Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-17
HAIL BRYAN AS LEADER
Rousing Greeting to NebTaskan
at Jefferson Day Dinner.
SHEPARD TO SUPPORT Hing
Champions of Democracy Are After
Another Declare for Him.
SURE OF THE SOUTHERN VOTES
BROOKLYN Democratic Clubs Celebra-
ton Sounds tho Death Note
to Hearst Boom.
i Rousng Midmonth Bargains at Washngons Busiest Store
SURE OF THE SOUTHERN VOTES

NEW YORK. April 1I-With enthusiast
tic applause and tribute such as are paid
few statesmen in or out of Office. William
Jennings Bryan hailed as the demo-
cratic presidential nominee at the jefferson
day dinner of the Brooklyn Democratic
club last night.
There was no mincing of words. Edward
NJ Shepard who bolted him in 1896, show
cred him with compliments and said he is
the one man to lead a united democracy TO
victory.
Representative Ollie James of Kentucky,
after branding the Hearst movement as the
red glare of socialistc ruin" described
the Nebraska statesman as the greatest
democrat in the nation and the ideal of
every democrat who wishes to elevate the
party to its old standard
Gov. Warfield of Maryland, Gov. HOge
Tyler of Virginia and several other dis
tnguished democrats heaped praises on
him and hailed him as the Moses to lead
the party 10 triumph.
Notable in many ways the banquet had
as its keynote the qualification of the de-
mOcracy. Harmony was the dominant
speech and brought out tumultuous APP
plause
Mr. Bryan. who delivered lecture at a
Brooklyn church carrier in the evening
did not reach the banquet hail until II
O'Clock and did not rise TO speak until near
ly midnight.
Those at Table
Seated near Mr.. Bryan were Gov. War
field of Maryland, Gov. Tyler of Virginia,
Daniel Moynah han. president of the club:
Edward NJ. Shepard Attorney General
jackson and Lewis Nixon. Other demo-
Gratis OF prominence at the guests table
We're Robert Davis of New jersey A. II:
Eastmond. Judge Gaynor REPRESENTATIVE
Ollie NJ. James of Kentucky jefferson NJ
Levy, Patrick F MCGOWAN Charles F.
Murphy. Controller Metz. Josiah Quincy
and George Fred Williams of Massacm,-
sets. Representative John w Toml:nson
OF Georgia. Judge Van Wyck and Augustus
Thomas
All told there were approximately 800
present at the table, and the banquet room.
the largest available in Brooklyn. was
packed
As an Indication OF the disintegratioo Of
the movement which crystallized about W.
T. Hearst last fall, it was noticed that
'wenty-one district leaders of the depend
ence League in New York county We're at
the dinner
With them We're Thomas Gineran and
TIMOTHY Driscoll, two enthusiasts Hearst
workers f last fall. They and the twenty
one district leaders cheered Mr.. Bryan Wig
erously and several of them on being pre-
scented 10 the Nebraskan promised him their
support
Edward NJ. shepard the first speaker
was enthus astiCaIly cheerel by the whole
asSemblase. many of whom have been an
tagOnistic to MIN in previous years. Mi
Shepard said. in part:
"Our club has stood for free, Self-suDp3 rt-
ing citizenship preferring the risks and in
ConNenienCeS which attend even orderly and
law-abiding freedom To that paternalisu
sometimes well-ordered and s0Inetim : i'll
ordered, but always vicious, which running
Inc gamut from oppression to impartinence
WOuiU. by tariff privileges or otherwise d.
rect and control from the Capitol or the
White House the industries of the country
or. perhaps, regulate spelling and the games
Of boys at college.
When. beyond the Missouri eleven years
ago, there arose a powerful and attractive
figure man whose lips We're touched with
That fire which carried elOquenCe out of his
own heart to the hearts of his fellow men
many OF us here did not at the first under
stand.
We came more and more To recognize
the deeper and larger appeal which he
made, ana has ever since made, and will
make tonight, for a government of and by
and fOr the whole people. And from the
time, Mr. Bryan, we read your noble and
epoch-making speech delivered Immediately
after your nomination in 1900 you have
held a firm hold east no less than west
upon the admring sympatles of those who
believe that human freedom. Self-govern-
ment and equality in rights and privileges
must be the supreme causes and interests
" the American democracy.