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Platform contrasts in 1908 campaign debate
The piece compares Democratic and Republican platforms on tariff reform, railroad valuation, labor injunctions, state rights, campaign finance transparency, government economy, currency, trust prosecutions, Senate elections, and immigration. It criticizes Taft and the campaign committee members linked to trusts, notes Roosevelts reforms, and urges informed voters as campaigns heat up. The column also promotes The Washington Democrat and advertises a subscription offer.
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Friends
LaFollette
Chicago
Denver
Wall Street
Samuel Gompers
Organized Labor
Republican Campaign Committee
Republican Committee
William Nelson Cromwell
New York
Great Wall Street
Panama Canal Combine
Kuehn, Loeb & Company
Harriman
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
Frank O. Lowden
Illinois
George M. Pullman
Pullman Palace Car Company
T. Coleman du Pont
Delaware
du Pont Powder Company
Powder Trust
Federal Treasury
Congress
Department of Justice
Pennsylvania
Boss Penrose
Boss Quay
Philadelphia
Boss Tweed
Republican Executive Committee
Mr. du Pont
United States
du Pont
Penrose
Cam
Board of Review
Upham
Republican National Committee
Democratic National Headquarters
Mr. Bryan
Hoch
Kansas
South Dakota
Iowa
Montana
North Dakota
Colorado
Roosevelt
Taft
American Federation of Labor
Joseph Cannon
Harmony
Washington Democrat
Colville Examiner
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