The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-18
|BRYAN SPEAKS
IN WISCONSIN.
Lauds La Toilette. and Predicts
the Early Death of the
Republican Party. A.

/ Milwaukee, William j.
Bryan arrived in Milwaukee about 2
'clock yesterday afternoon and adj
dressed q large. gathering of people
who had been waiting over two hours
for him to appear at the Alhambra1
theater. Mr.. Bryan was scheduled to
speak at noon, but was detained onsac-
count of understanding Of #the
arrangements. He. was given an en-
state and congressional tickets and
dwelt at length on national questions,
repeating many Of his views as ex-
pressed in other speeches.
The democratic party, he said, is
now united party and it is united on
the people s side Of public questions.
The republican party is now entering
the valley of the shadow Of DEATH. He
referred to the factional contest in
the republican party in this state two
years ago, the election of La Toilette
as governor and later as United States
senator. - ""
! 'EWhen he came back here,'' said
Mr.. Bryan, "you turned down the man
he thought ought to be nominated for
governor and you nominated a man
| he thought ought not to be nominated.
And I can afford to come to Wisconsin
to speak against man whom La Fol
lette can speak against before the con-
vention.' RI.
Roosevelt and the Party.
With regard to President Roosevelt
as the leading republican of the nation
Mr.. Bryan said: ~, II
"Ten years ago the republicans had
any number of men available for the
presidency. Now they have just one.
According to these republican leaders,
the president himself must run again
because there is no one else, and they
get down on their knees to- him and
say, ooh, Mr.. President, it is true that
your second term on the night Of cleo
ton and you would not run again.. but,
Mr.. President, you surely did not know
what desperate straits your party
would get into when you said that, or
you wouldn It have said it. Will you
take it back? Can't you forget that
you said it9 Can't you forget that
Washington would not have a third
term and that Jefferson would not have
a third terms Cant you forget every
thing and make your mind a blank,
Just to save the republican party, for
YOU alone are popular, Mr.. President.
"That is what they say today. Ism t
it strange that in ten years trial they
should SO fail to satisfy the peoples
Strangest Of all is that the one man
who is popular in the republican party
is popular because he had the courage
to depart from the republican platform
and adopt planks from the democratic
platform. -',
Pleads for State Ticket. "a
'sThere is scarcely a great money
magnate in this country who has not
been found crooked in his business re.
lations It is all because when you
allow man to gather money by i'm.
moral means, his nature becomes per.
verified and he cannot see things in
their right proportion. You allow pred.
atorY wealth not only to plumber the
people,, but you allow it to demoralize
those who were it's benefciaries.
"Will you help US now to apply this
remedy9 You have a chance in the
election of our. democratic friends to
congress and you have chance in the
election Of our state ticket from Mr.
Awkward down; and I have come here
to ask you if you in Wisconsin will
help us now to start this reform which
we hope to complete two years from
now, when we will make this govern.
ment again government Of the people
by the people and for the people,