The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-31

Hearst entered a reserved box. For two
| minutes the crowd eheered. Many rose
| and waved hats and handerchiefs In the
direction of Mr.. Hearst's box. Then there
were more cheers for Mr.. Johnson.
When this joint demonstration had
partly subsidized. Mr.. Bryan accompanied
by his WIFE, entered the garden and ap-
peared on the platform.
The crowd which had been so free in
its cheering before was now fairly be-
| side itself. The men shouted and jumped
on seats, cheered and threw their hats
ito the air apparently caring naught as
to the ultimate fate of the headgear.
The women waving handerchiefs cheered
as loudly as they could. Five minutes
after Mr.. Bryan appeared on the plat
| form, the crowd hoWled and cheered, but
| eventually Chairman Johnson secured
comparative quiet, and introduced Angus
tus Thomas, whose every reference to
Mr.. Bryan called forth additional
cheers Mr.. Thomas said:
Augustus Thomas Speaks.
"Mr Bryan the Antitrust League Of
the Commercial Travellers of America,
Joined by a representative eoncourse Of
your countrymen and theirs welcome you
home, The Commercial Travellers are to
the nation its quick personal media of
to voice this welcome by the welcome of
their early discovery that such welcome
was the nations wish. And the nation
will hold them answerable that the greet
ing be In no uncertain tone. The league
and its associates, therefore, know that
the sentiments to be uttered demand
rude intimacy that shall transcend the
| reserve of the private meeting. Their
| appreciation is meant not to put you in
| the pleasant embarrassment of self-satis-
faction, but to inform you of that high
| level of personal conduct. which they
believe you have reached, and to fix upon
you the obligation of maintaining that
standard. The welcome is not for the
politician, not for the man; not for
party, but from a people. You have
come home. The problems that confront
| you are grave and complex. You will
find the productive industries of the
| country in the hands of few allied to
| crush at home competing venture and
| paternally protected from outside inter-
ruption, legisatively fostered minority
| who at one and the same time invoke
| the law for privileges and protection,
| and defy it in predatory combination,
| who in order that they may retake from
labor also that small part of labor's prod
uce which they allow as wages have since
1896 and principally by collision advanced
the cost of lives necessities a per cent.
| American People Beginning to Know.
| Fortunately the American people are
| beginning to know that a contempt for
an invasion of just laws tend no less to
anarchy when plotted over the directors
| table than when shouted under a red flag
on the railroad crossing. The conscience
of the people is aroused 1t Is asking that
back of the law In Its enactment and be-
| hind the law in its execution there shall
\ be an ncorruptibe moral force 1t be-
| lieves that the navigator who fortetold
| the condition of the channel and marked
its dangers on the chart will be a better
| guide than one of the pilots who drive
against a rock and thereupon announce
| its discovery
"The people welcome you as such
| guide. a champion who early saw and
stouty resented the wrongs they suffer,
wrongs that have continued and grown
for a full decade. They welcome you, the
man who compassionately proclaimed
! himself a commoner and who has been
| fraternally greeted as one of natures
noblemen by the princes Of the EARTH
Chairman johnson then introduced Mr..
Bryan. saying:
Mayor Johnson Speaks.
1--WE are met to welcome home the first
citizen of the republic. Not yet the first
official but the first citizen by common
| consent.
HE is a democrat. for he believes in
| the honesty and the intelligence of the
people He is a republican. for he believes
in the republican form of government.
Men say he is eloquent and so he Is;
| but the charm of his eloquence is his
sincerity, it's strength is his moral cour-
| age.
HE has finished the long journey
| around the world and we Of America
know that we have made no mistake
| in him; for everywhere the people have
| seen him and we have seen him, and
everywhere they have hailed his as the
American leader of ideal democracy.
| Over the principle the thought of the
world is agitated today. In some form
| or other in all civilized countries democ-
raey is struggling for privilege Millions
| of our people have but just begun to
| learn that this irrepresslble conflict is
| being waged In the United States. They
are Just beginning to learn that American
| democrats must abolish special privilege,
| or special privilege will abolish American
| democracy. They are just beginning to
| learn their need for the democratic in
| SEPARATION of another Jefferson and the
| democratic leadership of another Lin
| coin.
World Recognizes His Leadership.
"They are learning 1t fast And with
| il they are learning another thing. They
| are learning that they have among them
a simple citizen whose qualities of leader
ship all the world recognizes. They are
| learning that for ten years they have
! had in training an able and sincere
| leader of the democracy of all political
parties, against the intrenehed interests
| of special privilege of every kind and
degree. They have come to know for the
true man that he Is, our guest of to-
night, William Jennings Bryan,
"Mr Bryan: In the name and in the
presence of this splendid audience, and
| in behalf of that great host of Amer
lean citizens, who believe in equal rights
and abhor special privilege in behalf Of
| every democratic republican, as well as
every democratic democrat, | welcome
you home. We all welcome you as an
| ideal democrat who is worthy to lead and
| competent to lead; we welcome you as
an American citizen In whose pre-emi-
| nence we have an honorable pride; we
| welcome you because we trust you; we
| welcome you because we love you.
ladies and Gentlemen: Mr., Bryan"
Bryan Is Presented.
\ Mr. Bryan was presented at $40 o'clock.
| AS he arose the audience was on its feet
| as one man. The cheering which began