The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-16
BOSTON ORATOR
PREDICTS GREAT
BRYAN VICTORY
Former Congressman George
F. Williams Declares Demo-
Gratis Will Sweep Country.
REPUBLICANS ARE
F0RSAKING TAFT
PHENOMENAL GAINS FOR THE
COMMONER ARE MADE IN
EVERY STATE.

am just as confident as 1 can be
OF anything to come in the future that
the coming election will not only re-
suit in Bryan victory, but a Bryan
sweep of the United States"
George Fred Williams, the brilliant
orator of Boston, Mass, who will adj
dress the Democratic rally to be held
in Kennedy's hall this evening, with
these words predicted that Mr.. Bryan
would be the next president of the
United States. Mr.. Williams arrived
in Salt Lake last evening from Spo-
kane. He was to have delivered an
address at Logan last evening, but did
not receive the telegram from the ma
tionai headquarters in time to do so.
Il have been in politics for twenty
five years." ocntinNed Mr. Williams.
and have never known a time when
the surface indications showed more
clearly the certainty of the election of
a presidential candidate than at pres
ent. l feel absolutely certain that Mr..
Bryan viii be the next president of the
United States
I'm the last few weeks 1 have spoken
in every state from Vermont to Cali
fOrnia and have made a close study of
the trend of public sentiment I have
never known a time when there was
such detection from the Republican
party. In 1890 / was carried into con-
gress on what was termed a tidal
wave. 1t was a ripple compared with
the wave that is sweeping the country
today.
Republicans for Bryan.
while or this speaking tour 1 have
mace it my business to talk with peo-
pie with whom 1 have been thrown in
contact, and of each person I have
asked the same question whether or
not he knew of any Republicans who
We're going TO vote for Bryan. I have
talked with thousands of people on this
subject and have met only one man
who said that he knew of ne Repub-
licans who were going to vote for
Bryan. I met him the other day in
Washington. 1t struck me as remark
able that he should have met no Re-
publicans who were for Bryan this
year, and I asked him more about HIM
self. He said he was a farmer and he
had not talked politics. In his village
there were 100 people. and all were
Democrats except about a dozen. He
promised that he would call on those
Republicans and ask them whether or
not they We're going to vote for Bryan
and then write to me to let me know
the result a
gaining this year are coming not alone
from the radical element. not alone
from the labOring men. and not alone
from the negroes. We will secure hun
dreds of thousands of votes from the
Old-line. conservative Republicans On
the tour I have not met a great many
laboring men, nor great many radical
Republicans: the men with whom I
have been thrown in contact are men
who have never ina gined they would
ever vote anything but the Republican
ticket. Time after time l have been
startledr.to learn from their own lips
that these men were going to vote for
Bryan this year.
In a barber shop in Kansas City !
was told by a barber that if the cOun-
try voted as his customers were going
TO vote there would be no need of hold
ing an electiOn-they were unanimous
for Bryan. l afterwards learned that
this barber shaved more men than any
other barber ir Kansas City, and that
his trade came largely from cOnserva--
tive Republicans.
Joe Cannon on Kansas.
"One of the surest Bryan states in
the Union is Kansas. There is absO-
lutely no doubt about its going for
Bryan by a big majority. On leaving
Kansas after a somewhat disastrous
stumping tour Joe Cannon said:
What did they send me here for?
Ali he'll couldn't carry this state for
Taft
And that is true with many other
states which Roosevelt carried easily