The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-11-28
BRYAN DISCUSSES
| ROOSEVELT POLICY
SPEAKS AT BIG BANQUET IN HIS
HONOR IN WASHINGTON.
ENTHUSIASM is GREAT
Nebraskan Analyses What He consid-
ers the Presidents Political
!. Views-AIso Addresses
HlD Organized Labor.

Washington, Nov. 27.--william J.
Bryan was rendered banquet and re-
ception Tuesday night by ''the United
democracy of the District of Colum-
bia." Five hundred Democrats par.
took OF the three-dollar dinner and
more than double that number partici-
pated in the reception and feast of
oratory which followed.
While the capacity OF the Raleigh
hotel banquet hall placed limit on
the attendance, the cid" was com.
pletely of as to enthusiasm, and the
long speech Of Mr.. Bryan, like the half
dozen shorter ones in his praise which
preceded It, afforded opportunity for
repeated and continued demonstra-
tions of political accord and personal
regard for the guest of honor.
Analyses RooseveIts Policy.
Mr.. Bryan utilized the occasion to
set forth at length a closely reasoned
analogy between the policies of Presi.
dent Roosevelt and those he believes
should be adopted in the administra-
tion OF the government From this
viewpoint Mr., Bryan's speech was re-
garded by the prominent Democrats
who heard 1t as decidedly important
and timely party deliverance.
Mr.. Bryan's analysis Of President
Roosevelts political views was unique.
-Four Of the Roosevelt policies, he said,
were democratic and four of them
were undemocratic, while there were
four other democratic principles which
the president did not advocate. Rail-
road regulation, the enforcement of
the laws against trusts, an income tax
and arbitration as the method of set.
ting disputes between labor and capi.
tai, were all advocated by the presi.
dent, Mr.. Bryan said, but had been ad-
vocated by the Democratic party long
before the president took them up. AS
to none Of them, he maintained, did
the president have the support of Re.
publican party leaders.
Doctrines the President Opposes.
The four democratic doctrines the
president will not endorse the speaker
gave as tariff reform, the election Of
senators by direct vote, the promise
of ultimate independence to the Fill
pino and the restriction of the use of
the injunction in labor disputes.
The four undemocratic doctrines
which the president does advocate Mr.
Bryan named as being the national in.
corporation OF railroads and other in
terstate commerce corporations, the
right of the federal government to in.
terfere by treaty with state rights,
ship subsidies and asset currency.
Added to this, Mr.. Bryan said, the
president has manifested a military
spirit.
Also Talks to Organized Labor.
Mr.. Bryan and Samuel Gompers, of
the American Federation of Labor,
were the principal speakers at a great
mass meeting of organized labor at
Convention hall in this city Tuesday
night An audience Of 1000 persons
greeted the speakers and thousands
more could not gain admittance to the
hail. Other speakers were John
Hodge, a member Of the English par
liament; President James O'Connell,
of the International Association of
Machinssts, and w. r. Trotter of the
typographical union Of Manitoba.
Canada
A parade, consisting of the union
labor organizations in the District of
Columbia to the number of $4,000 per-
sons, preceded the mass meeting. The
object of the parade and the mass
meeting was to demonstrate the
strength of organized labor here.