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this proposition. quote Mayor David S. Rose, of Milwaukee: "The determination of the Roosevelt family," says Mr. Rose, "and their social associates to control the government for an ind'efinite period is amusing because it cannot be carried into effect. The greater part of Mr. Roosevelt's last administration has been devoted to an effort to elect his own successor. Mr. Taft is announced as the Inheritor of the Roosevelt strength. Now comes the presidential son-inlaw to inform an interested public that the proposition is for Mr. Taft to serve two terms and then for Mr. Roosevelt to return in grandeur from a long tour of foreign lands and be the candidate in 1916. If the plan thus outlined by Mr. Longworth be carried into effect why, after Mr. Roosevelt has served his two terms after 1916, should he not put his son-in-law in as his sucessor?" Judge Charles B. Waite of Illinois sends me summary in which he points out that of twenty-two Republican National delegates from Alabama, fifteen were Federal office holders; of ten from Florida, seven were Federal office holders; of twenty-six from Georgia, thirteen were Federal office holders. of six from Delaware three were Federal office holders. And the following table sheds further light. State Officeholders. Delegates. 20 7 Mississippi 18 8 Arkansas 24 10 North Carolina 24 8 Tennessee 36 12 Texas 24 8 Virginia Does not this seem something like pernicious activity/on the part of the officeholding body of the nation? The presence of so many men owing their jobs to a president who had selected his own successor certainly did not add deliberative character to a convention gathered nominally to choose that successor. After eleven years the Globe Savings Bank of Chicago has been wound up by the receiver. The depositors get 531-3 cents on the dollar. How many depositors who had their money in the bank when it failed are dead? The receiver's report does not specify. There were 3.500 depositors. There were $400,000 of deposit liabilities. It cost to wind up the bank's affairs $83.786. But this expense does not compare to the expense and suffering to which the depositors were put in waiting eleven years for a little over half their money. If the Oklahoma plan, the plan pressed by Mr. Bryan, had been in effect, the depositors would have been paid as rapid as they presented their checks. The bank carried down another with it, and the depositors in each have waited long years for their money and have received only a part of it. Officers of the wrecked banks have been sent to the penitentiary when they did not evade that fate by committing suicide. Stockholders have suffered enormous losses. Now, had the State banks of Illinois been under law compelled to maintain a safety fund or a guaranty fund to protect the depositors, is it not altogether probable the distress, criminality and suffering would have been averted? Judge W. J. Thomas of Colorado, an active worker in politics. called on Saturday at the Democratic National headquarters and said Colorado would give not less than 15,000 plurality for Bryan and Kern. He declared the whole State was wild with enthusiasm over Bryan, the man and the candidate. "We Democrats offer Bryan as the type for which the manhood of Colorado should stand," he asserted, "and present Guggenheim as the boss and leader of the Republican Party."
