The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-13

Edward F. Dunne of Chicago Judge James B. Tarvin of Covington, Ky; D. l.. Masters. president of the Jefferson club; Clarence S. Darrow and other Chi cagoans. William Prentiss was toast master.
 Mayor Dunne was cordially greeted as he rose. He said in part:
 Mayor Dunne Speaks.
 "We have met tonight to do honor and wish bon voyage to our distinguished and admired guest, Colonel Bryan. We admire and respect him because at all times and under all circumstances, and in every place in which he found himself, he has 'tood for purity in politics and placed man before mammon.
 Whether in victory or in defeat, he has always stood for the right and the man who so acts must always earn, az he has earned the respect and confidence of his fellow countrymen. And now that he Is leaving us for trip abroad, ouH good wishes go with him, and we ask him in his travels abroad to note well the advantages and disadvantages of gov ernmental institutions and to bring back to us the benefits of his observation and experience. And particularly we ask him to inquire into and report to us the re- suits which he discovers of the opera ton of great public utilities in private and public hands"
 Mayor Dunne then discussed the pro- gress made toward municipal ownership in Chicago since the spring election of 1905, saying that he had no doubt that the progress plan he had submitted to the city council would if adopted. bring about municipal ownership of the street railways at very early date.
 Every feature of the plan." he said. has been successfully attacked It has Teen subjected to abuse but not critic Ism; to villhcaton, but not analysis will stand the test of honest inspection and straight forward investigation.
 The fight that the friends of municipal ownership have naugurated will go on"
 Ollie M. James of Kentucky brought out round after round of applause by the eulogy of Bryan and the pleadings of democracy for harmony with which he closed a speech in which he declared Bry- an had long ago declared in favor of crushing the trusts. reforming the tariff and bringing to arbitration all interna- tional disputes. He said in part:
 MT. Jones of Kentucky.
 The democratic party of the United States looks to Bryan as It's leader; he stands for something; he has convictions and the courage to express them: no longer do the six and half million of loyal democrats look to the east The wise men used to be there but with the star of empire, westward they have taken tnsir way. Listening no longer to the sren song of anything to win no longer deuged by the prospect of campaign con tributons we braveiy hall at the mast read of democracy this doctrine: What shall 1t profit the democratic party if II gain all the trusts and lose the common people7"
 The democrats of the south, greet their democratic brethren of the country and beg for harmony-the harmony that --'despIseth the gain of oppressions'-the harmony that 'shaketh It's hands from the holding Of bribes the harmony that 'stoppeth it's ears, from hearing of blood and shutteth It's eyes from seeing evil for we are promised that those who keep this faith shall dwell on high: their place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks We call with this motto for har- mony the leader that we love, the one who marshailed back of his banner the mightiest army of unbought freemen that ever marched to the ballot box, not one Of them was fattening by unjust laws Kentucky, whose democracy has been tried in blood. declares that with the passing years her love grows greater for Bryan. Bryan. Bryanl"
 In brief address Judge Tarvin Of Gov fngton. Ky. declared for Mir. Bryan as the standard bearer of democracy in isos