Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1907-04-27

Bryan Would Purge Party.

other speakers as the Democratic presi
Dental candidate next year, said frank
! ly that he had not made up his mind
whether he would be candidate OF
| not, but that In the near future he
would announce his position; then i'll
the course Of his speech he came out
squarely for the initiative and referen-
dun as the coming Democratic doc
trine, holding that however it might
be retarded by some Of the eastern
Democrats they could never defeat It,
At this point, speaking In impassioned
manner, he said:
"The right Of the people to govern
| themselves Is the fundamental Demo
cratic doctrine. We may differ about
other questions, but Ii there is a man
calling himself Democrat who does
not believe in. the right Of the people
to govern themselves / shall drive him
| out Of the Democratic party II I can,
and may add that IL the Democratic
party does not believe In the right Of
the people to govern themselves 1t will
have no difficulty in driving me out
Of the party"
This was incorrectly reported in some
papers as being Mr.. Bryan's declara-
ton that he would drive some partic-
ular man out Of the party, and 1t was
said that he had reference to Thomas
F. Ryan.
In answering the question how much
nd -
Democrat he said that IL man makes
his money honestly there Is no limit
provided he is the master OF his mon
ey, but when his money becomes his
master he ceases to be u Democrat AS
to railroad rate legislat ton, the Demo
cratic leader said that all past at.
tempts at regulation were worthless
because no one had taken the pains to
find out how much the railroads were
worth.
Speaking at another meeting called
In the interests Of the national public
ity bill, Mr.. Bryan advocated that all
campaign contributions be published
before the day Of election, with the
names Of the givers, and requiring that
nothing be received later than ten
days before the voting, and after elec-
ton he would have o statement pub"
lished Of how much money was spent.
Taft to Take the Stump.
To the Washington correspondents
the president confded the definite
statement that he would favor secre-
tary Taft for the next presidential
nomina ton and that he would so ar
range affairs that Taft might take the
stump In Ohio this summer. ~
Anti Roosevelt "conspirators."
Two men who have made utterances
unfriendly to the administration have
been spoken OF at the White House as
confirming the charge of a rich mems
conspiracy. One is III. Ell. Rogers, mate
Of the oil trust crew, who in a publish
ed interview said that ''the sentiment
Of the country will have so crystallized
within few months that there will be
united demand for the strongest con-
servatism in the conduct Of the govern
ment" The other alleged conspirator
Is Colonel George Harvey, editor Of
Harper's Weekly, who delivered a phil
lipfc against RoOseveltism at the New
York dinner of the National Democrat
fc club on Jeferson's birthday. Papers
friendly to the president have not hest
tated to call Harvey the mouthpiece of
''the Wall street anarchists" calling at
tention to the fact that his weekly as
we'll as the North American Review,
which he also edits, were financed by
J. P. Morgan.
What Colonel Harvey said, however,
was full of spice. He included Bryan
in his attack, comparing him along
with Roosevelt unfavorably to the
Hills and Morgans, who have opened
the great west to civilization and MOI
for our country the commerce. III
premacy of the world" He character
lied the presidents declaration for his
successor as an arrogant and unDrece-
dented insult to a free people. and his
cry of conspiracy as 1.-The raging Of the
revolutionary instincts of a lawiess
mind" adding that the people were de
iuueu ny lue uldENNiOuS spectacle Oh
blatant probity yawping from the pima
Gle of self appreciation" In sadness he
said he foresaw abandonment Of prin-
ciple in a national campaign led by
two false prophets striving only to de-
termine which may raise a banner
most attractive to the multitude He
referred to the presidents "cataracts
Of twaddle" and his ''lava streams Of
hvective turned on to wash away OBJ
noxious evidences Of double dealing"
referring to the Hartman episode. He
for one final attempt to join
hands with the conservative south" to
blaze the way for the entrance Of truth
and sincerity.
Florida Against Negro Vote.
BY vote of % to the Florida SEN
ate adopted a resolution declaring the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments
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