Arizona republican., 1906-09-05
BRYAN DAY
 IN CHICAGO Guest of the IrOquOiS Club
 at Luncheon
Scored Roger C. Sullivan and Rejected the Endorse
 ment OfIIIinOisDemOcrats

Chicago, Sept. 4.-W. J. Bryan, as the guest of the local democracy, deliv- cred today within eight hours two ad- dresses His first speech. which was made at a luncheon given in his honor by members of the Iriquois club, dealt entirely with political issues and eco- homie questions of the day. The sec ond speech, which was made at a ban quet given in his honor by the Jeffer- son club, was devoted to National Committeeman Roger C. Sullivan of Illinois, whose resignation Mir Bryan had demanded but who was endorsed by the recent state convention, which also declared in favor of MT. Bryan as the next democratic nominee for pres ident.
 Mir. Bryan not only scored Sullivan and his political methods unmercifully but informed the democrats present, many of whom were delegates to the recent state convention. that if they accepted MT. Sullivan they could not endorse him in any way. He informed them emphatically that he would have none of the approval of the democrats of Illinois and that he repudiated their recent endorsement of him
 In his afternoon address MT Bryan said regarding his recent utterances in New York on government ownership of the railways:
 ''I stated what I thought with the expectation that everybody else would exercise the same freedom in the dis cussion of the question. I was led to my conclusions by the corruption of the people of the United States by the railways, as l have seen it. In my have un r11ors corr-1rntfuer influence in American politics than the railroads. It has corrupted the people by the pass. I have known conventions to be controlled by passes. have known judges to be elected by railroads. and 1 have reached the con clusions that this corruption cannot be eliminated until these natural mo- nopolies become the property of the government. I am opposed to central izatiOn and because I believe that the state can best do that which concerns the state alone, because 1 believe in the doctrine of self government, there fore 1 prefer that instead of having all the railroads owned by the federal government, we should have the local lines owned by state governments and only the trunk lines owned by the federal government"
  the world there is perceptible growth in democratic ideas. When I speak of democracy. I speak, of course, in that broader sense in which democracy means the rule of the people. I think possibly there has been less progress in this country in the direction of de- mocracy than in some of the countries of the old world. That may be ex- plained by saying that we have less distance to travel than they have in Europe and that we have to some -ex- tent felt a counteracting influence in the last twenty-fiv years that to my mind. can be traced to the dominating influence in politics of great corpora tions interested in favorite legislation and in special privileges
 MT. Bryan. amid great applause. ad- vocated the election of United States senators by direct vote, and then add ed: "I think it is time to speak in re- gard to the United States, plainly, and in my judgment the reason why reform has been delayed for decade or more is because predatory wealth has put corporate tools in the senate. and until this can be remedied and the senate brought into harmony with the voters of this country there is not much pros pect of reform
 MT bTNdn cOHtenOe0 mat the repuD- lican party while in power had not settled a single important question. He declared that the prosperity of the country had come in spite of the re- publican party and not because of any thing it had done. On the trust ques- ton he said: ITO the extent that the president has gone, I am glad but he has not gone far enough, and he has not been able to take his party with him as far as he has gone"
 The banquet held at night in the Auditorium hotel, under the auspices of the Jefferson club was a pretentious affair. attended by fully six hundred prominent democrats from Illinois and other portions of the middle west MT Bryan was given a most enthusiastic greeting when he arose to speak.
 Other speakers, beside MT. Bryan, were: John Temple Graves of Georgia. Mayor Dunne of Chicago. and Cato Sells of Iowa.
 Not a sign of disapproval was given by the assembled democrats during Bryans speech, and his announcement that he repudiated the endorsement of the Illinois state convention. which had endorsed MT. Sullivan, was greeted with considerable applause.