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TO scan my every speech and act.
While republican leaders have disap-
peared as the result of investigation,
| have invited the scrutiny of my OPP
ponents and nave outlived their criti-
cisms and their misrepresentation.
know not what the future has for me
II know not whether it is the peoples
wish that / shall be their spokesman
in the White house or continue 70
perform the work which I have tried
to perform as a private citizen; but
have not lived in vain. / have given
an impulse to honest politics; l have
helped to create sentiment in favor
of reform. and as a candidate | have
but enc thing to rely upon-the conf
dence of the masses in my fidelity to
their interests.
MY opponent has behind him all
those forces which are consid Tered po-
tent in politics, put I would rather
have the love of the people, the affec-
ton of the multitude in whose behalf
have fought. than to hold any Office.
If enter the White house / shall en-
ter ii free to keep the pledges l have
made, free to serve with siugleness
for four years devote whatever energy
have and whatever ability | possess
to the one object of making this gov
eminent again & government In which
the PEOPLE rule and under which every
citizen shall dlaw from society a re-
ward proport;onate to the, service
which he renders to his fellow men"
Bryan Issues Statement.
Mr.. Bryan last night issued the fol-
lowing signed statement:
| Our fight is won and we await the
verdict with confidence. The people
will not be deceived by the padded
straw votes published by the partisan
newspapers, by the sham bets of Wall
street gamblers or the boastings of the
panic-stricken republican leaders
1.-The republican candidate has be.
hind him an array of Office holders,
newspapers and an enormous campaign
fund so tainted that he dares not let
the people know where it comes from
until after they have voted, and that
part of it that is contributed to the re
publican congressional committee will
not be known even then.
Il have behind me the awakened
conscience of the country and the sen
timent in favor of popular government
which demands the election of United
States senators by direct vote.
| Il have behind me the victims of the
trusts who are pleading for relief, the
laboring men. whose petitions have
been rejected by the republican party
the depositors whose savings are jeop
ardiZed by the carelessness of bank
officials, and the consumers who have
been exploited by the beneficiaries OF
the high tariff.
! "All of these people see in demo
cratic victory their only hope of re
lief, and they know that with the cleo
ton of a democratic president and q
democratic congress, backed by a pop
ular verdict in behalf of democratic
policies, the way is open for remedial
Legislation.
Says People Are Betrayed.
"The republican leaders have been
weighed in the balance and have. been
found wanting; they have betrayed the
rank and file of their own party and
have left the democratic party to voice
THE honest sentiment of the homes,
citizenship of the country, republican
and democratic.
J "And may add, we expect in this