The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-17
BRYAN'S BUSY DAY
NERRASKAN MAKES FOUR sPEEcn- ES IN GOTHAM
At Jefferson Celebration of Brooklyn Democratic Club He Is Assured of Its Support for the
 Presidency.

Presidency.
 New York, April 16.--With William Jennings Bryan as the chief attraction the Democracy of Brooklyn tonight in observance of the anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson engaged in an enthusiastic Democratic reunion and demonstration.
 The function was the annual dinner of the Brooklyn Democratic Club. Mr. Bryan who concluding day of vigor- ous action, which embraced four public addresses, was given splendid recep- ton and delivered a characteristic dis course, taking for his subject Thomas Jefferson"
 MT. Bryan attended the early courses of the dinner and then hurried away to give two lectures in other parts of Brooklyn. to return later in the even ,ng as the last speaker 2 : the post prandiaI exercises.
 Besides MT. Bryan the speakers in- Jcluded P. M Shepard of New York, George Fred Williams of Massachu- setts, former Governor Tyler of Vir- gtnia, Colonel John W. Tomlinson of Alabama, Governor Warfeld of Mary land, Augustus Thomas, the playwright and Congressman Ollie James of Ken lucky Other guests were James H. Blount of Georgia, United States Judge of the Philippines; Charles F. Murphy leader of the Tammany organization. and Lewis Nixon, one of the Democrat ic leaders in New York.
 In extending the welcome to the guests Mir. Shepard paid tribute to MT. Bryan whom he welcomed with the words that the Brooklyn Democrat ic Club then and there declared its strong and loyal hope that MT. Bryan would lead the party in 190S." Cheers followed MT. Shepard's announcement.
 MT. Williams of Massachusetts dis cussed the question of the government ownership of railroads. He said:
 T see no escape from the conclusion that If government ownership is right 1t should be adopted now; if regulation is wrong 1t should not be attempted at all"
 But Mir. Williams believed that reg ulation was not right, not possible and not expedient.
 Ex-Governor Tyler of Virginia in the course of a humurous speech declared that a revolution sure and powerful Is pulsating in the nations bosom
 New issues, or rather the enforce ment of old ones" said MT. Tyler, "are stirring the people to the stern realities in a greater degree than they have been stirred for fifty years or more and all this is the fruit of the seed sown in 1896 and 1900 and kept alive ever since by the eloquence of William J. Bryan, a grandson of Virginia. and encouraged by the voice and mandate of Theodore Roosevelt who will no doubt be ready to place him in nomination in the next democratic national convention"
 This allusion to a recent meeting in the south at which a speaker suggest ed that MT. Bryan should nominate Roosevelt for president was greeted with cheering.
 MT. Tyler went on to say that the people of the South are practically uni his name Is as potent in flashing a magic spell of enthusiasm as it was in 1896 He believed that millions of American voters would never forsake the banner of Mir Bryan. message from the Southern Democracy was de- livered by Representative Ollie James of Kentucky, who added an emphatic word on behalf of the old Democratic faith. =--.....
 We wcuId guard with vigilance and courage" he said, State rights and local self-government, but the South ern Democracy believes that the Demo- cratic party stands as a great divide between monopolstlc greed on the one hand and socialistIc ruin on the other.
 MT. James hailed MT Bryan as one of the pioneers of the Democratic party and added:
 .The southern Democracy is tonight gathered about W. J. Bryan and from the blooming flowers of Florida to the waving blue grass of Kentucky the De- mocracy of all Dixie proclaims that it wants Bryan to lead in the next great fight The South says of Bryan For twelve long years we have stood all kinds of weather, but in all those years Bryan never bi oke his VOW and we would not change for a new leader now even If we could.
 This Southern sentiment was warmly applauded.