The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-06-19
One More Prominent Jersey
man Joins the Lists Of
Those Booming the Ne
braskan
WHY He SUPPORTS HIM
HE IS NOT IN SYMPATHY WITH
BRYAN's MONEY VIEWS BUT
THINKS HIM HoNEsI-RooSE-
WELT HIS BEST FOLLOWER.
SPECIAL to ,srhe Jersey city News..,1


TRENTON. June 10, 1906.-Judge
Garret D. W. yroom, of the Court of Err
rors and Appeals, is the latest prominent
Democrat to swing into line with the
Bryan boom already rampant in this
State. Judge Vroom, who in 1896 would
not vote for the Nebraskan, yet for the
sake of party regularity supported him
in 1900 has come out unequivocally as
Bryan enthusiast. To reporter he said
today:
81 voted for Mr.. Bryan in 1900, and he
is good enough for me to vote for him in
1905 l was not in sympathy with his
views on the money question, but had a
profound respect for the honesty of the
man. l believe him one of the greatest
men politically in the country today. He
has forced his opponents to adopt his
views on public questions. Why, today
the best Bryan follower in the country is
the present occupant of the White House,
Theodore Roosevelt
Other men far to the front in Demo-
cratic councils here assumed just as posi-
tive attitudes in favor of the "great COM
moner's" candidacy.
Edward NJ. Reading, who was chair
man of the Democratic County Commit
tee in 1896, when Mr.. Bryan ran first for
the Presidency, said:
"Mr ~Bryan's foresight was greater
than Roosevelt's hindsight The things
he advocated the President now feels it
incumbent upon him to put into force,
and his trials with his own party show
that the g. O. p. has not yet grasped
the public pulse''
Michael Hurley, Democratic State
Committeeman from Mercer County,
spoke to similar effect. and added that
there seemed to be nothing to stop aIr.
Bryan from being the next Presidential
nominee.
Martin P. Devlin said:
Mr.. Bryan's attitude in 1896 is iden-
tical with his attitude to-day. He has
not been converted. The people have
come to see after ten years of education
that Mr.. Bryan was right in 1896 and
in 1900 and is right to-day.
"The theory of the money question
which Mr.. Bryan advocated in 1896 has
come true. as witness the speech of Re.
publican Elihu Root in the last Repub-
liean National Convention and Mr.. Lit
teton in the last Democratic Convention
when they both declared that the pro-
duction of gold in the past ten years had
surpassed that of previous centuries
| They said that the silver issue had ceas-
ed to be pertinent one before the Amer
ican people simply because of the great.
er production of gold
Mr.. Roosevelt has gone further thar
Mr.. Bryan in criticism of the courts, al
issue raised first by Mr. Bryan, and
from observation the people believe that
Mr.. Roosevelt has been justified in his
structures.
ION the question of railroad rebate:
and railroad rates Mr. Roosevelt has
made an effort to go the full length oi
the Democratic platform, and has prov
ed that the Bryan issue of governmental
ownership of railroads was correct.
ION Mr.. Bryan's issue of the income
tax. Mr. Roosevelt, in his muck rake
speech, went further than Mr.. Bryan
|. ever did and the people now applaud.
.'The cry of anarchy was raised wher
Mr. Bryan ran in 1896, and since ther
people have come to know that the only
anarchists. those who raised the cry il
1896, are the Insurance grafters, the rail
road hiremen and the commercial pi
rates. The people have come to know
that the only anarchists in the country
are the full-dress anarchists controlling
monopolies. y