The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-09-13
BRYAN IN
KENTUCKY
Nebraskan In Louisville on
Southern Tour.
WATTERS0N LAUDS HIM
"Our Jury Is the Nation, Proof
Republican Records. Attorney
Mr.. Bryan"

two years, William j. Bryan was wei
coined here with spontaneous gladness.
lie seized the occasion % read a state
ment In explanation OF his New York
speech on government ownership OF
railroads.
Bryans arrival In the city provoked
q great outburst OF reclamation from
thousands OF marchers aud other thou.
sands Ia the streets His reception at
the armory. where he addressed 1900
persons. was wildly enthusiastic.
The mass meeting at the armory
constituted kentucky's greeting on be
half OF the south. aud II was repre-.
sentative southern gathering. graced
10y leading Kentucky Democrats.
number OF prominent Democrats from
other southern states aud citizens from
Kentucky aud Indiana. MIR. Bryan
was welcomed 10 Kentucky by his
whilom opponent, Henry Watterson.
who presided nj last nights meeting.
The other speakers preceding Mr. Bry-
an were Senator Carmack Of Tennes.
see representing the south. and Sena-
tor W. J. Stone OF Missouri. who intro
duced the guest OF honor.
When Mr.. Bryan entered the hall on
the arm OF Mr.. Watterson there was a
demonstration that lasted ten minutes
thousands of flags waving with the
surees OF cheers that swept over the
thrOpg As soon as the noise subsidized
Mr. Watterson began his address OF
welcome.
Watterson pointed TO Mr.. Bryan and
said: Here he is. God bless him and
give him wisdom" The audience yelled
for five minutes
Mr.. Watterson said In part as fol
lows:
There Is but one paramount issue
for the next presidential battle, and
that Is the rescue of the government
from hands that have misused and de
bauched IL and Its restoration to the
custody of the plain but sovereign peo-
pie.
The parties to II are upon the one
hand a standing army OF trained poll
ticians held together not alone by the
cohesive power of the public patron
age, but by community OF interest as
unyielding as 1t is unthinking, richly
caparisoned in an the panoply OF sue
cessful war, and on the other hand the
mass and body Of those who hew the
wood and draw the water and pay the
taxes. undrllled. unskilled and widely
separated. often cropping In the dark.
sometimes misdIrected by divided
counsels, always lacking the resources
by which results are reached and dan
gers turned. but never yet united ex
cept TO conquer.
1T is veteran troops against raw mi |
ltia. an unequal though not bootless |
array as many a well fought field In
days of old bear witness. Give us but |
half the discipline of the regulars and |
a 1.-THE OF their equipment, and we |
shall drive them before us across the |
barbados of criminal wealth though |
led by Theodore Roosevelt himself.
IL recognize as our chieftain in this |
conflict the Hon. William
Jennings Bryan of Nebraska.
at costs me no sacrifice either of |
personal preference or pride of opinion
to make this declaration. Mr.. Bryan
and | have not always agreed as to
the means; we have never disagreed
as to the end. The appeal TO the moral
nature of the people, which he has
l.. SO alnH1tannn and
power was making when he was
boy. He grew to manhood under my
teaching. If at times | have raised the
warning finger of the schoolmaster
even threatened the rod, he was big
enough and old enough and good look
ing enough to stand ii and to survive
il and has thrived in spite of it, may
be by reason of 1t, and in any event
has quite outgrown it.
81 too, have lived and learned apace,
and one of thes things l have learned
has been to look more to the objective
point and less to nonessentlals; in mat
tiers of difference to agree to disagree
with my comrades and friends; on
great occasions and In great affairs to
send all minor differences to the rear
the better to march abreast against the
enemy.
THAT common enemy Is prerogative.
That common enemy is the effort of the
organized few to obtain from the gov
unfair advantage over the UNI
organized many That common enemy
is the self same money devil who, fail
ing on account of Gods bounty to eat
us out of house and home through the
of the robber tariff, has
now attorneys abroad in the land tell
ing the people we are going to take
the roof off and TO tear away the walls,
when, as a matter of fact, we are SIM
ply going to turn him out and to clean
up after him.
1--WE purpose to reform. not TO revo-
the government. We pur-
pose to re-establish Democratic institu-
tons in the nations capitol, returning
TO the voters what belongs to the vot
ers. We purpose to drive from the
floor of the senate those who sit there
not as servants OF the people, but as
counsel. We purpose 10