Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1908 — DRYAN HIS OWN PLATFORM. [ARTICLE]

DRYAN HIS OWN PLATFORM.

(Logansport Journal.) What difference does It make about the platform if Mr. Bryan is to be the candidate? Can what Mr. Taggart calls a ‘'conservative*' platform paint out- Mr. Bryan’s record fbr the last twelve years? Can it obliterate free silver? Or the attack on the United States supreme court? Or the suppression of tariff reform as' the price ot Populist support? Or the history of the ratification of the treaty of Paris? Or the initiative and referendum? Or government ownership? Or the Socialistic proposal to put rotten banking on the same plane as sound banking by government guarantees of deposits? Will silence in respect to government ownership wipe out the speech that Mr. Bryan made July 21. 1904, tn which he said that “while the Democratic party in the nation is advocating government ownership of railroads the Democratic party.. in the cities should upon the same theory espouse the cause of muaiCypal ownership of municipal ? Will jdgtfpnfi sllencfe J&M# the record of Mr.' Bryan’s iftfeecfo' before the Iroquois club in April, 1905, in which he advocated municipal ownership of local utilities," state ownership of local railroads .and national ownership of trunk lines? Will silence elpunge all reference to government ownership in Mr. Bryan'a Madison Square Garden speech or in his Louisville speech? The Democratic party must take Mr. Bryafi as h» ftC with the policies that n«r 4mw advocated for the Sit, ivsmym. *rsr- •