The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, September 29, 1908, Page 5, Image 5
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
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