The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-15

made compact with Parker that he
 would support Parker and all that Parker
 represented if in return Parper and all that Parker represented would support
 him.
 Do you doubt it? Cvoice from audience,
 "Yes.) Look at his action in denouncing
 Parker before the convention. Look at his action in supporting Parker after the convention and practically supporting
 him in the convention.
 Look at the $2000O which MT. Ryan,
 MT. Parkers sponsor contributed to Bryans campaign fight. Look at Parker attitude now, and Bryan's attitude now and Rockerfeller's attitude now.
 Look at this man Haskell, whom Bryan made chairman of the committee on platform and treasurer of his cam paign fund. This man Haskell, known and exposed in court as a political pay
 master of the Standard Oil, is asked by MT Bryan first 10 make a plat
 form that Standard Oil will approve of
 and then to collect from the Standard Oil
 the material expression of their ap-
 proval."
 Compares Bryan to Magician.
 In illustration of MT. Bryans altered
 attitudes and modified principles, MT.
 Hearst first used MT. Bryan as a ma gician. Now, you see the free silver ball, and now it is gone; the referendum ball and it is gone; the governmental ownership ball, and To, it disappears" | But he insisted that Bryan is more than | the snowman, rather the whole show.
 "He is the astonishing ventriloquist who ] throws his voice here and wonder full | of vague emptiness. He is the marvellous
 contortionist, who can turn any way
 standing on his feet or hands with equal
 ,icnin i,1cyy ylat. | who can balance on one hand Belmont. 1 the labor union breaker, and on the other, 1 Gompers, the labor union leader. He ! is the human ostrich, With a digestion | which can run miles after swallowing
 Rogers and Murphy and Tammany Hall. i He is the loose-slxin man who circles l within his own integrement and cannot
 tell whether he is going or coming. | MT. Bryan alleges that l am angry
 at him because he did not support me i for the presidency in St. Louis four years l ago. That is not true. I've always said | of MT. Bryan that he had as much right | not to support me as l had to support 1 him.
 "Both the old parties have proven fail ures and it is because of the failure and ] the fraud and the incompetency and the ! treachery of both of the old parties that
 the independence party has been founded | and will inevitably succeed"
 Hisuen as "Trust Buster" l MT. Hisgen was introduced as the i trust buster" His comments upon 1 Southern hospitality were loudly cheered.
 He made a hit with the audience when
 he said that in his business every time
 an employe had an increase in his fam l fly he got an increase in wages An
 other one of his strong figures was when
 he recounted the fact that a man re- gently stole a few apples from H. H. | Rogers orchard and got thirty days. "The man made mistake. If he had stolen l all the apples in the United States, the l Standard Oil would have made him a l senator to sit in the United States sem
 ate along with Joe Bailey" He said: q have been doing something else all my life than making speeches. l have | been fighting the most remorseless, the | most tyrannical and the most cruel trust | in the world, the Standard OH monopoly. | Because this trust is typical of all oth-
 ers-in fact it is the father of all of them-and because of my experience with
 1t I have deemed it wise to take up part | of my time in telling you some Of tho methods used by this gigantic corpora l ton to destroy any one who has the l temerity to stand in It's way.
 After we had established our business in Albany, New York, the Standard oil company found that we were in compe- tition with 1t as it made axle grease also | They tried to frighten us and finding that that sort of tactics would not work they tried to buy us out But we did not want to part with the business which we had given the best years of our lives | in building up. We had a pride in 1t. l We refused to sell. '"The real warfare against us then be- gan. They went to our customers and | told them that if they bought our pro- duct they--the trust-would refuse to sell them oil In that way we saw all of our business getting away from uA There