Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-01-22
BRYAN IN KENTUCKY.
Nebraskan Does Not Care For Empty Honor of Presidency.
NEEDS DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS
Urges Beekhan's Election to the Sem ate and Asserts That Parker Was the Man Above All Others He Did Not Want In 1904.

ate ana Asserts That Parker Wa
 the Man Above All Others He Dis Not Want In 1904.
 Frankfort, Ky, Jan. 22.-The clima,
 of w. J. Bryan's visit to Frankfor
 was reached when he spoke to tht
 Democratic members of the legislature
 behind closed doors advocating tho
 election of ex-Governor J. c. w. Beck
 ham as United States senator. MT
 Bryan said neither ex-Governor Beck
 ham nor anybody else had invited hin
 to- Frankfort. He declared he had nc ! fears for himself. He said he was
 told in the Goebel campaign that he
 might hurt himself if he came to Ken | lucky.
 'I am not afraid of hurting myself
 when the interests of the Democratic party are at stake," said Mir Bryan
 'T might be candidate this year. do not know. Only two delegates have
 been elected, and they have been in,
 structed for me, but they are not enough to elect me. If what say here affects my chances of election, 1t is not a sufficient bribe to keep my mouth closed. I am in the habit of saying what think"
 He said he had come to Kentucky not for Beckham, but for the Demo- cratic nominee, and that if McCreary were the nominee for senator he would be here speaking for McCreary.
 "I am here," said he, because I be- lieve the Democratic ticket has a good chance to be elected this year. I do not know who the Democratic standard bearer may be. but I know that it takes Democratic senate and house to uphold the president. I do not want to be a president simply to sit in a chair, but to do something for the peo- pie.
 All the popularity of the Republican president has come from the adoption of Democratic principles and reform. We cannot rely much on Republican senators. We may get the house, but 1t will require an overwhelming victory to get the senate. I am hopeful We may make enough gains to secure the senate for Democratic reform. On the vote of one senator may rest the fate of Democratic principles.
 For generation we have had government under corporate control. This government was sold to the high est bidder, and since that time sat urnalian feast has existed at Washing ton. The only relief is a Democratic triumph this fall; not only the White House, but also the house and senate. The legislature of Kentucky faces great responsibility and should arise to the occasion and elect Democratic senator on whose vote the deliverance may rest"
 He said personalities should not be allowed to figure in politics. He said 1t was wrong for Democrats to refuse to support men just because they did not want them. He said in 1904 he took his medicine in Parker. Parker was the man above all others he did not want, but" declared Bryan. he stood for more Democracy than the did, and l accepted him and did what I could for him. Give me bitter enemy, and if he stands for the same thing as I stand for will do more for him than his best friend.
 'The embezzlement of power" he l said. 'is as great a crime as the em- bezzlement of money" referring to the 1 man who is elected to a legislative body and then votes against the wish es of the people who sent him. ''I hope the time will come" he said. when such betrayers will be whipped from power"
 Mir. Bryan declared that legislators who are too conscientious to vote as hose who elect them want should be enough to resign their offices.
 The warning of President Roosevelt IS to great fortunes which had been built up by the growth of the corpora ions was warmly commended by the peaker. Mir. Bryan said he wanted to 'xpress his gratitude for this taking 1T from his shoulders of a part of the 'cussing" from corporations which he ormerly had to bear.