New-York tribune., 1907-04-17
BRYAN STILL RADICAL.
TRIUMPHS IN BROOKLYN.
Hailed as Candidate and Cheered to
the Echo.

' next democratic candidate for the presidency
at the annual Jefferson dinner of the Brooklyn
! Democratic Club last night Edward NJ Shep-
ard George Fred Williams. Governors Tyler Of
Virginia. and Warfield Of Maryland acclaimed
the Nebraskan as the peerless leader of old and
| cheered him to the echo when he sounded again
| the note which he struck at Madison Square
| Garden last fell War on the trusts control,
not regulation Of railroads income and inheri
tance taxes. al the radical doctrines were sound
] ed anew.
And in the audience the men who distrusted
| him in 1896, as Mr. Shepard said, seemed ready
to rally to him as the hope of the party against
another radical, more sinister in his aspect than
the man who has twice led the Democracy to
| defeat
7 MI Bryan outlined the platform on which he
/ hopes to run for President It embraced the
good old antitrust and the weather worn anti
| imperialistic planks. He wants railroad con-
troll and tax inheritances. incomes and
swollen" fortunes. Railroad regulation. he
said. had proved complete failure. He wants
to see a plank which will put all labor on an
| equal footing. too.
He dwelt long and lovingly. particularly, on
a prospective plank demanding the initiative
and referendum on all possible subjects He
said that the man who did not wish to see
laws referred to the public cast grave asper-
sions on the capacity of the American people
for government. He said that in spite Of all
he never doubted that capacity, and would
take great pleasure In expelling from the Dem
ocratic party any one who did doubt it.
Then Mr.. Bryan told how the Republican
party in his mind now the Democratic
! party. for it had cast aside the outgrown
she'll of the principles Of Alexander Hamilton
/ and clothed itself in the cloak Of Thomas JEFF
/ ferson. He then fingered with the Jeffersonian
7 F,rb boIP bour so saving that
there was now not a country under the sun
where those principles We're not growing and
expanding and bourgeoning much as he
wished.
/ lie then declared that the President owed all
his popularity to the principles which he had
stolen in whole or in part from the Democratic
party. When he worked out an idea of his own
or one really produced by the iniqutOus Repub-
lcan party. M- Bryan said. he always got in
trouble, and Mr. Bryan did not seem much
grieved about il. either.
/ Organism. said the speaker. as applied in de-
rision to certain principles. a misnomer, for
ne had not originated these principles They
made me- he said, not them" The one great
thing he wanted to do, he said, was 10 orIn6
those principles to fruition
/ Senator Ia Toilette he said he thought, was
the only reformer in the Republican party. He
said La Toilette was a hero. for it took q. hero
/
in the Republican party. Democratic reformers
had a much easier time OF It. he thought. and
! lot more company besides
Cheers for Mr.. Roosevelt came in the
midst of the speech Of Governor Warield of
Maryland. lie first eulogized Mr. Bryan. The
present administration has stolen our thunder"
he continued. Theodore Roosevelt, my friend
and / do not hesitate To call him my friend
owes his popularity throughout the length and
breadth OF this great country 10 his earnest and
enthusiastic advocacy OF measures advocated
and recommended by Mr. Bryan"
Then some one started boom for Herman 4.
Metz for Vice President.
Governor J. H Tyler OF Virginia and Ollie
James. of Kentucky agreed In saying that Mr..
Roosevelt should nominate Bryan for the Presi-
dency in 1908, but their remarks were not taken
seriously.
MIR. Bryan did not reach the meeting until
late in the evening. he had first 10 deliver
| lecture. He was driven about in Controller
| Metz's automobile.
Edward NJ. Shepard said in part:
Our club has stood for free, self-supporting ctI-
zensllip. DreferrnG the risks Of inconvsniences
/ which attend even orderly and law-a5dlne freedom
/ sometimes iii ordered. but always vicious which.
running the gamut from oppression TO mpertinence;
Control from the Capitol or the White House the in
dustIies Of the country or perhaps regulate spell
! We have preferred likewise. as did jefferson.
! land, the risks and inconvenience Of the home
rule Of consttutionai and state rights to waste
! Washington. subordlnating and enervating the
When, beyond the Missouri eleven years ago
| there arose powerful and attractive figure. a
| carried eloquence out OF his own heart TO the
at the first understand. Although many, perhaps
! the gold ana silver coinage question as he did we
| came more and more to recognize the deeper and
! larger appeal which he then made, and has ever
since made, and will make tonight, for a govern
To the critical and difficult problem OF applying
manic energy which You have invoked in humanita-
| ran justice of mems consciences. we believe, Mr.
viii so dedicate yourself more and more.
Governor Tyler followed Mr.. Shepard He
said:
| have been asked to say a word TO what the
| peopleI of the South think OF William Jennings
| potent In flashing a magic spell OF enthusiasm
it was This is ndisputaby true OF the great
| a hckering flame OF opposition will fash up in soma
Of the papers. but 1t is amusing to how feebly
The opposition will be a lettering temple that win
soon tumble and be buried in forgotten grsves
and what elements constitute true leadership:
! Jennings Bryan there is greater love and more un
selfish devotion TO the principles OF honest states
breast OF any living statesman
George Fred Williams OF Massachusetts.
| spoke on Government Control OF Railroads"
| He said. in part;
| The state Of Maine has been notoriously under
the dominion of a single railroad. while in Vermont
last fall the m EaT0a1 ] commission % naGS & PfSaS fS5
| the railroads defed IT'S authority Massachusetts,
son Yet in 1900. when it appeared that discounts
high as rs per cent lsrs given tE,a to favored ship
! fessed that It knew nothing about the subject.