The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1906-09-13
BRYAN IN ST. LOUIS.

On Tuesday night William J.
Bryan addressed an audience of over
$1,000 people in the great Coliseum
hall in St. Louis. 1t was mighty
ovation that was accorded the great
Democratic leader. When the COM
moner stepped forward to begin
speaking the mighty audience arose
as with one accord, waved flags and
shouted until the music Of the band
was drowned out. The cheering last
ed five minutes. Mr.. Bryan said in
rart:
mfr. chairman. ladies and gentle
men: It's warm enough when you
keep still, don't want you to in
crease the misery by exertion. You
have cheered enough to cheer my
heart and ! am glad to be here.
have been trying to find home for
more than a week, and l have found
il 50 homelike everywhere can
hardly tell where / live. l have al
ways suspected that Missouri felt
friendly, she has shown it on many
occasions. but never more so than to-
night.
Il want to show you it is better
to trust the Democratic principles
to the Democratic party than to trust
them the true man whose party de-
nounces him for following them.
don't want to denounce him for fol-
lowing them l want to remind you
that the most popular act of Mr..
ROosevelt's administration was bring
ing peace between two nations. He
settled the coal strike after loss of
100000 to employers, employ
es and the public. It was a grand
act. l applaud him for it. But
where did he get the doctrine? In
the Republican platform? No. He got
II from the Democratic platform and
I wrote the plank myself. If he
could gain popularity by settling one
strike that cost s99.00O,OO0 why
ought not our party have some cred
it for proposing a plan which if put
into a law, would have made the
strike unnecessary? Why has not
the Republican party followed it up
by making a national law that will
make 1t unnecessary for a man to
starve his wife and children in or
der to get justice? If the presi-
dent can become the only popular
man in the Republican party bet
cause he does something spasmodicaI-
ly along Democratic lines, whit would
be popularity of the man who does
something and has always been a
Democrat? Where did Mr.. Roose-
welt find his mandate for his action
regarding the rate bill? He had to
go to the Democratic platform. The
most important part Of the Elklns
bill is the penitentiary sentence for
Its violation.
THE railroads have been the most
5orruptlng influence in politics in
the past twenty years. By the use of
passes the railroads have packed con
ventions. This law was suggested
by the Democratic party. l shall
soon have occasion to talk on rail
roads again, but | want tonight to
impress upon you that the railroad
question solution was the product
of the Democratic party.
THE president has now been in
office FIVE years. How many trust
magnates are in the penltentiary?
We have a great many trusts in
this country violating the law. My
friends | ask you to figure out, on a
basis of the number of magnates i'm
prisoned during the past five years.
how many magnates will 1t take to
solve the trust question?
My friends, If these things prove
to you that Democratic forethought
is better than Republican fore
thought. would not 1t be better to
vote for Democrats than for those
who have followed at tail end of the
Democratic procession"