Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-10-19
COL, VIM, ]. BRYAN
SPEAKS BEFORE AN
IMMENSE AUDIENCE
WATERFOWL DOES HONORS TO THE NEBRASKA LEADER
OF DEMOCRACY WITH AN EYE ON THE PRESI-
DENCY-TURNER HALL TAXED TO CAPACITY
WORDS OF CHEER AND HOPE TO WISCONSIN, DEMOCRACY ARE EXPENDED
Il Can Condemn the Man Whom LdFOl6t6 Condemned Be
fore Election" Said the COmmOner--Polnt6d out
How Democracy is Spreading Among Nations

pered at the hall that the Great Com
moner had arrived. Through the long
wait, the audience was patient. AS
the famous Nebraskan appeared upon
the stage it was the signal for another
tumult of applause lasting several
seconds.
Owing to the delay and lateness in
the arrival of the speaker, Mayor
Arthur Mulberge1 used good judgment
and in his introduction made very
brief remarks. The speaker of the
day paid his respects to the mayor,
also to the democratic candidates for
congress of which district Watertown
is part. Mr.. Bryan spoke IN part
as follows:
Ladies and Gentlemen: | am here
at last. l love my friends and like
to help those who in my judgment
can be trusted in office. And | am
here not only to assist, If | can, in
the carrying of the state ticket, but |
shall be more than pleased if | can
say anything that will lead you to
send as your congressman for these
districts, Messrs. Lewis and Weisse,
whom | learned to know very we'll.
CORPORATIONS IN POLITICS.
I'm coming to talk in this state
there is one argument that it is not
necessary for me to make. When l
speak elsewhere [ sometimes have oc
casion to refer to the contest that is
going on in the Republican party
similar to a contest through which we
passed in the Democratic party. For
more than twenty-five years the in
fuence of the corporations in politics
has been growing. Ten years ago we
had a struggle III our party to decide
whether the people or the corporations
would run the Democratic party; and
after gigantic struggle, the people
won at Chicago, and our party was
divided, and the Republicans took ad
vantage of our division. They elected
their president. Our party was not
united four years later. They re-
peated their victory. Two years ago
the reactionary element gained a
temporary advantage and again the
Republican party was successful.
HAVE WON FIGHT.
"We have made our fight and we
have won our fight and no man today,
Democrat or Republican, doubts where
the Democratic party will be on pub
! lie questions two years hence. We
have no fight in our party now The
party will be Democratic from begin
ming to end on all subjects, but the
Republican party is now entering the
valley of the shadow of death and in
this stage you know something about
it because you have been a pioneer
state. In this state the Republican
party has had the experience that the
Democratic party had in Nebraska.
We began in Nebraska in 1894. We
had to fight for our organization. We
got control of it in 1894. We had to
! fight for two years before we could
hold it in 1896, but we have had no
trouble since.
''In this state you have had a fight
between those who represent the peo-
pie in the Republican party and those
who represent the corporations, and
in your state at first the corporations
won. They won so completely that
when your peoples representative IL
the Republican party went down to
the national convention he was pitched
cut OF the convention by those who
were in control of that convention
All the leaders of the Republican
party helped to put him out Then
he came back and you made him gov
ernor, and you made him senator, and
he went down to Washington and he
has had the fight of his life in the
senate of the United States.
"a have heard La Toilette speak
in Nebraska | heard him denounce
the interference of corporations ii
politics He has gone to New Jersey
to fight a senator who represented
the corporations instead of the people.
He has gone out to Kansas to denounce
those in the republican party wht
were faithless to their trust; and my
f friends, have such confidence in hi
judgment that am delighted to have
chance to help the democrats whil
the man who whipped La Toilette il
this state.
'Now, we have had so many demo