The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-12

Tremendous Ovation rendered
the Distinguished Nebras-
kan at st. Louis.
MADE STIRRING ADDRESS
POINTED REFERENCE TO THE
PRESIDENT.

st Louis Mo, Sept ia tremendous
ovation was rendered William ]. Bryan
oN the 1900 people gathered in the Coli
scum tonight when he stepped upon the
platform and took his seat With one acs
cord the audience rose. waved flags and
shouted until the strains of America" by
me nand were drowned out. The cheer
lnE was continued for four minutes. and
Was finally silenced by National Demo-
cratic Committeeman William A. Roth
We'll who started to make a speech of
introduction. Chairman Rothwel there
UPON cut snort his speech and presented
Mr.. BRYAN with q wave of his hand
Mr. Bryan motioned for silence with a
paim ran Mr.. Bryan said in part:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen.
IL warm enough when you keep still I
don want you TO increase the misery by
'Neruon. You have cheered enough to
cheer my heart and ] am glad to be here.
nave been trying to find home for more
man week. and / have found IL so home
IKE everywhere that ! can hardly tell
where ! live. / have always suspected
lhat Missouri felt friendly. She has
shown il on many occasions, but never
more so than tonight
Roosevelt Follows Democracy.
/ want to show you IL is better to trust
me Democratic principles to the Demo-
cratic party than TO trust them TO any
man whose party denounces him for fol-
lowing them. ! want to remind you that
administration was his bringing peace
between two nations. He settled the coal
strike after a loss of $99,0000O0 to employ
els. employees and the public II was a
grand act j applauded him for it. But
where did he get the doctrine-in the Re-
publican platform? He got il from the
Democratic platform, and / wrote the
plank myself IF he could gain popular
10y by settling one strike that cost sos.
100000. why ought not our party have
some credit for proposing plan which
if put into law, would have made the
strike unnecessary?
Failed to Pass Law.
WHY has not the Republican party
followed il up by making a national law
that will make It unnecessary for a man
10 staTvO his wife and children i'm order
70 get Justice? If the president can be-
come the only popular man i'm the Re
publican party because he does some
thing SDasmOdically along Democratic
lines what would he the popularity OF
the man whO does something and has al
ways been "a Democrat? Where did Mr.
Roosevelt find his mandate for his ac-
ton regarding the rate BILL? He had &c
so to the Democratic platform. The most
important part Of the Elkins bill is the
penitentiary sentence for it's violation
THE railroads have been the most cor
rupting influence i'm politics in the past
twenty years. BY the use OF passes the
railroads have packed conventions. This
law was suggested by the Democratic
party. 1 shall soon have occasion to talk
on railroads again, but ! want tonight tC
impress upon you that the railroad reso-
luton was the production OF the Demo-
cratic party.
All Out of Prison.
The president has now been i'm office
almost five years. How many trust mag.
Mates are in the penitentiary? We have
a. great many trusts i'm this country VIC
lating the law. My friends / ask you Il
figure out. on the basis OF the number
&C. INST magnates imprisoned during tn,
i've years. how many generation:
20 take to solve the trust ques
tAty friends. if these things prove Il
YOU that Democratic forethought is bet
ter than Republican forethOught, would
not II be better to vote for Democrat.
than for those who have followed at thu
tail end of the Democratic procession
Mr.. BRYAN left for Louisville at 3 a. m