The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-27

Every Seat fn Madison Square Garden
 FiiIed-His Address Made Independ-
 enIy of Any Organiza,ion-snys He
 Does Not Speak AuIhoritiyeIy and Is
 Not Candidate for Any Office.
 New York, Jan. 25.-Every seat in the Madison Square concert hall was taken tonight when William J. Bryan began his speech on Moral Issues" In the audience there were many wo- men and the body of the hall was more than half filled with clergymen. There was no presiding officer, MT. Bryan be- ing escorted to the platform, where he was greeted with prolonged applause. He said, in part:
 T have preferred to speak independ- ently of any organization, because do not care to embarras any friends or supporters who may differ from me in opinion. Both I and they, therefore, are left to pursue in the future, as we have in the past, the course tha tseems to us best.
 T do not speak with authority; l am not candidate for any office; l am only a private citizen, and I can prove by the editorial pages of nearly all of our leading dailies that I have excel lent prospects of remaining a private citizen during the remainder of my life.
 "But think not that this prospective obscurity has been forced upon me by unfortunate circumstances or by cruel fate. I can prove by an interview which appeared in yesterdays papers that I have recently renounced a prom thence that was within my grasp, if had only followed the advice of one of your distinguished financiers, Joseph c. Hendrix, who is quoted as saying:
 {" If MT. Bryan had come here from Europe and said that he had learned great deal in his trip abroad, and de- clared that he was convinced that it would be a desirable thing for all dem- ocrats to get together he would be great man and his influence would have greatly increased. By his present course he is killing himself
 Surely If MT Hendrix is to be be- lieved-and I quote him, not because he deserves special notice, but because, having left us in 1896, he is fair rep resentative of those who for the last seven years have been giving our party advice instead of votesif he is to be believed my words ought to challenge your attention and arouse that interest which usually attaches to an ante mortem statement when the speaker is sobered by the thought of impending dissolution.
 Why have I flung away ambition? Why have I rejected this proffered greatness and been deaf to the entrea- ties of those who talk only of getting together@ I want to know what they are getting together for whether to defend rights or to enter upon course of pillage.
 .The trouble with our government to-day is that it is too much influenced in it's operations by men whose only loyalty is loyalty to the money bags. will it pay?' has been substituted for Is it right?' and as a consequence our legislative assemblies, city, state and national are becoming auction rooms in which governmental privileges are Knocked down to the highest bidder.
 "one evidence that our party was honestly seeking to secure justice to the masses in 1896 and 1900 is to be found in the fact that our campaign funds were insignificant in both campaigns. In 1892, the democratic party collected a large campaign fund from the corpo- lrations. It spent more than S1 900 in New York and Indiana alone, and what was the result? The most pluto cratic administration this country had ever known. We witnessed surrender to organized and predatory wealth so abject and so complete that seven years of exile from power has not entirely re- moved .he stain from the party You ask why am opposed to the reorzani- zation os the democratic party? Be- lcause want my party to define the rights of the people; want it to be the fearless champion of their interests; want 1t to present a moral issue in- volved in public questions, and to ap- peal to the public conscience.
 s-n dealing with the labor question, moral principles only are applicable. Capital and labor cannot be reconciled by high sounding platitudes about law and order and vested rights. Violence must be punished. no matter by whom the violence is committee, and property must be protected; but those who would |incarcerate a laboring man for a small offence and then allowthe rich violators of the law to go unwhipped, should be made to see the inconsistency of their position.
 How can we restore respect for the
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