The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-06-06
MR.. BRYAN SPEAKS
IN NEW JERSEY
Great American Delivers a Most Interesting Non
Partisan Address in The Home and Hot
Bed Of the Trusts

a suggestion and his suggestion Is
not needed, and a little later nc
makes his suggestion second time
and ir that suggestion Is not needed
later on he makes the suggestion
again, and so on, and each times the
conservative says no, and finally the
radical drags the conservative on.
When / was in Japan / saw two
lions, two Korean lions, that stood IN
front Of the doors Of the temple; they
are not fierce looking lions, but rath-
err comicnl looking one represents
the positive and one the negative
they represent the eternal conflict
between tho radical and the conser-
yatiye. | brought them home with
me and have them on either side of
my porch steps, and when / so up
the porch steps | walk as nearly as
can in the center between the two.
Progress is between the two ex-
tremes. We are now having CON
test in the Republican party between
the radical and the conservative, and
no doubt the radical will finally win.
There is only one place in the world
for the standpatter-that Is in the
grave; for everything that has life
lives, and If it has intelligence as
we'll as life 1t moves forward, There
is no such thing as standing still. If
the Republican party dared to stand
srTll for ten years It would not hold
power in single state unless It be
New Jersey. In fact--there is some
prospect here of progress, but, to be
frank without, | think this Il ohel OF
the least hopeful states we have
I am in favor OF the election Of
United states senators by direct vote,
Of the people, because IL brings them
nearer to the people. And If any Of,
you doubt that the feeling is growing
in favor Of broader democracy, Jet
me tell you the history of this coun-
try on that subject.
1t was over one hundred years aft
err the constitution Of these United
States was adopted before a protest
against the present method of elect
ing senator's reached the point where
there was an expression on the sub
ject in the congress- little more
than a hundred years and yet in
1892 the. Fifty-second congress
adopted a resolution proposing the
necessary amendment to tho consti-
tuition for that purpose. That was
fifteen years ago, After one hun
bred years of waiting, during which
time first one and then another, and
then a few more, were al locating
rfhs reform, the sentiment became
strong enough to secure the passage
Of a resolution through congress, and
in the last fifteen years that reso-
luton has passed five times through
the popular brancn of the federal
Twice'the congress was Democratic
and three times the congress was Re
publican. But # any Republican
boasts because his party passed it
three times and ours passtI It tH!ce
let me tell him that ours passed it
twice before the Republicans passed
it at all, and we hqye only had but
two congresses, andttwo Republican
adjourned without acting
upon the resolution that two DEM
ocratic congresses had already
passed. 3D..
At last the sentiment grew so
strong that Republican congress
acted favorably, eight years after a
congress had set the eX-
ample. Butat am willing that they
should follow even eight years be-
lind the Democrats, Nearly two
thirds OF. the states have acted, and
think nearly as many Republicans
states have acted favor
ably. Eighteen states are now elect
ng their senators as nearly by direct
vote as they can under the constl-