; no man without inside knowl-
•; elge could fretell what;tt3 meaning would turn out t® be for no man
could foretell how any judge would decide in any given case, as the
± plank apparently leaves each judge free to say when he issues an in-
u- junction in a labor case whether or not it is a case in which an in-
± junction would irfsue if labor were not involved. Yet this plank is ap-
i parently perfectly clear to Mr. Gompers, and in his letter to his fol-
i- lowers he indicates beyond question just what he understands it to
f mean. He asserts that he has the requisite insitie knowledge. His
± statement that Mr Bryan's party (fgr it was Mr. Bryan who lictated
± the platform) pledged itself -to those remedies which labor had til-
T- ready submitted to congress." is perfectly cle^r and lefinite statement-
GOMPERS ON RECORD
e 0hfi "remedies" which Mr Aiompefs haa already submitted to con-
jl are matters of recrd and the identification of his remedies
± against injuiutions in labor disputes in easv and certain. This "rem
* in boute blU No 73« of ti..- hnt ..urton o the «0U 
? emigres* the •oipplst® text which-is hereto appended, lljc gist ot
+ the bffi. -as can be «een by referring to the complete text in this:
x Pint -Afl. r forbidding any.federal Judge lo issue a restraining
i' order for an Injunction In any labor dispute except to prevent trre-
* parable injury to property or proiprty rights, it apooifleUUr pro-
4- vales tiiAt DO right to carry Oil business of.any particular Kind, or
at any particular place, or at all.-shall-be construed, lield, consid-
■X ered or treated as property or as constituting a properly risht.
-r Second—It provides that nothing agreed upon or done by two
or more parties in connection with a labor displl- shall constitute
* a cortspirary or other criminal offena* or be praecuted aa  ueh un-
i fUM ,F"' MtM*d upon would be unlawful If done by a single
T Individual.
* The bill heer described is not only the "remedy that Mr. Gompers
has "alrealy submitted to oongress" but IT IS THE ONE AND ONLY
T- 1 remedy" which h. an'd those assooioted with him in hi. present
* movement have announced that they will accept in the matter of his
4- grievance against the court on the injunction isue.
* The couns, I for the American I-Vdrratlon Of Labor and Mr. U   -
+ fts president, are on record in Uns effect-
5 ... WHAT GOMPERS SAID
+ At the hearing before the house cointnlttc. on judiciary the counsel
f of the American Federation of Labor on February 5, 190S. (as appears
r- T- from the printed hearings) stated:
1 "The bill was considered by at least two sessions ,.f the execu-
4- tlve councif of that organization and unanimously approved. It
. wu considered h>' An of its national convention.- the two latest
*« ant by these unanimously endorsed.. And in'the face nf many
- V-r..positions to attest "It, In the f.'e ■ of mat.j propositions to at-
-v tend It. In the face of many proposed substitutes. In the face of
* 'pressure from every direction..from high sources and tourc
}• so exalted, the organization has stood liy nnd Is t
T- bv this bill without amendment."
+ Mr oompers himself In discussing this hill before the same com
mlttee on February 28, 1308 (as appears.from the printed hearings)
went on record as follows: „ .
"Ecents have demonstrated clenrly to my mind that there Is
only one bill before the committee that can at all l> clfe, tiv. . to
deal with this abuse, with this invasion of human rights and that s
Is the Pearre bill "
INSISTED ON PEARRE BILL
Further on in the same page of the hearing Mr. Gompers states.
"I will say this that I think 1 will try to make my position dou-
that the American Federation of Labor has bo declared Itstlf that
it must insist upon the principles involved in the Pearre bill and that
1 explained as best I could the position of labor—that ye would rather
be compelled to bear the wrongs which we have for a longer period
that to give our assent to the establishment of a wrong principle,
believing and knowing that time would give the Justice nnd reltl I to
which lnbor—the working people—are entitled "
This bill then, and none other, represents exactly the relief that Mr.
Gompers' demands in the way of anti - injunction legislation: and if
the statement in his letter is correct, THIS BILL REPRESENTS
MR. BRYAN AND InW PARTY ARE PLEDGED TO IN THE MAT-
TER OF ANTI-INJUNCTION LEGISLATION.
NOTHING VAGUE AND HA^Y
The injunction plank in the Bryanite platform may sound vague and
hazy, but theel- Is nothing va#ue or hazy about this bill.
It Is more than a bill; it is program of the most fixed and definite
kind and If Mr. Oompers is correct, this bill becomes, as It wcrnt an
appendix to Mr' Bryan's platform, or a foot note explaining :n detail
the briefer and vaguer Injunction plank in that platform-
Does Mr Bryan accept It as such? Mr. Bryan should state publicly
whether he in fact accepts the principle of this bill, which is the offi-
cial program of Mr Gompers and those who stand with him
Mr. Gompers announces publicly that Mr Bryan s party has made
this program Its own. Is. Mr. Gompers. correct in this statement?
Either Mr. Gompers is mistaken as to what Mr. Bryans party has
promised him in this matter of another injunction legislation, or those
who drafted his party's platform, in their haste, failed to make the
promise so clear that the geenral public would understand it precise-
ly as Mr. Gompers understands it-
Mr. Bryan failed in his lftter of acceptance to discuss this labor
plank of tils party's platform- So far as I am aware he has failed
to dlecuss it since. :
There shnull be such discussion as a matter bf common fairness,
not only to labor, but to all citizens alike. On a question of such
grave consequence the people are entitled to know where Mr. Bryan
stands
WHERE DOES BRYAN STAND?
MR. TAFT HAS REPEATEDLY EXPLAINED EXACTLY WHERE
HE STANDS IN THIS MATTER OF REGULATING INJUNCTIONS-
ARE V7E NOT ENTITLED TO KNOW WITH EQUAL CLEAR-
NESS EXACTLY WHERE BRYAN STANDS?
Mr. Gompers public statements as' to what his party has promised
make' It Imperative that Mr. Bryan declare'himself.
This bill to the principle of which he says Mr. Bryan is pledged
T declares that the right to carry on a business In a lawful way shall
+ not be regarded as a property right or entitled to the protection of
•fa court f equlay through the process of Injunction and that the right to
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FOR
RHEUMATISM
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Rheumatism is caused by an exccss of uric acid in the blood, brought
nhout by the accumulation in the By-stein of refuse matter which the natural
avenues of bodily waste have failed to carry off. Tltis waste or refuse matter
ferments and sours and generates uric acid which is absorbed into the blood .
luation temporarily reduced by the application of a good plaster, penetrating J +
liniment or some oilier simple home remedy, but the disease can never be
cured while the blood remains saturated with the irritating, pain-producing
uric ncid poison. The cause should be driven fm:u the blood before the
trouble reaches the chronic or helpless stage. S. S. S., a purely vegeteble
remedy, cures Rheumatism by thoroughly cleansing the blood of every
particle of the uric acid poison, and making' this vital fluid pure, fresh and
health-sustaining. It filters out from the circulation the remotest particle
of the poison, and when S. S. S. has renovated the blood, Rheumatism is
thorough! v and permanently cured, Hook 011 Rheumatism and nnv medical
advice fmL XHi, SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA. GA.
such protection which admittedly now exists und
ULTi" counsel for the American Federation of Labor in his examina-
tion before the house f February 6th. at which Mr ..Gompers himself
.was present gave a very frank illustration of what he and Mr. Oom,
peri believed ao be the consequence of that provision of that I
which says ahe right to carry on business shall not be entitled to
protectiun as a property ri^jlit.
His words are: ,_
JUST THINK OF THIS
"Suppose.that working men by some operation or proceedings .
in the community (let us say by violence or persuasion or pick• t-
ing away from the premises) reduce thqpe works to a stgte ol ut-
ter helplessness and there vva^ not a wheel moving, not «'i. pn>< • ss
in operotlon and ahis company had no help at all that would be
an Interference with his right to do business; ajid for that I say
he lias no right to he protected by injunction.''   •
IS MR. BRYAN IN REALITY PLEDGED TO THIS POINT Op
VIEW?
Will he definitely -say either in writing or in o public address
er he believes with Mr. Gomptrs that the prbtec^ion heretofore afford.-
pd by the courts of equity to the right to carry on a lawful business
In a lawful way is despotic power, and that the judges who exerc.se
that power are irresponsiblt despots.
IT WOULD LEGALIZE BLACKLIST
So far as the second section of this bill Is concerned It Is perfect-
lv tflht it would legalise the blacklist nnd the sympathetic boycott
carried.to any extent. IT WOULD LEGALIZE ACTS WHICH HAVE
TIME AND AGAIN BEEN DECLAED OPPRESSIVE. UNJUST AND
IMMORAL BY THE BEST AND MOST EMINENT LABOR LEAD-
ERS THEMSELVE.S
Does Mr. Bryan brieve with Mr. Gompers tttnt he and that part of
thd labor movement that ngrfes with him has the right, moral right
and should be given the right legally to parolyze or ti destroy with
impunity the-business of an Innocent third person, apalnst whom I10
nr they havt no dlreot grlevnnce simply because this third person re-
fuses to Join with them aggressively In a labor controversy regard-
less Of the real merits of which he may be utterly unacquainted, he-
cause he refusts to class as his enemy afty and everywhere employer
whom'they point out as their enemy, because he refuses, merely upon
thdr peremptory order, to ex-communicate toe other mployr by
ceasing all business relations with him'.'
BLAC LIST IS BRUTAL
The blacklist nnd the secondary boycott are two of 'the most cruel
fflrms of oppression ever devised by the wit of man for the infliction
of suffering on !\ls weaker fellows.
\n court could possibly exercise * any more brutal, unfeeling op
despotic power than Mr Oompers claims for hinisi-lf and his follow-
ers in this legislation, which would permit them without hindrance of
any kind to cry on every form nnd degree of the secondary hoycoat.
The anthracite strike commission, as fair minded and distinguish-
ed a body of men as ever passed judgment on an Industrial question,
thus ro/ers to the secondary form of boycott, the boycott of Inn" "nt
third persons for refusing to tak<> an aggressive part in a contro-
versy when ttiey have no concern:
"To say this is not to deny the legal fight of any* man or sr.'
of men. voluntarily to refnaln from soelaj Inttrcourse or business
relations with afiy persons whom he or they.-with or without   1
reason, dislikes. This may some times be'unchristian hut it Is not
Illegal. But when.it is a concertef! purpose «>f a number of per
pons not only.to abstain themstlves from such Intercourse, but
to render the life of their victim miserable by persuading and'In-
timidating others, to refrain, such purpose Is a malicious ono
nnd the concerted attempt to agc&mgllsh it is a ;oi sptmusy at
fommon law and merits and should receive* the punishment due to
such a crime."
CONDEMNED BY MITCHELL
The commission further states that this boycott can he carried to
an extent.
"Which was condemned by Mr- Mitchell. president of the
• United Mine Workers of America in bis testimony before the
commission and which certainly deserves the reprobation of
all thoughtful and law abiding citizens."
Does Mr. Bryaji agree with Mr. Gompers that all existing legal
restraint on the enforcement of every degree of thfr- boycltt should
Tie withdrawn; that the Industrial ex-communication of the innocent
merchant who refuses to* render unquestionable obedience to the ir
ders nt Mr Olmpers shluld he legalised and enc >urased? or dons he
believe with ub and with Mr. Mitchell and other lakor leaders who
differ with Mr. Oompers in this matter, that this form of the boycott
is morally wronq. that labor at war should fight with its enem.es
and respeca the rights of neutrals, that innocent third part.es should
not be coerced into taking sides in industrial disputes to which they
are in no sense parties, under penalty of having their business at-
tacked and destroyed?
WHERE DOES BRYAN STAND
Mr. Taft Is j^r^Uy definite on this proposition.
Where does Mr. Bryan' stand?
The citizens who votes for or against Mr. Taft on this proposi-
tion doofl so with his eyes open and with a clear understanding from
Mr. Taft himself of his position. He has frankly discussed this sub-
ject time ond again with worklngmen themnelveB, both in this cam-
paign and prior to his nomination- Ho has been willing to txpress
his position clearly and to assure working men that to protect them
In their rights he Is willing to gn to the limits of what he considers
Justice, but that he will not go furaher. His definition of JuBtlce to lab-
WHAT f^RYAN SAID
Mr. Bi s'' s party pl.«' form ,'.iid ,i !•:  1 ir
tlce- It stated: "Wo resent ahe attempt of i
T raise a false issue respecting the judi« ;ar. ii
upon gn it body "f our < ' i/.< : I
± for .lb# courts.''
I- The "great body of our citizens."
•f admittedly Mr. Gompers and his followers.
* .ATTACK ON FEDERAL COURT.
Mr- Gompers. now Mr- Bryan's open and avowed ally has
letter herein quoted attacked the federal courts in unmeasured terms
of reproach because, by a long line p# decisions, the equity courts
have refused to make an outlaw of the business "man because his
right to carry on a lawful business under the peace of the .aw has
been protected by the process of injunction: because, in a word, one of
the most vital and most fundamental1 rights of the business world,
the right of a business man to carry on his business, has been sustain
ed and not denied by the processes of the courts of equity. This
sweeping attack of Mr. Gompers upon the judiciary has been made in
a frank and open eport to secure votes for Mr. Bryan. Are these at-
tacks with Mr- Bryan's consent?
Do they meet with his approval?
Does ho endorse them or does lie r pudlate tie m"
WILL BRYAN BE FRANK?
Mr. Bryan has frankly questioned Mr Taft during the progress of
this campaign sr. : vcr\ properly so. asking him to make clear his
stand on public matters on which the public are entitled to be er. ight-
ene.l.
In turn, with equal frankness and with equal propriety. Mr. Bryan
should be asked to break a long continued silence and make definite
and certain his Own position in regard to the matter which concerns
not only business men and every decent, law-abiding'citizen, whether
a wage worker or not. just as much as it concerns Mr- Gompers and
that part of organized labor that stands wiah him.
There is qo need of generalities .of vague explanations of sympathy
for labor. Let Mr. Bryan simply confine himself to the anti-junction
-T- plank of his own platform and tell us publicly, definitely and clearly
-f whether he accepts Or rejects the statement of Mr. Gompers that this
■I plank .pledges him to the principles of the bill for which Mr- Gompers
K stands; and whether if elected he will endeavor to have this proposal
4- acted into law.
"This is asked honestly in the interest of that large voting public
which believes sincerely in the promotion of every legitimate right
and interest of labor but which believes also that from the standpoint
of the best interest of labor it neither requires nor is entitled to more
than justice and that the right to destroy business should not be form-
ally recognized in the law of the land.
ROOSEVELT EXPLAINS.
I FEEL THAT I HAVE THE RIGHT TO SPEAK FRANKLY IN
THIS MATTER BECAUSE THROUGHOUT MY TERM AS PRESI
DENT IT HAS BEEN MY CONSTANT OBJECT TO DO EVERY
THING IN MY POWER. BOTH BY ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION
AND BY ENDEAVORING TO SECURE LEGISLATIVE ACTION TO
ADVANCE THE CAUSE OF LABOR PROTECT IT FROM UNJUST
AGGRESSION AND SECURE IT TO ITS LEG'TIMATE^R^SIJLTS.
I HAVE ACCOMPLISHED SOMETHING; I HOPE TO ACCOM-
PLISH SOMETHING MORE BEFORE I .LEAVE OFFICE AND I
HAVE TAKEN SPECIAL AND PECULIAR INTEREST IN- MR.
TFT'S CANDIDACY BECAUSE I BELIEVE HE IS THE MAN BEST
QUALIFIED FOR CONTINUING THE WORK OF SECURING TO
THE WAGE WORKERS OF THE COUNTRY THEIR FULL RIGHTS.
WHERE HE WILL STOP.
'I will do everything in my power for the .wage workers of the
country EXCEPT TO DO WHAT IS WRONG. . will do wrong for no
man: and with all the force in my power I solemnly warn the labonng
man who advocates doing wrong in the.r interest cannot be trusted by
them- and this, whether his promise to do wrong is given knowingly
that it is wrong, or because of a levity or lack of consideration whirh
made him willing to promise anything without counting the cost
therebv sunport at the moment is to be purchased.
"JUST A3 I HAVE FOUGHT HARO AND SHALL CONTINUE
TO FIGHT HARD- TO BRINC ABOUT IN THE FULLEST-WAY
THE RECOGNITION OF THE EMPLOYE TO BE AMPLY COMP&N
iated FOR injury RECEIVED fN THE COURSE OF his duty
so I HAVE FOUGHT HARD AND SHALL CONTINUE TO FIGHT
SO I HAVE ruuuni   ABUSES IN THE USE OF THE
HARD TO DO AWAY WITH
POWER OF INJUNCTION. mcTirc
FULL AND EQUAL JUSTICE
". WILL DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO SEE THAT THE POWER
OF INJUNCTION IS' NOT USED'TO OPPRESS LABORING MEN"
"I WILL ENDEAVOR TO SECURE THEM FULL AND EQUAL Jus-
tice. Therefore in the intereit of all citizens be they laboring men.
business men. farmers, os members of any other occupation so long
as they hav  in their souls the principles of sound American cituen-
| denounce as wicked the proposition to secure, a law which  c-
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inspiration nnd t\.- ruldan . ,.f Mr. Taft
than we would :nder the leadership of
•Mi lirv-.'i. u> . would 'nrt in Veluhed
down -Willi t hf di ft rust ni.d fear
thousands -'f people who have
I eel't hat hN ileeth n to high offl(
threaten disaster to the country.
ilfflESS
Inspired Dispatches Recount tha
Ohio Incidents Glowingly
What Haskell Told The Oklahom-
j an of His Visit Differs From
i Story of Local Newspaper
i "Regarding the Coalgate dispatch stat-
I iug that the grand Jury exonerated tho
offlecrH of the International bank of jCpal-
I gate and rero-nmends my removal from
i office for closing tliebank for ♦ political
j purposes. J (i i t v;t vthnt I am surprised
| that any body of men of average intel-
ligence could b esn misled. They are
, either Ignorant or have purposely dis-
! regarded the fa. fh la the ••nse In order
{ t<i slap th" guaranty law in the <heat of
j n political 'ampaign That sworn offl-
| eer of.the law would stoop to such meth-
edf is almost unln'lii'vuble S > far as
I my action In closing the ban kis con-
"■ • • : I ti" ■: t ■ i •*-•! ke .i nd
will follow the same course again should
It become necessary I am Hk republican
and am certainly not running this office
to m il -• political thunder fur the demo*
I era tie party. [ am trying to adminlste.
the hiw as I find it, impartially and In
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cording to the explicit statement of Mr Gompers is to prevent the
courts from effectively interfering with riotous violence when the ob-
lect is to destroy a, business  nd which will .aflalize the blacklist anri
the secondary boycott, both of them the apt instrument, of unnwiniy
persecution.
offi
lie linos during my
facts* In th#  Coai-
id thereis no ques-
"ers of the hank
y nnd knowingly
i of th# bat -i*
TI TI SMOCK. *
BALTIMORE Nffi TELLS VJHV
II SUPPORTS *, I!. TAFT
Taft
.aper hi
# d1to
certain.
The ltaltlmor* News, demo
supporting th'1 <'undida< > • f
and be a 'be New *
supports Taft the fact was
that there is rvt a sirii^'e new
■Baltimore supporting the pemocraii"
nominee The N«ws give- its reason, for
A" rn"RE A'SONS'1 W V THE N*FAVf.
I)OKf- ViT AT.VOCATE MR BUYAN"B
i:i,i-:< 'TI' IN 12
The Ni VP prlntM "n 1 ue^dnv
from ft rorre|.ponfient who «nvs that Tlal-
ilmore Is )oaln< trnrte owing to the fn.-t
trrt rnne ot the M i P (l-ir  -r iliW W
I, supportlnc Ur. nrvun. For this runn
l O nri?e« Th- New" to losr.en Its utto-
fin Mr. Bryan "divide' it
Our '-orrefponrtrnt, we are
not o"i*p apprerlate what his propoul
M©n means
Tf it were true thnt heneiit support
Mr Taft by e newspaper driven builneM
nwnv from ftltlmofs nnd we do not
•dttlt for R moment It dons-the onjj
thins for a QAwapupsr ,n de<-id«  wsiyd
He whether it would sell Its eon.rlenee
for hnslr-v Ti ml*'-' 1" 'l0' r n,l,i In • -
rnse uf The New" it does believe, thnt n
the election of Mr. Taft lies asiuranne
nf renewed prosperity not only for Ttolti-
niore hut f«r .«11 the terrlton' tributary
to the city. Therefore. If business  yn
fdderatlons alona were allowed to dictate
the paper's policy, it ought to prefer th«
l  ng era of prosperity held out by 'he
promise ef Taft's election to the tern-
, ■ relief ■ ffer^d a" S bribe ' r tup
portinc bis opponent granting thnt there
are merrhants who are so Intensely par-
Hsnn that thev will not buy goods «n
ii rltv 'Vhese press supnor's a eandldare
t,, wh-ejn they are opposed.
lhit In any on*e a newspaper ewes a
duty «fo Its renders, nnd _ that dutv Is
an honest s*pression of Its mptnlon,
^Int ronfldence would readers have 'n
s newspsper If ther ha<1 reason to think
I 1t« Judgment was swsved flrst thin wav
nnd then that wav by considerations th^t
I )t|d nothing to do with the Issuep at
stskr" Ad our eorr^s^ondenrt ptlll it
1 ••patrtotlim Is certainly abo^*e fnrtlsan-
j atolv "
latter f"' 9^n
rallroadM
Tn brief, these n-nm.
Mr • Bryan Is a gr ent
demonstrate"?! i e ha«
statsamansl lp that nf > needed In *h<
•' > no TVplnrli g • Yi[  ft •
silver prnrnsrnndn nnd r •
never withdrawn- to tenr down the
«t n ndard if «ver th" rtu •  t
serftedt warning hearers who did n1
believe In free «ilver not t
following t'P this with the >>
doctrines thst s.--ente 1 ' ' ' • '
port because they weri 'enleuli'sd t
cat oh the popular fane-. Initiative an
referendum, advocacy of the eleet'on •
Pederal Judges of postmasters nnd
not, geverment 'ownership
a thlnw so pnrtei'te 'mt • u
In Its effect jen our Institutions that
inerj think of It wlth.u
guarantee of hanlt deposit
ti ■ n h.ur.e r.-r 'lmltl|ig 'he .> itput
trusts that senilblo men of both pnrtles
leugh at thes© are a few of tha " hpni"«
Mr Bryan h  g jidvnnced that prompt Th« 
Ne'vi ti^ oppose htm and to fear the <e-
sult of hl« election. And we may say
that In apposing him we have not spok-
en against him hslf an forcibly as have
a goorf many of the men who ore now
supporting him, In order aoparcntly, to
maintain their "regularity."
TTe hss been many things and nntbtna
long. Tt'lth his pewor •• out h *
Ki'stor« <l to Hcaltt by Lydia F",
i*iiikham*s Vegetable Compound.
Read What They Jay.
Miss Lillian R«ws.-p«3li
FastH4th Street, New
York. " rites • Lrdla
B. Pinkham'a Vo^rta
Ms Com pound over
came irregularities,p 
rid(. %iiffering, and
nervous hesila*1 i"a,
after ergrythifg " j
luid failed to help g^Q,
Hinl .J feel It a llut!| tO
let others know of i > *,
K  t harinet;mis;,2355
I,i f yetti -st 1'env-r,
i ni i ^ i'hanks
to Lydi.i iv Plnkham't
W'i>n p' >"111• I I
a a well, aftersutfering
for Ynontns from ner-
vons prostration."
Misa Maris Sto!t -
man, of Laurel, Ia.#
writes 1 wasinaru*
-•.-v u-'o-i .'.i-.naii'isuf-
fered from suppression,
imllgt-htioa, and i ooi
circulation. Lydia
Pinkhain's Vegetable
Coinpt'und made
well and strorig
Miss Ellen M Olson,
of • 17 N i-ast St., Re-
wan°e. 111., says: " Ly«
(1 inF. riukhain'sN'cut^
table < Tiiipound euro.]
me of backache, sid«
ache, ami established
my period®, after tha
|.f t local doctors had
failed to U« ip ma."
FACTS FOtt 5!CK WOMCN.
For thirty wain I^rdia K. Pink-
hum's Vegi'tfthli' Compound, mivle
(r >ill pouts 111!-1 u. : ' ■ . !
HtivnflftM iimicly for iVmale ills,
Jipenii I 4nd h si*v*it iwlyeiin?(tthoii?iaii<l8 of
nnd n fni'tn:- vvnnw „ iinv,. 1 >een trnuhlod with
dwplnoonv-nt!*, iutiiimuiKtion, uli*i" -
tion, tibrotd tumors, IriVftiilwlties,
rxtriodio pnius, liaokaohe, .hat boar-
tupr-dn\V!i fpt'ling', tliituleuoy,indiiffs-
tion,dizrineHR,orn(>rvou8 prostraUon.
Why don't you try it 1
Mid. i'lnkhitm Invites all
woint-n to write b«r for iMlvloe.
Slio haN triildt'd thousands
liouUIt. AddruNV, Ljuu, SI ■>«.
upon
rt M
klnK
been prl
whlh
V
for htm