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BRYAN IN REPLY. (Continued from page 1.) against our platform declarations on the trust question, but you do not refer to all of the planks and do not deal justly with those to whi6h you do refer. Our platform declares in favor of the 'vigorous enforcement of the criminal law against guilty trust magnates and officials.' Your platform does not contain any such demand. Will you say that your platform is better than ours in that respect? Ot platform demands that corporations -beyond a certain size be compelled to sell at the same price in all parts of the country, due allowance being made for the cost of transportation. Will you deny that this is in the interest of the consumer and in the interest of the smaller competitors? We pre sent a plan under which- no corpora tion will be permitted to control more than one-half the total product. It has been stated that the steel company, with your express consent, purchased one of its largest rivals and thus obtained control of more than 50 per cent of the total out put. Will you insist that .in permit ting this you showed less favor to the monopolistic corporations than I do'in opposing it? Steel Men Helped Hughes. "You quotfe at length from a speech made by Governor Hughes, in which he ridicules one of our anti trust remedies. Is this the same Governor Hughes who was counted as one of the 'alies' who endeavored to defeat Mr. Taft when, as you insisted, Mr. Taft represented tha 'reformers' of your party and his opponents the reactionary element? Did not Governor Hughes have the support of the New ^York delega tion in the Convention, and is not New York city the home of many of the Republicans most conspicuous (in their connection with the law defying corporations? You are cer tainly aware of the fact that in the ' statement filed by George R. Shields, then treasurer of the Republican State committee, two years ago, af ter Mr. Hughes's election, it appears that the following contributions were made to the campaign fund: J. P. Morgan, $20,000; John D. Rockefeller, $5,000; Andrew Car negie, $5,000; Chas. M. Schwab, $2,000; John W. Gates; $5,000; W. E. Corey. $2,000; W. Nelson Crom-1 well, $1,000; W. F. Havemyer. $<?00; B. M. Duke, $500. Several of these men are known to be officially con nected with the trusts. "Would the fact that these gentle men contributed to his campaign fund strengthen or weaken his testi mony against the reasonableness of our anti-trust remedy? Hughes a Fault Finder. "You cannot have failed to notice that Governor Hughes in his speech assumed the role of the critic, and not that of *\e constrattive states n. \rv. Any one possessing a vivid imagination and a pen can find ob jections to remedial measures. Lord Macaulay is quoted as saying that eloquent and learned men could be found to dispute the law of gravi tation if there were any advantage to be gained by it. Bnt when 'known abuses' are to be cured, an ounce of remedy is worth a pound ?of fault finding. "As you quote from Governor Hughes, I take it for granted that Mr. Taft has not yet expressed him self in a satisfactory manner on the subject, for you would naturally prefer to quote from the Presidential candidate wherever possible. You say: 'Let us repeat that no law defying corporation has any other reason to fear from you save what what it' will suffer in the general paralysis of business." etc. Trusts Supporting Taft. Refering to the last part of the sentence first, I might question your ability to act as an expert as to panic preventatives, since you now have one on your hands, but as to your charge that no law defying corporation has reason to fear the .direct effect of the anit-trust reme dies which 1 favor, permit me to suggest that your testimony on this subject is not conclusive. You are a witness, to be sure, but your inter est in the result of the election must be taken into consideration in weigh ing your testimony. There is better evidence. The trust magnates know their own interests, and they are sup porting Jurt^e Taft. Not one of the trust magnates helped to secure my nomination, while it is a matter of common notoriety that they were conspicuous in the Republican Con vention, and it is equally common notoriety that they are supporting your party in this campaign. If you will name a single official connected with 'a law defying corporation' monopoly or trust who has declared or wilt declare that he if? support5ng me, I will publtcy warn him that I will enTorce against him the present criminal law. and will enforce against him also the laws demanded in the Democratic platform us soou us the laws can be enacted. _ Campaign l'Hl?'?ir.it>7s\ "But there is another fact which raises a presumption in ravo.- of our party and against your party. 1 re ferred to it in my former letter to you, but you inadvertently over looked it in your reply , and the members of your Cabinet called in for consultation evidently did not notice it. I stated that we had not knowingly received a. dollar from any of those connected with ? corpora tion known as a trust, and that any money so received would be returned j as soon as we received knowl'iige of the fact. I now remind you that your Convention deliberately re jected by a vote of 9 to 1 the plan* favoring publicity as to campaign contributions. Mr. Taft has repudi ated the action of the Conventioi. and rebuked the members of the Convention by declaring himself in favor of a publicity law. but he fa vors publicity after the election, while we favor publicity before the election. -Which do you regard as the better plan?to let the people fcnow before the election what m i fluences are at work or to. let them know after the eltction? . "Are you willing to say that any public interest was served in 1904 by concealing until after the election the contributions made to the Repub lican campaign fund by Mr. Har riman and those collected by him from others? "Are you willing to say that the publication before election of . the contributions then made would have no effect on the election? . As I hav~ said, we shall publish the names of contributors above one hundred dollars. Will ^ou ask your national committee to publish before the elec tion the contributions above one hun dred dollars? Or if yon regard this as soo small a sum, the contri butions above a thousand dollars, oi' if this is also too small, the con tributions above ten thousand dol lars? If. not, what reason can you give to the public for not doing so? I insist that our willingness to let toe public know the - source from which we receive contributions rais es a presumption in our favor that must be overcome before^ you can ask the people to accept your state ment that the law-defying corpora tions have no more to fear from Re publican success than from a Demo cratic victory. Bryan as Good as Taft. "In conclusion, you say that you ask support for Mr. Taft because he stands for the moral suplift of the nation; because his deeds have made good his words and because the policies to which he is committed are of immeasurable consequence alike to the honor and the interests of the whole American people. 1 dare you to compare my efforts for the moral uplifting of the nation with the policies to which I am com mitted with the policies t owhich he is committed, and more than that, if I may assume that he will follow in your footsteps, I dare to com pare my ideal of the Presidency with him. I do not regard it as propc. for the President to u^e his prestige, his influence or his patronage to aiu one member of his party as against another who aspires to office, and 1 regard it as a violation of Ahe obli gation that the President owes to the whole people to use an office that belongs to the whole people as a party asset for the advancement of a personal friend and ' a political protege. Believing that the Presi dent should not be tempted to use that power for his own advantage, and it is equally repugnant to the spirit of our institutions that he should use it for any one else's ad vantage?1 tried to secure an amendment to the Constitution lim iting the President to a single term, and I have announced an three cam paigns that if elected, I would not be a candidate j for renomination. I believe that the occupant of so high an offyVfe, with such an enor mous power at his command, should be absolutely free to devote himself unselfishly to his -country's welfare, and 1 am sanguine enought to believe; that entrusted with the power, 1 would be able to make my adminis tration so successful that the mem bers of my party could, without in terference from me, select the one most worthy to carry on the work begun by me?so successful that th-? administration would not be neces sary for me to defend it in bulletins or pronunciamentos. I think I could, in this way, give to the members of the opposite party as well as to the members of my own party, a 'square deal "Very truly yours, ?'TV. J. Bryan." TEDDY IN A HOLE. (Continued from page i.) for vetoing a child labor bill. "True, I did so, simply because the bill went too far and included things not desired by our people. Union la bor representaties approved my veto. I hope the president will survive this veto of a local bill and permit us to run our local affairs. The College Professors. "The president complains that we removed certain professors from our State university, our three State normal schools and preparatory school, in violation of civil service rules. That is, the president, in his usual impetuosity and reckless dis regard of others, misstate the facts. Less than one-fifth of the faculties are changed. All changes were for good eauses other than polities and doue by boards of regent and not by the !,cvernor. The Creek Indians. "The president complains thatj there are several suits pending against me to reclaim Creek Indian land. The president should have gone further and said that I was not a dealer in Indian land and only came in as a subsequent -purchaser and only incidenally a party without personal interest at all, and espec ially he should have said that it is quite apparent that those who are being used in those land cases ap pear to be, and apparently are. the victims of poltical chicanery which the president can better explain than I. In short, the president and Mr. Hearst picked the wrong man and are now driven into ward politics rather than surrender like men. What President Thinks. "The president assumes that all Oklahonians are grafters just be cause his territorial associates justi fined that name; that all the railroad contractors are bad, just because Paul Morton needed his protecting arm: that we all in Oklahoma violate the civil service law, just because Mr. Roosevelt removed the best United State marshal we ever had. the only reason being that he voted for a good Democrat instead of a bad Republican, and then the president appointed his cousin to fill the va cancy. "As to the rights of labor in a child labor bill and my work in the Interest of labor, Mr. President, please remember, with me. it's do things. With you it's talk only. Yon are the same president who threatened to turn down our consti tution because it provided a jury im mm KOHN'S EMPORIUM OEA1TG-EBUEG, S: C. THURSDAY AND FRIDAY OCTOBER 1ST, AND 2ND, 1908. KciiSfiii of is Fancy Striped Ribbons. 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"Knowing all tnese things, the president must pardon us for thus taking issue with the occupant of the high office we all respect. Let us hope that in the future he will appreciate and preserve its dignity and not try to reflect upon the char acter of a humble citizen. We fail to concede his false position when he knows it is false. "C. N. HASKELL." J Win. V. Iziar. J. Stokes Sallej. Fire ! Insurance. IZLAR & SA1LEY We represent the The Home Insnrance Co. Liverpool and Loudou and Globe German American Continental Northern Assurance Phoenix and Georgia Home. The Strongest Combination In the State. If a man would feed only one out of every ten hogs he could not expect the entire drove to thrive. Then, if he throws his manure on his land in big' chunks, how can he expect the whole to receive the benefit? Get a manure spreader. * i DOING BUSINESS FOR YOUR HEALTH. That's one of the things we ore doing business for, and of course incidentally, to get a living. 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