The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1906-12-21
DEMOCRATIC DREAMS
THE FUTURE REALITIES.

Following is an abstract of Mr..
Bryan's speech on Dreams" deliver
ed at Lincoln just before the close of
the campaign:
Senator Beveridge, in his speech in
this city, paid the compliment of call
ing me a dreamer. 1t did not impress
me at first although 1 appreciated the
kindly tone in which this distinguish
ed representative of the republican
party had spoken of me. A few days
afterwards Gov. Cummins of iowa call
ed me a dreamer. Then l sat up and
took notice. Not long after that Speak
! er Cannon called me aAreamer. This
made the matter look serious. And
then Gov. Hanley of Indiana followed
and brought the same accusation aga
inst me. With these four witnesses
testifying against me l might find it
have decided to plead guilty and JUS
tify. Finding that l could not escape
the charge, l began to look up the
subject Of dreams and to inquire of
the dreamer's position in history.
| Philosophers tell us that the dream
of today is the reality of tomorrow,
and a poet has gone even farther and
declared:
"Tne dreamer lives forever and
The toiler dies in a day"
But it is not safe to build an argu-
ment upon a poem, for poets some
times take license with truth as with
language. 1 have greater faith in the
Bible than 1 nave in a poem, and there
fore I went to the Bible as 1 am wont
to do. If 1 quote democratic authority
the republicans attack my authority
and sometimes they keep me busy de
Tending the democrats quoted, but
when 1 quote the Bible 1 cave then
to fight it out with my authority. Thu
Bible tells us of dreamers, the mos
prominent among them being Joseph
His brothers were angered by his
dreams, and when his father sen
him out into the plains of Dotnan, hi
brothers plotted to kill him. The.
did sell him to some merchants, VIII
carried him into Egypt, and they re
killed by a wild beast. Yes, JOSEPH
the dreamer was put out of the wa,
as many dreamers have been since
but after awhile his brothers wer,
glad to go down into Egypt and ge
corn of him.
The democratic party is something
like Joseph in this respect. 1t ma
had it's dreams; it's enemies nave plo
ted against it, and now it is prepares
to furnish the corn to those who hav
fought it and tried to put it out of tn
way.
The democratic party has contain
ed many dreamers during the las
hundred years. In fact, it was founG
ed by a dreamer, jefferson, and DE-
Tended by Jackson, who was some
thing of a dreamer. Jefferson's min
was filled with a vision of a self-go7
erning people, and his whole life wa
devoted to an attempt to make tn
dream a reality. His dream was re
duced to writing il the Declaration c
Independence, and it breathes thr
He saw in the future a governmer
resting upon the consent of the go
erned, strong because it was love
and loved because it was good. Ths
dream is being realized in his coul
try, for the tendency is to make GU
government more J-efferso1ian b
bringing it more and more completed
under the-control of the voters. TIL
effort to secure the election of Unite
States Senators by the people is a
effort toward the realization of JET
~erson's dream. The effort to subst
tute the party primary for the hos
ridden convention is an effort to rea
ize Jefferson's dream.
Not only in this country but in e
cry country in the world the dreal