The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-13
A Notable Testimonial of
 Esteem.
sPEECHmAKING THE ORDER
Nebraskan on Democracy vs.
 Capitalization. ]"
James Eulogises Guest snd Pleads fox Harmony, whsIe Tarvfn Nens- z mates Twice-Defeated canas-
 date for Presidency.

Chicago. Sept. 12.--wiIiism Jennings Bryan, soon to leave for tour of the world, was the recipient of notable testimonial of esteem tonight at bar- quet given in his honor by the Jeffer- son Club at their rooms, Randolrh and Clark Streets. Covers were Iaid for 300 guests and among those present were Congressman ollie M. James ok Kentucky; Mayor Edward F. Dunne of Covington, Ky: E. l. Masters, president of the Jefferson Club; Clarence s. par- row and other Chicagoans. William Prentiss was toastmaster.
 Mayor Dunne was cordially greeted a. he rose. He said in part:
 Mayor Dumne's Speech.
 We have met tonight to do honor and wish bon voyage to our distin- guished and admired guest. Colonel Bryan. We admire and respect him be- cause that at all times and under all circumstances and in every place in which he found himself he has stood for purity in politics and placed man be- fore mammon.
 whether in victory or in defeat he has always stood for the right. and the man who so acts must always earny as he has earned, the respect and conffv dence Of his fellow countrymen. And now that he is leaving us for trip abroad, our good wishes go with him, and we ask him in his travels abroad to note well the advantages and disad- vantages of governmental institutions and to bring back to us the benefits of his observation and experience. Ana particularly we ask him to inquire Into and report to us the results which be discovers Of the operation of great pub- lie utilities in private and public handss'
 Mayor Dunne then discussed the pro- gress made toward municipal owner ship in Chicago since the spring eIoc- tion of 1905. saying that he had no doubt that the plan which he had sub- mitted to the City Council would. if adopted, bring about municipal owner ship of the street railways at very early date.
 No vital feature of the plan, he said. has been successfully attacked. It has been subjected to abuse hut not crit icisn. to viIIlncation but not aaaEyeis. 1t will stand the test Of honest inspec- tion and straixhtforward ifivestimatiun. Tho fight that the fFiNnHs of munieipaE ownership have fnauRuratcd will wo on.
 ollie M. James of Kentucky, brought out round after round of applause hv the eulogy of Bryan and the plea for Democratic harmony with which he closed a speech In which he declared that Bryan had long ago declared in fa- vor of crushing the trusts, reforming the tariff and bringing to arbitgation all international disputes. Mfr. James said in part;
 Mr James's Speech.
 The Democratic Party of the United States looks to Bryan as. It's leader; he stands for something; he has convte- tions and the courage to express them: no longer do the six and a half million of loyal Democrats look to the East. The wise men used to be there, but, with the star of empire. westward they AaI~ laFss H~eA longer to the siren song of anything to win; no longer deluded by the pros- pect of campaign contributions. w0 bravely nall at the masthead of Denoc- racy this doctrine, What shall 1t profit the Democratic Party if 1t gain all the trusts and lose the common peopleF
 The Democrats of the South greet their Democratic brethren of the coun- try and beg for harmony---the harmony that despiseth the gain of oppressiones the harmony that 'shaketh it's hands from the holding of bribes'--the har- mony that 'stoppeth its ears from hear Ing of blood and shutteth It's eyes from seeing evil for we are promised that those who keep this faith shall dwAn on high; their place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks.' We call. with this motto for harmony. the legd- CT that we love, the one who marshalIed back of his banner the mightiest army of unbought freemen that ever march, ed to the ballot box, not one of whom were fattening by unjust laws. Ken- lucky, whose Democracy has been tried in blood. declares that with the passing years her love grows greater for Brya2, Bryan, Bryan"
 In a brief address Judge J. B Tar win of Covington, Ky, declared for Mr. Bryan as the standard bearer of Dernoc- racy in 1908 He brought out great outburst of applause when he said, ''You will look for a man who stands for and will adopt the platform that can bear but one construction. It will be a Democratic plaform as Dem- ocracy is construed to be by an over- majority of those who claim to be within that party. Who will he be? say that we want a man who gan win. We will allow no personal feeling or regard to influence us. There ,an be but one answer. William J. Bryan has been through the fiery fur- iace again and again and yet again. As result he stands today. twice defeat- d for the Presidency. the foremost man n America"
 MT. Bryan was the next to speak. He vas greeted with an enthusiastic de- nonstration, and 1t was some minutes 'efore the applause subsided sufficiently O allow him to proceed He spoke on Democracy versus Generalization" his beech being in part as follows:
 Mfr. Bryan's Speech.
 The partial adoption by some of he Republican leaders of the remedies roposed by the Democratic party make opportune to draw a distinction be- ween the fundamental principles of and the principles of those rho view subjects of government from
 different standpoint. There are two orces constantly at work in every ation, one force tending to bring the nearer to the people. and he other tending to carry the govern lent from the people. To go a little arther back, we may start with post lon that there are but two theories of that a government ia
 thing created by the people for them elves--thIs Is the theory which is em- odied in our doctrine. which declares hat governments derive their just overs from the consent o2 the gov rned A The opposite theory Is that