Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1908 — BRYAN’S SPECIOUS RECORD. [ARTICLE]

BRYAN’S SPECIOUS RECORD.

/ad*e Taft Potats Oat th* Weak Spots in the Nebraskan’* Political History. (From Taft’s Cincinnati Speech.) “What 1* it that we have to expect from Mr. Bryan? Have we anything to expect but what he promises? Have we anything to expect but what ts based upon his eloquence and his adroitness as a public critic? Has he ever given any practical demonstration of his ability to meet problems and solve them? Has he ever done anything but formulate propositions in his Closet of an utterly impracticable plausibility, and very little with a view of their operation? ‘By their fruits we shall know them.’ “With the record of promise* and prophecies unfulfilled for a period of twelve years; with this record of * hunt for An issue upon which to achieve the presidency; with this record of repudiation, of negotiation and Of running away from national responsibilities, Mr. Bryan comes forward and asks that th* people now give him an opportunity to put into operation new reforms in rbspect to trust* and In respect to guaranty of bank deposit*, wholly untried, wholly theoretical; and on their IM* bearing evidence di their impracticability and of having been devised' by the ready brain of one looking for plausible arguments rather than real reforms. He only in a. qualified way approved th* postal savings bank recommended by the Republican platform, which la a tried and proved means of encouraging the wage-earner and small fanner to make deposits in a bank absolutely s*cure; but much prefer* a system which takes a man’s money to pay another man’s default, and which instead of strengthening our banking system will break it down by destroying the value of th* banking character and experience and capital and by offering inducement to reckless and speculative bankers without character or capital. “The record of Mr. Bryan and his character, as it is understood by • twelv* years’ acquaintance with him, bar* impressed th* business community of thl* country and those whose judgment determines whether or not capital .shall be Invested that be is not a safe man with whom to try experiments in government; that be love* financial theories that ar* full of sophistry and ar* impractical; that he advances propositions with but little sense of respect as to bow they may be carried out In practice, and that he give* but little attention to the welfare of the conservative business community in hie suggestions of reform. Certainly hl* record justifies this judgment of him by the business men. If he was to be elected, unquestionably because of tale record, however much ■ow be may seek to pose as a conservative—because of bls record, because of the failure of th* theory which be has proposed for the last twelv* years—bi* election Win mesa a paralysis of business, sad we should have a twerfbmb it. tfito toußtnßOß dltiou «f th* last Democratic adssinte