Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-08-31
SEES SOME GOOD IN WORK OF
- ROOSEVELT.
HEARST IS CHEERED
Bryan Made Several Speeches Greet
cd by Hearst-Wearied by
Efforts.

New York, Aug. 3O.-The home
coming of W. J. Bryan was made
complete tonight when he was greet
ed in Madison Square Garden by a
throng of welcomers numbering more
than 10000.
1t was such welcome as seldom if
ever, has been accorded a private cit
izen. Bryan's eyes filed with tears
as he acknowledged the laundering
welcome Of 10000 throats. For eight
minutes, while the great building
seemed to tremble and shake from the
shouts and applause, he strobe ner-
yously from side to side of the plat
form. Another demonstration greeted
Bryan when he told his hearers that
he had been converted to the cause
OF government ownership of rail
roads.
81 favor the control of only the
trunk lines by the national govern
ment," said Mr.. Bryan, "and the
ownership of all other railroads by
the state governments.
In an instant thousands of voices
were raised and thousands of faces
were turned toward the box opposite
the speakers stand where William
Randolph Hearst sat.
"Three cheers for Hearst was
the cry which swelled, until the voice
of the speaker was drowned for the
moment.
Tonight's 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's speech was a clear cut out
line of his ideas as to what the dem
ocratic policy should be. The elec-
tion of United States senators by di-
rect vote of the people, regulation of
the trusts by the government, uni
versal eight-hour day, settlement Of
all international disputes by arbitra-
tion rather than by resort to force
and revision of the tariff, were the
chief points Bryan declared, how
ever, that he was merely expressing
his own opinion, and not attempting
to forecast the policy of his party
Bryan declared the trusts were the
great issue of the day. He favored
the closest supervision Of organiza-
ton of corporations and declared
that no man should be director OF
more than two corporations which
deal with each other or are in the
same line of business. He called for
the enforcement of the criminal
clause of the Sherman antitrust law
and the placing of trusts-eontrolled
articles on the free list.
He discussed government bwner-
ship of railroads at length and de-
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clared that what he had seen IN
other countries had served to
strengthen his convictions on the sub
ject. He saw the danger in central
ization, however, and for this reason
advocated federal ownership OF the
trunk lines and state ownership OF
local lines.
The speaker scored the republican
congress for not passing the legisla-
ton urged by President Roosevelt
to give publicity to campaign con-
tributions. He gave the president
some praise for what he termed his
adoption of democratic ideas.
Bryan hoped that the income tax
may some day be imposed through
an amendement to the constitution.
He referred briefly to the recent m
surance investigation and said smil-
ingly that he believed the disclos-
ures would result in difficulty In Sc
curing large campaign contributions
in the future.
Referring to the financial ques-
tion, he said that the unexpected and
unprecedented discovery Of gold had
brought victory to both advocates Oh
gold and the advocates OF bi-metail-
ism.
"There the republicans have gam
so much pleasure and some partisan
advantage by the dissensions IN our
ranks on the money question, that
they ought not to begrudge us tne
Measure we feel in the factvbgkqJ
pleasure we find in the fact that the
conditions have removed the cause
Of the discord and diseontent.' Il
Bryan spoke for an hour ana
twenty minutes and was constantly
interrupted by cheers and applause.
Bryan hoped that the income tax
NAV some dav be imposed through an
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