The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-17
PLEDGED TO BRYAN
NEW YoRx's PROGRESSIVE DEMO- CRATIC LEAGUE HOLDS MASS
 MEETING.
ResoIutiona Adopted Declare That it is Due to The Integrity of The Party to Nominate
 Nebrasknn.


 New York, Jan. i6--Resolutions pledging the support of the Progress sive Democratic League to the candi' dacy of William J. Bryan for the Presi- dency were adopted at 3 mass meet ing held under the auspices of the League ct Cooper Union tonight. The principal address was made by SenA- tor Jeffries Davis, of Arkansas. Senator Davis and Senator Thomas D. Gore, of Oklahoma. who were also Ruests of the league received oyations as they appeared on the platform
 The resolutions after reclting that the rank and file of the Democracy of New York State are practically un- animoua for the nomination of Mir. Bryan by the Denver convention and charging that when he was last the candidate of, the Democratic party. he was defeated by the use of corruption funds, states:
 Therefore be it resolved. that we de- clare that it Is due alike to Mir. Bryan himself and to the integrity of our high office of chief magistrate of the nation and we hereby pledge him our support and our aid to that end.
 Senator Davis predicted the nomina- ton and election of Mr, Bryan. A change of administration was needed. he said, The declaration of indepen- dence was now. he said. stranger to most people and something was wrong with the ship of state.
 Relief from present conditions. Sena- tor Davis said, was to be found in the policy of giving every man an equal chance.
 Senator D1vis said in part:
 This is an age of greed and graft. Men have gone crazy in the pursuit of dollars. You can't eat money. There will be no pocket in your shroud. St. Peter won't take 1t. Where arc you going? Where are we drifting as a goYernmeSt? Ever since this govern mSnt started there has been 6 fight. On one side men skilled in such war fare and on the other the plain com mon people. They are waking up as they never did before. One side has captured the government. It ia inside the breastworlss; 1t has amassed all the money--money is. but the means to an end. and 1t opens the door to every- thing--those inside the breastworks have enacted laws that have given them unusual advantages"
 Senator Davis then took up the tariff. declaring that the trusts owned one thirty-fifth of all the wealth in the United States. He said he had recent ly advocated taking Away the charter and privileges of trusts as remedy and he defied any lawyer. to say. the government did not have the right to do thia.
 "GentIemen." he said if the govern Hent does not destroy the trusts. the trusts will destroy the government"
 Ninety.seven per cent of the news papers of the country, he declared. had been subsidized by the trusts
 Why down in Arkansas I got them on the rum he said. Why. down there you can't convict free nlgger for shooting craps on the testimony of a newspaper.
 T don't believe any man on earth ever made a million dollars honestly" said the Senator and the crowd shout
 Senator Davis said he would force the Judiciary Committee of the Sem ate to report on his trust bill and he would continue so be a thorn in it's side in season and out of season. until 1t did report.
 He knew Bryan. he said. and then added. raising both arms above his head reverently: God Bless That Man
 He denied that Bryan had ever said he wanted to reGuIEFs The trusts.
 "No." he shouted. Bryan wants to destroy them-diE them out. root and branch"
 Then. leaning over toward the news. paper reporters, the Senator stamped his foot. as he shouted: And all of you, you little yellow journals. all of you--ali of you--you can't keep me from doing my duty.
 These trusts are the dangers of our country" he said. Help us aght. won't you? We are lighting a gang Of Wall Street thieves. In 1907 they sold ten times the cotton crop of the world, and yet they are not gamblers--just plain business men.
 If a boy staals a pig. he ts a thief. But if a man steals the Nations cot ton crop, he ts a business man. I in- troduced a bill in the Senate last week to put these gamblers out of th0<bu iness. and if could set those two dis. tinguishsd Senators from New Yorh