The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27
Nebraskan Accuses Presi-
dent Of Stealing Demo-
cratic Thunder.
HAILED AS REAL LEADER
5O-cent Dollar Better Than Dollar
With No Cents Behind 1t, Says
Westerner, in Speaking of
Present Money Market
Stringency.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.-President
Roosevelt was arraigned for stealing
Democratic thunder by William Jen-
nings Bryan at a dinner rendered the
Nebraskan by his local admirers at
the Raleigh Hotel last night. There
were 500 present, Henry West, commits
sioner of the District of Columbia, pre-
siding. President Roosevelt is a DEM
ocrat in spots, declared Mr.. Bryan, and
he said he was glad to see the spots,
no matter where they were.
Commissioners West was introduced
by Willis ]. Abbott, as POSTMASTER, and
at once inaugurated the speechmaking
features of the program. j.. j. Hagfn,
of Tammany Hall, the first speaker,
began by quoting a saying of the a
Senator Vest, whatever may be said
of Tammany tiger, it's claws are always
dripping with Republican blood"
Representative Ollie James, of Ken
lucky, touched and loosened the incli-
nation to enthusiasm by paying his re-
spects to President Roosevelt for action
in leaving the words in God We
Trust off the new ~ten-dollar gold
DIN
1.-THE Republican party has destroyed
all the Ideals of the Revolutionary
fathers" he said. 1.-THE final act is
the taking of the words In God We
Trust from the gold coins-the symbol
Of the United States as a Christian ma
ton. We may suppose Roosevelt will
favor the substitution of the Teddy
peal in the place of these words. But.
a ~.o,v ~ eas5 that tho naOrIo nf the
country may well trust in God now,
as the Republican party has become n
party of panic instead, of prosperity"
Representative Sulzer, of New York, de-
voted the time allotted to him to a lively
criticism of the banking system of the
country.
1.-THE worst banking and currency avs
ever devised by the incompetency of the
human mind,' was his summing up. He
advocated legislation which would-inject
elasticity into the currency supply and the
establishment of postal savings banks.
The responsibility for the present strin-
gency in the money market. he placed on
"a few bankers and a few individuals
boarding money"
Representative John Sharp Williams, mi
nority leader in the House of Representa-
tives, spoke more courage for the Demo-
cratic party now than for many past
years. Nothing but the Democratic party
could have survived all the mistakes you
and ] have made Q~aughter), but 1t is the
hope of the Republic"
While Mr.. Williams bore testimony that
in Congress outworked and put
talked the other side, but the trouble
is that you can't get eight of them Into
a mule team to pull the same way. We
should recall that old proverb, in essen
tials unity, in no~n-essentials, charity"
Although Mr.. Williams admitted that he
would stultify himself if he said he agreed
with MIR. Bryan about all things, he had
come to the conclusion that the best
chance of cohesion would be In the nomi-
nation of Mr.. Bryan, who, he said, was
the real leader of the party. The South
will support him. and If he cannot win
then some Of these days it will ave
something to say for Itself"
1t was past midnight when Mr.. Bryan
began his speech of an hour and a half in
length. Mr.. Bryan was greeted by wild
cheering, and it was some time before he
could make himself heard.
Mr.. Bryan reviewed the present finan-
cial difficulties of the country, and sug-
gested that the remedy proposed by the
administration was an issue of currency
with nothing but credit behind 1t, adding:
WAS not my 5O-cent dollar bad enough?
Naughter.) Well, l am glad that / can
now stand against a dollar with no cents
at all behind it."
Referring to the nomination to be made
next year, MT. Bryan remarked that he
could not say who the candidate would
be. (Cries OF Bryan, Bryan.") Con-
tinuing, Mr.. Bryan said he could TAX a
nomination only on the belief that he
might be able to do something for the
party. He believed the appeal to the
voters of the country would not be made
in vain.
'It is not to be a money campaign he
continued. Our fight must be made by
volunteers. II 1 we're the candidate l
would rather go out and make this fight
without a national committee and with
out a national treasury than to go out
with a campaign fund the source Of which
we were not willing to divulge to all the
people,
Mr.. Bryan's. nomination was predicted
by each of the several speakers and each
time the prediction was repeated it brought
forth instantaneous applause. Mr.. Hagin,
OF New York, pictured Mr.. Bryan as the
idol OF New York Democrats, and Repre-
sentative Sulzer, Of that city, added his
testimony to the same effect. Representa-
tive James. of Kentucky, declared the
nomination Of the Nebraskan settled, and
John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi, gave
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