The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-31
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high tide was reached in Madison
Square Garden and the scene of the
Utopia beggared description.
Trusts Issue of Day. -.
Last nights reception. which was
given under the auspices of the Com
mercial Travellers Antitrust league,
proved really to be the sounding of the
democratic campaign call. Mr.. Bryan g
speech was clearcut outline Of his
ideas as to what the democratic policy
would be. a.
The election Of United States sena-
tors by the people, regulation of the
trusts by the government, a universal
e1ghht-hour day, settlement of all inter
national disputes by arbitration rather
than by resort to force, and revision of
the tarlf-were some Of his points. Mr..
Brya'n declared, however, that he was
merely expressing his own opinions and
NOT attempting to forecast the policy
Of his party.
MI. Bryan declared that the trusts
were the great issue Of the day. He
favored the closest supervision of the
organization of corporations and de-
clared that no man should be a director
OF two or more corporations which deal
with each other or engage in the same
line of business. He called fot the en-
forcement Of tho criminal clause Of the
Sherman antitrust law.
Favors Income Tax.
The speaker scored the republican
congress for not passing the legislation
urged by President Roosevelt, giving
pub licity to campaign contributions,
but gave the president some praise for
what he termed his adoption of demo
cratic ideas.
tax some day h S Tss s%9s
an amendment to the constitution. He
referred briefly to the recent insurance
investigation and said, smilingly, that
he believed the disclosures made would
result in difficulty in securing large
campaign contributions in the future.
The only discordant note sounded
during the evening was when Mr.. Bry-
an turned to discussion Of socialism
and declared the man who says the
come to stay is the one who is helping
the socitlist. Some one yelled, "Three
cheers for socialism, but the call was
drowned in Kisses.
IN; MI =. Bryan a quickly. said: my
expressing himself in favor Of social
ism, because the socialist as rule is
an honest man. I deny that the trust
is an institution necessary for economic
political. It rests not on natural
laws, but on man-made laws.'
Scalpers Corner Seats.
The doors were opened at o'clock
and the long lines Of patient ticket
They found it undecorated save for the
lofty speaker Is platform at the Twenty
seventh street entrance, which was
draped with American flags.
The seats filed SO slowly that the
Bryan managers began to get anxious,
until lit ss.n9ad rea+ th1t ticket SCALP
and were selling them at exorbitant
prices. .-s----, .~- 81
But the crowd continued. to- pour in
steadily, and at 8 CLOCK the few seats
! that were left vacant were said 20 be
those held by the speculators.
A thousand people were standing in
| the. aisles and another thousand were
searching vainly for seats.
There were no lines of demarkation
I to be observed, except in the case of
the Nebraska delegation, which sat in
body directly in front Of the speak
I The men from Maryland, Arkansas,
Michigan, Illinois, Indiana or Kansas
sat cheek by jowl with members of
| Tammany Hall, or Pat McCarren 3
faithful from Brooklyn.
Enemies in Same Throng.
/ It was an epic gathering Of queer
antagonisms, with Hearst against Tag
CART, Bryan against Sullivan; with dem
ocrats, republicans, socialists and pop
ulists, clapper-clawing, cheering and
I jeering in their different political be.
! Iiefs. .@ !.
Yet. when the great crowd wal
eventually seated and awaiting the ar
rival Of the prophet, it seemed that
beneath the passion, beneath the rage
Of opinions and beneath the rabid UP
roar Of the Bryan devotees, could be
observed the quiet, orderly crowd Of
the anonymous, whose political beliefs
were nebulous-.the thousands who
doubt and hesitate and recoil from
be convinced.
At $3.50 O'clock Harry W. Wake
arose in the speakers stand to cal
The meeting to order on behalf Of tn
Commercial Travellers Anti Trus
league. His mouth opened and his lip
moved, but whatever sound came fortl
was blown away in the wild unroar o:
lungs and feet.
At last he was heard to utter TIL
name of Folk-Joseph. w. Folk, tn,
governor and trust fighter of Missouri.
~<-~ Folk Denounces Trusts.
1t was some time before Mr.. Folk
voice could be heard He made a bril-
liant speech, denouncing the trusts an,
their methods and giving 'unstinte,
praise to Mr.: Bryan: =
Johnson Of Ohio as presiding Officer
and Immediately the great cheering wa
renewed. It remained for Mr.. Johnso
to make one of the emphatic hits o
the evening. After vociferous and X
peated declarations that Mr.. Johnso
> was all right, and sundry bowls fo
: Scent fares from New York to Clevt
land, the crowd quieted down into
semblance Of order. Then Mr.. Joh1
:: son raised his hand, and in a doze
[ words told the thousands standing Q
, the floor and around the doorways tina
they might take the seats supposed
, held by the spectators.
In flash an uproar arose that mad
the preceding noise appear as the twl
tering Of canary birds.
The chairs cracked and the gallerie
+ cant spots. There were wild scramble
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